Myspace is alright, yes it’s owned by the most diabolical company in the world, yes its full of teenage boys pretending to be cool and bands you never wish to hear trying to sell themselves to you, but once you get past all that you can find some absolute gem’s. Here’s 3 of said wonders….
First up, Peggy Sue and the Pirates…they are the bomb, two chicks, one with guitar, both with fantastic harmonies. There’s instant comparisons with the Regina Spektor’s of the world, but once you stop being a prick trying to tear down things before they begin, you realise that this is something more, lyrically wonderful carrying confidence and vulnerability in one little bundle, kitch punctuating raw emotion.
“Superman” is legendary, is perfect, is so goodamn clever, clever in a good way, not that cynical “it’s a bit to clever for me” way. It manages to make you sad whilst smiling away merrily, double dope. Got to meet them t’other day, I say them, might only have been one of them, i’m not entirely clear due to everyone’s hair colour being different, but they are exactly as you’d expect, cool, funny, confident, shy, you know the ideal paradox that is dope ladies.
“Shot of Tuaca“(right click, save target as) is again wonderful, its flat out honest, manages to take that awkward first night and turn it into the ideal first encounter. Pow.
Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog (1818) – Caspar David Friedrich
Jackamo Brown’s murdspace pic.
I rant about this man, seriously I go on and on and on about him, how can something so awesome come out of the same town as Scroobius Pip & myself, at first I couldn’t understand how his music wasn’t tainted by the same things as mine, the smell of sulphur from the refinery, dreary suburban living, the idiotic mass that inhabits Stanford-le-Hope, but then it became clear I was being over analytical and I should get over myself and tell people about the tunes. And tunes there are a’plently, every song nudge’s and winks at me, hinting at its roots, but me never quite being able to grasp what memory Jackamo is evoking in me, he manages to carry along references to the delta blues, bluegrass, gospel without ever becoming one of these genres, they are serious cinematic campfire songs, they feel like covers of great standards yet are all Jackamo Brown originals.
Goto to his myspace and download the lot, 5 tracks of skin tingling emotive balladeering without a single nod to Jack Johnson or any of his cronies.
Now, I’m not qualified to discuss spoken word, it isn’t something I have enough experience of to discuss fairly or intelligently (not that I ever discuss anything intelligently), so this will be short.
Download “Jessica“ (right click yada yada), now, do it, right now, come on, what link probs? alright goto his myspace page, listen to Jessica, it is fantastic, truly honest, empathic and vivid.
Pow!
Ps I think I may have invented the odd word there, oh well hope you get the jist.
I totally agree with first line of rant.
Thank you so much for those links. Polar Bear, especially, is amazing. Jessica, in particular, is stunning. Really honest, insightful stuff.
Honestly. I want you.
Come to the US. Put that beard between my soft thighs. I’m serious.
I’m an old fat guitar player, almost 50 now but I saw you & Scroob on TV at the weekend at Reading festival, I was just blown away by the groove, absolutely amazing.
If there’s any justice in the world you’ll to be busy and successful to ever post again on a blog, but if you do get the chance, Id really love to know what sort of gear your using, is it software based ?
whatever, you where ****** brilliant
I concur on the Peggy Sue and the Pirates bit – I saw them a while back at the Social and they were EXCELLENT. Always good to see two females not really caring about being female, but just caring about making very good music with good and sometimes funny lyrics.
I may well concur with the rest of the post but I’ll have to read it later