Hello! It’s November again in Glasgow, judging by the weather. But the calendar says we’ve just finished March – so what’s the best single thing you heard all month ?
Best Thing I’ve Heard All Month (March ’16)
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SAHB – The Faith Healer. I’ve been luxuriating in the box set, which is great.
How about a review of the box, Mr Badman? For those of us still dithering…..
Don’t dither, just f***ing buy it!
Clear Blue Sky on vinyl.
They were a London prog band who released just this one LP on Vertigo in 1970.
It was produced by Nirvana mainman Patrick Campbell-Lyons (and that’s the second mention he’s received on the blog this week).
I haven’t listened to the LP for at least 20 years and was reminded what a heavy rock prog monster it is.
Amongst the usual plethora of this and that the ones I became most fixated upon were…
Midwest Farmer’s Daughter by Margo Price, The Pretty Redhead from Nucleus, Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm’s Trance Frendz and Mickey Newbury’s American Trilogy.
I have a sneaking feeling that from mid April on Sturgill Simpson will be occupying a lot of ear time hereabouts.
Good call for Trance Frendz, as long as you can get thru’ the K-Tel Best of Dance name, cos it rarely fulfils that suggestion, being largely reflective slow treated pianotronica. Excellent.
It is an awful title. Thankfully the music more than makes up for that embarrassment.
Check the Margo Price out retro. It’s yeehawtastic.
Via @Mike_H of this parish, this is the best thing I have heard this month by a mile…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpr-cGuMqGA
Steve Mason – Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKfyoBBaTac
A great track from my favorite album of the year so far.
Must check it out. I liked their last one (which I won in a Word competition, by the way).
Inspired by the blues thread further down, I reacquainted myself with this – best thing I’ve heard all month….just makes me happy….
https://youtube.com/watch?v=we7M3fsZ3Xg
The remastered version of Aha`s Memorial Beach album. They do rock my household
It’s between two things. Neither is new, but both gave me little moments recently. The first is HMS Fable by Shack, which I know we all know, but it just popped up on my phone and made me happy. It was this song in particular:
And ditto, the JAMC’s singles collection got a few plays lately. Almost Gold gives me the chills still.
I finally got round to buying this last month, two years after I first heard it and apparently six years since it ‘dropped’.
Freakwater finally released another album, this is the chilling but beautiful opening track – What the People Want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaDF1xDmByY
I also tried to find the title track from Yorkston/Thorne/Khan’s album Everything Sacred, but it’s not on YouTube.
The best thing I’ve heard all month, as already mentioned on another thread, has got to be Poppy Ackroyd performing at the Union Chapel’s “Piano Day” concert, closely followed by her album “Feathers” which I bought from the merch’ stall on my way out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85yhrywwJ7A
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Also an album that I’ve had for a while but forgot about got a play.
Renaud Garcia-Fons’ album “Oriental Bass”.
Lots of Wussy – following repeated mentions on @Anton ‘s thread. Wonderful stuff and lots to explore. I’ve even bought tickets to see them live in a 100 capacity venue in Manchester later this month!
Seeing them in May and still equally smitten – enough to buy buy some old albums on download(unheard of for me) and overcome the stupid name to investigate Ass Ponys. Also enjoying discovering Micah Hinson (gig later this month) and Beverly (May)
Different to the studio version, this blew me away when I heard it on his latest album:
Don’t know much about Go March except they’re a guitar/synth/drums trio from Belgium, and their album’s full of brilliant driving, instrumental, post-rocky stuff like this:
I am 50 years late with this – Good Lovin’ by The Rascals – however I find it to be entirely marvellous. Includes a lovely organ break.