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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8973 Registered: 05-2005 |
Greg Garing - Alone. A 1997 album I haven’t played in many years. And it’s still an extraordinary album that should have made him wealthy, but most certainly did not. I came across it while looking for Garbage’s debut album, which I also played. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4189 Registered: 03-2005 |
Little Nemo — Vol. 2 1990 - 92 This is an Infrastition anthology of the second half of this French post punk Goth-ish band’s original output (before reuniting). It’s huge, with 79 minutes of music on the first of two discs. I expect a similar amount on the second disc. Pretty enjoyable so far. At the moment I can’t find a reasonably priced copy of Volume 1 covering their earliest period. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT9IYxvCP I | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4191 Registered: 03-2005 |
The second disc to this Little Nemo collection is decidedly inferior to the quite good first disc. The first disc even has a great cover of Wire's "The 15th" from 154. But like the Wake, Little Nemo seem to have decided to change their sound and go to a more basic guitar sound. Unlike the Wake I don't think this was motivated by a lack of commercial success. Perhaps they just got bored. Normally I like that sort of thing, as I do with Wake, but not here. The music is just too plodding and dull. There are a few exceptions but not enough of them. Of course this just makes me want that unobtainable Volume 1 Infrastition comp more since the first disc on Volume 2 is the earlier half of this part of their recorded career. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8974 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've never heard of them, Randy, but shall check them out. One of the things I love about this board is discovering bands I'd never otherwise have come across. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8976 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Single Burger, a cassette only six song EP with singles, b-sides, a demo and a Bowie cover. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8978 Registered: 05-2005 |
Young Gun Silver Fox - AM Waves. The kind of yacht rock I would not all that long ago have hated. And now I don't. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 443 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Chieftains- The Nashville Sessions | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8981 Registered: 05-2005 |
Redd Kross - Trance Australian Tour 1992. I dug this out of the garage today and it sounds fantastic to hear it again for the first time in years. It combines the seven track Teen Babes From Monsanto EP with a then contemporary three track EP. This compilation was only ever released in Australia and probably not even many copies here, so it goes for big bucks whenever someone decides to sell a copy. I’m glad I got it when it came out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8982 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Mekons - Original Sin, in tribute to Randy's belated conversion to the cause. | ||
| Ric Member Username: Ric Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2019 |
Test Match Special  | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 446 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Veils - Troubles of the Brain EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8993 Registered: 05-2005 |
Television - Marquee Moon. I bought a double vinyl version with bonus tracks and Rhino has done a fantastic mastering job. I’ve never heard the album sound so good. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4201 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Mekons Rock n' Roll. Following Rob's recommendations I picked up this and "Fear and Whiskey" at the bricks and mortar Amoeba Records over the weekend. They didn't have "Original Sin" so I settled for the unaugmented album of the former. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 447 Registered: 02-2007 |
Robbie Robertson - Storyville | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1169 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Irony Board - Unfinished Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3I_s9IF 4Rc They first came to my notice when their song 'No Ties' featured on The Sound Of Leamington Spa: Volume 7 ( Firestation Records.) I searched around but could not find any other recordings by them at that time. The Beautiful Music ( Canadian Label ) have just released 'Unfinished Business' by the band. It is a 2018 recording of songs the band wrote and performed between 1993 and 1995. The following is a link to TBM and an article on the group. http://thebeautifulmusic.com/new-release -the-irony-board-unfinished-business/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4205 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love that band name Hugh: Irony Board. Toby Martin -- Songs From Northam Avenue His rather harder-to-get second solo album. Think of it as Youth Group without overproduction. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1171 Registered: 03-2007 |
Eko & Vinda Folio - Shen Anateb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCUeKx4 Fc0 Their debut album ( Therapy ) will be released on Talitres next month. The above is not on it unfortunately. The following track is the first single from the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP_hLwk1 3FI | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1172 Registered: 03-2007 |
Language Of Flowers - Songs About You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=432A7yV7 X0Q Padraig, I believe you follow Irish artists / bands so you may be interested in this if you do not already have it. The one and only recording released by this Belfast band back in 2004. Don't be misled by the introduction, the song really kicks off around the two minute mark. The album finishes with the following track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd0vME8z QHs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9003 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Randy, I’ll check it out. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 471 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Sundays - Static and Silence. Great reunion in Brisbane ! https://www.facebook.com/traceythorn4eve r/photos/a.160843222102/1015746377228210 3/?type=3&theater EBTG, Go-Betweens, Sundays, what a super band it could be! | ||
