| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7184 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Black Watch - The End Of When, bonus disc with 16 songs from their previous albums and EPs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7189 Registered: 05-2005 |
Diamond Rugs - Cosmetics. An indie supergroup (if such a title can be applied to members of Deer Tick, Black Lips, Dead Confederate, Six Finger Satellite and Los Lobos) making a straight up rock 'n' roll record is surprising. That it's this good, even more so. It's not very original (Clean is a shamelessly minimal rewrite of Wild Thing), but it is very enjoyable. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7193 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - Seven Songs | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 127 Registered: 01-2007 |
Sons Of Bill-Love And Logic Horse Thief-Fear In Bliss | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7195 Registered: 05-2005 |
Evans The Death - Expect Delays. C86 right here in 2015. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7196 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7199 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jason Isbell - Southeastern | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7205 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wake Ups - Wanna Meet. Sydney power pop record from 2002 that sounds like it was made in Memphis 40 years earlier. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7211 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew E. White - Tranquility. It's a beautiful tribute to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. http://matthewewhite.tumblr.com | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7213 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ryan Bingham - Fear And Saturday Night. I'm listening to it for the first time. Top Shelf Drug is the standout so far. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3470 Registered: 03-2005 |
Black Watch -- Amphetamines | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7215 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wake Ups - Wanna Meet. Again. It just gets better. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1123 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Popguns - John Peel 9th January 1990 Top-notch indie jangle from way back when, with Wendy Morgan's excellent and fetchingly distinctive vocals. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7220 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tiffany Shade - Tiffany Shade. Psychedelic rock from 1968. I'm guessing only Randy, and possibly Hugh, will have heard of these guys. Their one and only record. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3474 Registered: 03-2005 |
Nope, Padraig. Never heard of 'em. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7222 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wussy - Berneice Huff and son, Bill sings… Popular Favorites. Free download of rarities from Wussy, http://www.wussy.org/?projects=popular-f avorites Thanks again to Rob for persisting to tell us about this band until some of us took notice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7224 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wussy - Funeral Dress. The title track is a shameless steal from The Undertones' Teenage Kicks, but it's still very good (it misses out on greatness on the basis that John O'Neill wrote it in the first place). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7225 Registered: 05-2005 |
PJ Harvey - Rarities, a promo CD of b-sides from her Stories From The City... album. I wish she'd gather all her b-sides and rarities into a box set. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7229 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone. I've had this album for years but I've never played it before. I just came across it again the other day. Sounds great. I wish I'd played it when I bought it in December 2010. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7230 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon. The older I get, the more tiresome I find breakup albums. But this is a good one. Very good. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1152 Registered: 08-2004 |
KLF - The White Room Horegound - The Dead Weather | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1774 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Padraig, I'm going to see Wussy tonight! They're doing a two-night stand in Chicago. Tickets were a paltry $7 so I bought a bunch and have been handing them out like party favors. Few people who've seen them live aren't converted, at least a little. Speaking of which, here's a pretty good live recording from a somewhat recent NYC appearance. And I think this guy has other Wussy shows in his archives if that appeals: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/01/wussy-ja nuary-17-2015-studio-at-webster-hall-fla cmp3streaming/ | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1154 Registered: 08-2004 |
Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI Ambleside Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7232 Registered: 05-2005 |
Let us know how the gig goes, Rob, and if your friends enjoyed it. $7, wow. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 964 Registered: 04-2005 |
