Fans of Trespassers William will already be all over this - singer Anna-Lynee Williams has released a new solo album under the moniker Lotte Kestner . 'The Bluebird Of Happiness' is available now through Saint Marie Records and features the stunning song 'Wrestler'. Beautiful voice. Lotte Kestner - 'Wrestler' [...]
Cecil Mathieu There are musicians out there with a more impressive alt.rock resume than Ken Stringfellow . Starting out as co-frontman of the criminally under-appreciated Bellingham power-pop outfit The Posies , he was part of the final incarnation of the legendary Big Star , he was an unofficial member of R.E.M. both on stage and in the studio for a number of years in the post-Berry era, is part of the massive rotating cast of The Minus 5 , he fronts a Norwegian garage rock band called The Disciplines , and [...]
‘Cast’ collects rarities and besides from Trespassers William who broke up last year and also includes the 2009 release ‘The Natural Order of Things’. The band achieve, on most of the songs, a delicate synthesis of folk and the more ethereal end of rock, The Cocteau Twins sprung immediately to mind upon hearing Anna-Lynne Williams’ beautiful vocals, They also incorporate some subtle electronics that recall Múm and Sigúr Ros. While a lot of this collection seems content to wallow in pretty atmospherics at the expense of strong songs, some tracks grab the attention. ‘Believe [...]
Lotte Kestner: Extra Covers Collection - Warning: listening to this album may cause you to feel some serious emotions and will quite possibly change the way you listen to music. Anna-Lynne Williams’ voice cuts through all the bullshit and fits nicely into the cold, black part of your heart that you thought died long ago when all music started to sound the same. OK, so that may seem a bit melodramatic, but when you are listening to the Extra Covers Collection no other music matters, actually, nothing else in the world matters. You [...]
The only thing sadder than Trespassers William's music is the fact that they're no longer making it. In college, some friends hosted a community radio show called the Dreamery. A treasure of freeform programming, the show sought to collect and curate all that is dreamy in pop music -- shoegaze to dream-pop, Mazzy Star to M83. If you could nod off sleepily to it, you could probably hear it on the Dreamery. If only Cast arrived in time. Armed with over twenty sighing dream-pop mood pieces -- over half of them drifting...
Barbara Anastacio For a band that's made their name on stately, carefully crafted chamber pop, Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear are surprisingly polarizing. Their proponents find the intricacy of their harmonies, arrangements, and musicianship exquisite while their naysayers just find them dull. I actually lean more towards the latter than the former, but temper it with a healthy amount of respect for what they do and how they do it. So with that frame of reference established, take it for what it's worth when I say their new album Shields [...]
Kimi zaman şehrin karmaşasında boğulur gibi oluyor bu ses, diye açıklamaya çalıştım sonra ona; bir yerlere takılıp kalır, bir şeylerin altında ezilir, iyice kısılır, hatta büsbütün kaybolur gibi oluyor ama, ben işitiyorum... Rüzgar gibi mi, dedi. Rüzgar gibi dedim. Başını sol omzuna yatırıp eğri eğri baktı; bu ses senin içinden geliyor olmasın? Hayır dedim... "Hasan Ali Toptaş" Günün Dinleme Önerileri: The Mecury Rev "Secret For A Song" [...]
Facebook Having only gotten around to discovering the genius of LCD Soundsystem with their third and final album This Is Happening , I feel immensely fortunate to have caught them live twice on their farewell tour - their final Toronto show in May 2010 and then in Chicago headlining that year's Pitchfork Festival - probably more than someone as late to the part as I deserved. But watching Shut Up And Play The Hits , the concert documentary covering their [...]
Anna-Lynne Williams, formerly of Trespassers William, and Robert Gomez hooked up this past year to record music in Marfa, TX. The fruits of those sessons led to the forming of the dream pop outfit Ormonde . Today, it was announced that they are putting out their 10-song debut LP Machine out via Hometapes on August 7th. The first offering from the project is the gorgeously intimate and haunting lead track Can't Imagine . We have it for you to download [...]
Jason Arthurs We're still over a week out from the official Summer solstice, but Superchunk don't need no druidic approval to declare the season of sun and fun officially here. After following up 20102s Majesty Shredding with a series of reissues, they've just released a new 73 single for the song "This Summer" and if that wasn't enough seasonal thematicness for one release, the b-side is a cover of Bananarama's 1983 Summer anthem. The single is limited to an edition of 1300 pieces worldwide, pressed [...]
