| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10755 Registered: 05-2005 |
Doctor Millar - Ruining Everything. It came out in 2022, but I somehow managed not to know it existed until I saw and bought it at his wonderful gig at the Irish Club in London in late November. It’s great, of course. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1496 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Chills - Spring Board ( The Early Unrecorded Songs ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eszVvcY a_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy57PfuT pTA https://thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com/albu m/spring-board-the-early-unrecorded-song s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10760 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Perrett - The Cleansing. I bought it a few months ago when it came out, but this is my first time playing it. It’s great. My fear that having 20 songs on it would diminish the quality is, thankfully, not borne out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10763 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - 1978-1990. It had been so long since I last played it, I’d forgotten that Karen was recorded, not very well, from a crackly vinyl copy. Did they later find the original master, or did they just do a better job of ripping it with improved technology and maybe a cleaner copy of the record for future releases? Does anyone know? This may well have been covered here before, but I’ve forgotten the answer if it has. Still, it was a great pleasure to hear the album, especially as I have the Japanese double CD version which replicates the double vinyl. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 250 Registered: 05-2005 |
A few great artists have new albums out. The Delines and Oracle Sisters today and Nadia Reid last week. The best thing I’ve heard so far this year is the second album from Horsegirl. They’ve got all the right influences (Belle & Sebastian, The Pastels, Stereolab, Flying Nun). This song and the whole album reminds me of The Stroppies. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1v7Y7bIK s&pp=ygUVSG9yc2VnaXJsIHN3aXRjaCBvdmVy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10767 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Moles - Composition Book https://themolesmusic.bandcamp.com/album /composition-book | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10768 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various artists - A Tribute To Robbie Van Leeuwen. I don’t even remember buying this, but I must have picked it up in a bargain bin somewhere. It’s great. It’s less a tribute to Van Leeuwen than a best of his various bands, though. Of the 19 songs, there are only four where he isn’t playing guitar. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10769 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jack Frost - Jack Frost. I’ve never enjoyed this so much as I am right now. But I play it so rarely, I probably think that any time I play it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10770 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs. I’m on the second play. It’s superb. A worthy swan song. The only sadness is that we’ll never see them played live. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4950 Registered: 03-2005 |
Whispers in the Speech Machine -- The Laughing Chimes To my ears their first album was nothing particularly special but the Laughing Chimes from Athens, Ohio followed it up in January with a second album that suggests the first half of our heroes' career and maybe even a bit of early Smiths. It's not nearly enough to compensate for Ohio's support for our disastrous current government that threatens to destroy the entire world but this does show that some very nice sounds can still bubble up from the unfairly overlooked interior of this country. And I like to think that people who can make music with this sensitivity are not capable of supporting the likes of Donald Trump and the eyeliner-wearing Nicolás Maduro wannabe anyway. No CD version unfortunately. https://thelaughingchimes.bandcamp.com/a lbum/whispers-in-the-speech-machine | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 827 Registered: 08-2005 |
Dory Previn - In Search of Mythical Kings (The U.A. Years) Fabulous, humorous, heartbreaking and bitter songs from the wife/ex-wife of André Previn. The song Beware of Young Girls is an early 'diss track' about Mia Farrow. Mr Previn left Dory for Mia, and the song correctly predicts the fact that she will then leave him. And she did, for Woody Allen... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fI5dlBY dJI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10784 Registered: 05-2005 |
The John Laws Experience, self titled. They’re named after a notorious right wing Australian shock jock, who mercifully is only heard now on a very low rated station. I bought the album from a bargain bin years ago (it came out in 2011) purely because the name tickled me. I’m playing it right now for the first time, and it’s great. They are a fine mix of The Byrds’ country era and their psychedelic era. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10787 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - Loline. I was just wondering the other day in Auckland if there would be new Bats music any time soon. And so it is. Possibly the best bicycle-centric indie rock video ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-8qpGLX fxo |