Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
You won’t get a big return, if you bet that this song will take the song of the year award here at onechord.net. Hän, jolla on kaikki from Samae’s latest solo album has been the biggest favourite to win that award since I heard it for the first time. Now it also has a music video where nothing or everything happens.
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Australian pop hero Joe Algeri introduced Hurricane Fighter Plane to me and I was immediately hooked. If you happen to be into 60s pop/garage/powerpop and spend your days reading the wonderful Shindig! magazine, I think this might be your new favourite band. They come from Fremantle/Perth, their new self-titled EP has just been released and you can buy it from their bandcamp. Extremely highly recommended I would say and I will definitely buy it myself once I figure out do I settle for the download or buy a physical copy. Just listen to this song called It Won’t Last. This is just bloody brilliant.
There’s couple of cool videos as well. This first one is also the great opening track of the EP.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD51TaVs-K0]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHUoy86viKc]
There’s still 23 minutes left of september 17th, so there’s still time to mention that this was One Chord to Another’s 10th birthday. I didn’t forget the thing, but I spent a couple of nights in Stockholm and just arrived back home tonight. This is Sloan and The Good In Everyone from the album One Chord to Another.
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This would fit quite nicely into that power pop section as well, but let’s keep that for the classics. Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms debut album was released in march 2011 by Bellyache Records, but I just heard it some weeks ago. It doesn’t change the world as we know it, but it is a damn enjoyable record full of short and loud power pop songs. Direct quote from the bio “finding inspiration in classic one-man-band albums by Emitt Rhodes, Paul McCartney, Jason Falkner…” might get some pop freaks interested. I know it did the trick for me. The album is also a free download on his bandcamp at the moment (that might change, I don’t know). Because it’s 3 am while I’m writing this, I’ll pick a song called Why Can’t I Sleep? as the sample song. And at the moment the answer to that question is, because I’m listening to awesome pop music.
Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms at Bandcamp
Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms Website