Tag: Synthpop
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The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
On an early Ultravox kick since a friend reminded me that they recorded their sixth album with George Martin (6 albums in 5 years – puts the navel-gazing of current artist release schedules to shame doesn’t it?). I know the “happy fed” Midge Ure Vox, but didn’t know the critically acclaimed but couldn’t get a…
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DJ Charles IV’s Rainy Night Selection
This is partly an excuse to post 8 tracks I’m digging at the moment, but seriously my iPod – Charles IV – has selected podcasts and mixes before now, and somehow has an uncanny knack sometimes to group tunes together on shuffle. I don’t have time at the moment to capture them into a mix,…
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Rounds – Big Love (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Big Love by Rounds One of the highlights of the year so far is seeing Fleetwood Mac in concert at last. Surprisingly my big gig moment of 2015 out of all the gigs I’ve been to is the aforementioned doing a timely long psychedelic jam version of Gold Dust Woman. Sadly Kirk who went with…
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Daphne and Celeste ARE BACK!
Wow. Whereas other people’s lists of dream reformed bands are Oasis, ABBA, Smiths, Libertines (happened), Radiohead (they’ve not split – Fact Ed. Curses! – me) mine had Daphne and Celeste pretty high up on it. Non-ironically, I always felt that as this Tim Jonze article says they were a) punk as fuck and b) had…
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60’s chillwave dubtronica
So for those who think their ambient nu-gaze chillwave electronica dubbed out hipster doodles are somehow new (as millennials invented *everything* first dontchano :-P), here’s electronic and lounge pioneer Dick Hyman to school you along with Mary Mayo on vocal theremin duties. Yes some of this album is dated in a samba/lounge fashion, but this…
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RC 261: May The Bridges You Burn Light The Way (!Summer)
Aka Lang May Yr Lum Reek…the Not Summer edition (well Summer can’t make up it’s mind, so really ±Summer) Dark and cloudy at times, it seems the light from all the burnt bridges might be more reliable? [Image is a burnt out scooter from Ham Lands, a supposedly sunny/cloudy day just when it started raining…]…