Basia Bulat - "In the Night". An unreleased song, a living-room demo, four walls & a floor and sounds bravely sounding. It's a lighthouse desperately seeking its ship: that brave white beam scouring a million nighttime wave-tips, grazing two hundred low-flying birdwings. Too much hope, love, fate, joy, fear for one voice; instead it's a host of them. Too sick to be seasick, too awed to be awestruck - the song just whirls and whirls, the light-house-light spins and scours, and the drums & autoharp gallop with the whole breathless pace of possibility. I raved Basia Bulat's Oh My Darling [...]
It's official. Three Pints and a Towel has reached 10,000 visits in the four and a half months that it's been alive. Considering the fact that this site was created on a near whim to satisfy my music-sharing desires, I'd say that's pretty darn good! Of course, this place would be nothing at all without all of you. Thanks so much for coming by, for reading and listening, for leaving comments, and for being curious enough to explore this tiny corner of the music blogosphere. Not only have you helped satisfy my nerdy need to feel internet-important, you've [...]
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Andorra ist der Name der neuen Platte von Electro-Pop-Perle Caribou . Kopf der Band, Daniel Snaith, hat für's neue Album auch mit Jeremy Greenspan von den Junior Boys zusammengearbeitet. Die Single "Melody Day" soll ausserdem einen Four Tet-Remix enthalten. Sehr exquisit das ganze. Caribou - Melody Day "Sweet Sixteen" und auf der Insel schon ein Hype. Zurecht, wenn ihr mich fragt, denn sie bringen Placebo die dringliche Portion Coolness bei. Bombay Bicycle Club - Cancel On Me Feist trifft auf Johni [...]
Mancino - Hetchie, Hutchie, Footchie Ben Lee - Begin Interference - Gold (from the Once soundtrack) The Ladybirds - The Brown and Red Divide Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4 (Vanshe Technologic Remix) The Postmarks - Goodbye Basia Bulat - Snakes & Ladders Flunk - Sit Down [...]
This gig was only three weeks ago, but it seems like a lifetime away now. There's a hell of a lot happened to me since then . But even though it's late, I though it was worth writing a bit about it because firstly it was my last gig as a childless (man and probably my last gig for a while), and secondly because it was just really good. Like her album release, Basia Bulat's appearance in London over this weekend was a bit low-key. On the [...]
Basia Bulat was the winning entry for the Pela Contest we held recently where I asked contestants to give me the name of a band or musician that I'd never heard before. I picked this lovely Canadian and surprised many in the process who couldn't believe I hadn't heard of her before. Said The Gramophone launched the entire YEAR 2007 with a post dedicated to Basia , calling her "one of [their] favourite discoveries of 2006" and comparing her delicate voice to that of Feist and Joni Mitchell. Frank from [...]
I've really been enjoying Basia Bulat and she seems about as kind and likable as an artist can be. Whether she is or not, and I'm banking she is, her music is about as beautiful as it comes. The internet has been talking about her a lot, so hopefully you've heard some of her beautiful tunes. She's from "the forest city" of London, Ontario. Her record, Oh, My Darling , is out on Rough Trade Records . Basia Bulat's [...]
Last week was a particularly good one for new music. And by 'new' I mean artists I knew nothing about before last Monday. By the end of Tuesday, I had two new favourites, who I had not only discovered for the first time – I had already splashed out on their latest albums. The first one was Phosphorescent , who I posted on last week . The other was Basia Bulat . I'm surprised that I hadn't heard anything about her before. I happened across her myspace via a link from the [...]
Basia Bulat is from London Ontario, a medium sized Canadian city not far from the small city I spend many years living in (too many). I have since escaped to what has recently been named the world's most intelligent community and sometimes I wonder if they know I'm here. But enough about my intelligence, or lack thereof, this is about Basia Bulat and why you should give her music a good listen. Today marks the European release of her debut full length album on Rough Trade Records, Oh My Darling . I've tagged her [...]
