To finish off our favourites of the year, here are numbers thirty to sixteen of the albums we have most enjoyed in 2012. Don't forget to check back for our 100 Favourite Tunes and the MM contributor's best of lists too. 30 Joe Pug - The Great Despiser a 29 David Cronenberg's Wife - Don't Wait To Be Hunted To Hide a [...]
It's too early to already have regrets, right? Heck we haven't even finished our top 50 albums of 2012 yet. Regardless of that, the regrets are there. I read a lot of blogs, and so I've got my little pack of fellow bloggers that I heavily respect (look to the sidebar for the blogroll for some hints) and when they make lists, I dive heavily into them. And so, as those lists have come for the end of this long year, I am finding a number of oversights I've made. Albums that I listened to once or twice, didn't connect [...]
JBM - Stray Ashes ~ The Great American Desert - Carson City ~ Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion ~ Evening Hymns - Spectral Dusk ~ Father John Misty - Fear Fun [...]
Here are tracks 80 - 61 in our countdown of Mad Mackerel's 100 favourite tunes of the year. Don't forget to check out numbers 100 - 81 in yesterday's post here and check back tomorrow for numbers 61 - 40. Here we go... 80 SUN KIL MOON - SUNSHINE IN CHICAGO Beautifully bittersweet reflections of wandering troubadour preparing for another gig in Chicago and how the times have changed... Sunshine in Chicago makes me sad [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist : JBM Video: "On Fire On a Tightrope" Highlight: "The video, to me, captures a human state of no identity," Jesse Marchant tells Spinner. "It is the feeling of looking at distant galaxies or of attempting to look within another person from one's own point of view. It is a look at loss within what still remains and at the blending of what is real and what is not. I find that all the people who appear [...]
I haven't made a mix in a while and I wanted to. Thus, I've made a mix. It's about 37 minutes long, or enough time for me to drive up into the mountains, which is way I've made it for. And also you. The Gaslight Anthem - Great Expectations (Acoustic) The Head and the Heart - No One To Let You Down Corey Morrow - Beat of Your Heart JBM - Keeping Up Cold Specks - Blank Maps The Lumineers - Don't Wanna [...]
Balmorhea (say it: Bal-more-ay ) is a 6 piece instrumental group from Austin, TX. Stranger is their latest release on the Western Vinyl label. The double LP comes out next week on October 2nd. While some label this music postrock , I'd say it's more a blend of postrock with folk and classical traditions, so let's call it postfolkical . This right here is the opening track to the album. Listen. Downloadable: Days (mp3) You can preorder Stranger @ [...]
Frank Yang Cambridge, England quartet Alt-J couldn't have known how prescient they were when they named their debut album An Awesome Wave , as that's pretty much what they've been riding through 2012. Released across the pond in May, it only came out over here officially this past Tuesday - timed to coincide with their inaugural North American tour - but in the interim that wave of buzz had quite definitively crossed the Atlantic, ensuring that arrived on these shores more like heroes than an act with something to [...]
Last night, UK up and comers Alt-J played a sold-out show to an extremely amped crowd at Johnny Brenda’s. It was their first time performing in Philadelphia, and the anticipation was palpable. The band made their obligatory comment about eating obligatory cheesesteaks (from underdog Jim’s, no less), but spent most of their time recreating their ... Continue reading
JBM , the moniker of singer-songwriter Jesse Marchant, will be on tour this fall opening for buzzy British band Alt J. The tour begins tomorrow, September 12th, with a hometown show for JBM at the Bowery Ballroom. Marchant has recently expanded upon his humble acoustic beginnings with the release of his second full-length record, " Stray Ashes ." The album finds Marchant experimenting with loops, drums, and the electric guitar, resulting in a fuller, more intricate sound. " On Fire On a Tightrope " showcases JBM's airy and majestic ambiance that simultaneously conjures a sense of warmth and emptiness. Check [...]
This August, Alt-J visited New York City for only the second time in their young careers, and played sold out shows at both Mercury Lounge and Glasslands. And now, just one month later, they're back and already sold out Bowery Ballroom (but seriously, these guys are blowing up - they've shot up to 70,000 Facebook "likes" in under a year). Don't get too upset that tickets aren't available though; you can always do some searching on Craigslist! If that show doesn't work out for you, there are plenty of other amazing bands in town - [...]
JBM Tours w/ Alt-J This month JBM will tour with Alt-J in support of his recent release Stray Ashes. Date and venue info below. Sep 12 New York, NY • Bowery Ballroom w/ Alt-J Sep 14 Philadelphia, PA • Johnny Brenda's w/ Alt-J Spe 15 Washington, DC • Rock and Roll Hotel w/ Alt-J Sep 17 Allston, MA • Great Scott [...]
Brooklyn-based recording artist Jesse Marchant , a.k.a. JBM 's sophomore album Stray Ashes is out now on Western Vinyl. Paste Magazine says "Stray Ashes is full of deeply affecting folk that reflects the remoteness and solitude of Marchant's recording process, which took place in an isolated cabin in the Catskills." NPR stated the album is "full of dramatic tension - echoes and loops an strategically employed silence." JBM just announced a fall tour with [...]
E' sempre bello imbattersi in album che ti conquistano sin dal primo ascolto, soprattutto se sono di autori sconosciuti. L'album di Jason P. Gould è stato pubblicato tre giorni fa ed è un autentico gioiello di cantautorato folk malinconico, a metà strada tra JBM e Bill Callahan. Da ascoltare e riascoltare, senza soluzione di continuità.
JBM , the moniker of solo artist Jesse Bryan Marchant, underscores each song with a howl of the isolation and yearning of a much older soul. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Marchant is now based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and has released a follow-up to his "only in July" debut called "Stray Ashes." The singer has already drawn favorable comparisons to that of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Jim James of My Morning Jacket, due in large part to haunting reverb on songs like "Only Now" and "Winter Ghosts." JMB records most of his work in a cabin in [...]
A fairly mundane week on the honorary accolades front. Nothing to report. Outstanding pasta salad awarded by Joe Sprat. Superlative nag silently attributed by Teenage Sprat. Tssk. I ask you. The hound came third in the agility group (out of a class of five) in a school dog show and failed to perform for best trick, for which I was photographed taking a sideways swipe with my foot. We lost in the dog who most looked like their owner category; I blame the re-blonding of my hair. Watched the Olympic torch arrive in Blenheim Palace. Frankly, [...]
Album: Stray Ashes Artist: JBM Label: Western Vinyl Words by Chris Do you hear that muffled howl in the trees? That’s a breeze of fresh air blowing into your grizzled, over-exposed eardrums. That’s the idyllic pain of JBM ’s new record, Stray Ashes , a relatively quiet and straightforward record that might not even be fully formed (in fact, a lot of this material could have been fleshed out for a more memorable [...]
Well, everyone else is doing it, so why don't we? We're going to toss out our top five albums of the year, except we'll be doing it with our four main contributors, so hopefully that'll mix things up a bit. Obviously, we're only half-way through the year, so things are subject to change, and by things I mean our minds. Nicole Baumann 1. Beach House- Bloom At first, this album for me seemed a [...]
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