Figured I’d giv’er another old kick at the can before August is all over and done with, shipped up, boxed off, and trundled toward a neverending precipice of disingenuous sobriety. I’ve been kept pretty busy in the last few weeks, hence the lack of me deciding to take time to blather around on here. […]
Moloko - Absent Minded Friends from Things to Make and Do (2000) /quirky dance pop/((“Have you ever smiled for too long?Till you’re achingHave you ever laughed till you cried?Till your heart is breaking. Well it’a a silly thing that I’ve been wondering.”A garish hula-hoop in red and turquoise rolls lopsidedly through the supermarket […]
I’ve had this album for a while. Last year I listened to it once, was impressed, listened to it again, thought ‘this has good chance of becoming a contender for top 10 albums of 2003 or some such silly nonsense like that’. And then I promptly forgot about it completely.
Enter late August 2004, stage right. […]
The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection from Meadowlands (2003) /indie rock/((“why/ into why not,into what else you got?it’s just how men mark time. Ann slams in,another lightning round begins,this could get interesting.Where’s Ann been?She pours herself a don’t-ask gin,no ice and light on the bitters.I’m done with quitters.”why / charles, I found outwipe that […]
Canadian songstress Kate Rogers is probably best known for her collaborations with artists Aim and Rae&Christian. Her work on Aim’s truly monumental “Sail” got her some attention, and proved beyond a doubt that her voice is among the leaders in the biz. Haunting, delicate, beautiful, and on that track slightly unintelligible. Now she releases St. […]
Kate Rogers - This Collective from St. Eustacia (2004) /alternative folksy country pop/((“Faith and illusion. Power, the movement, all the eccentric believers await. Bless this collective losing perspective, praying their way to forgiveness today. Watch as the people they’re gathering round and one man he speaks and their kneeling down now. […]
Alasdair Fraser & Tony McManus - Roslin Castle, Miss Gordon of Gight from Return to Kintail (1999) /celtic/((The wind billowed out before him, throwing the long green weeds so they bent against the ground. He knelt on the wet, rich soil; the sturdy iron sword biting downward into the ground, the cross of […]
Radiohead - Street Spirit from The Bends (1995) /whiny sap shlock (beauty defined)/((“This machine will not communicate these thoughts and this strain I am under.Be a world-child.. form a circle before we all go under. And fade out, fade out again.”In the darkness, I reach out towards it. A shimmer and a whispered […]
Another Celtic Roots Festival come and gone. And I feel it pretty necessary to sing its praises to the mountains and brooks. This folk festival feels like a living entity like none other, but perhaps its unfair to say that this festival lives while life escapes others, so our excercise in personification should […]
Martina Topley-Bird - Anything from Quixotic (2003) /bluesy triphop/((“My half.I thought I’d be stronger.But my pathto you just seems longer.You fake me to a highof just no other kind. I don’t want anything (but you)I don’t need anything (but you)”A hand leaves its grip on rough wood grain with a hesitative pause and trails […]