As I suspected last week, I discovered there's a new Hello Saferide album and now I'm down a Hello Saferide rabbit hole.
I feel like writing an album review that references all of her other albums that no one I know has listened to.
I've got a thing for ESL folk-pop singer-songwriter stuff with subtle nordic accents and mispronunciations leaking through and in which the emotions expressed don't always match the words*.
So, basically Hello Saferide and Marit Bergman (who now seems to be focusing on Swedish).
*There's a word for this, right? Is it "irony"? I don't know if I'm clearly expressing the idea. Like the songwriter is composing lyrical lies to convince either herself or the addressee of the song.
It's something Will Oldham does a lot, singing songs with defiant lyrics about heartbreak (e.g. "Master and Everyone"). Typically there's a shell of emotional distance in there.
1. Andy Stott “Hi-Rise” Merciless
2. Eric Copeland “Uncle Sam's Blues” Logo My Ego
a. Bittern “Calls” (Geoff Sample - Bird Songs and Calls of Britain and Northern Europe)
b. Canada Goose, Brant “Calls” (Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs - Western Edition)
c. Blackpoll Warbler “Song Type A1” (The Warbler Guide)
3. Andy Stott “Cherry Eye”* We Stay Together
4. Ha Ha Tonka “Cold Forgiver (Demo)” Lessons - Demos
d. American Tree Sparrow “Foraging Calls of a Single Bird” (Cornell Master Set)
5. The Bottle Rockets “Sunday Sports” The Brooklyn Side
e. Pine Siskin “Zhree Calls, Plaintive Goldfinch-like Calls, and Chatter” (Cornell Master Set)
6. Patty Griffin “Top of the World” Silver Bell
f. Hutton's & Warbling Vireos “Songs and Calls” (Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs - Western Edition)
7. Eric Copeland “Warbug” Waco Taco Combo
8. Plastikman “Hypokondriak” Artifakts BC
9. The Pharcyde “Runnin' (Clean Radio Mix)” Runnin' EP
g. Snow Bunting “Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
T. Emot “Together” Make You Electric
E. BJörk “Pagan Poetry” Vespertine
*Notes:
3. I would love to discover that this song is built on a sample of Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Stay Tonight".
AMR, have you ever listened to The Tiny?
Yes! (As of 45 seconds ago.)
Seems jazzier and with more vocal affect than the stuff I'm weak for. I'm getting Joanna Newsom vibes, but I've barely listened to her, so I don't know if that's accurate.
That could just be the first video Google linked to, "Closer".
Anywhere I should start?
The lead singer's voice is a bit Joanna Newsom-esque, I agree, though it's not that way on all the songs. I only own the album Close Enough, and I'd say the band's sound isn't entirely consistent from song to song. I do like "Closer," though, and another favorite is "For Hallis."
I'm intrigued. (Listened to "Closer". Loved the arrangement.)
1. Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison - The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison
2. Georgia on My Mind - Willie Nelson - Stardust
3. You Just May Be the One - The Monkees - Headquarters
4. Baby It's You - The Beatles - Please Please Me
5. Father and Son - Johnny Cash/Fiona Apple - Unearthed
6. Day After Day - Badfinger - Straight Up
7. Play That Fast Thing (One More Time) - Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to the Rhythm
8. Louisiana - Randy Newman - Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast
9. Johnny Strikes up the Band - Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
10. More Than This - Charlie Hunter/Norah Jones - ...Featuring
B. Gallo del Cielo - Joe Ely - Letter To Laredo
Roy!
1. Drag Days -- Guided By Voices -- Under The Bushes Under The Stars
2. Child of the Moon -- Yung Wu -- Shore Leave
3. Acuff-Rose -- Uncle Tupelo -- Anodyne
4. Stephanie Says -- The Velvet Underground -- VU
5. Don't Worry About The Government -- Talking Heads -- The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
6. I Don't Know Where I'm Bound -- Johnny Cash -- Live At San Quentin
7. In The Mouth A Desert -- Pavement -- Slanted & Enchanted
8. Comfortably Numb -- Luther Wright & The Wrongs -- Rebuild The Wall
9. My Thoughts Are A Gas -- Guided By Voices -- Demons & Painkillers
10. Soon -- My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless
B1. Sun King -- The Beatles -- Abbey Road
B2. Fight This Generation -- Pavement -- Wowee Zowee
Notes
1. Again one of those classic little GBV songs that very few people know about
2. Yung Wu was a one off from 3/4 of The Feelies; nice little album
8. Want to hear a countried version of the entire The Wall album? This is it.
B1. Abbey Road is my "chill" album. And Sun King would be the ultimate chill song
#8 is fun. Going to have to come back to this when I have more time.
01. Spinal Tap - "Stonehenge", This is Spinal Tap
02. Force of Evil - "Hobb's End", Black Empire
03. Dark Tranquillity - "Away, Delight, Away", Skydancer
04. Kampfar - "Hymne", Mellom Skogkledde Aaser
05. Windir - "Morkrets Fyrste", Det Gamle Riket
06. Darkthrone - "Soulside Journey", Soulside Journey
07. Danzig - "The Hunter", The Hunter
08. Fight - "Little Crazy", War of Words
09. Gojira - "This Emptiness", L'Enfant Sauvage
10. Celtic Frost - "Temple of Depression", Monotheist
I've been listening to nothing but Cat Power in my car for the past couple of weeks. I have all of her studio LPs and and a handful of bootlegs that I've cycled through at least twice now. Man, if Chan Marshall doesn't have an amazing body of work. She is easily one of my all-time faves. If you don't listen, or aren't familiar with her music, I suggest you rectify that.
Two live cuts from Jukebox.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWGGmnbRrI
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W00DBvpq2Yg
The first (and only I guess) band I could think of that might be up your alley is Mi + L'au. I haven't heard much of what they have done in the last handful of years, but the first album they put out on M. Gira's label was fantastic. Here's a track from it:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGVP79lRFXc
No list this week. Im just going to leave this here:
httpv://youtu.be/swX9oq6TVAU