Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
I wrote about T.Hardy Morris in august, but a quick revisit is in order. Since last time, I’ve bought this fine album and there is now a music video for the title track of the album Audition Tapes. It’s also my favourite song on that great record.
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T.Hardy Morris Website
A long time favourite Euros Childs is back with a new album Situation Comedy. The Euros Childs albums have never made as huge impact on me as some of the Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci albums. But that’s because Gorky’s were so special, completely amazing and oh so dear to me. It’s hard to reach that same level all the time, but the same magic takes place on Euros Childs albums as well. Maybe not as consistently, but there’s always several great pop songs on each Euros Childs release and they are all so worth hearing. This is one of them. The opening track and lead single Tête à Tête from the new Euros Childs album. Available directly from Euros Childs website.
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If you saw that early sketch for the albums of the year 2013 list, you are aware that I’m very much into the new Marine Dreams album Corner Of The Eye. I guess I can understand if someone thinks this is only good and nothing that special, but I instantly fell in love with this one and I’m in the process of forming a life-long relationship with this lovely little album. In fact, I think Ian Kehoe, the man behind Marine Dreams, must be some kind of pop genius with a fantastic melodic sense. And then you have highly talented Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station) and Daniel Romano providing harmony vocals. Actually, maybe I find it hard to understand if someone doesn’t find this amazing. It’s sounds so brilliant to me. Corner Of The Eye came out in late september on the great You’ve Changed Records. This is my favourite song Morning. I could listen to this for hours and I probably already have.
I already quickly featured The Provincial Archive some weeks ago, but I think a revisit is in order. Especially because I just looked at my last.fm stats for the past month and the first one was The Provincial Archive with 396 plays (followed by The Deep Dark Woods and Penniless with around 150 plays) and that excludes car plays for example. Therefore it’s fair to say that I’ve been at least mildly addicted to this Canadian band and their albums Nameless Places (2009) and Maybe We Could Be Holy (2010). They are probably fed up with the comparison, but this does remind me of the good kind of Death Cab For Cutie with a folkier set-up. In some strange way this also hits the same corner of my hearts as The Weakerthans or Frontier Ruckus. But enough with the pointless namedropping. This is high quality folk-tinged pop music that sounds warm and captivating. Here are a couple of magnificent songs from Maybe We Could Be Holy.
Guided By Sundogs:
Live version of Art Museums and Tourist Traps (Southern Souls Video)
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And I hope there will be a new album sometime soon, because this new single Common Cards is also marvellous. I already posted the song earlier, but now there’s also a great video.
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