on the seventh day god (small g) did not rest. instead (s)he got up, had a mug of strongblack and a delicious bowl of cocopops (maybe with maltesers added), cleared up the mucky debris of the previous six days creationist madness, then thought to him(her)self whilst sitting on the john, casually flicking through some foosty [...]
All you need to make an album is a girl and a guitar, as Jean-Luc Godard would most likely have said, if he hadn't been too busy pontificating on the precise number of girls and guns required to make a movie. As ever, I find it hard to disagree with things that Godard never [...]
We've recently decided to add MP3's to our Album/Gig reviews and features; this is so you can have a better indication of what the band/artist at hand sounds like, especially when it comes to our radar series. So to start off this new chapter in the 405 book, here's a few songs for you that have appeared in our posts from the last month! MP3: The BPA - Spade MP3: Passion Pit - Cuddle Fuddle MP3: [...]
klappe, die dritte. nancy wallace . ein profaner vor- und nachname, der auch für eine recht berühmte bildende künstlerin herhalten muss, wurde eben auch an jene nancy vergeben, die sich als folkchanteuse versucht. versucht ist falsch, denn sie kann es. und klingt gar wie in "many years" wie jene joni mitchell, die dem metier irdene funamente mit engelsgleicher stimme schuf. und dabei singt wallace "old stories". doch wer meint, dass alle geschichten schon erzählt wären, irrt. nancy fügt ihre ganz persönlichen hinzu. wer meint, dass er dem namen schon auf [...]
The extent of my knowledge about traditional English folk is extremely limited. It just about starts and ends with Fairport Convention and subsequent albums by Richard Thompson. There's something about that subgenre of folk that I find just too precious and self-conscious. But something struck me as different when it comes to the songs of Nancy Wallace . Perhaps it was the artwork of the new record or perhaps it was the fact that it's distributed by the unusually diverse (and divisive) Southern label. Either way listen to "Sleeping Sickness" off [...]
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