What are you listening to?

[Craig M.]

 

[Big Chris]

 

[idc]

 

[Dave_]

The Soundtrack of Our Lives- Behind the Music

 

[Dave_]

 

[matthewpiano]

Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Dave_]

Kids in Glass Houses-Smart Casual

 

[Dave_]

 

[Anonymous]

 

[idc]

Two excellent country influenced rock albums. Foot tapping, lush production, great songwriting .........

 

[matthewpiano]

The Cash American albums are superb and 'The Man Comes Around' is full of wonderful versions of some great songs, although I wish the engineer had controlled the levels a bit better in the peaks of 'Hurt'.

The new Steeleye Span album is a great return to form with a more traditional folky sound and excellent production and engineering. The new remasters of the first five Chrysalis albums (on a 3CD set called 'A Parcel of Steeleye Span') has also had lots of play time here the last few days. The remastering has been beautifully done on those.

I was late coming to Steve Earle but I love 'Washington Square Serenade', and his recent tribute to Townes Van Zandt, entitled 'Townes'.

 

[Anonymous]

 

[matthewpiano]

I find a lot of the later Strawbs stuff a bit OTT these days and prefer the earlier albums like Dragonfly, From The Witchwood, and Just A Collection of Antiques and Curios. This solo album by Dave Cousins from a couple of years ago is much more in line with some of that earlier stuff and with just voice, acoustic guitar and slide guitar, it is an extremely enjoyable album to listen.

 

[Dave_]

 

[Amyl Right Mate]

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

 

[Dave_]

 

[Dave_]

Off Spotify,highlights of the soon to be released 6CD boxset......

 

[matthewpiano]

3 very different but equally brilliant albums. The Pineapple Thief are one of the best young bands around - very recognisable sound and some really inventive but musical ideas. The most recent of Woolly Woolstenholme's (BJH mellotron/keys player) Maestoso albums is full of the spark that BJH lost when he left them after 'XII'. As for The Byrds, I've always loved them and their first album is always a joy to listen to. All these years after it was made it still sounds incredibly fresh.

 

[idc]

Nice coincidence Matthew, The Pineapple Thief are one of the best young bands........well I see them as Porcupine Tree light, earlier Radiohead post prog rock. The 15 minute Too Much To Lose is an epic, simple rythms and melodies with some startling time changes, it grow and grows and develops an amzing intensity. Highly recommended. I would have posted before you but I am on to my second listen in a row!

 

[Anonymous]

 

[Drummerdave]

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Shipping News - Save Everything
Converge - Axe To Fall
Oxes - Oxxxes

 

[Anonymous]

 

[idc]

Finland's Amorphis, my new favourite metal band. The music scene in Scandinavia is brilliant. It must annoy the bands that most peoples idea of music from that region is Abba and the joke Eurovision winners Lordi. Meanwhile, album after album after album of fabulously recorded and played music is being produced. Amorphis have five albums on Spotify and 'Silent Water' is my favourite. It is anthemic, exciting and at the rock as opposed to prog end of the metal spectrum.

 

[idc]

Cracked it................and from the Faroe Islands, Tyr, a good solid metal band. A bit derivative, but still, the Faroes, who would have thought........

 

[idc]

Having spent many an evening at ceilidhs and quite enjoyed, no tolerated Scottish country music, good to dance to, but not my choice to listen to, this would have made the evenings go by with more of a swing. Well, for me anyway.....Swedish heavy folk band Fejd. A wonderful blend of string, woodwind, that mouth twangy thing that I associate more with Australia and at least one instrument I have no idea what it is. Accompanied by passionate, as opposed to lamenting, folk male and female vocals and best of all, sung in Swedish which makes a nice change.

On Spotify and clips available on the Amazon download store.