I know that the sweet song "Ally, ally oxen free" by BMX Bandits and the South-Korean singer YeonGene , was a favourite by many of our listeners on our free compilation "Birdsongs, Beesongs" . YeonGene will release her new album "Bonnie Gene" next monday (February 8th) on the Poppydisc -label, and "ally ally oxen free" is one of the many great songs on it, - among them several written and performed by BMX Bandits together with her. BMX Bandits is [...]
Comme chaque année, à l'époque des barbecues, apéro et autres gâteries ensoleillées, un titre me tombe dans les mains au meilleur des moments et devient mon hymne pour les quelques jours de soleil en attendant le perpétuel changement d'heure. Cette année, musicalement mais aussi visuellement, j'ai jeté mon dévolu sur The Pearlfishers pour un titre sorti il y a douze ans, Even On A Sunday Afternoon sur un album plus que difficile à trouver, The Strange Underworld of the Tall Poppies [...]
Comme chaque année, à l'époque des barbecues, apéro et autres gâteries ensoleillées, un titre me tombe dans les mains au meilleur des moments et devient mon hymne pour les quelques jours de soleil en attendant le perpétuel changement d'heure. Cette année, musicalement mais aussi visuellement, j'ai jeté mon dévolu sur The Pearlfishers pour un titre sorti il y a douze ans, Even On A Sunday Afternoon sur un album plus que difficile à trouver, The Strange Underworld of the Tall Poppies [...]
Fans of sunshine and baroque pop would do well to check out the latest album from Armstrong. Songs About The Weather is a sweet batch of light pop gems that will bring to mind Andrew Sandoval , William Pears, or The Pearlfishers . Opening with the light synths and gentle strum of "Break It In Two"lead singer Julian Pitt sets the albums pastoral tone. Next "Sunshine Feeling" has a Byrds/Beach Boys feel that makes for a perfect summer song. But there is definitely an undercurrent of sadness across the rest of the album. Starting with the [...]
It's the first day of Winter, the longest night of the year (YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! WE GET MORE DAY LIGHT AFTER TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!) so I thought I would share some of my favorite winter songs, and some not so familiar winter songs. Starting off the festive solstice, here's another one that could be categorized under "lost radio treasure." Surely a song that doesn't get nearly enough spin time on the radio these days... Milan-Wintertime It's perhaps one of the coldest days/nights of the year here, perhaps one of the coldest nights [...]
For fans of Brian Wilson, last weekend was long in more ways than one. The three-day Labour Day break was welcomed but, truth be told, part of me was itching for today to arrive so I could hit the record shops and pick up a copy of Brian Wilson's new solo disc, That Lucky Old Sun. I've been pining to hear it since Wilson, the Beach Boys' damaged genius, and Van Dyke Parks, his friend and occasional collaborator, started talking it up more than a year ago. And as the record's release approached, the positive buzz [...]
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