Rating: 3 out of 5 stars It wasn't too long ago that Being There released their debut record, but several spins into Breaking Away and you'll see the growth in the London four piece. The guitar playing is tighter, and the recording maximizes the pop sensibility of the group. If you're in need of a good pop rock record, then your best bet for 2013 is to begin here. "Allen Ginsberg" gently begins things, with nothing more than the quieted vocal [...]
There is something about certain Australian bands and records: The Go-Betweens ' 16 Lovers Lane, Paul Kelly and Coloured Girls ' Gossip, the Triffids' Born Sandy Devotional, the Church 's Of Skins and Heart, the Lucksmiths ' Warmer Corners, the Saints ' I'm Stranded, Twerps ' debut, Eddy Current Suppression Ring 's Rush to Relax. A diverse set of albums, but all them have something about them that sets them apart and makes them distinctly Australian. They have a sense of urgency and isolation, a poetry about them and a way of sounding [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars You can put all your preconceived notions about music in Brazil to the side now. Pale Sunday are nothing like CSS or Bonde Do Role . While I appreciate the regional flavor of those acts, The Fake Stories About You and Me seems so distant; it's an album of pristine guitar pop in the realm of bands like Lucksmiths or Nada Surf -it's somewhere in the middle there. It's [...]
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Bart and Friends is an Australian supergroup of sorts, fronted by Bart Cummings. The group features members of the Shapiros and the Lucksmiths , to name a few, so you're probably going to have some lofty expectations. Luckily for us all, There May Come a Time lives up to those expectations, and in fact, it surpasses them. Opening the EP is "There May Come a Time," which features the wonderful Pam Berry on vocals. She's [...]
Fransızca bir deyim olan "l'heure bleue" dan gelen " blue hour " kavramı, günde iki kere, sabah ve akşam saatlerinde ne tam gündüz ne de tam geceyken, alacakaranlıktaki geçiş sırasında gökyüzünde görülen o müthiş maviyi tanımlar. Günün en sevdiğim zaman dilimlerinden biridir bu vakit. Ve benim için bu renkle özdeşleşen şarkı The Smiths'den "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" dur. Sizde sevdiğiniz renklerle özdeşleşen şarkırınızı yorum olarak paylaşabilirsiniz.. The Lucksmiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [...]
The single for Cinderpop' s newest album has been floating around for quite some time, but I hadn't really given it too much of a listen until I started spinning Manic Sparkles repeatedly on my player. It's an album that's chock-full of wonderful pop tunes that recall all sorts of influences, from the Lucksmiths to Sloan to Nada Surf . These are the sorts of influences that make me swoon, so I'm happy to have re-discovered the band and their classic pop sound. I [...]
Haven't heard about Bart and Friends yet? Well, if you follow the Australian pop scene, then surely you're aware of bands like Lucksmiths , Zebras and Black Tambourine ...all which have members in this wonderful supergroup of sorts. Of course, it doesn't hurt that they're releasing their There May Come a Time EP on one of our favorite labels, Matinee Recordings . This is precisely the sort of gems the label is known for, featuring some of the best pop you're going to [...]
Buy Yours Now ♫ Spoon - The Fitted Shirt Continue for more pictures and theme music. What happens when two attractive people put on such attractive upper body garments? Well lets just say it rhymes with "sangria-powered freight train." Oh wait, that is exactly what it is. Get on board now because it's leaving the station! ♫ The Lucksmiths - T-Shirt Weather Looking Good is Serious [...]
The Lucksmiths - I Started A Joke [Bee Gees] | bx . watch the original Rest in peace Robin Gibb [1949-2012]
Song obsessions are those songs that get stuck in your head. This series of posts isn't about what I or the other panel members think is best, but what our brain latches onto, those ear worms that loop around and around in your head. - Adrian ( me ): The Tallest Man on Earth - 1904 (mp3) ( pre-order ) I'm a sucker for just about all things Tallest Man. I have a particular soft spot for his fast and urgent numbers, [...]
I didn't post at all on FensePost last week. That's crazy. I had been on a roll, pumping out posts on a daily basis, then I hit a wall and needed an immediate break. But my breaks are typically filled with, well, something else. They're aren't true breaks , in the informal-synonym-for-vacation sense of the word. That's right, it was pledge week at KSVR and KSVU. Being pledge week, I came in Wednesday night and sat in on Jackson Stewart's Blue Boulevard and we [...]
