Wednesday, April 01, 2009

New Music That's Also Quite Good

Meanderthals: Bugges Room (Smalltown Supersound, 2009)
Sound the jazz alarm, this is, literally, delightful. Literally in the sense that it fills me with delight when I play it, despite it simply being a recording of some blokes in a room somewhere banging bits of wood and twanging wires and so forth. What's good about that? Well, perhaps lots of things. More of this sort of thing here.


Adam Franklin: Two Dollar Dress (Second Motion, 2009)
When I listened to this I thought, 'Oh yeah, who's this johnny-come-lately, noise-pop, shoe-gazing type?' Then I looked at the sleeve and realised it was the same Adam Franklin who was The Chap from Swervedriver. So, you know, I can forgive him a lot of stuff. This is, literally, good. I'm not crazy about the whole record, but there are some songs of notable quality on it. And this is one.

Faze Action: Danaes' Journey (Word And Sound, 2009)
Simon and Robin Lee are brothers. Brothers who've recorded together for years and years and years. Does this strike anyone else as sort of strange? Could you bear to be in the same small room as your brother or sister for years on end? I mean, I love mine dearly, but there are limits, right? Anyway, this is - hello! - heavenly, if not downright cosmic disco of the tremendously good variety. More of this sort of thing here. Memo to Faze Action - get some new pictures done, innit.

5 comments:

BLTP said...

Faze Action my ar*e that's hue and cry! did he ever find linda?

Rob said...

Ha! That's precisely the problem, old boy. There does seem to be a "newer" one online, but, tbh, it's worse. That pics a good ten years old...

De Selby said...

Really liked the Meanderthals. Reminded me of 90's stuff on Pork/Dorado labels. I'll have to dig out my D*Note, Jhelisa stuff. I used to love "Friendly Pressure". I used to play a tape all the time from Muzik with A Man Called Adam, Lamb and "Past" by Sub Sub which I loved (can't stand Doves I'm afraid). Sorry for saying stuff and loved so much.

BLTP said...

after all that the hue and cry sorry faze action tracks not working! Lke the louvin bros crooning and strumming

Rob said...

hey DS: I loved those labels (and their stuff) too...
BLTP: Link fixed!