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SINEAD O’BRIEN – ” Most Modern Painting “

Posted: January 6, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Irish poet Sinead O’Brien has shared her debut EP “Drowning in Blessings” today via Chess Club Records. It follows the release of previous singles “Roman Ruins” and “Strangers in Danger,” the latter of which was named an essential art rock track of 2020. The EP was produced by none other than Dan Carey, known for his work with Fontaines D.C., Kate Tempest and more.

Sinead O’Brien has also unveiled a video for “Most Modern Painting,” the opening song on this four-track release and the one that spawned the EP’s title. The video was directed by Saskia Dixie and shot on 16 mm film. “Most Modern Painting” is another carefully threaded art rock track, with O’Brien’s thoughts—both uninhibited and calculated firing quickly.

O’Brien says of the new single: “Most Modern Painting” is about the creation and maintenance of “the self” – the most epic task we are faced with in our lives. I wanted to work with structure in an unconventional way, linking the movements together using various voices from the narrative. The lyrics are voiced through a dialogue between the conscious and unconscious, through dream recall, memory, the individual and the ego.

“It’s about the creation and maintenance of the self. We never talk about it, but it’s the task that you were faced with from the minute you’re born – to create and develop yourself, forever.”

Limerick artist Sinead O’Brien’s sprechgesang-meets-post-punk poetry spills over with evocative literary references and captivating everyday observations. The Vivienne Westwood fashion designer started out penning poems and performing them with the musical backing of her regular contributor Niall Burns of whenyoung, with a style that’s since grabbed the attention of Chess Club and Speedy Wunderground.

Sinead O’Brien – Drowning In Blessings EP, out now:

BLOXX – ” Off My Mind “

Posted: July 27, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Uxbridge rising indie pop band Bloxx have just announced their long awaited debut titled Lie Out Loud will be released on August 14th via Chess Club Records. Lie Out Loud follows on from previous singles Coming Up Short and Go Out With You, both of which will be featured on the debut album. Speaking about the title track, frontwoman Fee Booth commented:

‘Lie Out Loud’ feels like a big moment for us, it’s a bit angsty and was actually the last song we wrote for our record, whilst we recorded the record, so it nearly didn’t even happen! I remember being so wildly annoyed that day because I was sitting around doing nothing and I just remember myself and Jenn Decilveo (our producer) shouting lyrics at each other and arguing over whether or not ‘lie out loud’ made any sense. It definitely does.

DIY praised female fronted, 4 piece, alt rock / indie pop band, Bloxx are known to fuse grungy undertones with classic indie-influenced melodies to create their unique, yet comfortably familiar sound which is most evident within their live shows. Bloxx are Ophelia – guitar and vocals, Taz – lead guitar and backing vocals, Mozwin – drums, and Paul – bass.

our debut album ‘Lie Out Loud’

BILLIE MARTEN – ” Writing Of Blues and Yellows “

Posted: October 22, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Billie Marten She writes of yellows, certainly, and the blues arrive later; big, inky, blue-black blotches of melancholy that fall and then blossom on fading parchment paper, the only thing left to surprise the listener about Writings of Blues and Yellows is that she sat in one place long enough to learn the piano.

Now at the grand age of 17, Billie Marten already sounds world-weary. “La Lune” opens the album with a skipping-stone touch, setting out her stall as a songwriter who creates quiet, almost ambient textures, so that the minor chords twist like a knife when they arrive. “Bird” takes the template a step further, a brooding string part’s vibrato matching the quiver in her voice. As the album progresses, it becomes apparent that the strings are rarely entirely absent, but have the good grace to spend most of their time quietly complementing Marten’s guitar and voice, only rushing forward to meet them at the record’s stormiest moments.

Occasionally, the pace is allowed to gather into something approaching a jaunt, as on “Milk & Honey”, a dig at the world’s unfettered consumerism. But mostly, the songs here are stripped for their saddest parts, channeling the spirit of her contemporaries: Daughter, and, Laura Marling. The temptation to buy into a tortured prodigy narrative here will prove irresistible for some, painting a bruised, teenage heart too pure for this cruel world. Certainly, Marten is honest about her own struggles – there is no lack of candour on “Teeth” (“I’m writing this in a bad way… No one can hear what my head says”).

In truth, whether Lionhearted or lying through her teeth, the songwriting never veers into self-pity, and the whole record feels absurdly confident. For Billie Marten, the blues are as much a gift to the world as the yellows.

Release: 23rd September 2016, Chess Club Records / RCA

BILLIE MARTEN – ” Milk and Honey / Bird “

Posted: May 24, 2016 in MUSIC
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Isabella Sophie Tweddle (born 27 May 1999), who performs under the stage name Billie Marten, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Ripon in  Yorkshire. She first came to prominence at the age of twelve when a video on she had made of her singing attracted thousands of views. She released her first EP at the age of fifteen in 2014, and her second EP a year later. At the end of 2015 she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016 award.

This now 16-year-old Yorkshire folk-rocker Billie Marten proved last year that she’s talented beyond measure and wise beyond her years. The new song “Milk & Honey” is Marten’s latest, and it continues showing us what an amazing talented young lady . What begins as a breathy acoustic swirl blooms into a lush arrangements topped off by triumphal brass. As ever, Marten sounds vulnerable yet in complete command of her considerable powers, Billie has the ability to become a huge important singer songwriter in the mould of Laura Marling , with the delivery and vocals talent to match Daughter’s Elena.

‘Bird’ was written with Olivia Broadfield and was a last resort sort of song. We hadn’t come up with anything all day until we switched from guitars to piano and I started singing nonsense words way up high and it sort of turned into this super sad song I guess about how words can really affect people, and not for the right reasons; how you can feel kind of trapped/caught in your own space all the time even when no-one is actually with you.”

BILLIE MARTEN – ” As Long As “

Posted: February 1, 2016 in MUSIC
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Billie Marten performing “As Long As” (Live at Blue Flowers) 

Billie Marten first came on to our radar in the spring of this year with the weighty emotional tug of ‘Heavy Weather’. A song of tremendous depth, it showed signs of truly great things to come.

We are therefore delighted to premiere a special live recording of new song, ‘As Long As’, the title track of her upcoming new EP, which will be released on Chess Club Records. A sparse, moody opening sees the track showcase Marten’s arresting vocal, before piano and twangy guitar join the slow dance, moving and drifting around Marten’s words. Drums eventually join, pushing things forward again.

There is so much space. Acres of the stuff. Yet ‘As Long As’ never feels airy. In contrast to its widescreen horizon-gazing, it often feels darkly claustrophobic. No mean feat, and another show of strength from the ludicrously talented Marten. ‘As Long As’ was released digitally on 13th November and physically, via. 10” vinyl on 20th November