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Penniless – Rows Of Houses

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Huge news! New Penniless album Rows Of Houses came out last week on A West Side Fabrication. It’s fantastic, brilliant and the best Finnish album of the year.. Well to be honest, I haven’t heard it yet. I went to the local record shop yesterday, but unfortunately the package that had the new Penniless in it was late and therefore I wasn’t able to buy a copy. The band is one of my all-time favourites and I’m extremely confident that the new album is once again going to be amazing. But maybe I should do the highest of praises on a later date. When I’ve actually listened to the album.

Penniless Website

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Soliti News: Gim Kordon & The New Tigers

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Soliti is one of the finest indie labels in the country and they’ve been busy lately. Their new signing is wittily named Gim Kordon and it’s impossible not to like them. Finnish DIY punk rock meets 90s US indie rock. Where You Been at the back, punk vocals on the front. Sounds so good to me and takes me back to the days when things like Dinosaur Jr, Smudge and Sebadoh reshaped my heart. Debut album due out in 2014, but as a taste Soliti offers an early demo version of a song called Ei oo helppoo.

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Gim Kordon Website

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The second The New Tigers album The Badger came out last week and it’s another good one. I think Valtteri’s pop sensibility and the wall of sound are in good balance this time around. If you can write a great pop song with the loveliest melody, why destroy it with useless crap. Sometimes in the past they’ve been guilty of that. This time pretty much everything works. For example Secondary City is such a magnificent song where The New Tigers get closer to Teenage Fanclub-ish moods in the chorus. Well done.. and worth all the hype. This one is Quicksilver from the new album.

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The New Tigers Website

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Drew Danburry Video Premiere (+ New Album)

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I came across Drew Danburry about eight years ago and I’ve been following his career more or less frequently ever since. Back in 2010, Drew admitted to himself that music wasn’t able to provide the kind of financial stability he and his family needed. The touring musician trained to become a barber and eventually started Danburry Barber Shop in Provo, Utah. Thankfully Drew didn’t completely abandon music and after a minor break, he started writing and releasing new music. This time he can just do it without the financial pressure.

Drew Danburry’s new album Becoming Bastian Salazar came out a week ago on 16th of September. Bastian Salazar is Drew’s alter ego and Becoming Bastian Salazar tells the story of how one person evolves from love to hate, hope to despair, and altruism to egocentricity. To celebrate the new album, Drew is releasing new music videos each week. One Chord to Another has a chance to premiere this week’s video for the song Eliot Rosewater, Peter Weir, Buck Brannaman, Jason Anderson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Dalai Lama or the day I realized that I’ll never be who I want, but will always be who I am and that is sufficient. As you noticed, Drew is a man with long, but meaningful song titles. This sad & beautiful song actually would be a bit too depressive without the title. However, when you add together the song, the title and this music video of the adventures of young Drew, that dwelling sadness of the song suddenly turns into something good and instead of feeling insufficient you actually feel good about yourself and appreciate the person who you are.

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Becoming Bastian Salazar is available as pay-what-you-want download at Bandcamp. Follow Drew at Facebook to find more information about my favourite barber.

It’s been a busy year for Drew, because in July he re-released his album This Could Mean Trouble, You Don’t Speak for the Club. A lot of things went wrong the first time it came out (in 2008) and therefore Drew decided to make it available again as a limited edition.

Drew Danburry Website
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Danny & The Champions Of The World, Clear

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A couple of new UK-faves in this post. Danny & The Champions Of The World isn’t a new favourite though, because I’ve been following Danny George Wilson since the Grand Drive days and own most of his back catalogue. Danny is under the spotlight because there’s a new album Stay True coming out on Loose Music on september 16th. It’s a mighty fine album full of great UK americana. Actually it’s one of his strongest as a whole. Soulful country music of the highest order. This is Cold Cold World from the new album Stay True.

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Danny & The Champions of the World Website

clear

Clear is something totally new to me. I just found this Sheffield-based band a few weeks ago and instantly loved this song Sunlight. Timeless pop melodies and 70s west coast influences. Sunlight goes like this.

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Clear at Facebook

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