Jose Delhart - Rusty Nails Jose Delhart deserves to be in a lot more folks headphones. We were actually 'myspace friends' back in the day and have a few mutual friends, but I had almost forgot about the brilliant tunes he writes. And then I found this track on a compilation put out by the DIY collective Gold & Silver Recordings, which you can download for free over HERE , and I was hooked again. The track can also be found on Jose's album Little Red Buddha , which [...]
Jose Delhart - Accountability This song is for sleepy people. There's a very quiet, albeit very steady level of energy here. The song never gets too excited, never moves too fast, never speaks above a murmur, but it brings you along with it anyway, tempting you with its narcoleptic charm rather than overwhelming your inhibitions through agitation. The guitars doze along underneath murmured words, and in the background a saw hums, hoping not to be noticed. It's all quite lovely, really. This is from Jose's album, [...]
Almost everything is somehow subtly wrong with this album, and I cannot stop playing it. And by wrong, of course, I most certainly do not mean bad, I just mean eerily, creepily, uncomfortably wrong. It is, in theory, one of the prettier records I have heard in a long time, with acoustic strumming and slow, gentle vocal delivery, violins in the background and gentle harmonies. It is, however, absolutely never pretty. The violins are eerie, the vocals ghostly (not in that distant, lo-fi, reverby way fashionable production would have them be ghostly either, but [...]
In terms of writing methodology, California/Denver based Travel by Sea 's first record was proof positive that the internet meant time spent in the same location and actually meeting your musical partner were no longer requirements for a cohesive, powerful experience. Song writer Kyle Kersten and all around musical mad man Brian Kraft passed ideas back and forth like dorm room pot heads - or more accurately, musical pen pals - and the end result was a desolate LP ( Shadows Rise ) that used fractured melodies to set the tone and loneliness and heartache [...]
Hoarse. Horse. Hoarse. Horse. Geddit geddit, see what I did there? Yes, another tedious pun, but I know you know to expect no better from me these days. Anyway, it's only called the Hoarsecast because I have a bit of a phlegmy flu which, whilst not fun, is hardly very debilitating so there is no need for me to moan really. Not that this usually stops me, but anyhewww... It's a funny old mix, this playlist. I rearranged the songs time and again, swapped a few in and out here and there and just couldn't find a way [...]
Blog pal Jason over at Loudspeaker PR sent us the latest release from Jose Delhart the other day – the fine Little Red Buddha. Released this past June, it's a sparse and haunting album, filled with the travails of a man who is in still the process of coming to terms with the ghosts in [...]
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