Mr Creosote: Ο King Creosote είναι ο κατά κόσμον τραγουδιστής και τραγουδοποιός Kenny Anderson. Γεννημένος στη Σκωτία ο πενηντάχρονος πλέον καλλιτέχνης απαριθμεί σχεδόν 40 δισκογραφικές δουλειές.
Πέρσι κυκλοφόρησε το πιο πρόσφατο album του με τίτλο Astronaut Meets Appleman, που μας άρεσε πολύ. Ένα από τα κομμάτια που ξεχωρίζουν είναι το ρυθμικό "Wake up to this", που μεταδίδει μια χαρούμενη και παράλληλα νοσταλγική διάθεση.
The Artist: King Creosote (Scotland, UK) The Track: "Wake Up To this" The Album: Astronaut Meets Appleman (2016) The Sound: Indie, Indie Folk, Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Just while love remembers: Χάζευα πρόσφατα τα τελευταία live που έκαναν φέτος το Καλοκαίρι οι Maccabees με αφορμή τη διάλυση τους -την οποία εδώ και μήνες είχαν ανακοινώσει- και συνειδητοποίησα πόσο πολύ θα λείψουν από την Indie σκηνή οι αγαπημένοι Βρετανοί. Μας χάρισαν τέσσερις αξιοπρεπέστατους δίσκους, εξέλιξαν τον ήχο τους, μένοντας ταυτόχρονα πιστοί στο indie rock ιδίωμα, όπως το ζήσαμε κατά τη διάρκεια των 00s και μας χάρισαν αρκετά διαμαντάκια. Το "Unknown" είναι ένα πολύ υποτιμημένο κομμάτι τους και σίγουρα ένα από τα αγαπημένα μου. Μουσική που σε ταξιδεύει. Τόσο απλά και όμορφα.
The Band: The Maccabees (Brighton, UK) Line Up: Orlando Weeks (vocals), Hugo White (guitar), Felix White (guitar, vocals), Sam Doyle (drums)
The Track: "Unknown" The Album: Given To The Wild (2012) The Sound: Indie Rock, Post-Punk Revival, Art Rock And Says...
Just while love, just while love, just while love remembers Just while love, just while love, just while love remembers Unknow me as hard as it seems Decide it and feel light on the breeze And it’s alright, you can lean it, you can lean it... on me And I know it’s all you can see and to shake it To make it fall from the tree And you’re called into the water And it holds you like a tropical disease And you lean into the weather and it drops you, drops you Just while love remembers I was given these lungs And I won’t be ashamed no more We were ripped from those arms They no longer protect us
Unknow me pour me away Just while love remembers I was given these lungs And I won’t be ashamed no more We were ripped from those arms They no longer protect us
Just while love, just while love remembers Just while love, just while love remembers Just while love, just while love remembers
If I scream at the top of my lungs, Will you hear what I don't say?:
Πανέμορφο τραγούδι από το φετινό δίσκο των ταλαντούχων Λονδρέζων, που μπορεί να μην κυκλοφόρησαν το album της χρονιάς, απέδειξαν ωστόσο για μία ακόμη φορά, πως αξίζουν της αναγνώρισης που απολαμβάνουν. Το "Performance" δε στηρίζεται στις ενορχηστρώσεις του, παρά μόνο στη σαγηνευτική φωνή της Ronnie και τους υπέροχους στίχους του. Απλά και και διακριτικά βρίσκεται στα ομορφότερα κομμάτια της χρονιάς.
The Band: The XX (London, UK) Line Up: Romy Madley Croft (vocals, guitar), Oliver Sim (bass, vocals), Jamie Smith [Jamie xx] (drum machine, samples) The Track: "Performance" The Album: I See You (2017) The Sound: Indie, Indie Pop, Indietronica
And Says...
If I scream at the top of my lungs Will you hear what I don't say? If I dance like I'm on a stage Will you see I seem out of place? If I put on a disguise Will you think everything's alright? If I leave before the end Will you forget that I was there?
