There’s a lot of singing along involved at a Tom McRae concert. And humming. And whistling.
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Jumble Hole Clough – Two Days in April
The Treasure of Grundo – Dýsantzú
It is a very accessible record mind, as I’ve hinted at before there’s nothing really arsty or difficult here, rather the sensibility is that of a weird kind of pop.
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The Cosmic Dead – Inner Sanctum
Cosmic Dead do a simple thing, and in dong that simple thing, they don’t stop. There are 4 tracks, each clocking in around 15 minutes and believe me you will get sucked into a maelstrom and spat out the other side, like a wet pizza box lying in the gutter.
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Johnny 5th Wheel & the Cowards – Diary of a Liar b/w Pure Imagination
Anyone (well, let’s be honest) everyone seems to knock out singles these days and sometimes it’s not really clear why. But Johnny 5th Wheel does it the right way.
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Miss Anthropy – Seeds
Tension runs through this record like fire in bush land. And although the LP is, for the most part, a set of quiet tracks, that shouldn’t put you off as the emotional temperature is set high.
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Gastric Band – Party Feel
It’s a difficult LP to describe really. An absolute whirl of interlocking sounds textures and tempos, you could be mistaken for thinking that the master tape got warped in the sun.
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Incendiary look to find interesting things to do in Belgium. With British Sea Power.
On a scale of eccentricity I give us a 6 or 7. I’ve never really understood the concept of eccentricity myself. It’s a coverall for all kinds of things that could be better described.
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How Not to be in a Band – Fancy Flights
Tonight I’m being whisked back to my Northumberland mansion after our annual sell-out gig on Hadrian’s Wall.
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Fear and Loving in Heaton Park: Part Seven – Parting is such sweet sorrow…
Revelation takes many forms, thankfully in the case of our author it provided only enlightenment rather than being commanded by a great voice to write a subsequently misinterpreted religious tome, it’s just a shame it does not always happen in the most salubrious locations.
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