JULIA JACKLIN – ” Pressure To Party “

Posted: February 27, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Autonomy can be damn frightening. The realization that arrivies after a breakup, before a solo move, following a graduation, etc.—that you’re actually in this thing alone and it’s only you in the driver’s seat can leave you feeling scared silly. Or it can leave you feeling high on independence and excitement. Julia Jacklin’s “Crushing” is a striking search for self, a call to upend that which tethers you down. But it’s also rooted, deeply, in a sense of calm.

The Aussie songwriter’s ability to process emotion is out-of-this-world sharp, and this album is her best, most piercing work to date. This album “Crushing” can change from melodic balladry to anthemic rock at the drop of a hat. And for its entirety, Jacklin, slowly gaining cred as one of the most underrated singer/songwriters working, basks in a newfound clarity. Crushing is the brave story of a woman, and an artist coming into her own. Securing that agency, however, was no walk in the park. Jacklin clearly had to sort through mountains of wreckage to arrive here, but the album’s autobiographical nature is what makes it so affecting. Jacklin has said, and in writing it, she realized “how not very special” she is (evident in “Body” as she sings, “It’s just my body / I guess it’s just my life”). But in recognizing the non-exclusivity of her experiences, she made something singular.

This video for “Pressure To Party” (directed by Julia and Nick Mckk) features Julia and her siblings, plus a guest appearance from Body Type.

Julia Jacklin performs “Don’t Know How to Keep Loving You” for a World Cafe Session with contributing host, Kallao. Recorded live at WXPN Studios in Philadelphia on 1/23/2019.

New album ‘Crushing’ out February 22nd 2019

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CABBAGE – ” Torture “

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2019 has been a quiet start for Cabbage. A time for ourselves to scribe new notches on the metaphorical checkpad and rise up and start kicking the blessed fruit tree. Where we have arrived is a brand spanking new single out on Thursday 28th February and a spring UK tour.

‘Torture’ our new single, produced by James Skelly, is a combination of some hijacked philosophical crossroads and the belief in the human voice box. It’s our attempt at The Beach Boys if we ran out of money before getting the orchestra in. Nonetheless, with just a dose of pop and a terribly dour theme, it has come out just how we desired.

As for the tour we the reborn quins have a lot of new tricks to show, including the foundation of a brand new record. We don’t have to slag anyone off to sell this or piss on anyone’s chips for that matter, I trust in good faith you’ll believe the sincerity when I say these shows are well bloody worth it. Thank you and keep funding the good fight.

SHARON VAN ETTEN – ” Seventeen “

Posted: February 27, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Rock’n’roll evolves, shifts, mutates—and persists. Anyone who doubts this need only listen to “Seventeen” which performs the magic trick of weaving a classic-sounding song out of strands and blocks of textures that never quite existed in music’s “classic rock” heyday. A heavy beat offsets a desultory piano line, synthesizers at once ferocious and distant blaze around the edges, guitars eventually squonk onto the scene, all while Van Etten sings poetically of longing, nostalgia, and destiny—lyrics at once concrete and slippery, a deft interweaving of adult and teen-aged introspection that as a listener you intuit more than comprehend. The song rumbles and, eventually, roars. A master of subtle melodic gestures, Van Etten along the way crafts a chorus that slays with muted glory.

You can hear Bruce Springsteen in the anthemic energy of this song, and while I get the comparison, leaving it at that diminishes Van Etten’s accomplishment. The entire album in fact strikes my ear as a brilliant example of how to be a 21st-century rock’n’roller—taking the bones of archetypal rock music , and then planting your own individual 2019 self, with all its accumulated know-how and influences, right into the heart of it. Since we last heard from Sharon Van Etten (2014’s Are We There), she has become an actor, a film composer, a mother, and a graduate student in psychology. Which is just to say that she has quite a formidable self to align with one type of creative expression or another. When it came time to record a new album, she opted for a producer, John Congleton, known for synth-pop stylings, and arrived at the studio inspired by the dark, reverberant music of Portishead and Nick Cave. Something arresting was bound to come of all of this, and it did in the form of the enigmatic but majestic Remind Me Tomorrow, which was released in January on Jagjaguwar Records. That’s where you’ll find “Seventeen.”.

You can listen to Remind Me Tomorrow, and then buy it, on Bandcamp, where it is available digitally, on CD, or on vinyl. And in case you missed it, another song from the album, the brilliant “No One’s Easy To Love,”.