When you saw me leaving Did you think I had a place to go? Since you stopped believing I've had to put on my own show
I'll put on a performance I'll put on a show It is a performance I do it all so You won't see me hurting When my heart it breaks I'll put on a performance I'll put on a brave face
Even when I was hiding You could always find me Now you've stopped looking for me But I'm still playing hide and seek I want you to notice But you just don't see The show is wasted on you So I perform for me
When you saw me leaving Did you think I had a place to go? Since you stopped believing I've had to put on my own show
I'll put on a performance I'll put on a show It is a performance I do it all so You won't see me hurting When my heart it breaks I'll put on a performance I'll put on a brave face
The odyssey, came down, kind of hard on me: Χρειάζονται συστάσεις? Ο Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) & ο Miles Kane είναι ουσιαστικά ορόσημα σε αυτό που ονομάζουμε Βρετανικό Indie rock από τα 00s και μετά. Δημιούργησαν το 2007 το project group Last Shadow Puppets και με τη δισκάρα The Age Of Understatement του 2008, μας ανάγκασαν να αναμένουμε με αγωνία τον διάδοχο, που ήρθε τελικά οκτώ ολόκληρα χρόνια αργότερα. To περσινό Everything You Have Come To Expect όμως δεν ανταποκρίθηκε στις προσδοκίες μας τελικώς και ήταν επιεικώς μέτριος δίσκος. Είχε ωστόσο τις πολύ καλές στιγμές του. Το "Used To Be My Girl" έχει Indie rock σφραγίδα και είναι σίγουρα μία από αυτές.
The Band: The Last Shadow Puppets (Sheffield, UK) Line Up: Alex Turner (vocals, guitar, tambourine), Miles Kane (vocals, guitar), James Ford (drums, percussion)
The Track: "Used To be My Girl" The Album: Everything You 've Come To Expect (2016) The Sound: Indie, Indie rock, Chamber Pop And Says...
Colour pictures of re-entry Voices calling down the hall I wanted you to know You’re the only one that bent me This far out of shape Don’t make no mistake
I’m a liar, I’m a cheat, a leech, a thief The outside looks no good and there ain’t nothing underneath Darling can’t you see, my heart melted in the heat My heart melted in the heat like yours
First impressions of the century Two way mirror one way street Good cop bad cop routine Black-light animal print boogie Left in a heap a kiss on either cheek
I’m a phoney, I’m a fake, a fraud, a snake Gimme all your love so I can fill you up with hate Girl I’m in a state, my heart melted yesterday My heart melted yesterday like yours
The odyssey, came down kind of hard on me The here and now so suddenly Became a different world Finally, I slipped out of reality It must all be imaginary She used to be my girl
Used to be my girl Used to be my girl Used to be my girl Used to be my girl
Dreams, like coins down a well: Ο Radical Face είναι ουσιαστικά ο τριάντα-πεντάχρονος Αμερικανός τραγουδιστής/τραγουδοποιός/μουσικός Ben Cooper. Με το παρόν σχήμα έχει κυκλοφορήσει 5 δίσκους, με πιο πρόσφατο το εικονιζόμενο The Family Tree:The Leaves του 2016. Ουσιαστικά πρόκειται για το τελευταίο μέρος της τριλογίας The Family Tree και διαδέχθηκε το The Roots (2011) και The Branches (2013). Και τα τρία κινούνται στο χώρο, του indie folk/pop και τα τρία είναι υπέροχα. Στην ιστορία του The Leaves πρωταγωνιστεί η Οικογένεια "The Northcotes" ξεδιπλώνοντας μας τη ζωή τους. Από το δίσκο ξεχωρίζω τα "Rivers In The Dust", "The Road To Nowhere", "Bad Blood" και τέλος το αγαπημένο και μοναδικό "Everything Costs" που ακούμε παρακάτω. Μόλις το ακούσετε και το λατρέψετε και εσείς, ασχοληθείτε και με τον υπόλοιπο δίσκο αλλά και γενικά με τον ταλαντούχο κύριο B. Cooper, γιατί το αξίζει πραγματικά.
Listen & Score:8/10 The Band: Radical Face (a.k.a Ben Cooper) (Jacksonville, USA) The Track: "Everything Costs" The Album: The Family Tree:The leaves (2016) The Sound: Indie, Indie folk, Indie pop And Says...
Dreams, like coins down a well Till I realized I was dumb for believin' To the bird with no flight The skies don't ever offer respite So I wandered off And went to fill the halls of my shadow But everything costs Proof was etched into the backs of my hands
I heard you say that you'd lost, you'd lost, you'd lost your way But I don't think you had much to lose, that house was never built for you And I ain't gonna hang my head for them, for them And I ain't gonna let them paint the truth with sin And I ain't gonna tell you it's okay but at the end of the day You were just something they'd blame
Face, pressed into your hands Couldn't tell if you were crying or laughing They both sound the same when you ain't got no skin in the game So I took up the fight And the roaring in my head was like the thunder Until I uncurled my fists And allowed myself to not give a damn
I heard you say that we'd lost, we'd lost, we'd lost, we'd lost our way But I don't think we had much to lose that path was never built for us And I ain't gonna hang my head for them, for them And I ain't gonna let them paint the truth with sin And I ain't gonna tell you it's okay but at the end of the day You were just something they'd blame
There is a light that never goes out: Έχουν πλέον περάσει δύο μήνες και φυσικά δε μπορείς να πεις ότι το έχουμε χωνέψει ακόμη. Ούτε λίγο.