Our friend Yonathan Avishai on France Musique Radio; his new trio's first CD "Modern Times" has just come out. And it is wonderful... http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/ope n-jazz/2014-2015/yonathan-avishai-temps- modernes-et-tempos-epures-03-13-2015-18- 02 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7236 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Orange Humble Band. One of the greatest unknown bands ever. Ken Stringfellow said last year they had finished recording a third album, but there's still no sign of it being released. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7237 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Orb - Into the Fourth Dimension (Essenes Beyond Control). B-side of Little Fluffy Clouds, but better. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1775 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wussy were great on Friday, Padraig. Not that they were ever sloppy, but they're super tight now and they seemed particularly energetic this weekend. I couldn't go on Saturday but my friends who took my tickets raved about it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7240 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good to hear, thanks Rob. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1128 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dominique A – Eleor (deluxe) Early days yet for the new DomA album, but first impressions are a super smooth, gentle work without great creative thrust, certainly nothing as disarmingly inventive and fresh as Vers les lueurs. The second disc, ironically, offers a more interesting selection of home-recorded scraps, ultra-romantic instrumental pieces and spoken-word recitals, and also includes the highlight of the album, La douceur, a shuffling sixties-ish ballad with a gorgeous Shadowsy guitar solo. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3475 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm still waiting for my copy Stuart, but your warning is noted. I was knocked out by "Vers les lueurs" but less so by "La Musique" so maybe it's just time for a less meaty album. Or maybe it'll turn out that he's just petering out. Hope not. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 367 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new album has good reviews in the press here. I go to see him next month in Bxl. Some live material here : http://www.rtbf.be/lapremiere/article_do minique-a-en-live-dans-entrez-sans-frapp er?id=8934484 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7243 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3477 Registered: 03-2005 |
TROU, please report on Dominique A's concert next month. I've long wanted to coordinate a trip overseas with either a Dom A or a Francoiz Breut concert but there are always too many other variables involved. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7245 Registered: 05-2005 |
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Born To Run. It's an outtake from Ragged Glory which sounds, to me, like it was heavily influenced by Sonic Youth. They toured with Neil Young a year later, so it could well be the case that he was listening to Sonic Youth at the time of recording Ragged Glory. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7248 Registered: 05-2005 |
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit. Two tracks into the first play and it sounds very good so far. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 538 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blues in Red - Basciville, a local Wexford band, who I'm proud to call friends. Cillian Byrne has a gorgeously rich deep voice which reminds some of Hozier's but don't hold that against him! The EP has been on heavy rotation since I got it two weeks ago. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 132 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ryley Walker-Primrose Green. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 134 Registered: 01-2007 |
David Corley-Available Light. http://davidcorleymusic.com/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7254 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now, Bob Mould's I Don't Know You Anymore, then back to the Smile Sessions box set. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7255 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marching Church - This World Is Not Enough. A Danish band that sounds like Robert Smith fronting The Bad Seeds doing soul covers (there is one actual soul cover - Dark End Of The Street). I think it's quite brilliant, but I'm not sure how many would agree with me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7256 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marching Church, again. It's even better second time round. In the meantime I've also bought the NME edition with the Beatles cover and the Marching Church album is given a great review in it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7257 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lots of psychedelic music. It's a beautiful autumn day in Sydney and the music seems to suit the sunshine. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3479 Registered: 03-2005 |
Girls Names -- Zero Triptych New song. http://www.thefader.com/2015/03/25/girls -names-return-with-the-eleven-minute-sin gle-zero-triptych | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1130 Registered: 10-2006 |
The kind of music that makes me wish I could drive... I admit, though, I was hoping it would be a female voice that would break in there instead of the Robert Smithish drone we actually get. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7260 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good find Randy. Stuart, it really does have a "doing a ton on the autobahn" feel to it. The bloke second from left looks like a young Cathal Coughlan. It's the kind of music I could imagine Coughlan loving. Or hating. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7261 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, just bought Zero Triptych from iTunes. It's priced as two songs, which I guess is fair enough for something that's 11 minutes long. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7262 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 967 Registered: 04-2005 |
