Part Three of my countdown of the top 110 albums of the decade. You can find 110-101 here , and 100-91 here. But for now, here's 90-81... 90. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (2006) Karen O and her band of merry men are definitely one of the most consistent acts of the decade. Show Your Bones was confirmation of the sheer magnificence the YYYs showed on their first album. It was [...]
Another installment. I do these when I have a build up. So it should be "Yesterday and the day before I listened to..." Bloc Party - Silent Alarm The original and best Bloc Party album. I don't think they'll ever equal it. Especially with the direction they've gone post-'Flux'. Although last year's record was promising. Nothing will beat 'Banquet' though. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You The first [...]
I know this is almost a whole month early, but there's all sorts of reasons for getting my list out early. December is the time when everyone begins to take stock of the year's achievements and gets all nostalgic about the blue remembered hills of the past twelve months, so there's a more receptive audience for this kind of post. Plus, when January comes around it'll be time to look forward to the bright and promising future, so nostalgia is officially banned. It's also nearly Christmas, and lists like this one are an easy way to decide on presents for [...]
Seth Lakeman: Poor Man's Heaven (EMI) The question whether Seth Lakeman is a folk or rock singer has vexed a few people of late, not least when there was a mild uproar in the former community over his nomination for best traditional song at last year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. It's not something new for Lakeman, who in the mid-'90s joined Kate Rusby and Cara Dillon in the equally divisional Equation. Poor Man's Heaven , his fourth solo album, won't settle the debate to any great degree. The sound that he [...]
Former Mercury Prize nominee, and now UK top 10 albumer, Seth Lakeman announced details of his upcoming UK and Ireland tour today. And by UK and Ireland I mean lots of UK dates, one Belfast and one Dublin. So the "and Ireland" is just a minor P.S. down the bottom. Anyhow, fiddler Lakeman (who I interviewed for my former website - lovely fella) plays tracks from his new album Poor Man's Heaven as well as his greatest hits collection at Dublin's Academy on 15th of November, and then in Spring & Airbrake, Belfast the following night. [...]
Seth Lakeman , the West Country born singer songwriter credited with taking folk to a new audience with his rhythmic, urgent performances and lyrically engrossing albums, is set to take his highly touted live show on the road in October 2008 for his largest headline tour to date . Seth's critically acclaimed third album 'Poor Man's Heaven' charted at number 8 in the UK on it's release earlier this month, an unprecedented achievement for a so-called 'folk inspired' artist. Produced in large part by Seth's brother and [...]
another week of minimal posting, for that, i apologize. there's been a lot of other stuff going on over the last couple of weeks but july should be feature fantastic, making up for june's drought after alter electro. seth lakeman , english folk singer, has been making music for a long long time. back in 1994 he and his brothers released the critically acclaimed LP " three piece suit " and later released three more albums before seth's first solo outing in 2002. lakeman has a rabid UK fanbase and all of his recent [...]
Funny thing about ostensibly running a music blog, is that occasionally kind folk in record companies send me new things to listen to. Sometimes they're even quite good. Some bands I've received and liked recently include: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (USA) mp3 Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Stop the Bus (from This is Somewhere) website This is the second track from the second album
Seth Lakeman - Lady of the Sea (Hear Her Calling) David & the Citizens - Let's Not Fall Apart John Vanderslice - Karma Police The Lodger - My Advice is on Loan Iron and Wine - Boy With a Coin (middle of post) Pinback - From Nothing to Nowhere (how is "Good to Sea" not the first single!?) Via Audio - [...]
One would think based on the two digital EPs that Seth Lakeman is releasing, titled Introducing ... Seth Lakeman Vol. 1 (out now) and Introducing ... Seth Lakeman Vol. 2 (out July 24th), that he's a brand new artist trying to break into the music biz. The fact of the matter is that Seth originally made music with his two brothers with whom he first released an album back in 1994, and then released his first solo album back in 2002 in the UK. His second solo album, Kitty Jay , [...]
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