Quote Originally Posted by Slosh View Post
Gave it a listen, not doing it for me. Songs just never go anywhere.
Yea, I guess, but how far do you expect to go in 2 minutes?



I know, it's easy to start feeling that way, maybe I just don't have as many expectations so I still get taken by a lot of new bands, even when they're not all that original sounding, or a little unfinished, or unpolished. I was listening to the debut from Alvvays earlier this morning, sunny indie pop from Canada, and it kinda falls in that category too. Fun record, sounds kind of crap, but I guess that blown speaker sound is what they wanted. No masterpiece, but sometimes I just want to hear music that I've never heard before, doesn't matter if it reminds me of someone else, I tend to turn off that sense until later.

But getting back to what I like without any thought to others, now playing is the fairly new record by Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean that has me pretty enchanted lately, can't remember if I said anything above, but completely on the opposite side of the world from Alvvays. Very dark and somewhat experimental. She's pretty amazing. There's live session footage from audiotree on youtube for most of the songs, and it's just her ... voice, and guitar, and a bunch of effects, sounds great. The song below closes the record, and I've listened to this video more times than I'm gonna say right now ...





On another unrelated but all inclusive note, wonder if our old buddy Jim C ever stops by anymore, nice to see that the Moonbabies have some new music out, and a new record on the horizon. Double single at their site, first side by Ola and second side by Carina.

1# 'CHORUS'/'RAINDROPS' ? MOONBABIES