http://www.capturedtracks.com/mixtape-16 -songs-from-peter-milton-walsh/ His comments about Edwyn Collins are very moving. Yippee just got a message that The Apartments new album is available too... What do you make of "The Silver Globe" Pádraig ? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7264 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like it, Andrew. It shows the breadth of possibilities available when someone is willing to take some risks. I first came across her around the turn of the century I think. I liked what I heard then but hadn't paid much attention again till now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7265 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, did you notice this in the Mixtape comments: "Travis-picking bender"? That's a very funny transcription error by whoever interviewed him. He almost certainly actually said "Travis Bickle bender". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7268 Registered: 05-2005 |
A krautrock mix on iTunes. It's more of krautrock-influenced mix - I'm sure purists would not agree with most of what I've included. It was inspired Argent from the Jane Weaver album and Zero Triptych by Girls Names, and also includes such krautrock luminaries as Donna Summer (I Feel Love) and Blur (Trouble In The Message Centre). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7271 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - The Clock | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7274 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like. Godlike genius doesn't even come close to describing this song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7275 Registered: 05-2005 |
Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm The Studio. Long, long time since I've played this. Almost certainly it was a different century last time I played it. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 801 Registered: 03-2007 |
A Riot Of Colour - Everywhere A Maltby Latest retrospective release by Firestation Records. London based band who recorded three eps between 1986 and 1989. They also recorded a Peel Session at Maida Vale in 1986 but unfortunately the BBC declined to allow the band access to the recordings for this release. Thirteen tracks by the original lineup plus an additional three recorded between 1994 and 1996 by AROC Mk. II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa7yB270 PtE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGp--gp TOQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3482 Registered: 03-2005 |
I ordered my copy from Firestation last night Hugh. I also ordered a copy of Newsflash, though I suspect I bypassed them previously because of not liking their youtube tracks. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 802 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I was disappointed in Real Horrow Show at first but the album has grown on me the more I have listened to it. There are some really good songs on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7KZnqK R5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtysgkd sZA Currently listening to :- Olesen-Olesen - Indenlands Udenbys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mAUwCD Pkg Henrik and Peter H. Olesen who were previously members of Greene. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 803 Registered: 03-2007 |
De Efterladte - Traditionen Utro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8zm5xj pTA Ukendt Under Andet Navn - Glade Dage i St. Vemod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I13Tj2gu Y7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721BqjXO rGU De Efterladte is Peter M Olesen and Michael Lund. Ukendt Under Andet Navn is Henrik Olesen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7280 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fraternal Order Of The All - Greetings From Planet Love | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7281 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Brothers - Are You Ready For This, a Northern Soul instrumental whose drum intro was appropriated by New Order for Blue Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7kUYjW U9U | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 299 Registered: 11-2007 |
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes... A candidate for the album of the year to me so far! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7283 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7285 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Caretaker Race - Two Steel Rings, a 1990 EP by an English band that, just a guess, were not unfamiliar with our heroes from Brisbane. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7287 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bee Gees - The Miami Years. I know big Bee Gees fans such as Randy prefer their 1960s records, but I love their disco years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7289 Registered: 05-2005 |
Across 110th Street's superb soundtrack | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1155 Registered: 08-2004 |
Stephen Jones - Outsider The Creatures - Feast Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7291 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart. Just played it for the first time. It's fantastic. This is going to be in my top 10 at the end of the year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3483 Registered: 03-2005 |
Decoration -- Don't Disappoint Us Now | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 804 Registered: 03-2007 |
Olesen-Olesen - Indenlands Udenbys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elabbe32 rVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlwACeia XIE | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3484 Registered: 03-2005 |
Courtney Barnett -- Sometimes I sit and think . . . . I recall Andrew Kerr expressing some doubt about slick guitarist Dan Luscombe joining her band. His doubts were justified. Luscombe conventionalizes her sound. I would vastly prefer to hear her own guitar stylings. But I also wonder whether she made this album far too soon. It takes a lot longer than this for a single writer to assemble an album's worth of good material. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 135 Registered: 01-2007 |
