More Music from the Inbox
I spent an awful lot of time on airplanes this past week, including 45 minutes in a stuffy turboprop on a taxiway in Philadelphia waiting out a ground stop at the always hideous La Guardia in NYC.
This cut a little into in my listening time this week, which is why I’m grate for guys like Brent Chittenden for picking up the slack.
Here’s more stuff that made it through the filters this week.
Artist: Dead Combo
Album: Lisboa Mulata
Dead Combo are a duo out of Portugal that take influence from spaghetti westerns and their native land but a bit updated. If you love the scores to films like Desperado or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, this is right up your alley.
Sounds Like: Robert Rodriguez’s softer side.
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Artist: Ducky
Album: The Whether EP
Morgan Neiman (aka Ducky) has been making music since she was thirteen years old and dropped out of high school to head to NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Music. Not that I’d ever advocate dropping out of school but the first single, Like Rain from The Whether EP sounds like she may have made a good choice. Creepy, melodic with really fitting vocals. Can’t wait to hear the whole thing.
Sounds Like: Beats made in an abandoned factory.
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Ducky – Like Rain from Bicephaly Pictures on Vimeo.
Artist: The Spring Standards
Album: yellow/gold
A double album, one album is kind of folky and a little melancholy, the other half is rocking but with a quirkiness and the part that caught my attention. The press release mentions a Cars like sound and in “Here We Go”, you can hear that influence loud and clear. Download it at the link below.
Sounds Like: Rockier folk produced by Ric Ocasek fan
Link / Listen / Watch: Link.
Artist: Madam Trashy
Album: Book Of The Dead
Madam Trashy’s bio mentions there love of early grunge and The Melvins and it shows. If Mudhoney had an illegitimate child that grew up near strip clubs and brothels, it’d probably be Madame Trashy. But don’t underestimate the sludge as it’s got a good groove to it. Funded via Kickstarter, Book of The Dead’s their first album and I’m sure will be used by sleazier gentleman’s clubs everywhere as a soundtrack.
Sounds Like: Porno Booth Sludge.
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Artist: The Wooden Sky
Album: Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun
My favorite album of the week. This Toronto act has been around since 2003 and spent some time putting together tracks for Every Child A Daughter… and then recorded it all over the place; apartments, lofts, etc. They remind me of the softer side of The Band in all the right ways. Definitely an add to my cottage playlist. Check out “Malibu Rum” for a good sample.
Sounds Like: Music recorded on the shores of Georgian Bay just after sunset.
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