Here are 50 songs that defined 2011 for me. Listen. Enjoy. Tell me what you think. And yep, that's my ugly mug on the cover. Given and Taken in Ink's Top 50 Songs of 2011 from gtimusic on 8tracks . Here's the playlist: 1. Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) 2. City Reign - Anywhere Anyway 3. The Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free 4. Zaac Pick - Whitewater 5. Yuck - Holing Out [...]
11.David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole The first song we heard from DTB's fantastic album, and perhaps the poppiest of the lot. Catchy, unusual and immensely hummable. 12.Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms Another album from which it is tricky to extricate just one song as a highlight, but for some reason I'm giving this the nod above Jesus Fever or Puppet to the Man . I think it's the most late night and glass of red winey song on the album, but it's close. 13.The [...]
Here's the first installment of the Song, by Toad Festive Fifty for 2011 - a collection of the fifty songs I have been enjoying the most this year. The fifty themselves and the precise order can hardly be described as definitive of course, because you know how fluid things like 'favourite' songs can be, but roughly speaking this is the stuff I have been enjoying the most in 2011. Just as a note, in order to make it a broader representation of the bands I've liked the most, I have made it harder and harder for bands to [...]
So, ta-daaah, here we go, what all right-thinking people have been enjoying most this year. And if you haven't been enjoying these most this year, then dammit, what do you do when I tell you what opinions to have about music, ignore me? Surely such a thing is inconceivable. As those of you who listened to last week's podcast, where I played two songs from the more forgotten albums on my first ever Albums of the Year list (2004), I am actually more fascinated by these lists in retrospect than at the time. Looking [...]
SIDE A 1. Peter Wolf Crier - Right Away.mp3 2. Apparat - Black Water.mp3 3. Beirut - East Harlem.mp3 4. Washed Out - Amor Fati.mp3 5. Mount Moriah - Lament.mp3 6. Lambchop - Came Home Late.mp3 7. The Black Swans - Mean Medicine.mp3 SIDE B 1. Wilco - I Might.mp3 2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - FFunny FFrends.mp3 [...]
The spontaneous and peculiar mind of folk musician David Thomas Broughton brings us Outbreeding, a record that seems to portray these traits very clearly. Outbreeding continues the quirks that make David Thomas Broughton so intriguing, and entices the listener with somber acoustic melodies, electronic soundscapes and DTB's authentic baritone vocals. I have not heard Folk done this way very often, so it's quite refreshing to hear something so outside of the box in terms of creativity and sound in general. For anyone new to this artist, I feel as if this is a good place to start off. [...]
This week's podcast is named the Northcast because I was just up in Inverness at GoNorth, which is I suppose the biggest official Scottish music industry chatfest. I am getting better at these, I have to be honest. The music industry is heavily based around status and I do not do well when I suspect people might be looking down their nose at me, consequently my first few were quite a challenge to escape from before I picked a fight with someone I shouldn't, but as my general stature within music, and Scottish music in particular, has slowly [...]
Is conventional the new experimental? After FOUND confusing me by releasing an album of relatively straightforward indie rock, here comes David Thomas Broughton, a man so idiosyncratic he has made a few friends of mine storm out of gigs in a rage, with an album which can only be described as a tight pop record. I am, once again, shocked by something sensible. Where previously the melodic treats in Broughton's songs were dished out sparingly, swathed in digressions and layers, with Broughton seeming to actively try and find out how far he can push his audience at times. [...]
A weekly feature in which our writers share their favourite tracks of the week. tUnE-yArDs - 'Do You Want To Live' (chosen by Niall Byrne) Both times I've experienced this song live in concert, it has sent a rush of elation to my face, a pins and needles sensation billowed to my fingertips, a wave crashed against my chest and my eyes welled up. Such is the awesome power of Merrill Garbus in a live setting. This song is pure fire, mystical and uplifting. It's fitting that the first time I heard this song [...]