It is happening again. After two dormant weeks of doing virtually nothing (OK, very little is more like it), evenings this week were spent spinning vinyl by The Smiths and painting Andi's sewing room in preparation for putting in the bamboo flooring this weekend. Next up will be my record room, which will be a big pain; moving thousands of CDs, LPs and 73 Singles is not a task I will find enjoyable (hence the top photo). But the finished product will be the ultimate reward. I digress. [...]
A look at two black & white movies that played at Limerick's Belltable theatre this week.
How many bands have you heard of from Prince Edward Island? Well, if you haven't, you need to mark Boxer the Horse down on your list as band to adore. The quartet are back with their second album, French Residency , and it's a gem. A lot of the record really harkens back to the innocent pop of the Lucksmiths , but I couldn't resist throwing this number out there, as it's definitely one of those you can play over and over. You might also find a bit of [...]
Stuarto and I talked a lot just before my show began and in the minutes after it started about the radio station he's been building at his house. He's dubbing it 1020Radio, and you can check out the (right now) super minimalist site he's running over at 1020Radio.net . You can also find it on Facebook . It's been a long time coming; the station is nearing completion and just about to hit the Internets. All goes well, and time permitting, [...]
During this evening's 6 o'clock bulletin, the weather presenter on Anglia Tonight promised us "T-shirt weather by the end of the week". With these words I can only surmise that she must have set herself some sort of Chris Packham-esque shoehorning-in-song-titles challenge , only with Lucksmiths tracks rather than those by The (not-Luck)Smiths. Actually, thinking about some Lucksmiths song titles - Sunlight In A Jar, Cat In Sunshine, Weatherboard, Shine On Me, Friendless Summer, Warmer Corners, Spring A Leak, Good Light, Brr It's A Bit Nippy Out - this might just [...]
The Great Dividing Range - The Lucksmiths I've discovered that sleeping on a plane is a very hard thing to do. Dozing as far i could sink and always being shook from it, i looked up to the flight progress monitor to see we were flying over this very mountain range and this song came into my head. It might have always been there. It summed up very neatly and somberly everything the procedure of checking in, customs, boarding, sitting down distracted and droned [...]
Ik beleef elk jaar weer veel plezier aan de lijstjestijd Een heel muziekjaar in lijstjes samengevat heeft toch iets overzichtelijks. Zijn er albums die opvallend veel voorkomen? Zijn er nog mensen die het met me eens zijn dat de CD’s van Deep Dark Woods en Little Wings tot het beste van 2011 behoren? En vooral- heb ik nog iets over het hoofd gezien? In een van de vele lijstjes die ik voorbij zie komen in deze periode kom ik een album van de band Oh Mercy tegen onder het kopje “ Runners Up”. “Recommended highly if you like [...]
Stuarto Glasser, host of the All Around the World Music Show, called me up a little after 5pm Friday and asked if I could fill in for him. Thinking it would be a great way to attract a few more listeners I agreed. I headed home and put together a playlist of some of my favorite indie artists from around the world. The first half of the list below aired as the split show: The Indie Music Show from All Around the World. I began with some lovable indie [...]
bereits mitte september erschienen, deshalb aber nicht minder gut, der psychedelisch angeflitterte pop auf "call out we'll find you", der bereits angejahrte vierer hats drauf: the sutras : the sutras - half an epitaph by low life inc die drehen mit noisepop der elektronischen variante auf, danny sanchez und elizabeth anne martin aus london bringen ihre debut ep "everything breaks" im märz auf tip top recordings heraus: severin : factory [...]
Austin Town Hall
the finest kiss
HappyBlueMondays
The Burning Ear
The Cover Lovers
ipickmynose
Fensepost
A Town Full of Losers
Too Much Apple Pie
Adding Machine
Ketelmuziek
das klienicum
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
HAERTS: “All The Days”
Sexy Track // “Devil Or Angel” // Lou Doillon
Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance (Simøne Remix)
DANCE BITCH DANCE: disclosure - when a fire starts to burn