RE:Courtney Barnett -- Sometimes I sit and think . . . . I'm with Andreas Severins. Album of the year front runner for me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7293 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm with Andreas and Lewis. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 300 Registered: 11-2007 |
Sorry, Randy! Many friends of mine love that album on first listen.. That happens very seldom to me  | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3486 Registered: 03-2005 |
No worries! I'm definitely not one of those persons who thinks we all need to have the same opinion and I'm thrilled to have an Aussie artist--a REAL Aussie artist, not somebody trying to fit an American or British mold--receiving so much enthusiasm around the globe. I'll be listening to the album over time and my view of it may change. I do hope she ditches Luscombe though. He was fine in the Drones; she doesn't need him. Meanwhile I have had a handful of auditions of Dominique A's "Eleor" and while I do understand Stuart's regret at the absence of the "Erik Satie arranges rock band" feel on the last album, it's sounding like a pretty solid collection to me. It sounds like a better album than "La Musique," for example, which starts out strong and then seems to run out of energy. He's a mature artist now--still wildly prolific, all things considered--and he has developed a set of preferred chords and a playing style. Sometimes he's just going to fall back on those preferences. I suspect his artistic high-water mark will be "Remue" for its sheer edgy invention and "Vers les Lueurs" will probably continue to stand as one of his better albums as well, but he's made so many great records that it doesn't really matter. And of course I miss the lyrics entirely. For all I know this is the best set so far. Personally, I think it's exciting to still have people making records right now that can generate excitement. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1135 Registered: 10-2006 |
I hope you got the 2 cd version, Randy, the best song on the album is on cd 2 and I find its homemade slightly ramshackle bits & pieces more interesting than the polished routine of cd 1. As for Courtney, I like her a lot, the lyrics, the voice, but also find something a bit wearing in her material, so that very little about a particular song fixes itself in my mind. But only heard the new album twice so far. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3487 Registered: 03-2005 |
I did get the 2 CD version Stuart. I don't know which you consider to be the best song but "La Douceur" is a hell of a candidate. It totally made my drive to work yesterday. I'd love to hear him do an album of his great songs just thrown together live in the studio in one or two takes at the most. Maybe he should go to Australia and record with Lower Plenty. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1136 Registered: 10-2006 |
That's the one, Randy... innit great? Pretty cheeky to put it on the "extra" disc, really. I love the slightly Shadowsy feel of the guitar solo at the end. A whole album as good as that really would've been something! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3488 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes Stuart, it IS great. Seriously so. I wonder if this is a case of the artist not knowing how to judge his own work or if it was a cute little stunt to hide it away. Since I'm not a francophone I suppose it's possible that the lyrics fall short in his estimation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7298 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Debney - The Passion Of The Christ soundtrack. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7300 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3490 Registered: 03-2005 |
Antoine. There's a not-very-good-sounding anthology done by RPM--well below their usual standards!--and a very nice reissue of his first album by Vogue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3z4sTKn -f0 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 806 Registered: 03-2007 |
James McMurtry - Childish Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYqCXtMJ gI0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7306 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier, Blur's The Magic Whip, again. If this is not my album of the year come December, I'll be very surprised. This is how to do a comeback, Right now, Matthew Ryan's Boxers. Heartland rock, and I like it. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 812 Registered: 03-2007 |
James McMurtry - It Had To Happen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1DqlwD5 dtY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7307 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joan Of Arse - Distant Hearts, A Little Closer. Irish album from 2001. I haven't played it in years, just came across it while looking for something else. It's still brilliant. They said they were influenced by Queen, but I can't hear it. Their name, by the way, came about when they discovered Joan Of Arc was already taken. They might have got more radio play if they'd thought a little harder about an alternative. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7309 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7310 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Revenants - Horse Of A Different Colour | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1140 Registered: 10-2006 |
