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New Music: Fionn Regan: Acoustic Folk
Fionn Regan likes telling sharp, soulful stories of unimportant things, of 11 year old boys who look like they’ve been walking for 100 years. And songs about the lights on the tables, composed in the moments before coming on stage. After putting on a stunning live show last night at the Sheffield Boardwalk I feel it’s neccessary to tell you all about him - though he is singing in English, he is indeed an Irish trobadour - and that certainly goes against everything this blog is about (new U.K music). But sometimes branching out for music this good is essential.
He writes songs through a lens with a soft focus - and it feels precious but not sweet. I imagine Mr Fionn Regan to be walking backwards in front of you at a fast pace, singing these songs, and occasionally stopping to perch on a brick wall waiting for you to catch up. It’s easy listening, until you begin to pay attention to the wistful, nostalgic and just generally interesting, walking paced lyrics. It’s feels like Fionn is reintroducing you to a remote memory - I think - but whatever he’s doing he manages it across 12 tracks on his album - an album that will no doubt be one of the best this year.
For reference take the names Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake and Damien Rice shake them up in a bag, through in some spinning tops and sugar - then stop wasting your time, put the bag down and go and buy this record.
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The Rough Guide To Indie-Dance!
1. Happy Mondays - “WFL (Think About The Future)”
2. World Of Twist - “Sons Of The Stage (12″)”
3. Saint Etienne - “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”
4. Primal Scream - “Slip Inside This House”
5. Paris Angels - “Perfume (Up To You)”
6. My Bloody Valentine - “Soon (Weatherall Remix)”
7. The Field Mice - “Missing The Moon”
8. McCarthy - “Get A Knife Between Your Teeth”
9. MC Tunes vs 808 State - “Tunes Splits The Atom”
10. Happy Mondays - “God’s Cop”
11. Pop Will Eat Itself - “Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina”
12. New Order - “World In Motion”
13. Boca Juniors - “Raise”
14. The New Fast Automatic Daffodils - “Big”
15. Big Hard Excellent Fish - “Imperfect List”
16. Flowered Up - “Weekender (12″)”
New Music: Kanako and The Numb Skulls: Folk Punk
Kanako and the Numb Skulls write music that alerts and reminds me to why mp3 blogging is a wonderful source of not only new pop music, but also a great new platform for the obscure Afro-Japanese Folk Punk. You aint gonna get ahead of the crowd on this, no hipster points. It’s just really good music that I’ve given some time to, and want to share.
The track, vikings something something sounds good at lots of time of the day and it survives the indie - ipod killer (I hate a lot of indie when I listen to it on my ipod - when it sounds good on it - I know for sure it’s a good track). But er I suppose this isn’t indie as many of you may understand it also it’s not gimmicky - it’s just musicians having fun with pop and folk and accented vocals + instruments. A track that demands you click play and test the water… it had me in an instant simply because it is different, multicultural and twee punk. I think, though that sentence may be editted out when I wake up tomorrow with a little more knowledge.
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Nothing But Green Lights
Sharing really good new British music. Email Mike if you have any suggestions or CDs.
This 12 track mixtape will give you an idea of the sort of music I post. Updated: 11th May 2008.RSS
Mp3 Blog Crew
EVERYDAY:
GORILLA VS BEAR
SAID THE GRAMOPHONE
MOTEL DE MOKA
LARGEHEARTED BOY
CATBIRD SEAT
THE REST OF THE TIME:
SHAKE YOUR FIST
MUSIC 4 KIDS WHO...
THE TORTURE GARDEN
MARATHONPACKS
MUSIC FOR ROBOTS
EAR FARM
FLUXBLOG
SKATTERBRAIN
YOU AIN'T NO PICASSO
AQAURIUM DRUNKARD
CHROMEWAVES
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Best New Music: People of Water
"...Afrobeat has gone all desert-storm, with instrumental precision: an assault of funk and drum... the sandstorm churned up behind it betrays kilowatts of energy and a solar rhythm" [11th May: more] | [Photo credit]
Best New Music Alumni:
JONQUIL
"Grandiose in a run down country house kind of way. Perhaps a lament to the old hedges carved to take the form of a pride of lions, but now, sadly but a shadow of their former sense... It’s like folk music recovering from the revolution: rejuvination and lost memories of the songs that rallied them."
[12th September 2007: more]