The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
For nearly 10 years pianist Hume has made an amazing series of albums full of catchy, attractively melancholy and film-friendly tunes for Leo Records, normally a feisty free-jazz label.
This Is This (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here’s a great pop song, and it ticks a lot of my happy boxes. Mandolin, saxophones, bittersweet lyrics. Sad shire horses in the sodium light. I often wonder what would have happened if my family had stayed in Liverpool. I guess I like thinking about the connections we don’t know. I’m a complex and flawed individual, and [...]
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you didn’t know better, on first listen you would probably think that Jeff Hanson was a woman. His voice is high-pitched and precise, and he uses inflections that are ordinarily the terrain of the fairer sex. Its initial novelty aside, there is no denying the beauty of his singing, especially when it’s matched with [...]
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Alexi Murdoch is a Scottish singer-songwriter. In 2006, Murdoch independently released his first full-length album, Time Without Consequence, from which this song comes. He has a bit of Nick Drake about him, but I don't think that a bad thing. MP3 File
Shedworking (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
BBC Radio 4's Front Row transmitted a marvellous segment on sheds this evening (you can listen to it again over the next seven days via the link above) which to a backdrop of Nick Drake's famous shed song featured poet John 'Shedman' Davies (who is particularly eloquent), artist Julian Perry , writer Philip Pullman and sculptor Sarah Staton whose marvellous Schriebergartenhaus is pictured above and...
Time Has Told Me (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
" Infinities " 2006 An album of psychedelic folk music by a Canadian musician, influenced by early 70s British folk music and ambient music. All songs played and recorded by Allister Thompson. links www.myspace.com/allisterthompson "Mixing delicate Nick Drake Guitars with a beautiful and haunting voice, reminiscent of Alisdair Roberts or Alan Davidson, this is a high quality selection of songs that...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
We have become so desensitized to the antics of Britney/Amy/Pete et al that we could be forgiven for thinking that music today is one long crack cocaine session, interrupted only by the inconvenience of having to release a record or stage a show.
Minipundit (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
I swear, Amazon's MP3 deals Twitter is going to be the death of me. It's one thing when Amazon sells albums for $8.99, but having one great album after another listed for $3.99, usually $1.99, sometimes even $0.99 - that's...
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
We love the music of Oakdale, California singer-songwriter Brett Dennen, who has one of the finest voices in contemporary pop-folk. He’s touring Australia in September with shows in Brisbane (9th), Sydney (16th) and Melbourne (17th), in support of his beautiful new album, So Much More. With that in mind, we checked in with to get [...]
saintseestersays.saintseester.com (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
My Melancholy Playlist. Sometimes it is cathartic to wallow in it for an hour, and then get up and get on with a better mood. Coldplay - Death and All His Friends Coldplay - Fix You Bruce Springsteen - The River Kurt Bestor - Mama Don’t You Weep The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony NIck Drake - One of These [...]
molly.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
BY THE TIME I’d “met” Nick Drake he was already long dead. I believe it was after the “Pink Moon” Volkswagen commercial that aired in the United States. It’s possible I’d heard him before but I’m pretty sure I’d remember. I’ve been listening to Nick Drake now nearly 10 years. What about you? When did you [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
in post Bank Holiday Customer Service. from black country grammar .
:: www.darrenlock.com :: (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
I came to the Scottish band Belle and Sebastian late, through choice more than anything else. Like Nick Drake, I had resisted them for years, preferring for their popularity to wane before exploring their fey, poppy music. This song is...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
in post Wherever I lay my shed that's my hat. from soulblending .
