Based on "Brugada", the lead track from their forthcoming third album Crown and Treaty (April 17 UK), London's '09 Mercury Prize recipients Sweet Billy Pilgrim appear to be dramatically ramping up the heady home-grown folk-tronica and sublime chamber pop of their earlier works for a larger stylistic canvas and bolder musical pallet. An adventurous prog/pop excursion -- check out the extended instrumental break half-way through -- "Brugada" nimbly soars, dips and dives from jangly folk ode to dense, harmony-rich workout of cinematic scope. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cuff the Duke : "Cold Blooded Old Tunes (Smog cover)" [mp3] search for more Cuff the Duke posts at Largehearted Boy The Elkcloner : "Crossfire" [mp3] from The Elkcloner (out [...]
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Brugada A new track taken from the forthcoming album Crown and Treaty (out 4/16/12), the follow up to their Mercury Music Prize nominated album (Twice Born Men - 2009).Sweet Billy Pilgrim / Facebook
Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Feeling re-energised by my early night and a day off the grog I'm ready to throw myself into the Sunday fold with new-found gusto. I decide I must see as many bands as possible today to make up for my poor show yesterday. So after going to the Film & Music tent for the Q+A with the cast of The Inbetweeners (which suffers from microphone problems, stifling heat, and the fact that Tom bloody Jones can be heard in the [...]
17.03 - Beach House @ Lux, Lisboa 18.03 - Beach House @ Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães 19.03 - Breaking Dawn by Kraak [DJ-Set] @ Bar Ogâmico, Lisboa 20.03 - Sofa Surfers in Clubbing @ Casa da Música, Porto 20.03 - Stereo Satanics @ MusicBox, Lisboa 20.03 - Tallowate @ CDGo (Showcase), Porto 22.03 - Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Portico Quartet @ Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa 25.03 - Tangerine Dream @
Sweet Billy Pilgrim Este trio britânico é curioso logo à partida porque não soa muito mais americano do que europeu. Ou pelo menos é para aí que nos leva a nossa mente cheia de pré-conceitos sonoros depois de ouvir um banjo como protagonista numa banda indie. Tim Elsenburg é o mentor e também o tipo que comprou o Pro-Tools e decidiu instalar um estúdio de gravação no celeiro. Já vão no segundo álbum gravado no estúdio caseiro. "We Just Did What Happened and No One Came" de 2005 e "Twice Born Men", de 2009, um disco [...]
I sometimes wonder when Ben Eshmade lets his penguin workers sleep. For those unfamiliar with Ben and his feathered team, they are behind all the Arctic Circle concerts in London. The Daylight Music sessions in the Union Chapel. The forthcoming Bubbly Blue and Green festival in Kings Place. The Arctic Circle That Fuzzy Feeling compilations. [...]
Mr abb is right, this has been tougher than usual. I'm pleased we worked it out and even more pleased we've hit on a top four after extended negotiations more convoluted than the US healthcare wrangles and Copenhagen put together. Finally we can walk out to the armoured car in our blue UN flak jackets, shake hands, and pronounce the Big Four. A roadmap to tinnitus, essentially. But before that, my other top records, following angrybonbon's tremendous ten... 1 - Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men I promised a [...]
The Explorer's Club is new and very interesting subscription-based mp3-club made as a collaboration between Eardrums' favourite LOAF recordings (home of great bands like Dark Captain Light Captain , Seeland, Vincent Oliver and others), and Arctic Circle , who arranges concerts in London (Efterklang at the Barbican, Notwist at the Union Chapel, etc). For one year, starting in January, the new club will release new digital singles once a month from 30 artists from all over the world. The singles will include two or three exclusive [...]
"An unassuming thing of minor beauty" says The Wire of Twice Born Men , the remarkably inventive sophomore album from acclaimed Brit "folk-tronic" trio Sweet Billy Martin . Steeped in quiet drama and bathed in long, dark shadows of mood and melancholy, the music of SBM has been compared to Radiohead, The Blue Nile, Elbow, Damian Rice and even Coldplay in that peculiar, distinctively British genre of serious-minded, intelligent and challenging art/pop. The band was recently selected as a finalist for the 2009 U.K. Mercury Prize in the U.K. -- and naturally we thought it was [...]