Frank Yang Maybe listening to Jesus Of Cool and Labour Of Lust weren't the best warm-ups for Nick Lowe's show at The Phoenix on Monday night. After all, he was many many years removed from being the young pub-rock firebrand who recorded those first two records, having settled comfortably into the role of professorial pop singer-songwriter - a guise that's suited his still-potent pen quite nicely, as last year's The Old Magic proved. But if you [...]
Seni tanımadan önce diye başlar bazı cümleler. Anlamlı, anlamsız, devrik yada düz...Güne Oğuz Atay 'la başladık öyle bitirelim... "Şu sigarayı bırak artık" diyordun ya bana, bende bırakabileceğim halde bırakmıyordum. Senin benim için üzülüyor olmana içten içe sevindiğimden.. "Ben ölürsem üzülür müsün?" dediğimde "Saçma saçma konuşma Allah aşkına" deyip beni hafifçe itelediğinde, ben içten içe gülüyordum. Gece uykunda dönüp bana sımsıkı sarıldığında, hani ben hafifçe kaçmak isterken -ki sen uykunda bile- beni tutardın ya, ben içten içe sıcacık... Sahi ya " [...]
trespasserswilliam.com The new year is traditionally held as a time for fresh starts and new beginnings, but it can also be a symbolic time for drawing things to an end or perhaps more appropriately, wrapping up something to begin something else. Not that that was the only reason it wasn't a complete surprise when Seattle duo Trespassers William took to Facebook this week to announce that the band would be shelved for the foreseeable future. Despite completely winning me over with their second album Different Stars [...]
We follow over a hundred blogs, and listen to everything that's sent to us, but we can't claim to be completists here at Cover Lay Down. The world of folk is too big, and the borders fluid and everchanging; even if we had the luxury of listening full-time, we'd surely miss some of the good stuff. But 2011 was a year which found us particularly removed from the outside world. New teaching assignments at the desperately struggling inner-city school where I teach had my head down for weeks on end, developing [...]
¿Cuántos discos “tributo a…” han escuchado? Parece un método eficiente el de reunir a muchas bandas, hacer que elijan la canción que más les guste de un grupo y ponerlos a tocar para así grabar un disco que, seguramente se venderá. Tal vez no es el proceso adecuado el [...]
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Honey Watts' Ambient-Country geht die Gehörgänge runter wie eine grosse Tasse Honigmilch, die Seelen wärmt und Wunden angebrochener Herzen heilt. Den HipHop-Produzenten Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Jedi Mind Tricks), mit welchem sie vergangenes Jahr noch als TripHop-Duo Dutch unterwegs war, hat Liz Fullerton gegen Jeff Hiatt, Gitarrist Carl Cheeseman und einige andere etablierte Musiker der Folkszene Philadelphias eingetauscht. Entsprechend verändert zeigt sich bei ihrem "Solo-Projekt" Honey Watts das Ambiente: Anstelle von urban-harten Beats bleiben nur sanfte elektronische Effekte, es wird ländlich, countryesk, und die bemerkenswerte Stimme [...]
Let's not beat around the proverbial bush here, we love Lotte Kestner (Anna-Lynne Williams) around here. A lot. Yesterday, Lotte Kestner released a selection of stripped down 'solo' Trespassers William songs on her Bandcamp page. There are 10 tracks that span more than a few years/albums and each one is focused directly at the stunningly ethereal vocals of this west coast siren. But instead of the mythological siren, she will not devour you whole but instead provide you a rare opportunity to listen to her songs laid bare in their stark beauty. This is truly a 'quiet moment' [...]
Trespassers William - Let's Go To Bed [The Cure] | zs
Sean Pecknold We're a week out from the release of one of the most-anticipated records of the year - Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes - and as has become commonplace, the album is available to stream a week before it goes on sale at NPR . A couple of listens in and all the key ingredients that made the debut a smash are still in place: Robin Pecknold's otherworldly voice, the ridiculously lush and immaculate harmonies, the blankets of reverb imported from some Pacific northwest mountaintop, [...]
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