Collaborative Music Blogging Project
Rosemary Works Project is the eponymous debut of singer-songwriter Alex Lewis and a host of multi-instrumental and vocally deft collaborators from other bands including Nicolai Prowse, Rhodri Marsden, and Nick Frater. It features instruments from the traditional guitars, drums and keys to bowed saw, mini pianos and a lot more… but I’ll use up my…
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Following on from the remastered double CDs of classic Kinks albums that have been released recently, Sanctuary Records have put out the first seven albums (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy, Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)…
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Album: Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts Label: Matador Released: 23.05.11 Writing about the solo record of someone you have long-admired objectively is never an easy task. There is always the possibility of being a bit too fawning and fan-ish (mind you, this is fanzine) or criticise more heavily as the weight of expectation is on it.…
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Hauschka ‘Salon des Amateurs’ Released 11.05.11 Label: Fat Cat records Pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann marries two main styles in his latest record: classical and dance. Not an obvious combination, but there is nothing awkward in this musical relationship. Sometimes with instrumental albums it’s harder to…
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Waterson and Knight are the children of the late Lal Waterson, and the Waterson/ Carthy influence is very evident in the musical, vocal and lyrical phrasing of this charmingly nostalgic debut. The album starts gently, with guitar and voice tracks peppered lightly with violin, piano and harmony voices – those on ‘Father Us’ provided by…
Continue reading [Album review] Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight – The Days That Shaped Me (One Little Indian Records, March 2011)
Photo: Lochboisdale, South Uist by Matt Law Some sad music for your Sunday Download link Billie Holiday – Good Morning Heartache (MP3)
Artist: Broadcast 2000 Album: Broadcast 2000 Labe:l Groenland records 15.02.2010 Broadcast 2000 is the brainchild of bedroom musician Joe Steer and a host of talented friends. The result is anything but Lo-Fi, thanks to production by Eliot James (Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs). Steer’s wish was for the album to “sound like it was recorded in my bedroom,…
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Asobi-Seksu- Live at Olympia Studios Release date: 16.11.09 Label: One Little Indian NY based dream-pop merchants dust off some of their back catalogue for this acoustic based, revisionist album recorded at legendary London studios. In the sparsity of the arrangements; Yuki Chikudate’s delicate vocals lead over acoustic guitars, toy pianos, and glockenspiels. Opener ‘Breathe Into Glass’ begins…
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Released 12.10.09 End of the Road records The Young Republic met at music school in Massachusetts; they now reside in Nashville, Tennessee and ‘Balletesque’ is an amalgamation of classical training and folkloric storytelling. Opener ‘Introduction’ flows into ‘The Alchemist’ and is a suitably bombastic beginning for this musical journey; swooping the listener up on the…
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The South London three Piece have had something of a sonic make over since their debut What’s the time, Mr Wolf? Their seemingly garage band sensibilities have been given a glossy sheen (By producer Jim Abiss of Arctic Monkeys and Adele desk- controlling fame) on this second outing. It opens with the rather sleepy Sometimes which veers…
Continue reading Album: Noisettes, Wild Young Hearts (Mercury) 20.04.09