A cloudy shower-spattered Sunday afternoon was a good excuse to spend it with France’s radio FIP, which, celestial airwaves permitting, will be the one I hope they pipe into heaven, moving as it does so effortlessly from the Stones to Dizzy Gillespie to an aria by Massenet to stuff I’ve never heard before like Arsenal, featuring Grant Hart, some dodgy poetry & a Bowiesque chorus, Grandbrothers, Quiet Village, Skalpel, Jaqee, Bastien Lallemant and lots of other stuff I couldn’t be bothered to scribble down. I don’t know how they programme all this, but there’s a sort of weird genius to it. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 139 Registered: 01-2007 |
@Padraig: Love that album, and Stephen Ryan writes some great music. He has a new album coming in June with his new band The Drays called Look Away Down Collins Avenue. Some tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/the-drays Of course you might already know all this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7311 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Lewis. I'll check it out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7314 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alela Diane live at Sydney Festival podcast - interview and performances. Not sure if you'll be able to get to this from outside Australia, but if you can, it's here http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/prog rams/liveset/alela-diane/6364762 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7317 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Delta Riggs - Dipz Zebazios. Australian band. I just bought this on iTunes. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1143 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bastien Lallemant - La maison haute With the first track sounding ridiculously like a (pretty good) track by Dom A, and Francoiz Breut guesting on (the lovely) song 3, you can imagine the influences at work here - however, as his voice modulates into deeper territories over the rest of the disc, and with echoey interjections like the cheekily Morricone-esque chorus on Ronde de nuit, Bastien breaks away successfully with a bunch of fresh, melodic songs recorded more or less live over just a few days in the lovely town of Carpentras, not far from Avignon: not essential listening, maybe; but a fine piece of work to have all the same. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 815 Registered: 03-2007 |
A Dead Forest Index - Cast Of Lines Brothers Adam and Sam Sherry from Auckland, New Zealand, who are currently based in London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePkXXE_9 Ix0&index=1&list=RDePkXXE_9Ix0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3497 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, one of my companions to the Keren Ann concert the other night is an expat Frenchwoman. We were trading tips. She recommended Dom la Nena, also recommended on here by Andrew. But having been marooned here for quite a while and with an American husband who loves vintage anglophone music, she was unaware of the likes of Dom A and Francoiz Breut. We discussed the merits of listening to whole albums at a time as opposed to iPod shuffle. (She listens to entire albums; her husband listens to shuffle. I listen to albums in the house, shuffle in the car and in my future studio space.) Bastien sounds interesting, judging from a string of samples on youtube. Have you heard "L'Amour"? I'm pulling the lever for everything he's got. Keep listening and making recommendations, my friend! Hugh, "Cast of Lines" is gorgeous. I listed to two other older tracks on youtube. One of them was ho-hum but "Distance" was lovely. Older EP and newer album ordered. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3498 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, what I am listening to now: Decoration -- See You After the War This album dates from 2008. I think they only recorded two, this and the earlier "Don't Disappoint Us Now." Their big distinction is being one of the last groups boosted by John Peel. I'm only on the third song so far. The first two were strong, the third is generic indiepop. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 816 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Glad you like them. Antique ( 2012 ) and Cast Of Lines ( 2014 ) are both EPs ( 5 tracks on the former and 4 tracks on the latter.) There is enough decent material on both to suggest that they could go on to be something special. I believe they are readying an album for release in the very near future. Decoration released their fourth album ( Put Me Back On My Bike ) late last year. It is available directly from the group via Bandcamp. 'Don't Disappoint Us Now' is a re-issue of their debut album ( Don't Disappoint Me Now ) with six additional tracks added. http://louderthanwar.com/decoration-put- me-back-on-my-bike-album-review/ From their album ' Flippant.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceSpmigM ToU | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 817 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I would have posted this video of 'Cast Of Lines' had I been aware of it at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWCaLSA eFU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7324 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - The Magic Whip | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7327 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Revenants - Horse Of A Different Colour | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7328 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've never previously noticed how Dylaneeque You For Whom Silence is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7329 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dylanesque, even. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7331 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - Bootcut: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 09-02-02 (Fan club CD) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1145 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bastien Lallemant - Le verger BL’s preceding album, which comes in a rather nice glossily artistic book-like package, shows all the discreet strengths of Maison Haute – deftly crafted songs, low-key yet inventive instrumentation, the attractive warmth of his voice, the occasional surprise of a choir, whistling or delicate female vocal: it would be a shame, I think, never to have heard something as effortlessly lovely as Filature. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7334 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3502 Registered: 03-2005 |