HATCHIE – ” Keepsake “

Posted: February 27, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Hatchie is the world of Harriette Pilbeam. Step inside her mind; a dreamy landscape where cascading synths, jangling guitars, propulsive rhythms and white noise undulate beneath irresistible pop melodies. Rather than focusing on the external world of her life in Brisbane, Pilbeam turns her gaze inwards, making a soundtrack out of her daydreams, setting her emotional life to song.

‘Without A Blush’ is taken from Hatchie’s debut album ‘Keepsake’ out June 21 on Double Double Whammy, Heavenly Recordings

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The SKIDS – ” Scared To Dance ” Released 40 Years Ago Today

Posted: February 27, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Skids were they just punks with O-levels, or new wave cop-outs, or just chance-takers and opportunists? The answer is probably a combination of all three. Far more important, however, is the fact that they left behind a clutch of great, if sometimes pretentious, singles. On album, it was hard not to get a little miffed at Richard Jobson’s would-be aristocrat pop nonsense. Still, this debut album release had some good tunes, courtesy of pre-Big Country Stuart Adamson, like “The Saints Are Coming” and, of course, the wonderful “Into the Valley.”

Anti-war themes are a recurring motif in the album. There are also a great deal of references in singer Richard Jobson’s lyrics to the band’s home region in Scotland, “Scared to Dance” was the first album to feature Stuart Adamson’s ‘bagpipe styled guitar playing’, which would be the trademark of his later band Big Country.

Scared to Dance has been well received by critics. Ira Robbins of Trouser Press called the album “excellent […] Using loud guitar and semi-martial drumming for its basis, Jobson’s hearty singing sounds like an 18th century general leading his merry troops down from the hills into glorious battle

The album was preceded by the single “Into the Valley”, released on 16th February 1979, which reached No. 10 in the UK Singles Chart, “Into the Valley” became popular as adopted and sung by fans of Dunfermline Athletic F.C., the band’s local football team.

Of huge importance to Skids fans is that the CD reissue includes the original live B-side to the latter, “TV Stars,” a song which will mean nothing to anyone who didn’t grow up watching British television, but a whole heap to those who did.  ‘Scared To Dance (Expanded)’ is a three CD reissue of the Skids seminal debut album through Caroline International.

Each disc comes in it’s own cardboard wallet and is housed in a clamshell box featuring the original ‘Scared To Dance’ artwork.

Disc one contains the original album expanded with nine bonus tracks. Disc two features 12 previously unreleased 1978 studio demos (long sought after by collectors of the band) and a third disc contains a complete live show from late 1978 at the legendary London Marquee from which the b-side ‘T.V. Stars’ (Albert Tatlock!) was taken. Also included is a 28 page bookle t with lyrics to the album, pictures of all relevant singles and detailed liner notes.

Originally released in February 1979 the album spent ten weeks in the UK National Charts, eventually peaking at number 19. It spawned the singles ‘Sweet Suburbia’, ‘The Saints Are Coming’ (which was covered by U2 and Green Day in 2006 as a charity single in the wake of Hurricane Katrina) and the track that catapulted them into the top 10 ‘Into The Valley’.

All though maybe not the first punk band on everyone’s lips – Skids are without doubt one of the most important. They were big influences on rock behemoths U2 and the Manic Street Preachers, and having reformed in 2017, they have been playing to sold out shows and festival across the UK with more announced in 2018.”

The Skids
  • Richard Jobson – vocals, guitar
  • Stuart Adamson – guitar
  • William Simpson – bass guitar
  • Thomas Kellichan – drums

BIG THIEF – ” UFOF “

Posted: February 27, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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U.F.O.F. is the highly anticipated third record by Big Thief, set to be released on 3rd May 2019 via 4AD Records.

U.F.O.F. was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear Creek Studios.  In a large cabin-like room, the band set up their gear to track live with engineer Dom Monks and producer Andrew Sarlo, who was also behind their previous albums.  Having already lived these songs on tour, they were relaxed and ready to experiment.  The raw material came quickly.  Some songs were written only hours before recording and stretched out instantly, first take, vocals and all.

“Making friends with the unknown… All my songs are about this,” says Lenker; “If the nature of life is change and impermanence, I’d rather be uncomfortably awake in that truth than lost in denial.”

Band Members
Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia, Max Oleartchik

‘UFOF’ by Big Thief, from the new album ‘U.F.O.F.’, released May 3rd on 4AD Records.

