A few tunes I've been enjoying (or chucking on the reject pile) over the last few days and weeks...
Kershaw was good this week, and through him I have picked up on this lot - The Heartless Bastards. They are on Fat Possum records, who specialise in the sort of down home old style electric country blues - RL Burnside etc. I guess with a name like that they aren't exactly loaded with commercial potential, but the record kicks ass, as I believe our American cousins like to say.
Having read loads of raves about Nine Black Alps, I downloaded their new one. It's bobbins, derivative Nirvana-lite. Much better is the Maximo Park album, although I guess they are just as deriviative in their way...XTC are never far away at the moment.
Been digging out some old stuff too...A Tribe Called Quest: 'Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm' which is a ridiculously cumbersome title for a good record...always preferred them to De La Soul when it came to 'daisy age' rap or whatver the NME was calling them at the time.
Nick Lowe's The Impossible Bird is two albums before The Convincer. Contains The Beast In Me and another rare example of someone who just makes better and better albums as they grow older.
one last thing, Formed a Band by Art Brut, is piss funny and a good tune, by smart arse London types, album called bang Bang Rock n Roll...
that's me gone
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