It was a spectacular weekend for me on the new music discovery front. I just stumbled into all sorts of audio goodness, which I will spend my Monday sharing here with you as opposed to...you know, working.
First up is Right Away Great Captain, a side project of Manchester Orchestra's lead singer Andy Hull, which immediately explains why I love the record so much. Musically, it may come off a bit softer, a bit more folky, but lyrically it is as biting and brutally honest as anything MO has ever recorded. The record I have been digging is 'The Eventually Home', it came out late in 2008.
* ' Cutting Off The Blood To Ten' MP3
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Yes, this may not exactly be the feel good hit of the summer, but it's a great song nonetheless, destined to go down as one of the great break up songs of 2009.
Slow Club are Charles and Rebecca from Sheffield, United Kingdom. There brand new album "Yeah So" will be out on July 6th.
* 'There Is No Good Way To Say That I'm Leaving You' MP3
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Ah..the second I hit play and that beautiful reverb-fueled fuzzy guitar sound of J Mascis' came blaring out, all was right in the world. His guitar became my time machine...and I hitched a ride back to the early 90's and the age of own personal musical renaissance. No cubicles...no annoying bosses...no mindless work...just big dreams and rock n roll. That's where I need to get back to.
Never underestimate the transportive powers of music. Enjoy this new Dino Jr track...the record is brilliant.
* 'Over It' MP3
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“I don’t wanna worry about dying...I just wanna worry about those sunshine girls”
Thank you Japandroids....for penning what have to be some of THE great rock n roll lyrics of 2009.
* 'Young Hearts Spark Fire' MP3
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Former Arab Strap member, singer/songwriter Malcolm Middleton released a brand new album today - 'Waxing Gibbous'. If you have stumbled across any of the blurbs on this blog before, you know that I have a major weakness for all things Scottish - musically speaking. Not sure why that is...and I am not sure if I won't to now!
But I digress...'Waxing Gibbous' is fine collection of reflective, evocative songs...beautiful stuff. Here is one of my favorites, and an early contender to win my vote for song title of the year.
* 'Ballad Of Fuck All' MP3
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It's a been another good week for me on the music discovery front. Here is another album I have been currently playing into oblivion lately - Red Heart The Ticker's second album, 'Oh My! Mountains Below.'
The record is a 13 song set of some of the most beautiful sounding country folk that I have heard in quite awhile. The band is Vermont husband and wife tandem Tyler Gibbons and Robin MacArthur.
* 'When We Were Young' MP3
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Despite what the music industry would have you believe, I sincerely believe that now is a better time than any to be an artist. With tools like myspace, twitter,and file sharing bands literally have access to MILLIONS of people instantly.
And it's a pretty amazing time to be a music lover too. I am finding bands all the time that I love...usually quite accidentally. The latest such band is North Carolina outfit Bombadil. I have been listening to their new record 'Tarpits And Canyonlands' for the past couple of days and just loving it. Super literate lyrics set to beautiful instrumental soundtracks...right up my alley.
Here is one of my favorite tunes off of the record...I actually had a hard time deciding which song to share, I like so many...but the Aphex Twin refernce here won out in the end :-)
* 'Matthew' MP3
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