Album review – Vintage Trouble

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Vintage Trouble -‘The Bomb Shelter Sessions.’ (Vintage Trouble)

Don’t let the album cover fool you.

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Listening to this album, it’s clear that there influences are, by and large, classic American acts, and influences that stretch back to the 50s and 60s. This is not an album that aims to innovate but it succeeds in entertaining. It’s self-consciously raw rock’n’ soul, soul in the sense of james Brown or Otis Redding, if they’d ended up fronti

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While it won’t win awards for originality, this is to miss the point. There is a spirit, right the way through this album from opener ‘Blues Hand Me Down’ to the end, that suggests Ty Taylor and his merry men are having a fantastic time. It won’t change your world but it’s definitely worth a listen. I suspect their real strength will be live…

***

The Bomb Shelter Sessions is out now.



The return of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

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Stephen Malkmus releases his fifth album (not including those he did as frontman of Pavement, obviously!) on August 22 on Domino.

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ced by Beck Hansen, who also produced Thurston Moore’s excellent album Demolished Thoughts earlier this year.

The tracklisting is as follows:

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Tune Grief
Forever 28
All Over Gently
Fall Away
Gorgeous George

Domino have made two tracks available to download for free, and this suggests that the album is going to be pretty good. Strange to think it’s now nearly twenty years since Pavement’s debut Slanted and Enchanted.

Stephen Malkmus -‘Tigers.’ mp3

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Despite the fact that these were available as free downloads, these have apparaently been copyright violations?!?!?!WTF!

And as a bonus from his first album (now ten years old!) this is ‘Jenny and the Ess Dog.’

Stephen Malkmus -‘Jenny and the Ess Dog.’ mp3

Presenting…Mates Of State

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I’ve played this track three times this morning…and will add this to my playlist for one of my forthcoming radio shows, details of which are to follow.

EP review – Howler

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Howler -‘This One’s Different’ EP (Rough Trade)

Minneapolis four piece Howler are the latest signing to Rough Trade records. Rough Trade head hincho Geoff Travis (who has signed 17 Seconds faves including Aberfeldy, The Strokes, The Raincoats and The Libertines) was so impressed when he heard their demos that he dispatched an A&R man to Minneapolis to obtain their signatures immediately.

This then, is their debut release, and it’s a five track EP which sees them tear through the songs and thirteen minutes flat. There’s talk of them being this year’s Drums or Strokes,

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This EP is a whole heap of fun. Sure you’ll have heard the style before -but it comes fresh, and if you like the aforementioned bands then chances are you will fall for this too. ‘I Told You Once’ is the lead track’ though for my money, the outstanding track is ‘This One’s Different.’

Fresh, exciting, very tuneful.; leave your cynicism aside and stop this way…

This One’s Different is out now on Rough Trade.

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Howler will be supporting The Vaccines on their England tour in the next few months:

21st – Newcastle @ Academy
23rd – Sheffield @ Academy
24th – Lincoln @ Engine Shed
25th – Manchester @ Academy
26th – Leeds @ Academy
28th – Southampton @ Guildhall
29th – Oxford @ Academy
30th – Norwich @ UEA

DECEMBER

2nd – Bristol @ Academy
3rd – Cambridge @ Corn Exchange
4th – Leamington Spa @ Assembly
6th – Eastbourne @ Winter Gardens
7th – London @ Brixton Academy

Album Review – Butcher Boy

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Butcher Boy -‘Helping Hands’ (Damaged Goods)

Guess who’s back? Back again? Butcher Boy’s back, tell your friends…sorry,doesn’t quite scan, does it? Anyway, that’s irrelevant, because Butcher Boy are back with their third album and it’s great, so do go and tell your friends.

Reviewing Butcher Boy’s Eighteenth Emergency EP svereal years ago for Is This Music? I wrote that ‘the title track alone could make a hardened Glasgow ned cry into his Buckie as he waits for the last bus back from Sauchiehall Street. Even with his mates.’ And the thing is, the quality of music and songwriting remains just as high. It’s a mark of how good this album is that even the brief instrumental interludes on this album are b

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2011, it still appears that Belle & Sebastian are the Kings and Queens of Glasgow. With this set, containing as it does such fine songs as ‘Whistle and I’ll Come To You,’ ‘Parliament Hill’ and the single ‘Imperial’, Butcher Boy are seriously challenging for that title. Only the hardest of hearts could fail to fall for JOhn Blain Hunt’s poetic songs and awesome voice. THe album is also brilliantly scored.

If this album does not finally deliver them into the mainstream success that they have deserved since their first record, then that will be a travesty.

****1/2

Helping Hands will be released on August 29.

Read my friend Jim’s review over at the Vinyl Villain

Album Review – Unknown Mortal Orchestra

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra -‘Unknown Mortal Orchestra.’ (True Panther Sounds/Matador)

For something that that seems to have begun as a side project, it would appear that the debut album from Unknown MOrtal Orchestra has taken on a life of its’ own.

New Zealand born, Portland based Ruban Nielson, had a vision of ‘junkshop record collector pop’. This has culminated in an album which feels like it has the Beatles’ ear for melody, shot through with a love for hypnogogic pop, hip-hop and krautrock. And quite frankly, it’s amazing.

OPening with ‘Ffunny Ffriends’ in the course of just nine songs and thirty minutes, this is an album which manages to put together an ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ approach into something coherent, listenable and loveable. If I’m not too sure about ‘Jello and the Juggernauts’ I’m pretty stooked about the rest of the album.

I have no idea if Mr. Neilson knew what he was doing – or if the project just simply took on a life of its’ own. Either way, it’s a damn good album.

****

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Some covers for Friday

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Spin magazine in the US have put a free download album together called Newermind, which features thirteen artists paying tribute to Nevermind by covering a song from the album in turn. The album features contributions from Cobain faves like the Meat Puppets and The Vaselines, as well as newer acts like EMA.

Go here to download

Meanwhile, Stereogum have put together a tribute to Is This It? featuring cover versions from Peter, Bjorn and John and Owen Pallett, amongst others.

Download here

Finally, a cover version of Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ will be released by Ronnie Spector. Out next week, proceeds go to Daytop Village Alcohol & Drug Abuse Charity. Go here to , er, hear it.

Album review – Luxury Condo

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Luxury Condo -‘Hit the Strip.’ (Luxury Recordings)

This is the debut album from the Hackney-based band. There’s something about the vibes used on the opening, instrumental, title-track that suggests David Lynch (or should that be Angelo Badalamenti?) is as much an influence as the Doors on this record.

There’s a whole undercurrent of the less glossy side of sixties music here – Jim Morrison’s afoprementioned merry men, as well as surf bands, garage bands and the Nuggets compilation (I bet Lenny kaye would LOVE this album). As well as the three singles released so far (‘Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla’; ‘Escalado Man’ and ‘Don’t Shoot Mr. President’) there’s some excellent tracks here, including ‘Mission House’ and ‘Front Row Sleaze.’

While the style won’t appeal to everyone, those who like thier music smokey, sleazy, mysterious -but tuneful- will find much to enjoy here.

A whole heap of fun.

***1/2

Hit The Strip is out now on Luxury Recordings.

Amy Winehouse 1983-2011

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There’s been a lot of coverage about her death -and there’ll no doubt be more as the weeks go by. I will just say that while I didn’t agree with some of her lifestyle choices, I thought she had an amazing voice and a big talent. I hope that this is what she’ll be remembered for.

If you didn’t hear her albums, that’s a pity. But if this track doesn’t get you…that’s a tragedy.

Rest in peace, Ms. Winehouse and God bless you.

The return of Ultrasound

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