WASUREMONO – ” Lonely Type “

Posted: February 26, 2019 in MUSIC
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Bradford-upon Avon’s Wasuremono have been making waves on BBC 6 Music for a couple of years now; their debut album ‘Something Left Behind’ was released this year and produced a number of eminently danceable singles that received heavy rotation. Vocalist William Southward has an astonishing range which is utilised to full effect with the band’s expansive synth laden sound, and with new album ‘Are You OK’ penned for a 2019 release, the four-piece certainly have the talent to be one of 2019’s breakout bands on a much bigger stage.

Band Members
William Southward – Vocals, Guitars and Synth Bass.
Madelaine Ryan – Backing Vocals , Keys.
Phoebe Phillips – Bass Guitar.
Isaac Phillips – Drums, Backing Vocals.

GENTLY TENDER – ” Some Hard Advice “

Posted: February 26, 2019 in MUSIC
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New London outfit Gently Tender have shared their second single “Some Hard Advice” and its accompanying, self-directed video. It follows the release of last year’s debut single “2 Chords Good,” backed with b-side “Avez Vous Deja.” They’re currently working on a full-length album.

Formed out of the ashes of British buzz band Palma Violets, Gently Tender features three members of the former band—Sam Fryer, Pete Mayhew and Will Doyle—in addition to The Big Moon’s Celia Archer on keyboards and guitarist Adam Brown.

“Some Hard Advice” doesn’t simply pick up where Palma Violets left off. There’s an introspective, old soul to Gently Tender. Their incandescent harmonies, stirring keyboards and doomsday lyrics prove they’re not just interested in creating music with a plucky spirit and a silver screen sway—they’re wise beyond their years.

As Fryer explains, there’s a bleak spark behind this song: “I was reading the news last year and a story caught my attention of how the island of Hawaii went into crisis and panic when everyone received an accidental text message to say that a missile was heading in their direction and they should take cover. The song is about that moment of realization—the prospect of dying without your loved ones.”

This is our favourite song to date and we feel this track sums up what Gently Tender is all about. Another song will join in a few weeks , before we headline Oslo in London on March 6th.

The MURLOCS – ”  Manic Candid Episode “

Posted: February 25, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Flightless darlings and bluesy garage misfits The Murlocs are cookin up another fresh batch of charmers down under.  Ambrose Kenny-Smith and the boys are calling this fourth full-length Manic Candid Episode.  Chances are good that there will be a heaping supply of harmonicas.

There are two variants, both limited to 2000 each.  Check those out below, watch the videos and then saunter through that ‘buy’ portal for some of that tasty wax.  Watch out for that razor sharp shipping charge though.  She’s a doozy.

This is the official pressing of the ‘Manic Candid Episode’ the 4th full length LP from The Murlocs. Released March 22nd, 2019

SIMONE FELICE – ” The Violent Banks of the Kaaterskill “

Posted: February 25, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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From the Violent Banks of the Kaaterskill’ showcases selected works from Simone Felice’s extensive and breathtaking catalogue. This collection will be released on Felice’s newly launched label Mighty Hudson Records / Warner Music Australia and truly captures Simone’s rare gift as a songsmith, poet and visionary.

This special anthology is vivid proof that Felice’s rabid cult following is sure to grow into the stuff of legend. ‘From the Violent Banks of the Kaaterskill’ includes raw ballads of squandered grace and dereliction, songs of transient lust and whispered hopes at last light, all delivered with a haunting urgency that speak directly to the wilderness we all possess within.

From The Violent Banks Of The Kaaterskill‘ showcases selected works from Simone’s extensive and breathtaking catalogue. Recorded live in the studio with guests including his brothers The Felice Brothers, Simone Felice was a founding member of The Felice Brothers, the internationally acclaimed Catskill Mountain based group whose seminal self-titled album remains one of the most influential works of this century’s indie-folk revival. Simone has also released albums as part of The Duke & The King, and two solo albums, and he’s worked with the likes of the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons, two of the many artists who are vocal in their love of Simone’s work.

In 2010 Simone underwent emergency open-heart surgery to halt the degenerative effects of a childhood fever. It was this dance with death – coupled with a need to tell his own story – which prompted him to walk the solo path. This special anthology is vivid proof that Felice’s rabid cult following is sure to grow into the stuff of legend. ‘From The Violent Banks Of The Kaaterskill’ includes raw ballads of squandered grace and dereliction, songs of transient lust and whispered hopes at last light, all delivered with a haunting urgency that speak directly to the wilderness we all possess within.

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For more info on Mighty Hudson’s latest projects, including Simone Felice at the producer’s helm for The Lumineers highly anticipated sophomore release,

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