In Retrospect : BATTLESHIPS : Single only - available here
Another fine young band from Australia, rapidly becoming a breeding ground for quality musicians and songsmiths. The most amazing thing about this band is that two of them lived one side of the continent in Queensland whilst the other two were in Sydney. Their songs were written over Skype. Australian bands never feel hidebound by genre, but there is a distinctive Brit-pop feel to this
Traveller's Digest : LIBRARY VOICES : From the album Summer Of Lust
Regular readers / listeners to this blog will, by now, have picked up on my penchant for quality indie-pop songs. That is one of the reasons I have chosen this excellent, jaunty, little number for this week's post.
The other reason I have chosen it is that the band hail from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Why? Well, not only does my nephew's wife come from Regina but we have traced many of my wife's distant relatives to the same town. Accordingly, there is a slight chance that one of the band is related in some way to someone I'm related to
Confused? ... just enjoy the tune!
We Sing Electric : MR GNOME : From the album Madness In Miniature
No messing about on this track from Cleveland, Ohio's Mr Gnome ... actually a male / female duo along White Stripes lines We go straight into a fuzzy guitar riff, with vocals way back in the mix, which carries on for about a minute then stops to give way to a little guitar picking. The band then launch into some scuzzy blues-rock that would not have gone amiss on a late-60s British underground album.
Suddenly, the vocals come to the fore but still with a great guitar sound just behind them.
Warning! Listening to this track in the car may encourage speeding!
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