Last friday, I split the work day between Party Dolls and Tedo Stone. First four hours of Party Dolls and then four hours of Tedo Stone. I came to two conclusions. 1.) This new Party Dolls album Love Wars Baby is just magnificent 2.) I really didn’t pay enough attention to Tedo Stone last year. Good Go Bad is a very good album and I don’t think I even mentioned it here.

Party Dolls is a new project that contains members from The District Attorneys, Tedo Stone and Crooked Fingers. The District Attorneys album Slowburner was a big hit in 2012. Well maybe not in the world, but it was a hit in my head. It was one of the big surprises of 2012 and took the #11 place on my albums of the year list. The District Attorneys frontman Drew Beskin is also the main songwriter on this project and he has again written some fantastic songs. Love Wars Baby will be released on 14th of February by This Is American Music. Valentine’s Day sure is a good release date for an intimate and brutally honest album that was written after a bad break-up. This is Kindly Leave from Love Wars Baby.

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Still staying in Canada, but this is something very different. Nudie’s debut solo album Remember This is a great country record. I really like the songwriting. The songs might often be fairly simple country ballads, but there’s always some really good lines that lift them to another level. I suppose the record could sound even better, but country music doesn’t really need a gigantic backing. The thing that counts is the song and Nudie has that thing covered. This is the title track Remember This.

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