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A customer wrote on Amazon about her debut album, Catching A Tiger; “If you have dreams of driving an open top car along an American freeway with the sun in the sky and the wind in your hair, this album is what you need in your stereo”. Couldn’t have put it better myself, which is why I pasted it into this blog post. 11 songs that range from bluesy-folk to unfettered pop and showcase both her remarkable voice and her song writing skills.
I do like Lissie a lot – I think she has an interesting dirty rock voice and a grungy ethos but in a totally pop formulated way. I do however hate a lot of the contrived things that come around when you are signed to a major and targeted a young pop fans such as this quote from her biog “Even in photo shoots I won’t wear concealer, I don’t want to look like someone who painted my face, because everything I do I want to feel natural, I want it to mean something to me, if it doesn’t feel natural I can’t do it.”
Forgetting all that though I first found out about Lissie through her cover of Lady Gaga, its pretty good, check it out here.
Its been while since we heard from Mr Manuva. Now he has joined forces with a producer by the name of WrongTom to release a new project entitled Duppy Writer. The album features reworked tunes from Roots lengthy back catalogue with each track covering a different era of reggae. In true Roots style the album is filled with (admittedly electronic) dub reggae vibes of the highest order. And despite the nature of the material there is a freshness that makes it better than merely a remix album.
Now here something really cool – ‘Girl Crisis’ an all-female troupe with a twist. The idea behind it was to a) name themselves as a joke on Boy Crisis b) exist only in web-video form featuring c) an essentially revolving cast of indie Brooklyn sirens that d) have nothing for sale and will not play live shows but e) are a “long-term” project that records covers of classic songs. All songs are preformed in a Greenpoint living room of one of the singers on Super 8mm camera. Wicked!
September 08, 2010 Luminaire
One of our favourite bands this year – they cant be called a new band as this is their second album, but it sounds so fresh. Amazing rockabilly and to huge critical acclaim. I saw them on a very small stage a few week for a launch at the Levi’s store, and I cant wait to see them on the great stage at the great venue that is the Luminaire. Bursting out from all side this will be an explosive live show!
With amazing support from John & Jehn and Mary Epworth and The Jubilee Band.
Plus a DJ set from Django Django
it is going to be one hell of a celebration!!
Purchase ticket here