| david Unregistered guest |
Tracy thorns last record was superb - not her happiest photo tho! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1959 Registered: 08-2006 |
Chuck Cleaver - "Send Aid": The Wussy/Ass Ponys frontman makes his first solo record and it's up there with everything else he's put his hand to, which amounts to a freaking impressive body of work. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9010 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guano Padano - Americana. An extraordinary, mostly instrumental album made by three Italians inspired by underground translations of American literature into Italian done in the 1930s fascist era. I picked this up for $5 in a bargain bin in Auckland a few days ago because it looked interesting. It has far exceeded my expectations. A wonderful find. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1592 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sounds interesting, Padraig! Off to check them out! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9012 Registered: 05-2005 |
I forgot you are in Italy, Stuart. I’ve ordered another one of their albums. Hopefully it’s of the same calibre as Americana. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4210 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bastien Lallemant -- Danser les filles Recorded a year ago, Lallemant's new album. It's very low key and diffident. It's definitely not as pop produced as Le Verger or La Maison Haute. One listen does not permit an opinion. Albin de la Simone helps on a couple of songs. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1961 Registered: 08-2006 |
Lana Del Rey: "Norman F**king Rockwell!" This album has gotten a ton of praise but, just this once, believe the hype. It risks being overly languorous, but the lyrics and production touches pull it away from traditional singer-songwriter dolor. It's smart, funny, sad - and quite beautiful. I've been playing it on repeat for a couple weeks now. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1593 Registered: 10-2006 |
Good to hear, Randy! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9015 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spookyland - Beauty Already Beautiful. A 2016 Australian album that should have been massive, but probably sold in the hundreds. I've never even seen a physical copy of it, I had to get it from iTunes. The singer has a high pitched, broad Australian voice that's a love or hate thing (love, for me), and the music is rock cut with blues, soul and orch pop. It's wonderful. I hope someday there will be a second album, but I'm not holding my breath. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1177 Registered: 03-2007 |
Marshmallow - Marshmallow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7CiLM1 zDg One and only album released by this Australian band who were fronted by Alan Gregg ( member of the Mutton Birds.) The re-release on Storm Records in 2005 contains two tracks ( Casting Couch; Open Mic Night ) that did not appear on the original release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ckxdQV S78 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9016 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have the Storm Records version, Hugh. I don’t think I knew until now that that was a rerelease. I was talking about it with someone in Auckland a couple of weeks ago. I must dig it out sometime. I remember mostly liking it. It hasn’t been announced yet, but I’m told that Mutton Birds are playing some shows in December. I imagine they will play in Sydney, if not hopefully I’ll be able to see them in Auckland. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1178 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, According to Discogs, it was first released in 2002 on CRS Records in New Zealand quickly followed by a 2003 release on Lo-Max Records in the U.K. Discogs shows a 2005 release date for the Storm Records version but my copy says 2004. I have copies of the Lo-Max and Storm Records versions ( bought the Lo-Max version first.) I would jump at the chance to see the original line-up of the Mutton Birds play live. They were a fantastic band who deserved better. Currently listening to :- The Spanish Amanda - Dim Sum https://www.youtube.com/?v=4B8b_ZfGmy8 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1185 Registered: 03-2007 |
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - Bobbie's A Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-XH78a UvE | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4217 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lost Tapes -- The Bill EP Spanish indie pop band who've been recording since 2013. So far they have two long player CDs (one album from 2016, one a compilation of earlier EPs, singles and odds and ends) and this new EP. I stupidly failed to go see them in April when they opened for another band at a small venue here in Los Angeles. Total inexcusable lapse of energy on my part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLb-OBd 1wE On first listen maybe a little blander than their earlier recordings. Such as this from their album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bGBJzyl hHI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9023 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury. It's brilliant. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1186 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Grief Brothers - Thirty Five Years On Woodfield Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU-wKUV3 Ulk From Swansea, Wales. "She was swaying on a barstool, humming in the key of grim." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4224 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's really lovely Hugh. It's what I wish REM sounded like but they never did. There's a nice sober formalism with simple chords and a voice that is pleasing but will be recognizable, maybe a little Robert Scott-like. Then a more relaxed and airy feel on "From Cardiff Arms to the Kings" with trumpet, no less! Nothing ground-breaking but everything well conceived. No physical version, bummer. I suppose I'll have to break down. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1187 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, It is available on CD. Click on the link and select the edition with postage outside the U.K. It is apparently being repressed at the moment so there will probably be a delivery delay :- http://www.countrymile.org/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4226 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, you are priceless. Ordered. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1607 Registered: 10-2006 |
