Melancholic songwriting about love gone wrong is a dime a dozen. Quality is in short supply when everyone and their kid sister is uploading a sappy ballad onto YouTube. That's why Spring Breakup is worth a million damn dollars. Earlier this year the duo quietly (practically silently) put out their sophomore album. You'll recall their debut got me pretty excited . Mathais Kom is one of the most brilliant songwriters in Canada, his wit and dour world view complement each other perfectly. Kim Barlow is a delightful foil, all precious and precocious and every bit as subtly [...]
Between Hurricane Bertha and my post yesterday about Anders' post-Katrina album "Coming Down", I think a post on hurricane songs. Kris Delmhorst ∞ Hurricane Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories ∞ Hurricane Alicia Wiley ∞ Hurricane Kim Barlow ∞ Hurricane Jane Citizen Cope ∞ Hurricane Waters Neil Young ∞ Like A Hurricane Bonus song: Anders Osborne ∞ [...]
Tops! For my first post, I have the pleasure of reviewing the latest from London- Ontario that is. Hailing from Alex P Keaton last night was Great Aunt Ida. Along with Kim Barlow and Tim Vesely, Ida graced the crowd with her brilliant lyrics and soothing voice. Along with some of her own material, Ida tossed in a few throwbacks; including a great rendition of a song by Guided by Voices, as
but he don't www.kimbarlow.ca so i found this song awhile back and i really liked it because i've been getting into this mellow folksy kind of stuff lately (don't worry, i'm still as punk rock as ever.) but i didn't know a lot about Kim Barlow besides the fact that this song was cool and she uses the term "bee's knees" in it, which somehow makes it cooler still. so, because i was ill-informed, i looked up Kim's bio on her website and i found this: [...]
Apparently, some people [scroll down to the bottom of this post] feel all this attention to females from Canada is close to a plague. So why not continue with swarm?) I was first exposed to Kim's music on a free sampler I got way back when I used to read Dirty Linen. I no longer read that rag but I do still dig Kim. She has an acoustic sound not unlike Nickel Creek minus the pretentiousness but adding some nice electronic twiddling. She's got a new album out [...]
Like any blogger I get a lot of music sent my way. Most of it by pr companies, larger indie labels and occasionally by one of the majors (what are they thinking?). Most of the releases I receive are listed on one of the many "upcoming releases" lists you can find scattered about on the web. I know many bloggers consult InSound's list or Metacritics or CMJ's or if they're truly desperate Billboard's . The number of releases that are left off these lists is staggering and for me it's [...]
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