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Beat Surrender Top Ten of ‘11

By Simon, on December 16th, 2011

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Band of Holy Joy How To Kill A Butterfly

Band of Holy Joy – A Clear Night, a Shooting Star, a Song for Boo by BeatSurrender

Wonderfully crafted the songs preach with a desolate beauty leaving behind plenty of food-for-thought 

I’ve listened and enjoyed some great music this year but none better than this album from Band Of Holy Joy which just stopped me in my tracks, but it doesn’t end with the musical brilliance as the CD release is packaged beautifully too in a book format with wonderful original artwork by Inga Tillere, for your chance to win a copy drop us an Email with the subject line BOHJ and I’ll pick a random entry and put a copy of the CD in the post to you (overseas entries welcome)

2 Zoe Muth & Lost High Rollers Starlight Hotel

Muth’s vocal is just perfect, sad, sincere, achingly beautiful 

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The Baseball Project “Volume 2 High and Inside” (Yep Roc 2011)

By Simon, on March 3rd, 2011



Released today supergroup The Baseball Project ‘s follow up to Volume 1 Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails, now I’ll be honest here having watched only one live baseball game in my life and having little knowledge of the rules let alone the history and folklore of the game I’m not the best to comment on this release from the combined talents of Steve Wynn (The Miracle 3, The Dream Syndicate), Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.), Linda Pitmon (The Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.) add to this guest appearances from Craig Finn (The Hold Steady),  Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie),  Steve Berlin (Los Lobos). Iran Kaplin (Yo La Tengo), Chris Funk and John Moen (The Decemberists) it’s some line up and whether you’re a fan of the sport or not you can’t help but appreciate the quality of the music.

The Baseball Project – 1976

Mark Steven Fidrych August 14, 1954 – April 13, 2009 “The . . . → Read More: The Baseball Project “Volume 2 High and Inside” (Yep Roc 2011)

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The Decemberists “The King Is Dead”

By Simon, on February 3rd, 2011

The King Is Dead has had more than enough coverage in blogland over the last couple of months but I had to post something on this just to get it of my chest. Rarely does the buzz around a new release live up to expectations, particularly when it follows an album that for me was not a pleasing experience, but live up to the hype it does from the first listen this record has really grabbed me and in fact distracted me from a whole load of other stuff I need to get around too, I parted with a chunk of my vinyl budget and it’s being on the turntable since it’s arrival on release day, I can see this record acting as a conduit to the wider genre of Americana for many people, forget who or what is sounds like and appreciate it for what it is – a . . . → Read More: The Decemberists “The King Is Dead”

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Odds N Ends

By Simon, on January 21st, 2011

Confession time, I know Sweet Fanny Adam about Social Distortion, not on my radar before now but there’s a lot of blog and twitter talk about their current album,  I caught a song on Nine Bullets radio show, had a listen at Daytrotter and read about it at No Deal Music and was impressed enough to but it on my to buy list.

Social Distortion – Machine Gun Blues

The Decemberists album has being getting played back-to-back this week, got to say it’s a wonderful album, solid start to finish and has ticked all my boxes so I’ve indulged myself with the vinyl, highly recommended.

UK Dates

March 5, Barrowlands, Glasgow March 7, Birmingham Institute, Birmingham March 8, Bristol Academy, Bristo March 10, Manchester Academy, Manchester March 11, Leeds Academy, Leeds March 12, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

The Smoke Fairies are currently on tour, here’s a great . . . → Read More: Odds N Ends

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