Το video clip των Linkin Park για το "One more light" είναι αφιερωμένο στον Chester και εμείς χαζεύουμε, συγκινούμαστε, απορούμε και ανησυχούμε...
Στα υπόλοιπα νέα, η μπάντα ανακοίνωσε το πρώτο live της μετά Bennington εποχής των Linkin Park,που θα γίνει στο Los Angeles, στις 27 Οκτωβρίου με συμμετοχή πολλών καλλιτεχνών, φυσικά προς τιμήν του. The Band: Linkin Park (Los Angeles, USA) Line Up: Mike Shinoda (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Brad Delson (guitar), Rob Bourdon(drums), Mr. Hahn (DJ, turntables, samples), Chester Bennington (vocals), Dave Farrell The Track: "One More Light" The Album: One More Light (2017) The Sound: Alternative Rock, Nu Metal And Says...
Should've stayed. Were there signs I ignored? Can I help you not to hurt anymore? We saw brilliance when the world was asleep. There are things that we can have but can't keep.
If they say,
Who cares if one more light goes out In the sky of a million stars? It flickers, flickers. Who cares when someone's time runs out If a moment is all we are? Or quicker, quicker. Who cares if one more light goes out? Well, I do.
The reminders pull the floor from your feet. In the kitchen one more chair than you need. Oh. And you're angry, and you should be, it's not fair. Just 'cause you can't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there.
If they say,
Who cares if one more light goes out In the sky of a million stars? It flickers, flickers. Who cares when someone's time runs out If a moment is all we are? Or quicker, quicker Who cares if one more light goes out? Well, I do.
Who cares if one more light goes out In the sky of a million stars? It flickers, flickers. Who cares when someone's time runs out If a moment is all we are? Or quicker, quicker. Who cares if one more light goes out? Well, I do. Well, I do.
There's sugar on your soul: Τώρα που πλέον πέρασαν αρκετά χρόνια και δοκιμάστηκε αρκετά (στα αυτιά μας), ήρθε η ώρα να κάνουμε μία ειλικρινή παραδοχή για το "Sugar". Δεν είναι απλά ένα "καλό single" (σ.σ. δίσκος Weight of your love, 2013). Είναι ΚΟΜΜΑΤΑΡΑ, με στιχάρες. Ο Tom Smith (όπως αναμενόταν) το απογειώνει με τη φωνάρα του, αλλά το "special" που τελικά το κάνει να ξεχωρίζει οφείλεται σε... αυτό το μπάσο-ρυθμό, που μπαίνει και σε "παίρνει" μαζί του καθ όλη τη διάρκεια του και του δίνει μία ατελείωτη ένταση. Αναπόσπαστο μέρος πλέον των set list της μπάντας, αξίζει πραγματικά να δείτε και να ακούσετε αυτήν την εκτέλεση από το περσινό Best Kept Secret Festival στην Ολλανδία, όπου όλη η μπάντα και κυρίως ο χαρισματικός T.Smith δίνουν ένα εξαιρετικό performance.
The Band: Editors (Stafford, England)
Line Up: Tom Smith (vocals, guitar, piano), Russell Leetch (bass, synthesizer, backing vocals), Ed Lay (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Justin Lockey(lead guitar), Elliott Williams (keyboards, synthesizer, guitar, backing vocals) The Track: "Sugar" The Album: The Weight of Your Love (2013)
The Sound: Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Rock
And Says...
Don't leave, don't leave, I want you to realize when I'm gone. My my, my my, You are the only thing I want to own.
There's sugar on your soul, You're like no one I know, You're the life of another world.
You swallow me whole, With just a mumbled hello, And it breaks my heart to love you, it breaks my heart to love you.
Don't leave, don't leave, When you're lost in the moment, I am home. I tried, I tried To make you realize when I'm gone, gone, gone.
There's sugar on your soul, You're like no one I know, You're the life of another world.
You swallow me whole, With just a mumbled hello, And it breaks my heart to love you, it breaks my heart to love you.
It breaks my heart to love you.
There's sugar on your soul, There's sugar on your soul.
There's sugar on your soul, You're like no one I know, You're the life of another world.
You swallow me whole, With just a mumbled hello, And it breaks my heart to love you, it breaks my heart to love you.
Don't leave, don't leave, I want you to realize when I'm gone.
