Every year some nutter announces that the end is nigh and that the world is about to end. This time it was the turn of a US Christian radio presenter named Harold Camping. He's been telling everyone who'll listen that this thing called the Rapture was going to happen on May 21st, 2011. The Rapture [...]
The Let's Get Lyrical campaign was born of a desire to combine Edinburgh's status as an official City of Literature, with Glasgow's as a City of Music. There are events being held throughout February and it will come as no surprise to discover that they are a bit of a step up from the dreary indie pish I usually feature on these pages. As you can imagine, there are an awful lot of scholarly things that can be written about this topic and, as you can probably also imagine, you aren't going to read [...]
And now, drum roll please for the final installment of Song, by Toad's Festive Fifty for 2010. Woo hoo! I am sure Liars, The National and Micah P. Hinson will be breaking out the champagne at the excellent news. Ah well, at least The Japanese War Effort and Li'l Daggers might give a shit. 01. Liars - Scissor When this song breaks it is absolutely fucking fearsome, and it is absolutely all I can do to stop myself leaping around the room and breaking stuff, no matter when or where I am or what time [...]
6. Jason Lytle - Music Meant to Accompany the Art of Ron Cameron There are many reasons I love this album, not least of which the fact that I have been waiting for Jason Lytle to give us something weird and challenging for ages now. In the end this isn't an album written for purpose, more a cleaning out of the odder corners of his store cupboard, but nevertheless the result is an album bursting with ideas, be they entirely finished or not, and hence one I find more lively, engaging and enjoyable [...]
On the drive back from Glasgow yesterday, after the second of Yusuf Azak's three album launch gigs, the snow started absolutely horsing it down, to the extent that all the traffic slowed to a sensible single file at about thirty miles an hour, and all you could see was little red tail-lights in the white. It was, if I am being entirely honest, pretty cool. Although of course that's easy to say when you're no more than twenty miles from home and in no actual danger. Anyway, this morning it's all turned icy outside and Mrs. [...]
folk noir. musik, tiefengeschürft. und doch gerät sie bei lyndon morgans und kollegen nicht unentwegt grau und schwer. fast heiter zuweilen, was der mann an der akustischen nebst seinen getreuen karl woodward (electric guitar, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, keyboard) und dave paterson (drums, tablas, percussion, accordion, melodica, keyboard) da fertigt. am 26. april erscheint das fünfte album dieses walisischen dreikopfes, das dritte auf one little indian , und es gemahnt einmal mehr das innehalten, vielleicht sogar das dem zeitenstrom entgegenstemmen. der hast entfliehen. rasten und ruhen. und dabei nicht von sinnen, sondern ganz bei sich zu sein. viele intendieren, wenigen [...]
Bloody hell, this album is fucking gorgeous! I've been aware of Songdog ever since I Love My Angel's Plastic Wings appeared on an Uncut compilation CD something like eight or nine years ago, and I've tried to get into their albums a couple of times since and never quite succeeded. They've always felt a bit ponderous, honestly, although they have also felt like the kind of albums which take a bit of time and attention to get into, and I must confess that I've never really given them what felt like enough of either. It's weird that you [...]
happy monday! i never thought i would be so happy to be at work as i am today. the wife worked two doubles this weekend so it was me and the raging lunatics all weekend. sure we had some fun, but damn if by about 5 pm yesterday, i had had enough. btw, dont ever google "skeeter eater" when your child is around, it aint pretty. in my defense though, he wanted to see pictures of the bugs that eat mosquitos and wanted to me to google that particular phrase. found this over the weekend, and as [...]
Words: Gareth O'Malley They say that life is tough so you better get used to it fast. Songdog , and their frontman Lyndon Morgans in particular, seem to know this all too well. The alt-folk trio have been around for the better part of a decade, and are now on their fifth album. If you haven't figured it out by now (i.e. if the album title itself wasn't a giveaway), 'A Life Eroding' is, well, pretty bleak - and I'm sugarcoating it. There is little, if any, light to be found here. This [...]
It's been a very, very long time since we had a nice simple podcast of me just chattering about music without extraneous distractions of various drunken people babbling to one another over the top of it. Last week was Ruth, Michael and Dylan, the week before that was Vic and Peej, then me and Mrs. Toad and then there was the one from Homegame, which was nuts, so this one is just calm and sensible and plain vanilla and basically just me playing some songs, wondering how to pronounce names like Borcherdt, and talking pish like usual. [...]
'A Life Eroding' released on One Little Indian , 19th April 2010. "But when you wake up from a dream there's no getting back there" - the poignancy of passing time, the magic dissolving, is the recurring theme of this latest album from Welsh folk noiristes Songdog . Buy Music: Songdog on amazon.co.uk Lives fade away like a half-heard murmur behind the curtain in the [...]
And this week's selection of five are... Gorillaz - Some Kind of Nature (Feat. Lou Reed) "Dear SOIWT: Thanks v.much for your recent letter , asking whether my new Gorillaz album would be a stream of clichéd celeb cameos and rather simple-sounding beats. I'm happy to report that this is not the case: while numerous artists like Snoop Dogg and Barry Gibb do appear doing their 'thang', this is a wholly purposeful, imaginative enterprise - check out this duet I did with Lou Reed, and note it's eclectic combo of zany loops, thigh-slappingly infectious hooks and foreboding [...]
Coming from Blackwood in South Wales, Songdog combine acoustic and electronic instruments to create folkish soundscapes for singer/songwriter (and award-winning playwright) Lyndon Morgans's vignettes on life, love and loss. A Life Eroding is the title of the forthcoming album out on April 19th. Lives fade away like a half-heard murmur behind the curtain in the cinema on a Saturday afternoon, love disappears in a taxi on a rainy night, they're "growing old in a snakepit", yet an old punk spirit also remains intact in the [...]
Petit tour d'horizon des disques dont je n'ai pas fait la chronique en ce début d'année et qui demandaient tout de même un peu d'attention (les pauvres...), à commencer par Syd Matters et son troisième album Ghost Days , tellement beau et simple que je n'ai pas trouvé quoi que ce soit d'intéressant à en dire. Suivent Cat Power et son Jukebox assez décevant malgré quelques merveilles, les anglais de British Sea Power et leurs singles assez efficaces, The Mountain Goats avec Annie Clark en guest sur ce titre, [...]
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