Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
A video of the day and a note to self. There’s a new Robert Forster album Song To Play out there that you and I need to hear. Robert Forster is best known from the legendary The Go-Betweens, but the solo work is also wonderful. I really liked Evangelist from 2008 and therefore I really need to listen to this one. I’m sure it’s going to make my world more beautiful. This is the lead single Let Me Imagine You.
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According to my last.fm stats (it doesn’t cover everything, but gives a fairly good idea of my taste), Pretty Bitchin’ by Daniel Markham is my all-time most listened album by a large margin. Top 3 is 1. Daniel Markham – Pretty Bitchin’ 1219 plays and 2. Frontier Ruckus – Eternity of Dimming 740 plays. So it’s not a wrong assumption to say that I love this guy and that record especially. Pretty Bitchin’ gives me energy, if all this sad bastard stuff i continuously listen to tries to drag me too far down.
Let’s move forward to Halloween 2015. Of course I should have posted this then, but well life and/or laziness came in the way. Anyway, earlier in the fall Daniel Markham teamed up with another great singer-songwriter Claire Morales and together they wrote and released a new halloween-y album Harmony In Hell. It came out on Halloween, but it works just as well during these dark winter nights. This wonderful opener Velvet is my favourite song of the album. Those beautiful male-female harmonies send a shiver down my spine.
It’s a been while since we’ve had a new a Glossary album, but there’s still a whole lot of great music coming from that camp at the moment. I recently posted about the current actions of their steel wizard Todd Beene and now I’m again praising the Glossary folks. Last week the frontman Joey Kneiser released his new solo album The Wildness and as expected it sounds so great that I might have to go back to the drawing board with this albums of the year list that I’m slowly building (won’t be ready before late December).
The Wildness is a magnificent album filled with soulful rock’n’roll, folk and americana. Songwriting is on a high level and damn how great it is to hear Joey and Kelly singing together once again. Those voices belong together and reach corners of your body that you can’t find from a human anatomy encyclopedia. All in all, The Wildness is a further proof that Joey Kneiser should be recognised as one of the top guys in this American songwriting thing during the past ten years. This is Every Port in The Storm from The Wildness that is now out on This Is American Music.
And here’s the video for the title track The Wildness.
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I want to end this blog week with something everlastingly beautiful. This song Sign Of Life by Daniel Martin Moore was my favourite music-related moment during this past week. I don’t really use Spotify much at home, because here I listen to records that I’ve bought. However, I do subscribe to Spotify because every time I get home from work I try to think of a new record that I haven’t heard yet and listen to it in the car on my way home. Last Thursday I remembered that I haven’t heard the new Daniel Martin Moore record, which is a crime against good music. So I started driving home listening to Golden Age. I was hooked from the start and the song Anyway already moved me deeply. However, the real magical moment happened when I was close to home waiting in the traffic lights when the opening lines of Sign of Life fell into my heart. A moment of true beauty. I nearly cried and almost forgot to start driving again when the light turned green. I parked the car and listened to it again before I walked home. Perhaps just simple words wrapped in a beautiful melody, but nothing could have moved me more that night. This is Daniel Martin Moore and Sign Of Life.