That's right folks, it's Monday again... Sigh... Yes, already. So yeah, you could fight it, but it's so much easy to give up, isn't it? This could help keep you unmotivated: 1. Nick Drake: River Man ("Five Leaves Left," 1969) 2. Pink Floyd: If ("Atom Heart Mother," 1970) 3. Beck: Guess I'm Doing Fine ("Sea Change," 2002) 4. David Crosby: Orleans ("If I Could Only Remember My Name," 1971) 5. Simon & Garfunkel: April Come She Will ("The Concert In [...]
Fort Frances covered one of their favorite Beck songs and I was instantly transported back to high school when I played Sea Change on a never ending loop. Then I realized that Sea Change is 10 years old and I got all nostalgic, but that's another story. Have a listen to this cover and be sure to check out their other songs on facebook , bandcamp , and their daytrotter session . Fort Frances is, without a doubt, a band to watch. I suspect their second LP [...]
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Tweet [In the first half of 2011 we ran a few "Flashback" posts giving a little hindsight loving to great/underrated/forgotten albums from 10 years ago. We didn't really have a plan or timetable for those posts, but we loved writing them, and from our ongoing photo series of great albums on Facebook it's clear that you guys like a little reminisce about old greats too, so for 2012 the "Flashback" is being resurrected as a fully fledged feature. We'll be [...]
[The New Classics is a reoccurring segment in which we examine our favorite indie releases that are bound to replace our parent's "classic rock" stash hidden in the attic or the basement. These aren't reviews, these are unedited testimonies and opinions about why we love what we love. Can we get a witness?] Words by Vicki Mayowski Album: Sea Change Artist: Beck Released: September 24, 2002 Label: Geffen Produced by: [...]
Sea Change was the album that sounded least like Beck, but ironically remains the most gorgeous work he's ever produced. Now as producer, he seems to have convinced Thurston Moore to attempt his own sea change. Titled Demolished Thoughts , Moore's new album finally embraces the aesthetic of beauty that he's spent an entire career subverting through strains of various alternate tunings, while effortlessly managing to sound every bit like himself. "In Silver Rain with a Paper Key" is a perfect example of this, a song complete with instantly recognisable SY-esque lyrical imagery, set surprisingly [...]
Check out a beautiful mini-video video series of 3 great artists coming together at MOCA and helping each other out with a few tunes: And the beautiful live rendition of Beck's "Golden Age" below:
Peep this ultimately creepy clay-mation video from Turin Brakes, a folk duo out of London. (Off their new album, Outbursts.) More like it: EXCLUSIVE: Scraping For Change release music video VIDEO: Mari takes A B & the Sea to the dog park CD Review: "Change! CD/DVD" by Hot Topic
Focused on the aftermath of a breakup, 2002's Sea Change featured Beck at his most heartfelt and musically spare. The album was a significant departure from Midnite Vultures and more in line with Mutations , sans some of the electronic artifacts scattered throughout that oft-forgotten album. Sea Change is for the most part acoustic and largely features combinations of Beck's voice (Beck's voice with cotton in his cheeks maybe), guitar, string arrangements, and lurching bass and drum combos like those found on "Paper Tiger." For many the album was a welcome escape from [...]
Tutto sommato, tranquilli e senza disturbare troppo, i Turin Brakes hanno detto la loro nel decennio appena concluso. Nulla di tremendamente interessante o memorabile, ma ci hanno lasciato almeno una manciata di ottimi pezzi (che vi proponiamo dopo il salto), due bei dischi (i primi due, "The Optimist LP" e "Ether Song") e una grande capacità di scrivere brani pop più che dignitosi... dote piuttosto rara negli anni zero. Con queste premesse si affacciano sul nuovo decennio, sempre più privi delle attenzioni mediatiche che avevano ai tempi di "Ether Song", con [...]
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars It seems like not too long ago that we last heard from Eels , which is correct, as Hombre Loco came out in 2009, but we find E here on this album a far different man than where we encountered him. End Times , as the cover art suggests, shows a worn man living in isolation; he's a man broken by love, or at least we can assume it is he, as E's [...]
Hello everyone, after a rather quiet couple of months I think I'll be able to update my blog more frequently - BTW expect some new blog features soon. In the meantime give a listen to a bunch of covers from the likes of The Eden House , The Charlatans , The Golden Filter and Seachange . Enjoy! The Eden House - Street Spirit (Radiohead cover) The Charlatans - Murder (New Order cover) The Golden Filter - [...]
Certain songs rise to the occasion with unsparing honesty and melodies so bittersweet you can taste the anguish. But, alas, the majority comes off as the whining of a guy who thinks he's the only person to ever shed a tear.
So, last night I went and saw Travis. Now, I've never been the biggest fan. Obviously I've sung along to some of there hits like, Sing, Why Does It Always Rain on Me... Regardless I have a respect for any artist that is true to who they are and tours their ass of. They are obviously talented artists that have toured the world on some larger stages. They played a stadium type show in from of 1k people and it worked. I won't be critical simply because I spent the drive home after the show probably being too critical of the [...]
Playlist The Killers - Forget About What I Said Julien-K - Maestro Liam And Me - Fast As You Can Maximo Park - The Kids Are Sick Again Punk TV - Voices Seachange - IOU Love Nine Inch Nails - Not So Pretty Low Placebo - Battle For The Sun Zeromancer - Fractured [...]
(Tuesdays can be a trying day here in Club Land at the RFT. It's deadline day for the show/concert listings, and this fact hangs over my head just like all of those foreboding elementary sch... Continue reading "Fitter, Happier, More Productive: M. Ward's Hold Time" >
Photography by Antonio Gabriele I had one of those high-to-low weekends... My mother-in-law was in town (Canadian Maw-Maw) and it was fun as always, hitting the arts festival & the antique "extravaganza", seeing my baby over at Crafternoon and going out to tapas... And on Saturday, great friend, cycling partner, and society member chionodoxa and I rode 80 god-damned miles, just kept heading north, feeling great, finally turning west, then eventually heading south. Dear god, those last 20 miles, I thought I was going to cut my [...]
Photo via MySpace When Nottingham's Seachange quietly called it a day in March of last year, not too many noticed. Never critical darlings nor commercial successes, they also never seemed to get lumped in with any particular musical movement in the UK - the sort of phenomenon that may be maddening for artists but certainly makes getting press and attention easier. And so when they called it a day following the release of their second album On Fire, With Love , it probably got no more [...]
The cover of Lay Of The Land , the 2004 debut from Nottingham, UK's Seachange on Matador looks familiar, but that may be because I've seen it peeking out from a used CD bin or two in my time. Well next time I see it I will be sure to pick it up because what I've heard from this band lately is pretty damn good. There's something of British Sea Power's grand romanticism in Seachange's sound as well as some of the punkish energy of early [...]
"On Fire, With Love" is the latest from Nottingham, England's Seachange . For some reason this album has not received a world wide release and is only available on the bands website via Glitterhouse Records. I really enjoyed 2004's "Lay Of The Land" but the band had somewhat fallen off my radar, until I received an email a week or so ago pointing me to tracks from the new CD. Seachange produce anthemic moody rock not unlike bands like British Sea Power, Oceansize and maybe even some Seafood. The original concept for a new release was a [...]
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