My copy of Danser les filles arrived: it's what I'd call great autumnal Sunday morning making the breakfast sort of music. He sounds amazingly like Dominique A on at least two tracks, at one point even borrowing those twisty metallic noises that are such a feature of Remue. I wonder what the economics of an album like this are in France? Has he already developed a big enough audience to buy something that obviously isn't going to generate anything like a hit? Still, I found myself playing it several times, even long after Sunday breakfast had finished. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9028 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen. This review is lovely. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/o ct/04/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-ghoste en-review-the-most-beautiful-songs-he-ha s-ever-recorded?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gma il I'm just four songs into the first listen. If the rest is like the first half of disc one, then we're talking classic territory. Song four sounds like The Blue Nile to me. Beautifully so. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9031 Registered: 05-2005 |
Barry Adamson - Memento Mori, his best of compilation. What an underrated talent he is. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1615 Registered: 10-2006 |
Caravan – first album A lot of early Caravan has just arrived, so I’ll be wading through that for a bit. Early prog, if we must call it that, was such a weird and wonderful creature, struggling with its octopus of influences, pop and rock and blues and soul and folk and psychedelia, with virtuosity for its own sake yet to gain the upper hand and a strong melodic sensibility still in place. Having said that, it’s the Jimmy Hastings flute solo on Love song and flute that really entrances me here – a shame they fade it so soon. He never, as far as I can see, becomes a full member of the band, though musically he fits their sound so well. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1192 Registered: 03-2007 |
Comet Gain - Fireraisers Forever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBQqNaQu 6MQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9G5Fbvb hzA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9040 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cult - Sonic Temple. The 30th anniversary remaster is superb. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donny McCaslin - Blow. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1617 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dominique A – Auguri In a moment of indecision as to what to listen to, some DomA is always a good bet. For verve, colour, variety and pure musicality, he’s a hard man to touch. This is an excellent album, at least once I get past the over-strident first track (“mon Antonia…” Surely not…??) Recorded not, as I imagined, in Brussels or Provence, but Wales. Belgian influence does however creep in through musician and co-author Sacha Toorop, called on, if I’m reading my French right, to “bring in a bit of muscle”. He’s worked with Yann Tiersen and Françoiz Breut too, as well as producing his own solo output, which might therefore be worth a glance itself. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1195 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Grief Brothers - Thirty Five Years On Woodfield Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYAyQNXm 4UQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpcMKpT ZG0 My favourite album of the year to date. It comes with a Parental Warning for Explicit Lyrics on YouTube. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4239 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, you found the youtube links! I wanted to post "Emperor of Nowhere" a few days ago but couldn't find anything. I second Hugh's promotion of the Grief Brothers' album. It doesn't break new musical ground. Instead it offers a very well calibrated update of classic British Isles folk tradition with excellent playing, fine vocals and graceful evocative songs. I've never been to Wales. Listening to this music I imagine a lonely overlooked landscape, unromantic to those who live there but the reverse for folks like me located far away. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1196 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I did. YouTube don't always make it easy to find videos of obscure acts but I found it eventually. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 453 Registered: 11-2007 |
Nick Lowe in best form with a wonderful band! Whole concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFIOlgwj dzc&t=275s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9045 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Inferno. I’m playing it for the first time in a while and it’s still great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9047 Registered: 05-2005 |
Everything Hits At Once: The Best Of Spoon. A very old school compilation in that it’s 13 tracks in 45 minutes, more designed for the vinyl release than the CD version I bought. A consistently very good band who sometimes hit it out of the park. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 474 Registered: 05-2005 |
My fave is Got Nuffin. They could easily add more than ten songs to this selection. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 450 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1627 Registered: 10-2006 |