There's something irresistable about Basia Bulat's naive pop songs... Just the perfect soundtrack for this sunny day in Copenhagen if you ask me. Basia Bulat - I was a daughter Basia Bulat - Before I knew Basia Bulat - Snakes and ladders www.myspace.com/basiamyspace
Photography by Black Candi So the time has come for me to usurp my disc-jockey bebe, Tsuru, by putting up a post to call my own. There's nothing I love more than putting soulful songstresses on the stereo and singing along at the top of my lungs. Lately, it seems that there have been hardly any little birdies that I have really fallen fall for; but there have been a select few that have really dug their heels in my mind - where I catch [...]
As soon as I heard this song, I knew I was going to post it. At first I thought it was the handclaps. So joyous. Then I thought it was the voice in all it's quivering, sweet beauty. Or was it the insistent beat, tap-tap-tapping it's way into my very being. Perhaps it was the winding violin that sweeps around the background, skipping next to the minimal piano. Only when it ended, then repeated, then ended, then repeated, did I realise that it was the sum of these parts that made it a delicious, summers afternoon [...]
Andrew Bird photo found on MySpace Every Monday-Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. The podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think you should hear. Today's featured selection is from the 2007 album Armchair Apocrypha by Andrew Bird : Andrew Bird - Heretics ( MP3 ) Catch Andrew Bird at The Showbox on May 5. Learn more about podcasting and subscribe [...]
Basia Bulat "Before I Knew" - The first song on Basia Bulat's debut album is gorgeous, but frustratingly short, trailing off to a conclusion after making its point rather than to repeat itself like a normal pop song. Even though it sounds very sweet and pretty, this isn't the sort of "I'm in love with you" song that is intended to flatter the object of the singer's affection. In fact, I'm not sure if this is the sort of sentiment that is meant to be shared with anyone at all. "Before I Knew" is an expression [...]
I can't recall how I was lucky enough to find the music of Canadian Basia Bulat , but find it and post it I did close to two years ago. And as surprising as her talent is, is the sad fact that it took two years and a label in Europe (Rough Trade) to get her signed and, thankfully, an album recorded. In Basia's music there may be classical instruments plucked and strummed, and folky elements, and aggressive rhythms, but over all of it comes her striking voice. Most definitely feminine and yet it displays [...]
I usually try to enforce a show-going moratorium for at least a week or so after SxSW, just to get my head back together, but this year it lasted but 72 hours. The draw was Maria Taylor and Basia Bulat and despite being medicated to a degree far more suitable for seeing Spiritualized (got me a Texas-sized cold, y'all!), I was off to the 'Shoe on Wednesday night. When I saw her at the Drake back in January, I described Basia Bulat's music as "springtime smiling" - [...]
Photography by Stefanie Schneider Busy, busy boy as Spring approaches. A mix for you baby, some of our recent faves and some new tunes... Something to hold us over. TSURURADIO Presents It's Springtime Baby (Zip File) 01 Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son 02 REM - Dream #9 [...]
mary margaret o'hara (above) year in song new day tegan and sara monday monday monday feist mushaboom jane siberry bound by the beauty basia bulat snakes and ladders BUY : Feist , Mary Margaret O'Hara , Jane Siberry , Tegan and Sara , Basia [...]
With ice melting, Great Lake Swimmers will be able to further indulge in their pastime. The city is thawing out and signs of spring are starting to show up, and there isn't a much better soundtrack to the feelings that go with it than music from Great Lake Swimmers ; then again, their lazy folk sound would also work perfectly on a scorching August afternoon. dial613 posits that the band is like Ducks : multi-purpose, for all sorts of weather, and your mother would be delighted to know you're into them. Opening [...]
"Gave away our hearts before we knew what they were." Basia Bulat ~ I Was A Daughter from Oh, My Darling by Basia Bulat
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Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 3
