TRACKS OF THE WEEK - 04/12/2011
Eat More Cake MNEK Sandy Denny Sharon Van Etten Thea Gilmore Tracks of the WeekFour Tracks to help you through your Yuletide logs...
Old Pa :-
Sandy Denny & Thea Gilmore - Long Time Gone (2011)
This is taken from the album 'Don't stop Singing'. All the words are written by the 'late great' Sandy Denny and the music is done by Thea Gilmore. (Thea released an album earlier this year covering Dylan's John Wesley Harding in its entirety and thoroughly enjoyable that was too).The story behind the album and how the lyrics were discovered is documented extremely well here.
This is a really nice track and has all the hallmarks of fragility and melancholy which we associate with Sandy and with a brilliant performance by Thea. Congratulations Thea on a job well done! The rest of the album is pretty special too.
Flycasual:-
Eat More Cake - Glass Houses (2011)
I heard this track last month on a playlist I made and it stopped me in my tracks. The metallic, industrial beat creating a claustrophobic, dark and menacing atmosphere, which to me felt like a cross between Nine Inch Nails and Massive Attack, a match made in heaven! I was looking after my 2 1/2 year old son at the time, and perhaps the CeeBeebies playlist was a far more appropriate ambiance to set but he didn't seem to mind, all part of his musical indoctrination I say (strategic cough over the f word of course). It's a great track from the London 4 piece and I'll be looking forward to hearing more from Eat More Cake, looks like I'm going to have to put the diet on hold.
You can download a free remix album of theirs here,....it includes an interesting lo-fi take on Stardust's dance classic, 'The Music Sounds Better With You', well worth investigating.
Shell Hunter :-
MNEK - 'If Truth Be Told' (2011)Sandy Denny &Thea Gilmore - Long Time Gone(2011)
This is taken from the album 'Don't stop Singing'. All the words are written by the 'late great' Sandy Denny and the music is done by Thea Gilmore. (Thea released an album earlier this year covering Dylan's John Wesley Harding in its entirety and thoroughly enjoyable that was too).The story behind the album and how the lyrics were discovered is documented extremely well here.
This is a really nice track and has all the hallmarks of fragility and melancholy which we associate with Sandy and with a brilliant performance by Thea. Congratulations Thea on a job well done! The rest of the album is pretty special too.
Flycasual:-
Eat More Cake - Glass Houses (2011)
You can download a free remix album of theirs here,....it includes an interesting lo-fi take on Stardust's dance classic, 'The Music Sounds Better With You', well worth investigating.
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| Eat More Cake, looking for the nearest Greggs. |
Don't knock it til you've heard it! This may look like its some cheesy pop act straight out of X-Factor but don't judge a book by it's high tops. MNEK is one talented individual. Only 17 and the music industry has already recognised his potential. The Guardian included him as one of the "10 of the next generation of music producers". 'If Truth Be Told' (available here) is his debut single as a recording artist but it seems he's already a veteran to the trade! It ticks so many boxes for me...80's sound, 90's sound, electro and pop. I'll be looking forward to throwing some shapes to this at my Xmas do. Love the video too, the running man wouldn't be out of place!
SFW:-
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents (2011)
If you look at different music sites you might have noticed the "buzz" about Sharon Van Etten recently, though I think this partly due to her brilliance and partly due to the crowd she's "hanging" with. This track has been recorded by The Nationals Aaron Dessner and will appear on the album Tramp, which features Dessner, Zack Condon (Beriut), the Walkmen's Matt Barrick, and Doveman's Thomas Bartlett amongst others - a hipsters who's who....download from Pitchfork here - it's bloody good!