(Brainlove Records, 2011) I guess we're calling this the official follow-up to David Thomas Broughton's seminal 2005 debut, The Complete Guide to Insufficiency . Are we? Which isn't to say Broughton hasn't been busy in the more than five ears since his debut. He release the odds and ends collection, It's in There Somewhere and the collaborative experiment David Thomas Broughton vs 7 Hertz , and there have been some EPs of note within that timespan as well. Still, it's been a long wait for this, Broughton's sophomore effort. [...]
David Thomas Broughton : Apologies "Thinking as I do, as the light touches your face, wishing that I could ever be so gentle, meaning not to offend, I fell into a sleep, knowing hypocrites are always going to be, sleep my darling, sleep my darling, how I love you with such just, we have half-life enough to sustain us through the rough, clashes and defence of all we have done wrong, hoping there is a whole where the half used to be, I tried all night to set your body [...]
Without a doubt, David Thomas Broughton's performance is the most singular thing I see at SXSW. It is moving, funny, surreal, genuine. He is a natural at contrition--with talent that seems to make making pretty sounds come easily to him, he challenges the audience by challenging himself.
We've posted about top notch Oxford based singer songwriter Rob St John before and he has been back in touch about a series of gigs that the Adventures Close To Home collective have been putting on. Our own poor organisation means we've already missed two, but tomorrow sees a bill that features David Thomas Broughton , Rob himself and the Braindead Collective . It all takes place in the grand settings of the St. Columba's United Reform Church with local, experimental creaks and drones in support... For those who didn't [...]
David Thomas Broughton — Apologies The men responsible for David Thomas Broughton not being universally beloved and showered with accolades should be brought before a council of elders and charged with crimes of humanity (or at least given a very stern talking-to). I mean, seriously— have you guys listened to The Complete Guide to Insufficiency ? Like, really, really listened to it? If we're being honest here, there's hasn't been an instance in which I've [...]
David Thomas Broughton - "River Lay" (Official Video) It may take a second for David Thomas Broughton's voice — a haunting baritone that recalls Timber Timbre 's Taylor Kirk or Antony, pitch-shifted down an octave — to adjust to your ears, but it's well worth some patience, as the title track to his new album, Outbreeding , which came out today via Brainlove Records, is a glorious piece of avant-folk. Check out director Sonny Malhotra's stop-motion video for "River Lay" above. If you like what you hear, another new song can be streamed/downloaded below: [...]
To say David Thomas Broughton 's music is woodsy is not to associate him with hemp kaftans. It is to say that in this dense acoustic environment of looped guitar and thrumming double bass you never know what you'll stumble over. 'River Lay' describes this forest's watery boundary; you can "waste your life on the banks" pondering the incommunicability of love, and the nature of words, which "can never bridge the widening divide". The song is muddy-coloured with a plodding rhythm like a tin man's steps. It has been emerged in several incarnations [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. David Thomas Broughton 's new record Outbreeding (due out via Brainlove Records next week) promises a more developed and cohesive style of songwriting than he's displayed before. Whilst we love his offbeat, disconcerting approach to performance - utilising loops and utterly bizarre sound effects as much as his own unnerving persona - we can't wait to hear what comes next following his prolonged hiatus from live shows. Each track on Outbreeding has been [...]
Normaal gezien telt Birds That Change Colour zes leden, maar enkel hoofdvogel Koen Kohlbacher en zijn gitaar (en enkele mondharmonica's) kregen we te horen in de huiskamer in de Wespstraat. Hij zette zijn set akoestisch in, om drie kwartier later te eindigen met een fel gespeeld en luidkeels gezongen nummer. Tussenin kregen we eigen nummers en covers van folknummers, met een bijzondere fascinatie voor de maand mei. Na een mei-song uit de rijke Britse folktraditie bracht hij immers een zelfgeschreven variant op het thema. Ook Robert Johnson werd [...]
Our first Compilation album! After many weeks of preparation and organisation, we are immensely proud to present to you all the final track listing of the Number 1 covers so brilliantly produced by 15 hard working and very talent bands and artists. A special mention should also be accredited to Bravestation who's Talking Heads track we've included as a bonus track. When we originally contacted each band, we simply presented our idea to them and asked them to produce the best quality track that they could. With no funding other than money from their own backpockets, [...]
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