Frederick Squire - "Every Dollar Bill Could Kill Me" . Sunrise hangover, achey lake, a sandwich with turkey & cranberry & leftover sparkles. The sparkles are still stuck to your hands. There is lipstick on your collar and there are several empty boxes, and you feel as if your life has been rummaged-through, thoroughly rummaged, shaken until the snowflakes come out. [ buy ] Sinéad O'Connor - "Mandinka" . At first the cloud gun was only supposed to be used to take down asteroids. Gigantic megaton world-enders, hurtling through space. But Corporal Anderson grew overeager [...]
Welcome to FWBA's best-of 2011. This has been such a meaningful year in music to me that it's tough to represent in one post. I'm going to be honest, this took me quite a long time. I wanted to do this year justice because personally, it was a total dream: living in San Diego working with some of my favorite artists, going to SXSW and Lollapalooza, seeing Dave Bazan in stranger's living rooms, Feist play a hometown show, saw tune-yards electrified show at Soda Bar clocking in as one of my favorite performances, watching Zach Rogue and my boyfriend playing [...]
Today sees the annual pilgrimage to that place where we throw caution to the wind and provide you dear readers with our opinions on what is our most bestest albums ever recorded in the current year. Yes, the best by way of favourite releases that deserve recognition for their amazing talents in the art of folk and folk inspired music. Some may not be your cup of tea and some are going to feel right at home - overall, I think they are all frickin' fantastic albums and I whole heartily recommend every last one of them. The [...]
Along with folk music comes a deluge of historical and pop cultural associations, from the music of protest to the soundtracks to thousands of middling indie films. Due to the richness of the genre, an album of folk will have all these historical and cultural ideas swirling together just under the surface making it difficult to craft an emotionally effective album where the listener can just focus on the music, the internal ideas and the emotions without all these other associations crowding into the mental space. Frederick Squire is an amazing songwriter though, and the songs on Sings Shenandoah and [...]
Thought I would post on my top LAST.FM artists of the last 6 months for your perusal and judgment. While not completely accurate of my listening as there is still listen to music non-stop during my commute to work (2 hours daily) and my sad basement day job that don't get scrobbled to Last.fm for these charts. Overall I feel they reflect what I am listening to, but some artists may be up or down a spot or two. Let's get on with it! ~Slowcoustic's Last 6 months of top artists playlist~ [...]
This second and final grouping of albums are not necessarily greater than yesterday's grouping, but for lack of scientific research these could be considered my #5 through #1 favourite releases of 2011 thus far. Once again: do you agree, have suggestions, have ridicule? ~~ The Deep Dark Woods - The Place I Left Behind Okay, I need a bit of flexibility from you folks as this album isn't even released yet (but it is on Aug. 2nd, 2011 on Six Shooter Records here in [...]
Frederick Squire 's new album is called Frederick Squire Sings Shenandoah and Other Popular Hits . Wait, he sings what? I've never heard of "Shenandoah," but Wikipedia tells me that it's an old folk song. Huh. Well, "popular hits" or not, this one is still well worth checking out. As a member of Daniel, Fred & Julie , Squire has already proved that he's a master of vintage folk. The slow, eerie "All Things Past Serve to Guide You on Your Way" is no exception. Hear Squire's dusky baritone [...]
When you lay out the music that swings through the numerous channels here at Slowcoustic it can be overwhelming. But you splay it all out and you pick a few things that catch your ear for one of many reasons. So, this is simply a post to provide a few things that I thought you all might enjoy as my Slowcousticals. Enjoy some Canadiana. Canada has been impressing me lately, what with the Polaris Prize nominations and such. And to show some love back to the fact that Frederick Squire made the long list (here we come short [...]
Timing. Observation of the human condition. Historical appreciation . These tools are essential for any folk song writer worth his salt, but a classic story teller must instinctively know when details should be embellished for impact or empathy. This seemingly required skill is one Frederick Squire lacks, or maybe simply chooses to ignore. Instead, it's an unwavering honesty and unfiltered self-awareness that makes his songs so consuming. In Frederick's mind, nothing is too personal to be sung; no thought too dark or insecurity too exposing. So even when Squire details the [...]
