English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted another video of their live version of their podcast The Album Years @ West Hampstead Arts Club in London on June 7th. They name their favourite albums. Spoiler: the top 10 consists almost solely of double albums.
Showing posts with label New Order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Order. Show all posts
July 23, 2020
Cover Me: Blue Monday
Watch the Hayseed Dixie video for their bluegrass-ed version of the New Order classic Blue Monday, a track from their latest album Blast From the Grassed. They made it both fun and creepy, and included a bit from the Ezekiel 25:17 speech from Pulp Fiction.
March 12, 2020
HCTF premiere - Kleenex Girl Wonder: Take My Heart and Rub It
Rock act Kleenex Girl Wonder burst upon the scene with their sprawling lo-fi garage debut album Ponyoak in 1999. An expanded reissue, with a nice stack of bonus tracks handpicked by the band's songwriter and lead singer Graham Smith, saw this long out--of-print gem making a comeback for its 20th anniversary. Listen to Take My Heart and Rub It, a fuzz-heavy mid-tempo rocker with ear-worm potential. Keep in my mind that it was recorded in a single dorm room in Madison, WI. Warts and all it is a piece of bare bones DIY college rock
Ponyoak is released on their own Reesonable Records label (vinyl, digital).
» Kleenex Girl Wonder on Facebook
HCTF review of White Lacuna.
June 29, 2019
Custard Flux: Echo
Gregory Curvey is on a roll with his all acoustic psychedelic prog project Custard Flux. The new album Echo is meant to be connected to his sprawling debut album Helium. The CD version should be inserted into the designed space of the deluxe edition of that release, but it can be enjoyed as full-grown independent release as well. With Timothy Prettyman (double bass) and Walt Prettyman (violin) all he had to do was sing and play piano, harmonium, guitars, auto-harp, mouth-harp, and drums.
Curvey has come up with yet another copious set of glorious, multi-faceted tracks. He is a craftsman and sonic wizard, who has put the best things of early pastoral Floyd, Love, and the late Sixties Kinks in a melting pot and added his signature guitar style and treated vocals to create a dazzling, dreamy tapestry of luscious melodies, smart breaks, and the odd bit of spoken word and studio banter. There is one electric guitar solo, because any artist is allowed to disregard his own self-imposed limitations.
August 31, 2017
Phish: "A Live One" comes to vinyl
A Live One, the first Phish live album comes to red vinyl as a 4-LP set on October 27. Bullmoose has the lowdown (and is hard to reach, because the site can't handle the traffic):
The band produced the album, selecting the material and overseeing the mix to 1/2″ reels in March-April 1995 with Ed Thacker and his team of engineers at Bearsville Studios. A Live One contains twelve original Phish compositions, five of which were previously unreleased: “Gumbo,” “Slave To The Traffic Light,” “Wilson,” “Simple,” and “Harry Hood.” The record was sequenced to approximate a two-set Phish performance and every track from the more-than-two-hour collection is notable – from the thirty-plus minute “Tweezer” to the “Wilson” opener from the band’s first Madison Square Garden show. “Gumbo” featured an updated version of Phish’s own Giant Country Horns. More than twenty years later, A Live One “Stash” and “Harry Hood” still rank among both songs’ top performances. After five studio albums, A Live One captured and conveyed the magic of the band’s improvisational live shows, and every song on the record (except “Montana”) has remained a staple of Phish shows ever since. A Live One was released by Elektra June 27, 1995 on CD and cassette. It was the first Phish album to be certified gold and remains Phish’s best selling album. The laquers for the vinyl edition were cut from the 1/2” flat masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Each LP is pressed onto 180g vinyl and includes a free MP3 download of the album transferred from vinyl.
August 11, 2017
Cover Me: Blue Monday
Watch the Orkestra Obsolete tackle the New Order classic Blue Monday, using instruments from the 1930s, including a theremin, a musical saw, a harmonium, a prepared piano and a zither.
Graeme MIller, Sven Werner, Nicola Reade and Angus McIntyre wore masks for the occasion. More information about this project on the BBC Arts website.
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