in havent blogged about new music for ages, so I won't list everything. fortunately emusic.com saw sense and reverted their pricing structure, so i'm getting 75 songs a month for A$36, usually about 6 albums.
favourites of late are
- the felice brothers (self-titled)- very dylanish, and side project from one of the brothers - the duke and the king - described as neil young meets marvin gaye
- the phenomenal handclap band (self-titled) - upbeat, dancy, clappy, a real mix of styles, some very retro, love it.
- annie lynch & the beekeepers (self-titled) - a freebie album from pastemusic.com (for susbscribers...) - accordion, guitar, lazy crooning swing. gorgeous
- julie feeney - "pages" - irish album of the year - i bought it through HMV UK - multi-layered vocals and an orchestra - great melodies, orchestral pop
- 7 worlds collide - "the sun came out" - double album from Neil Finn and a broad group of family & friends. listening as we speak - very varied, lush, beatlesque in places - johnny marr, kt tunstall, pearl jam, liam, tim, etc....
- pete yorn & scarlett johansson - "break up" - this is surprisingly good - kind of 60's folk-pop
- and arctic monkeys, kasabian.....
speaking of irish music, an album back on rotation around our house is duke special's "orchestral manouevres in belfast". this is a live BBC recording with the Ulster Orchestra largely based on his album "Songs from Deep Forest". duke special is a dreadlocked pianist-singer who writes broadway-type songs for musicals that don't exist yet. we have no idea what most of these songs are about, but they are brilliant and the orchestra sounds fantastic. i mail-ordered it from the uk ages ago.
duke currently has a free sampler album for download.
meanwhile, here are pete and scarlett...
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