Velvet Underground – Live at the Matrix (from The Velvet Underground - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) Given a one-shot time machine trip back to the past, while others are smothering baby Adolf in his crib or knocking Oswald’s Italian carbine aside at the very last moment, I’m afraid I’d be buying my ticket for the two VU Matrix concerts and then swaggering off down Fillmore Street for a drink somewhere to wait tinglingly for evening. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9059 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan: with Microdisney, solo, with Fatima Mansions, with Dave Couse and with Sean O’Hagan. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1631 Registered: 10-2006 |
Purple mountains – Purple mountains My copy finally arrived, as jolly a listen as any pre-suicide album might be expected to be. As Andrew mentioned, though, the great lines just keep popping out at you: And when I see her in the park/it barely merits a remark/how we stand the standard distance/distant strangers stand apart Friends are warmer than gold when you’re old/and keeping them is harder than you might suppose/Lately I tend to make strangers wherever I go/some of them were once people I was happy to know The light of my life is going out tonight/with someone she just met When I try to drown my thoughts in gin/I find my worst ideas know how to swim The end of all wanting is all I’ve been wanting… | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 451 Registered: 02-2007 |
Jim White - Corvair Reprise | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9061 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spielbergs - This Is Not The End. Almost certainly the first Norwegian album I've loved since TNT's Tell No Tales from 1987. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1203 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dumb Things - Drivin'Home Based in Brisbane, Australia, this is the lead track from their debut album which was released back in 2017. They release their second album on cd and vinyl later this month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRYXX3P IBo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9063 Registered: 05-2005 |
Unity Floors - Exotic Goldfish Blues. A Sydney band that sound like a Melbourne band. This is their debut, which I have on vinyl. Their second album, Life Admin, is better, but the debut has some charm, a few great songs and my vinyl copy probably sounds better than the CD version (I don’t know this as I’ve never heard the CD version, just a hunch given its rudimentary aesthetic). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4248 Registered: 03-2005 |
James King & the Lonewolves -- Lost Songs of the Confederacy Idealized American imagery from the Scots every bit as fevered and original as Joe Meek's cod-American acts from decades before. James King & the Lonewolves were denied a longplayer in their prime so they came back and did it in 2014. The band lumbers as purposefully as an 18 wheeler on a two-lane pre-Eisenhower highway slicing through the North American forest. There are three guitarists and at least two justify their existence at any given moment. If instead of destroying the politics of the country Trump voters had turned their energy to making music perhaps it'd sound something like this. And the entire world would be saved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hlMXs7W YQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxSF42Yl eXg | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1204 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Unknown to me until now but both albums ordered. Still listening to the Dumb Things debut album. Dumb Things - Dead Leg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0r9D5jl nE4 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4250 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, do they have no bass guitar on their records? That'll be challenging. The vids show only a drummer and guitarist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0FgYn8 hYk Entertaining Clean-esque songs. Which could also mean Stevens-esque songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c87a0Eqh WW0 I'll bite: explain the distinction between Sydney and Melbourne bands. I've tended to think of Melbourne as the music city between the two. The Stevens are indeed a Melbourne band. So are the Rolling Blackouts. Ocean Party after gestation in Wagga Wagga. Paradise Motel after gestation in Hobart. Everybody's from Melbourne! (Unless they're from Brisbane or Perth.) Offhand, the Cannanes are the only Sydney band that comes to mind for me. The Cannanes are gods; gods come from unlikely places. If we go back to the beginning of time there are the Easybeats from Sydney. Also gods. I suppose that must mean that AC/DC are from Sydney but I don't count them. Not gods. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9064 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is one of the things I love most about this board - introductions to new bands, even if unintentionally. I like your list of gods/not gods Randy! Sydney v Melbourne. Sydney bands tend to be more rock - eg AC/DC (though the street named after them, ACDC Lane, is in Melbourne, not Sydney), Midnight Oil, Celibate Rifles - and Melbourne bands tend to be more inspired by Flying Nun bands and our own beloved Go-Betweens and Triffids. This is all very reductive, of course, and there are a great many Melbourne bands that rock (eg The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, Cosmic Psychos) and a great many Sydney bands more in tune with their pop side (The Church - though they absolutely rock live, The Hummingbirds, The Whitlams). But it's a good shorthand explanation. Yes, Unity Floors are a duo. And your distaste for AC/DC has inspired me to listen to them as I'm writing this post! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4253 Registered: 03-2005 |
As already put on the wrong thread: Padraig, I totally forgot about The Church! That officially tips Sydney over into the class of places with a scene since you can't have The Church without a scene. It does seem like Sydney is maybe harder to peg with a particular musical philosophy. Which is maybe the next thing to having no scene. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9065 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I've just discovered (12 minutes ago) this great insight into the Sydney scene. I urge you to watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG9z5Ben 0FM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4254 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spinal Tap or the Monkees? You decide. You're kind of making me regret that I ditched my TV a decade ago Padraig. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4256 Registered: 03-2005 |