Apartments -- No Song No Spell No Madrigal My copy of this finally arrived. I stubbornly refused to avail myself of the download option which I've had access to for months. From some of the comments on here I was expecting a lot less than what this record offers. Yes, it is difficult to hear the man grieving for his lost son and I definitely hope these songs provide some catharsis and allow him more balance in his life in the future. But musically this is a really good Apartments album. It's more consistent than either "Life Full of Farewells" or "Apart," the latter of which interspersed some of PMW's best songs with some very dull filler. The arrangements are perfect. Frankly I'm really excited about this record. Can it get better than "Black Ribbons?" Thanks to his notes in the reissue of the first album I now know the intensity of his attachment to NYC. The cover emphasizes this. But it's been quite a while since NYC offered anything near its fair share of songwriters, thanks to its evolution into millionaires' playground and the U.S.'s descent into self-regarding lassitude. The scrappy isolated Brisbane of the '70s incubated a LOT more than its fair share of gifted songwriters. All you need to do is find a bench at dusk and sit until after dark on the bank of the Brisbane River. I did it in New Farm Park. As the water quietly laps near your feet, the lights twinkle on the hills on the opposite side and the exotic trees frame your view (in New Farm Park at least) the sounds of "Cattle and Cane," "Mr. Somewhere," "Love is a Sign" and "Sea Air" insinuate themselves. Or perhaps another four songs from the same writers. Or another four. Or another. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3503 Registered: 03-2005 |
I am giving Lallemant's second album ("Les Erotiques") a second listen. While not what attracted me to this artist in the youtube vids I used to decide whether to pursue him, I did have a sense when I first heard this that it would probably grow on me and, yes, I think that will indeed occur. After all, I find a good bit in Arthur H's records to enjoy and Lallemant's sound is much more lithe. On this play "Petit" was an instant hit. Still looking forward to the two newer records arriving though. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1148 Registered: 10-2006 |
Listening to Petit at this very moment! I keep being drawn back to the album and it's growing on me too. L'innocence is another good 'un. I think you'll like the newer stuff as he moves closer to what I suppose is a more classic pop/rock beat and sound. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3504 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm sorry Stuart, I misread the disc! It's not "Petit" that appealed to me right away. It's the next song ""L'apres midi." But, yes, there are enough odd, out-of-their-time features to this record that I may find myself liking all sorts of things that originally made me crinkle my nose. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7338 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern. I've had it a few days (it came out last Friday in Australia), but this is my first time playing it. Three songs in and it sounds like the best thing he's done since 22 Dreams. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7340 Registered: 05-2005 |
Strangelove - Time For The Rest Of Your Life. I saw them support Radiohead in a tiny Dublin club in 1994. They blew the headliners away. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7341 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lord Huron - Strange Trails. Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme) sounds like a Go-Betweens song, or maybe Grant solo. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7343 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dwight Twilley - The Beatles. Faithful covers by someone who loves The Beatles. Not to everyone's taste, but I like it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7350 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - Puck's Blues (10" Record Store Day EP) | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 141 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Drays-Look Away Down Collins Avenue Jad Fair & Norman Blake-Yes | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 540 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm guessing you were one of the 30 pre-orders from Rollercoaster Records, Lewis! Look Away Down Collins Avenue is definitely high on my list for album of the year already. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 142 Registered: 01-2007 |
Yep Catherine, picked it up last week. It's damn fine. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 821 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dawn Of The Replicants - One Head, Two Arms, Two Legs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7353 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love that band, Hugh. So many great non-album tracks too. I was at the Dublin gig which features heavily in the DVD that came with their best of. It's actually a bit bizarre I'm not seen in the video, given there were only about 40 people at the gig. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 822 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I am a big fan as well. 'Bust The Trunk - The Singles' is one of the very few titles by the band I do not own. Will try and pick up a copy for the DVD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9-D0kSu 8NI |