Sweet Billy Pilgrim Genre: Electronica / Folk / Experimental From: London, United Kingdom [...]
The nominees for the U.K.'s Mercury Music Prize were announced this week, and if about half the shortlisted artists aren't already familiar to Los Angeles audiences, more will be soon. In fact, the latest (and greatest, if you believe NME's breathless accounts) synth-pop sensation, La Roux , play to a sold-out Troubadour tonight, with four other familiar faces on the way soon. The Mercury Prize is given by the British Phonographic Industry and the British Association of Record Dealers for the best album of the past year. Primal Scream, Portishead, Pulp, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys have [...]
The list of selections for this prestigious prize has just been named. Here is the list: Bat for Lashes : Two Suns Florence and the Machine : Lungs Friendly Fires : Friendly Fires Glasvegas : Glasvegas Lisa Hannigan : Sea Sew The Horrors : Primary Colours The Invisible : The Invisible Kasabian : West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum La Roux : La Roux Led Bib : Sensible Shoes Speech Debelle : Speech Therapy Sweet [...]
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Beggars Since I went to the trouble last week of making my generally meaningless predictions for the 2009 Mercury Prize nominees, it only makes sense that I take a look at the actual shortlist - announced this morning - and compare. And the first thing that I find is that the UK's bookies, who ostensibly do this sort of thing for living, don't have any more clue than I do. Go figure. Anyways, the nominees for this year are as follows: Bat For Lashes / [...]
The shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for best British or Irish album of the last 12 months has been announced today. The nominees are: Bat For Lashes 'Two Suns' Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2007 for her debut album 'Fur And Gold' – her second nomination is for its follow-up, 'Two Suns'. Influenced by Bjork and Steve Reich, ex-teacher Khan is known for her hippyish image and spectacular costumes when playing live. Listen at: Myspace.com/batforlashes [...]
The Mercury Prize is an annual award for the "best British album," and unlike the Teen Choice Awards where surfboards are given as trophies, winning it is actually a pretty big deal. So is the fact that £20,000 is given to the winner. Today, nominations for the 2009 Mercury Prize were announced and among the candidates are Bat for Lashes, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas and Kasabian. Read all about it at mercuryprize.com .
The nominations for the 2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize - for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland - were announced today, July 21, at a special ceremony in London by BBC 6music radio host Lauren Laverne. Receiving a Mercury Prize nomination (and/or winning it) generally leads to increased album sales and increased celebrity profile for a band. Manchester band Elbow received the honor in 2008. Here are the 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize : Florence and the Machine – Lungs [...]
The 2009 nominations are in: Bat for Lashes: Two Suns Florence & The Machine: Lungs Friendly Fires: Friendly Fires Glasvegas: Glasvegas Kasabian: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum La Roux: La Roux Led Bib: Sensible Shoes Lisa Hannigan: Sea Sew Speech Debelle: Speech Therapy Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Twice Born Men The Horrors: Primary Colours The Invisible: [...]
Bat For Lashes' Two Suns , Florence & The Machine's Lungs , and the self-titled debuts from Glasvegas and La Roux are among the nominees for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, awarded annually to the best album from the United Kingdom or Ireland. While there are some glaring omissions as always (um, Micachu????? ), digging around for videos by the nominees revealed a couple of new-to-me acts-the hip-hop artist Speech Debelle, the experimental jazz outfit Led Bib-who proved intriguing on first listen. (Oddsmakers currently have Lungs as the favorite .) The nominees, and representative videos, [...]
The nominees for the annual Barclaycard Mercury Prize were just announced this morning across the pond. Wait, what is the Barclaycard Mercury Prize? You may have recognized it as simply the "Mercury Prize", the prestigious honor awarded to the BEST album of the year from the United Kingdom or Ireland. This year's nominees are (as always) an eclectic bunch, see them all below (arranged alphabetically, click on the band name to visit their site) along with a video and tell us who you fancy, eh? Bat For Lashes - [...]
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