Before the Cocteau Twins became the band you, I, and anyone with any musical taste whatsoever1 adores with their still-beating bloodthumping heart, there was a darker, stranger version. Before all the delicate chirruping, the apparently nonsense lyrics2, those chiming, echo-drenched arpeggios, that whole sonic cathedrals of sound3 thing. Before Blue Bell Knoll, Treasure, Heaven Or [...]
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Aren’t You An Old One Now
Posted by loftandlost on February 2, 2012
http://loftandlost.com/2012/02/02/arent-you-an-old-one-now/
RIP Etta James
The first Etta James song I remember hearing was “Tell Mama”, on Soul Jazz’s marvellous “Chicago Soul” compilation. I remember being dumbstruck by the force of her voice; how she could somehow combine being angry, pleading, triumphant, playful, lustful, and yearning, all within the space of a single song. Or sometimes even a single line [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 20, 2012
http://loftandlost.com/2012/01/20/rip-etta-james/
New Year New Music Four – Griggleschpot
As I mentioned the other day, I get lots of emails. I don’t listen to many, sadly, and sometimes it takes something unusual to get noticed. Calling yourself “Griggleschpot” might normally make me wince and move on, but something in the brevity and politeness of the email made me wander over to the Soundcloud link. [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 19, 2012
http://loftandlost.com/2012/01/19/new-year-new-music-four-griggleschpot/
New Year New Music Three – Guided By Voices
Guided By Voices are one of those bands that I only know through reputation and a Best-Of, 2003’s “Human Amusements at Hourly Rates”. The problem with such a prolific band is that there’s so much material you just don’t know where to start, even when some of the songs on the best-of have clawed their [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 17, 2012
http://loftandlost.com/2012/01/17/new-year-new-music-three-guided-by-voices/
New Year New Music Part Two – Town Hall
As a music blogger, even one on the dusty edges of the blogosphere1, you have to get used to getting a lot of PR mails. And I mean lots. I get around 30 a day, and I know many bloggers who get up to ten times that. Picking music you might want to listen to [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 14, 2012
http://loftandlost.com/2012/01/14/new-year-new-music-part-two-town-hall/
New Year New Music Part One – Craig Finn
So here we are, on the 13th day of the New Year, and my writer’s block that has been dogging me since last year has managed to get itself distracted for long enough for me to get my fingers on a keyboard and start writing some goddamn posts. Every year, I’ve spent January hunting through [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 13, 2012
http://loftandlost.com/2012/01/13/new-year-new-music-part-one-craig-finn/
Albums, Songs, Gigs 2011 – Part Three
Here’s the third (and final, you’ll be pleased to hear) round up of the year’s music. Or at least the year’s music that I could give a toss about. Parts One and Two here and here. The Albums You Wish The Artist Would Re-Record As A Solo Acoustic Album Ron Sexsmith – Long Player Late [...]
Posted by loftandlost on December 23, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/12/23/albums-songs-gigs-2011-part-three/
Albums 2011 – Part Two
Here’s Part Two of my list of my favourite things from 2011. And by things, I mean albums, songs, and gigs, as opposed to huge steaming piles of crystal meth. (Disclaimer: I do not have anything to do with huge steaming piles of crystal meth. It’s all meow meow round here, you know) Part One [...]
Posted by loftandlost on December 23, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/12/23/albums-2011-part-two/
Albums 2011 – Part One
Well, it’s been one of those years. For one reason or another, my record searching out ability, and time or inclination to sit down and write something about records, has been seriously curtailed this year. And so it seems appropriate that the first two records in my list weren’t even released this year. So it [...]
Posted by loftandlost on December 23, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/12/23/albums-2011-part-one/
None More….errrr…Flowery
Mark Lanegan’s back. Back with his first solo record since 2003, if you can believe that, given how astonishingly prolific he’s been in the last ten years, what with QOTSA, Soulsavers, Gutter Twins, that Isobel Campbell business, and more guest spots than you can shake a stick at. Through all that he’s maintained a grumpy [...]
Posted by loftandlost on December 8, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/12/08/none-more-errrr-flowery/
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