A litttle while back I reviewed Moonshine , the LP from Kate Maki , and I mentioned that my introduction to her was through a collaboration she did with Frederick Squire . After that, I learned that, not only do they collaborate on music, but in life, too: I hear they're a couple and are soon to be expecting a baby. They wrap up their tour promoting both Moonshine and Squire's latest, Frederick Squire Sings Shenandoah and Other Popular Hits this coming weekend [...]
ARTIST: SWAG Report 59 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Coldplay, Pretty Lights, J Minus, Gomez, Frederick Squire, DJ Swamp, Dawes, The Burning Hotels, Judge Jackson, Sassy and more! So much more! DATE: 06-08-11 WRITER: Don Loder Hey there ya gray lookin' little junkie, How's life - ya mook. I know yer itchin' so le's get ta the deed shall we? I gotta fresh bag o' SWAG witcher name all over it - all ya gotta do is reach out [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Botanical Bullets : "Fantastic Romantic" [mp3] from We Bleed Fluorescent (out June 14th) search for more Botanical Bullets posts at Largehearted Boy Frederick Squire : "All Things Past Serve To Guide [...]
Voting starts for this year's Polaris Prize tomorrow and after much humming and hawing (and precious little payola), I've narrowed down my list to the Top Five. A couple of records fought hard for inclusion - and I hope they make it through so I can vote for them in Round Two - but at the end of the day, the following records really hit me the hardest over and meant the most to me in the last twelve months. Are they the most recognizable LPs? Most certainly not, [...]
We've all but given up on reviewing shows; I mean, who wants to see grainy photos, suffer through muffled MP3s and read someone else ramble on about a show you didn't attend? Well, hopefully in this case, you. Musical denizen Frederick Squire opened for Jon Mckiel's EP release Saturday night at the Bus Stop Theatre here in Halifax and played a set that went through his soon to be released record ( Frederick Squire: Sings Shenedoah and Other Hits ) from start-to-finish (well, excluding songs that require pump organ). [...]
Been six weeks since our last proper Weekend Mix, feels good to be home. Singles Teams vs. Star Slinger - "Punch Drunk Love" From upcoming joint EP, out 1/24 on Mexican Summer Millionyoung - "Replicants" From Replicants, out 1/11 on Old Flame Records Fred Squire - "Old Times Past New Times" Frederick Squire MySpace page [...]
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bitsandpieces.us Frederick Squire - "Old Times Past New Times" Let's pretend it's New Year's Day; let's sit with a piece of driftwood on our laps; let's see if we can draw a calendar from memory. Sackville's Fred Squire, the Fred Squire who sang on the best album of 2008 , has made a song of recollections, resolutions, " decisions that I've made ". Not all of the recollections are true, but our recollections rarely are. It's the resolutions that are truest, that ring cold & [...]
Ok. The final installment. The big hitters. 1:: Fred Squire - March 12 March 12 is full of some of the most beautiful, genuinely sad songs I've ever heard. The songs hit on emotions and fears so real that Fred just can't turn and tell someone, so he writes songs to tell everyone. The songs are grown from women and the drink, but they aren't songs about booze and broken hearts. Fred isn't scared she might not [...]
This is more or less a list of most played and/or my favourite albums from Canadian artists released in 2010 - I don't say "Best" and I don't pretend to have listened exclusively to Canadian content this past year. So let's not dig too deep into this post, it is simply a list of albums that really work(ed) for me, are better than most and are recorded by someone from the great white north. I am also not going into summary of the albums with each below as I am a niche genre music blogger, and lets be honest about [...]
Frederick Squire is an enigma to me. I first heard about him when he, Daniel Romano and Julie Doiron released their beautiful Daniel, Fred & Julie LP late last year, and since then, I keep hearing about mysteriously released recordings-CDRs wrapped in plain manila envelopes-that only a select few have been able to get their hands on. Back in March, Herohill first filed a review of Squire's just released EP, a seven-song recording, saying that: "The record plays like a moment of clarity; Squire is as honest and exposed as I've heard [...]
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