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— Chris Deerin (@chrisdeerin) November 29, 2013
At V Festival way back in 1998 I stood in torrential rain, watching theaudience perform what would be their one and only album. It was one of the most enjoyable sets of that era.
The music press never rated the band; inferring a manufactured indie group put together by Billy Reeves could not possibly be any good. I maintain that it was the last great Britpop album, and the style of music most suited to Sophie's vocal style (and, I suspect, her taste) more than anything she's released since. I've enjoyed much of her solo work with a nagging feeling that it's largely been extension of the accidental (yet brilliant) success of that Spiller track.
This song, from her upcoming new album, suggests part of that old Sophie might be back.
I enjoyed Jake Evans' contribution to Bad Lieutenant - the short lived band he formed in 2009 with New Order members who weren't Peter Hook.
When they kind of morphed into the resurrected New Order in 2011, he left the band.
He's often been on the supporting bill for his old bandmates so I assume they all still get along.
This, his first solo record, I rather like despite being a bit of a Noel Gallagher by the numbers anthem with an unimaginative video. The single version is out today and thankfully is nearly 3 minutes shorter than on this video.
It definitely hints at an interesting debut album expected in 2014.
Inexorable beats and looming heartache fill the songs of Polica, a band from Minneapolis that performed at Webster Hall on Friday night. Its music opens up wide spaces to expose tidings of desire, separation, longing, bitterness and resolve: breakup songs that absolve no one.
Yes, yes, yes. I know that I'm turning this blog into a surrogate Poliça fan site. Don't worry I won't go that far. Fan sites are for creepy obsessives and I'd never do that.
One day though, instead of just posting tons of videos and saying 'this is good', I'm going to try and write up how I feel about the music of Poliça.
For now, this live review in yesterday's New York Times will suffice.
Amazing.