Paul Quinn & the Independent Group -- Will I Ever Be Inside of You? "Stupid Thing" played at the end of the broadcast linked by Hugh on the Bathers thread and I thought "that's a pretty nice pop song." Turns out I have the album that includes it. I know I wasn't too lit up by this album when I first heard it. I wonder if I even got to "Stupid Thing," put in the penultimate place that Robert Forster says usually features an album's weakest song. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1209 Registered: 03-2007 |
Selvática - Macumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdKeJcMM wKs Their latest release on the independent Discos De Kirlian label based in Barcelona, Spain. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1210 Registered: 03-2007 |
En Attendant Ana - Lost And Found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W7z1CiT 1oE Live version of the same song below. Not a great recording but it lets you see the band in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCc2dl4n yxE The band are based in Paris, France, but record for a U.S. label ( Trouble In Mind.) New album being released early next year. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9067 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jen Lush - The Night’s Insomnia. An Australian singer turning Australian poetry into into a sound that’s like a more folky, less bluesy Mazzy Star, and it’s great. One of my bargain bin finds, probably in JB, maybe Egg, maybe even from Real Groovy in Auckland. Wherever I got it, I’m glad I did. It’s raining in Sydney, I hope it’s raining where the bushfires are. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 461 Registered: 11-2007 |
Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope wonderful listening | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4261 Registered: 03-2005 |
La Houle -- Premiere Vague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_IKSTN iOc | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1212 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Copy ordered from Bandcamp. I have also ordered a copy of La Houle by La Houle from Bandcamp that dates back to 2014 even though I don't know at this stage if it is the same band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmS2a2u F5g&list=PLgdN8UtE5pa8yUMP_3ar9D1UOmUmrE f1y&index=9 | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 477 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ian Broudie - Tales Told (expanded) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4263 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I would guess at least a change of vocalist. Four or five years can be a long time for a young band. I particularly like "For So Long." Interesting that discogs only shows "Premier Vague" for the band. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1213 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, That is one of the reason I am not yet convinced that it is the same band. Other than the page on Bandcamp, I cannot find any trace / mention of La Houle by La Houle anywhere. I am hoping the CD insert will provide some information on the band members. I will update you in due course. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9069 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cure - Staring At The Sea. A brilliant singles collection from 1986. The CD version, which is what I’m listening to, has four added album tracks. The cassette version was even better value, adding a bunch of b-sides. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4265 Registered: 03-2005 |
Action Painting! -- Trial Cuts (1989-95). They're probably best known for their melodic "These Things Happen" but actually most of the material on this collection is much harder, more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Quf9nd 3NE But here is "These Things Happen" for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsm-OcDu xFU | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1215 Registered: 03-2007 |
West Coast Music Club - For What It's Worth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYoGQ2uC azs Available directly from the band via Bandcamp for anyone interested. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4266 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I was trying to decide "Aussie or Kiwi?" And, finally, putting my wager on Aussie I went to Bandcamp to see. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1216 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I bet you got a surprise. Very Aussie / Kiwi sounding for a band from West Kirby, Merseyside, England. I believe they are hoping to release their second album ( Greetings From Ashton Park, West Kirby ) early next year. Currently listening to :- Follow Me Not - Nothing Comes With A Smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCrlOznF BtM&list=RDMpGFoeBLF2g&index=3 French band whose sound is categorized as shoegaze, post-punk and coldplay. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1217 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lavandera - Hacia El Mar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKcd2mt HV8 The live version for those who like to see the band in action:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNAVcIs eVE | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4267 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, Lavandera is gorgeous. Did you notice under the Follow Me Not video there is a comment posted by Unknown Pleasures Records? If I'm not mistaken that's the shop in Edinburgh on the Royal Mile. