I have got a bit slack on posting stuff on here, luckily James has been keeping up the blog rate. The Hunches really are quite good, well done to him. Recently I have been all over MySpace. It's obviously full of horrible problems still but I'm not quite sure how people used to hear new bands before it? Then again, I have no real idea how you would check train times before the Internet. Anyway some new local bands have found my ears somehow and hear they are. (Obviously local to me is Manchester, where are you? post [...]
Of all the tired puns in the world of music I have no idea why I still find that one vaguely snigger-worthy. It's a bit like sitting at the front of the top deck of double decker bus; no matter how old you get it's still just a little bit exciting. I've got a couple of singles to punt today, one by local band Broken Records and one by Hereford superstars (erm, what?) Gossamer Albatross. Most of my local readers know all about the release of Broken Records ' new single Lies, and in [...]
Having first appeared on this blog in [ September 2007 ] as a recommendation from Adam of the now extinct blog, A Disgusting Blemish, this month finally sees the birth of the debut single proper from Gossamer Albatross - the double a-sided 'The Ground Will Take Us Down'/'Elizabeth, Queen Of The Sea' on 7" vinyl. There's something delightfully autumnal about the Herefordshire quartet, like watching the leaves slowly metamorphosing in colour then falling gently to the ground. Except it's not gentle. As I witnessed [...]
Gossamer Albatross - "The Ground Will Take Us Down" . Maybe this song is about dying, maybe it's about gettin' down. It's probably both. And while "the flesh from your thighs" sound like words Jeff Mangum would sing, Gossamer Albatross hide more jubilance in their rattle & strum. Neutral Milk Hotel have Death's hand on their shoulder, Death's lips at their ear; Lewis Gordon's just got his lover's hand, his lover's lips, the perfume of flowers everywhere. I love even more the way they've deployed their cello & two violins: not to make things pretty, placid, but to provide a [...]
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Lots of great new British music: bright futures & bright ideas below. Rose Elinor Dougall - Another version of Pop song : In The Pipettes there was swing, surf and utter confidence in themselves and pop music. In solo form the personal overcomes the universal taking on an adventure striding with confidence, sweeping, clapping, demanding. Superb. { myspace , release Dec. 8th} Sleeping States - Trumpet Calls : More bounce, erratic than Sleeping States's usual folk dream-scapes dulled by repetition (but not dull, no). Yes, [...]
Just after I got back from my post End of the Road Festival holiday, catching up on my emails I read: “I noticed that you're heading down to the festival this weekend and thought you might be interested in checking out Gossamer Albatross, i think you'll be pleasantly surprised.” Ah. Too late. Mind you, I seem to recall that they played on the Friday afternoon, probably around the time when we were struggling with the rain falling down heavily outside our tent and The Baby Growl throwing her food about inside. So [...]
I can't help but like this EP (despite my misgivings about some of it) for its sheer youthful exuberance. Gossamer Albatross are a three piece with an average age of 17 (don't you just hate them already?) who are producing a rather nice blend of nu-folk influenced, they say, by artists such as Final Fantasy and Neutral Milk Hotel. At first it sounded slightly stilted and nervous, but as things went on I realise that there was an ambitiousness to the songwriting that outweighs the efforts of most of their peers and even those far older. Some bits don't work, [...]
Uk's Gossamer Albatross released their first ep this week. Its a small outfit so far on a new indie label called Monosound Recordings, plenty of room to grow. Drew Gordon, the 18 year-old creative center of the band, attacks phrases like he is scooping up an unsuspecting girl from the sidelines of a dance floor; too quickly to blush, too boisterous to resist. The string arrangements are prominent and refuse to take a back seat. Maybe they are turbulent winds of the English Channel, the melodic lines fight to stay above and relish the support... bring your dogged spunk or [...]
Rocks de Milo
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A Little Electricity
Song, by Toad
FADED GLAMOUR
Said the Gramophone
MusicIsMyBeachHouse
Nothing But Green Lights
The Daily Growl
Jamie's Runout Groove
Glass and Sand
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
L D R U – The Tropics
Ace by @thebigsleepnyc #nowplaying
HAERTS: “All The Days”
