Chris Newman’s strange parlour music makes me happy
Chris Newman’s weird parlour songs first came to via a friend at York University during postgraduate study. At first they didn’t read to me; I expected an amount of...
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Big Joanie
Unusual punk band from London, Big Joanie coming out soon on Kill Rock Stars. Nice cover of Solange’s “Cranes in the Sky.” Unusual voice, drums, recording…unusual cover song. Big...
“You” by Matmos
Matmos’s “You” on Marriage of True Minds. That doubled voice… The Marriage of True Minds by Matmos
Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake
“Season in the Sun” on The Newest Sound Around. Stark and warm, austere and tuneful, the new sound in 1962 and today.