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4268 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tonight I decided to listen to Sneaky Feelings -- Progress Junction. I'm still not sure what I think of this reunion record with songs written by all four members rather than just Pine and Bannister. Some of the songs needed an expensive studio or at least an expensive engineer. And then . . . Augie March -- Havens Dumb. I too seldom sit down and listen to entire albums nowadays. Like everything else, I tend to hear this album in fragments tossed up randomly by the iPod among other music. Taking a long breather after their bloated final major label release ("Watch Me Disappear"), Glenn Richards and the band returned with what looks likely to remain their single greatest album. It presents a blistering string of great songs much like "Moo, You Bloody Choir" but importantly also revives the antipodean spirituality of "Sunset Studies" and "Strange Bird." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1218 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I was introduced to Lavandera yesterday by Oscar who owns and operates Discos De Kirlian. As you know, I have been a fan of the label for some time and I don't understand how I managed to miss out on them. I purchased the last remaining CD copy of 'Hacia El Mar' from Oscar last night along with the band's entire digital output. Follow Me Not are signed to Unknown Pleasures Records who are based in the South of France. The label is dedicated to the production / release of the following music genres:- Cold, Post-Punk, Dark Wave, Minimal Wave, Synth, Industrial, Techno and Shoegaze. I don't think they have any connection to the shop in Edinburgh. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4270 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I had just two days earlier placed an order with Jigsaw online for other discs when I heard your Lavandera sample. So I ordered another three Disco de Kirlian releases from Jigsaw including "Hacia El Mar." Funny info about Unknown Pleasures Records. I didn't know that was the label. And posting comments to boost its own artists! It reminds me of my observation that many Discos de Kirlian releases have 5 star ratings on discogs based on only one rating. Seems to be the label posting the rating. Well, somebody has to do promotion. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1219 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I am still researching the band but it seems that they self released three mini albums ( Lavandera I; Lavandera II; Lavandera III ) before joining / signing to Discos De Kirlian in 2013. https://lavandera.bandcamp.com/ The majority of the eighteen songs from these mini albums can be found on their first two releases on Discos De Kirlian ( Lavandera; Lavandera DK18.) https://discosdekirlian.bandcamp.com/alb um/lavandera https://discosdekirlian.bandcamp.com/alb um/dk18-lavandera I think they are fabulous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YW1LQPe _xw | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4271 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have a (secondhand, I think) copy of DK18 pending with a seller in Spain. Well, unless you ordered it out from under me! I put it in my cart yesterday and then forgot to submit the order until this morning. I distracted myself with the Jigsaw purchase after determining that Discos de Kirlian had only the vinyl version, obviously after you'd purchased your copy, and then forgot to come back to discogs and finish that order. | ||
| Hugh_nimmo Unregistered guest |
Shame on you for thinking I would do that. :-) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9075 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m listening to an extraordinary Australian album called The Sunset Park by The Aerial Maps. It’s one of those great many albums I pick up in bargain bins and eventually get around to playing. Today is that day for this. I’m only five tracks into the first play and I already know I’m going to love it. The music is rock, with some pop, folk and electronica, but it’s the (mostly) spoken word vocals that set it apart. Given the many references to Fremantle, I assume the singer Adam Gibson, at least, is from Western Australia. But the album was recorded in Sydney from 2009-11, and I see from the sleevenotes that I know one of the many musicians on it. The nearest comparison for their sound is The Triffids, but you can check it out yourself here https://theaerialmaps.bandcamp.com/album /the-sunset-park | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1220 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I was introduced to the band in 2008 by Scott Thurling ( the founder of Popboomerang Records ) via the wonderful 'On The Punt' from their debut album ( In The Beginning.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAIh8fH0 cbU Gibson was a member of Modern Giant before forming The Aerial Maps. Check them out if you are not already familiar with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJ3gzTL pmQ 'He stage dived and he missed, he stage dived and he missed.' | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1223 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Further to my previous entry, I believe Modern Giant were a Sydney band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_ggU6r 7e0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh, I'm listening now. | ||
| TonyS Unregistered guest |
Adam Gibson is now in the Ark Ark Birds. He wrote Bondi Poems, which is well worth seeking out, in 2008 (and says he’s Bondi born and bred). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4277 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lost Film -- Broken Spectre A download code for this album was sent to me by Discos de Kirlian with my CD copy of Senalada's album. More guitar band goodness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5dObuW olc | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4278 Registered: 03-2005 |
I should have read about Lost Film before the last post. This is an alter ego for Massachusetts musician Jimmy Hewitt. Not a band. Like too many folks nowadays, he favors every physical format EXCEPT CD. In this case, Discos de Kirlian provides a 10 inch vinyl version and a US source offers three colors of a cassette version. Grrr. I look forward to when people start feeling nostalgia for CDs. Cassettes always sounded like crap without aggressive equalization (aka Dolby noise reduction) and were subject to getting tangled in the machine. Their revival is undeserved. |