| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side. One of my favourite Irish albums this century, or any other century. I wrote about her very early in her career, 20 years ago. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/brigh t-eyes-gemma-hayes-good-time-john-1.3261 77 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10140 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You. A little distance has helped enormously; I’m now hearing what everyone else seems to have heard in it when it first came out. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4638 Registered: 03-2005 |
One Thousand Violins - Halcyon Days Released in 2014, this Cherry Red anthology just made it onto my radar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqr6Qtu pck | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4639 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather A rather nice, sometimes almost elegiac one-person album from San Francisco. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4hXUjbB kdo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10142 Registered: 05-2005 |
This Is The Kit - Off Off Oddities. Randy and the our other Francophiles, take note (though you are probably already aware of her). https://thisisthekit.bandcamp.com/album/ off-off-oddities | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1381 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Some really good songs on 'Halcyon Days' including this one which is a personal favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnMKBH1t 6Hk | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1382 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, A very talented artist / band. I have several of her / their albums in my collection. Currently listening to :- Pablo Prisma Y Las Piramides - Grandes Felinos Fantasma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrwapNlG bD8 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2031 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs." This is some kind of achievement. Stampfel, of course, was a founding member of the psychedelic folk group The Holy Modal Rounders. Now, at 82, he releases a five-CD opus in which he picks and records one song from each year of the 20th century, 100 in all. It includes everything from "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" to "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life" to Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk" to Curtis Mayfield’s “Momma Didn’t Lie” and even a song by my pals the Ass Ponys, "Earth to Grandma." This is most fun I've had with music in a while. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 491 Registered: 02-2007 |
Humdrum Star - released in 2014 from Brisbane indie band Mosman Alder. Superb. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4640 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the tip, David. Copy ordered. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 492 Registered: 02-2007 |
I have listened to the album a few times now Randy. Kinda like Arcade Fire meets The Church(I hate describing new bands I am not familiar with like that but it serves a purpose in painting a picture.) The album is produced by Paul Dempsey, perhaps more well known as frontman of Something For Kate. Some jangly guitars & vocal harmonies on a coupla songs. Very polished sound but the songs are well crafted. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4641 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah, I struggle with that. I'll find something in a band that reminds me of an aspect of another band, but it'll be something that most other people don't perceive in that other band thus making my comparison kind of unhelpful. The most recent example I can think of is my comparison of 3Pecados' album "Diciembra" to the first two Augie March albums, "Sunset Studies" and "Strange Bird." The groups don't sound at all alike but I find a similar cinematic sweep suggesting wide open spaces to the three albums. I suspect the connection I make is too idiosyncratic for other people to follow. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4642 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, what I'm listening to is: Chook Race - About Time This is the band's first self-released album. I confess a weakness for self-released records. And this one's even on vinyl! I had to order it from the much-loved Rocking Horse Records as the copies on Bandcamp are sold out. They have a second album which Trouble in Mind picked up. Since that second album is five years old I fear that's it for Chook Race. Chook Race embodies the crystalline no-nonsense Aussie small-band approach. There's either no, or precious little, overdubbing. Chook Race were three people, the drummer a female natch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1CSuN7 uis | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1951 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, that's cheered things up enormously in the Wilson living room, I have to say. Thanks, Randy! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1383 Registered: 03-2007 |
They got better. One of many overlooked Australian bands. A little hint of The Chills in the second track? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EioMDAuS K7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LefJWqR T1c From their album 'Around The House' which was released on the Trouble In Mind label in 2016. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 493 Registered: 02-2007 |
Bottle It In - Kurt Vile | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 506 Registered: 11-2007 |
Love,,Burns - wired eyes https://loveburns.bandcamp.com/album/wir ed-eyes-hard-to-fall Limited Edition Vinyl of 35(!) by Phil Sutton of Pale Lights | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1384 Registered: 03-2007 |
Prisma En Llamas - Aeropuerto Extrańamente Blanco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xRAQxqW 2fw | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4644 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've just ordered the 10" and shared 12" Hugh. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1952 Registered: 10-2006 |
Damon Albarn - This is a low (live at Worthy Farm) A warm, burnished version of this great melancholy song, one of the few, I think, if not the only, to be inspired by a tea towel. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1385 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I only came across the following video after I had posted the above link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xta9Aj4P RAk Hugo Sierra is now in Sierra ( A Ninguna Parte ) while Pablo Prisma is a member of Pablo Prisma Y Las Piramides. I am still waiting for my copy of 'A Ninguna Parte' to arrive. |