j. viewz has a new album out and this beautiful video belongs a fantastic track. I think I can listen to this all night long while I'm installing everything on my brand new laptop (I just hád to mention this, I'm sorry). Go to his website to hear more and order yourself a copy.
Last September I fell a little in love with Air Review's American's Son EP. After that I kinda lost track of them, something that can happen when there's this much great music being released almost daily. Last week I found out they did a live acoustic session in the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas.
This acoustic live session gives their songs some more warmth than the album versions and the harmonies are just beautiful. The videos give a nice impression of the atmosphere that was created. Watch all 4 songs at http://incarnation.airreview.net/.
More and more bands, songwriters and PR-managers are sending me music and besides that being extremely cool, it’s also becoming more and more of a hassle to combine with my ususal rounds around the webs. Resulting in tons of albums and songs floating around on my laptop for me to hear. No matter how much the inbox and my laptop fill up with music though, the really good music has its own way of making itself heard it seems. There’s a few folders almost unopened and there’s inzipped packages all over the desktop and there’s Mattew De Zoete’s 3rd album Colour Film (among other great releases, but we’ll just take the slow ‘one-at-a-time’ route this coming period).
Matthew sent me his album a few weeks ago and over that period of time I found myself slowly fallin’ in love. Like those perfect romances that start with a couple of nice, friendly dates. Where you just talk for ages untill it’s deep in the night and you say goodbye, spending the next couple of days wondering if that other person was as much entertained as you were. And when you’ve had the 3rd date and you shared that amazing 1st kiss, making you walk around with a huge smile on your face for days, being a total grinnin’ fool, you eventually realize it. You’re in Love.
My least favourite track on the album is the loudest song on the album. It doesn’t really fit in with the rest and I wouldn’t mind if it weren’t there. I prefer the more dreamy folkpop. The only really good thing about it, is when it’s over we set off to the final 2 songs on the album; first the extremely beautiful lovesong “We’re Dying”, and after that the album finishes perfect with “Hunter’s Moon”. A song that was made to finish off the album, making the order of the tracks of Colour Film a job well done.
As long as I receive albums like this in the mail I am very happy being a blogger and being contacted by people who put their heart and soul in their music. Colour Film is an easy-going relaxing album that I enjoy listening to at least twice a day. Great songs, great lyrics, Great album.
Port of Call is Dutch singer-songwriter Pieter van Vliet. After releasing a very nice EP almost 2 years ago, he has now released his debut album Ten Feet of Wind. So far I've only heard this one song, but it's an extremely fine piece of music. It's less noisy than the songs I know from the EP, but the groove and his somewhat unusual voice (that works very well) combined with a selection of horns in the background makes this a very special and playfull song that I enjoy a lot and is with only 2.32 minutes way too short!
Not the 1st time Cub Scouts is on the blog and there's a very simple reason for that: They write great songs. To be completely honest, the video ain't that special. So if I can make a suggestion, try doing something else when you play this song. The song is catchy as hell and makes you want to party your arse off this Tuesday morning (which is a good thing, cuz usually Tuesday mornings suck ass). So focus on the tunes & your annoying day at work is done before you know it. Do you hear?
This fragile folksong by Rural Ghosts is one of the 6 songs on their March-release Rural Ghosts EP. And although this beautiful song is very special and has been playing A LOT in the last 3 weeks, the rest of the album just doesn't do it for me. I keep coming back to this one song, which is nothing less than pure beauty. Is that a bad thing? Listen to the entire EP here and hear for yourself.
Usually my weekend starts just about now. Despite having the week off I still celebrate the weekend. so here's a great dancetrack remixed by Dutch producer Julien Mier. Have a good one!
This opening track of Will Stratton's latest album Post-Empire makes it clear from the 1st minute that this is something special. After a 2 minute trip into nothingness, the song really starts as a nice folky track. But more surprises come along as the song progresses. When this 1st song is over, you're 7 minutes into the album and there's no way out. You're sucked in and all you can do is enjoy the rest of the beautiful songs.
Don't let the 1st song fool you into thinking that this is a 'difficult' album to endure, there's also a few more 'basic' folksongs, like this beautiful "Honey Diamond". Which is among the best songs on this album. And it's a clear sign that the real strength of this singer-songwriter lies within his amazing fingerpicking-style. It gives this song a bit of a dark edge to it.
"If You Wait Long Enough" is another great song to show off his fingerpicking talents, but a bit more uptempo. Combined with the short, but powerfull lyrics makes this another beauty.
Don't think that these 3 songs are all this fine album has to offer, check out his Bandcamp-page and listen to the entire album before you decided to spent 7 Dollars on getting it. I have been listening to this for over the past 6 weeks now and I know that's 7 Dollars well spend!
One of the finest upcoming releases is Seesaw by The Rest. They're releasing a new song of that album every few days and for a limited time you can download that new song for free, so keep an eye out on their bandcamp. It's an album well worth hearing and it gets a little better everytime i play it. Full review coming soon, for now enjoy this sweet live version of one the best songs on the album: "Always on my Mind" with a nice choir and people drawing animals on the walls. Really!
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