Watch the new Choose Your Own Adventure video by UK band Richard Lomax & The Tontine. And no, it's not about the Brexit, but for going your own way as a person.
HCTF review of Choose Your Own Adventure.
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May 31, 2016
Richard Lomax & The Tontine: Choose Your Own Adventure
Mancunian singer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Lomax offers a slice of in-your-face blues rock on his new single Choose Your Own Adventure. Backed by his band The Tontine it is a firm plea for going your own way. Somehow he managed to make an acoustic guitar sound boisterous, in a friendly tug of war with its electric counterpart.
Look into the cold dead eyes of a supermodel
Hang from the brow of a rugby man
You'll stay on that hook
Til you close the book
Choose Your Own Adventure
March 14, 2016
Richard Lomax & The Tontine: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mancunian singer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Lomax is streaming another song from the forthcoming new album with his band The Tontine. Weapons of Mass Destruction describes the chemical processes that take over the brain when you fell in love:
The lateral orbito frontal cortex shuts down
BANG goes self evaluation, reason, control, fear and anxiety leave, remember to breathe
Next the amygdala and hippocampus relax which induces a trance like state in you
And it makes me less likely to start a war or small conflict at least.
Odds are that Lomax is the first songwriter to use this kind of language in a love song. Note the jittery guitar dialogue and vaudevillian backing vocals. Recommended if you like They Might Be Giants and Pulp.
January 28, 2016
Richard Lomax & The Tontine: I Cycle
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Lomax is working on his second album with his band The Tontine. The lead single I Cycle is a folkie declaration of doing things in your own way. The world's your oyster when you ride your bike - defiance wrapped in a joyous tune.
The song is based on the true story of suffragette Edith Rigby who pissed off the authorities by riding her bike in Preston in an age where women weren't supposed to do that. Lomax paints a picture of a bygone era, when standing up for equal rights was frowned upon at best. "Though people will talk//I Cycle//They may want me to walk but//I Cycle". The song features the sound of his own bike, setting up a dialogue with the bass and drums.
December 14, 2015
HCTF's best of 2015 (20-16)
2015 was a rather good year for music. In the next four days HCTF lists the 20 albums that will be in regular rotation for many years to come.
Today: countdown from number 20 to 16. Go here for 5-1 | 10-6 | 15-11.
20 The Brighton Beat: Off We Go
The funky afrobeat big band thrives on stage. They managed to transfer the excitement of a live show to the studio on their sophomore release.
Joe DiGiorgi at Headline Studios, NY did an excellent job. He got a rock sound for Hit The Bricks, a widescreen cinematic feel for Summer Lullaby and put the percussion and brass up front for the two parts of Stand With The Herd. The bass gets a boost when the band goes funky, most notably in the title track.
19 Holly Bowling: Distillation of a Dream: The Music of Phish Reimagined For Solo Piano
A classically trained piano player transcribed the spontaneous jamming of the Vermont quartet. A sprawling double album that sparkles.
Bowling had to bottle the on stage spontaneity. (...) The instrumentals The Horse and The Inlaw Josie Wales were fairly easy by comparison, but she didn't shun the challenge of A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing and The Squirming Coil.
18 Kapok: Glass to Sand
The Dutch jazz trio Kapok invited some guests for their third album and a good time was had by all.
With the sound Morris Kliphuis' horn the trio stands out as colorful bird amidst a flock of squabbling pigeons. With drummer Remco Menting's command of complex rhythms and guitarist Timon Koomen's progressive tone they are a truly "unusual" jazz trio. Throw in their ability to find inspiration to write about subject like muscle spasms - the ambient/post-rock mashup Myoclonus or sing the praise of Cacti and extensive plains in Pediplen and you have a band with an open mind and sense of Zappa-esque humour.
17 Richard Lomax & The Tontine: Down There For Dancing
English multi-instrumentalist is a man of many moods. And also the sole guy on Earth who can rock out while wielding an Omnichord.
Even when Lomax gets mad at someone, like he does in Every Fucker Fucks You (so why not fuck them first?), he picks up a scalpel instead of an axe, wrapping his wrath in an aloof manner plus a some memorable guitar outbursts - efficiency superseding blind fury.
16 Mountaineer: 1974
Marcel Hulst made a wonderfully delicate solo album, even foregoing capitalizing the song titles.
(...) a great blend of indie, folk and Americana, a prime example of soft music that doesn't need to be played loud to make its mark. Highlights: the use of double tracked vocals adding urgency to the message of in Canada, the early Floyd-alike pastoral artificial light and the melancholic dirge all your armies.
September 04, 2015
Richard Lomax & The Tontine: Down There For Dancing
photo: Shay Rowan
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Mancunian multi-instrumentalist Richard Lomax is a bit of an eccentric. His musical weapon of choice is the Omnichord, an electronic string emulating gizmo manufactured by Suzuki in the early Eighties. Its timbre is a perfect vehicle for his quintessentially English pop tunes in the tradition of Ray Davies, Lloyd Cole and Jarvis Cocker.
Formerly the leader of Johnny5thWheel&thecowards he assembled another band of merry men dubbed The Tontine to back him up on his latest album Down There For Dancing. A collection of energetic melancholy and vice versa. Lomax always keeps a firm grip on his material, whether is the slide guitar driven rocker Set Me Free of surf-enhanced vaudeville put-down song Wag the Wonderbitch.
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