"There is nowhere that I'd rather be..." So sings Emily Barker on the song Breathe , off of her 2008 album, Despite the Snow . The album has been getting some press because one of the songs, Nostalgia , has been used for the theme to a UK show called Wallander . The song has been giving the band a higher presence after the Royal Television Society with an award for the use of the theme song. Despite The Snow is a stunning album. It has a very different sound from [...]
A quick announcement that's long overdue: Carry You Away is moving to a new site, to better work with the other writing that I do for my other blog. As I've changed e-mails and accounts, it makes more sense to keep everything in one place, so as of today, CYA will be updated at its new location: http://carryyouaway.wordpress. com . If you'd like to continue to follow us, please update your bookmarks and keep [...]
A while ago, I picked up Ludovico Einaudi's fantastic album, Divenire , and fell completely in love with his minimalistic classical music in a way that no modern composer has really gotten me before. Einaudi's followup album, Nightbook , was something that I was apprehensive about, simply because I wasn't sure if any of the songs in that album could top the beauty that enthralled me [...]
While covering another artist last year, I came across another artist who caught my ears, playing a couple shows up in Vermont during the same time: Julia Brown. Hailing from Virginia and now residing in New York City, Brown falls into the singer/song writer catagory. Her 2008 album, Strange Scars , is her second album, and is an intense, emotional acoustic rock album. The press release for the album on her website notes: Your songs are just your life looking back at you, [...]
This morning, the official Josh Ritter website announced the title of his next album, the followup to the Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter: So Runs The World Away. Along with the announcement was a free MP3 download for a track called Change Of Time. The new album is due out on May 4th in the United States, or if you live in Ireland, it will be out just a couple days before, on April 23th. This is rather exciting news for me, as both The Animal Years and The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter were both two absolute [...]
I recently caught up with the season finale of Joss Whedon's fantastic show Dollhouse last night (read my reactions to the show here ) and one of the things that caught my ears was the song used in the last couple minutes of the show, Everywhere I Go [...]
There's a bit of a neat 'Six Degrees of Seperation' in the Vermont music scene with Justin Levinson's latest album, Predetermined Fate : Not only is he friends with a couple of my friends in various circles, he's engaged to Vermont Singer-Songwriter Myra Flynn, who blew me away with her fantastic first album, Crooked Measures , last year. As such, I've seen Levinson a couple of times in concert, opening for Myra for her release party, and I think at least one or two other places over the years. [...]
I'm a big fan of Cary Brothers' music, from his first EP, All The Rage to his first album, Who You Are . On the singer/songwriter market, he's among the best out there, with a fantastic sound and presentation, one that has attracted quite a lot of attention. With his last album released back in early 2007, he's long overdue for a follow-up record, which [...]
John Mayer is an artist whom I have quite a bit of respect and a bit of disdain for over the past couple of years. With the recently released Battle Studies, I've been listening over and thinking back on some of his older works while listening to review this album. The end conclusion that I've come up with is Battle Studies is an highly mixed album: one with a strong musical component, but one that is at the same time severely lacking when it comes to substance and variety. My main complaint with the album, as [...]
Late last year, I wrote about the Decemberists and noted that I wasn't terribly impressed with their opening act , Laura Viers and the Hall of Flames. I'm prepared to eat my words, especially after doing a little more research on the group as I've listened to Vier's latest album: July Flame . Here I said she sounded like a newer musician, I couldn't [...]
The song Books really caught me with one of its opening lyrics: so in the cellar down below you can find me reading books The song is a lighthearted, innocent sounding song that really grows in intensity over its 4:39 minute run. Being a geek, the title immediately grabbed me, and I really got into the song that [...]
Everybody's Talking is a Canadian based group that has recently released their first EP, the independently released Dragonflies . Blending guitar and piano rock, this two man group has an interesting sound that is both catchy and full of movement. Dragonflies is a 7 song EP that [...]
Hailing out of L.A., Satellite Crush takes its name from a long distance romance on the part of lead singer Elliot, from part of his own history. The group has recently released their debut E.P., entitled Arrows of Eros , which further ties in to their namesake. (Eros, according to a quick check on Wikipedia, was the god of sexual love and beauty.) The sound of Satellite Crush is one that is a breezy sort of Indie/Pop, despite the rather downtrodden [...]
This day in history, Johnny Cash played the first of two concerts at the Folsom State Prison in Folsom California, which would later become the recording At Folsom Prison . Cash would later note that the audience was one of the most enthusiastic that he'd ever had. I've always liked this song, which was first recorded in 1956, and it's one that has the best traits of country music within it: story. [...]
A lot of people are looking forwards to Tim Burton's upcoming adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. I'm rather indifferent to the film, not being a huge fan of Burton's films, but I did like this little bit of news that came across my desk earlier today: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals will be appearing on the official soundtrack, with a cover of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. Movie soundtracks are usually pretty hit or miss for me, and this one doesn't look like anything special, with the usual mix of popular and hip artists. Still, it'll be fun to hear a [...]
A quick note today about a film that is very near and dear to my heart: Moon . This film opened quietly last year, and it's garnered quite a few good reviews, as well as a number of awards. Currently, there's a bit of a campaign to get Sam Rockwell an Oscar award, despite Sony providing few resources, such as screeners, for that to happen. Still, even if Rockwell doesn't get the award, it's a shining star in the Science Fiction genre, as [...]
Winter is upon us, and so far, it's been an interesting one here in Vermont. No snow, then lots of snow, then freezing temperatures. I'm thrilled that we have the white stuff here, and the fall to spring period of the year is easily trumps summer for me. Winter Birds - Ray LaMontagne [...]
Where the rest of the world has New York City's epic ball drop in Times Square, Vermont has Grace Potter to ring in the new year. It's rapidly becoming an annual event, with several lead-up concerts at the Higher Ground to meet demand, and the overall event has become a highly anticipated run of concerts. I wasn't able to attend the New Year's Eve show, but I was able to attend the second concert on the 27th, with Alberta Cross opening up for the Nocturnals. All in all, I came away from the show pretty disappointed. The Nocturnals [...]
As much as I really hate abbreviations for words, U for You, for example, but The Watson Twin's latest offering from their upcoming second album, Talking to You, Talking to Me , to be released February 9th, is pretty good. The twins, Leigh and Chandra Watson have never popped up on my radar beyond one of their tracks on the True Blood Soundtrack , and I [...]
As the decade has begun to close with the end of the year, there have been a number of 'Best of the Decade' lists in the music blog world, and a number of them have gotten me thinking about music over the past ten years. Since the start of the decade, I would consider these past years as some of the most formative in my own tastes in music, especially during my years in college. During that time, the entire music industry has been changed, for better or for worse, and with these changes has come new opportunities, sounds and [...]
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