Takk - Sigur Ros.
Let Sigur Ros take your hand and guide you to where the mock turtles live, where The Mad Hatter has tea with the sleepy dormouse and where Alice found that sometimes all is not as it seems. This album conjures up images in your mind of flight across barren Icelandic wastelands where deep fissures scar the earth, sulphurous pools form and molten rock bubbles to the surface. An ambient dreamscape made real, this album is a joy to listen to and should be in everyone's collection.
Grace. Jeff Buckley.
Possibly one of the best albums ever made. Containing lapel grabbing hard rock and mind blowing moments of melodic musemanship, Grace encapsulates the dichotomy of being human and makes it into music for the soul. Anger, joy, peace, hatred and love all play their part in this album. Leaves you feeling like you have been through the whole of human expression in a second spanning a lifetime. Gone too soon, like so many who deserved to live, Jeff Buckley lives on in this album.
Smile. Brian Wilson.
Supposedly thirty years ahead of his time, Brian Wilson seems to encapsulate the sixties when surfing went global, peace and love threatened the establishment and youth threatened to take charge from the order of old an oppressive. Full of melodies similar to the beach boys, this album is better than it should ever have been. Pull on a Hawaiian shirt, buy a VW Beetle, grow your hair long and take up surfing. Brian Wilson has finally arrived in the here and now. Welcome back Brian.
The Amazing Charlatans. The Charlatans. (USA)
Acid was certainly an influence in the making of this album. And it's great that it was. Without the influence of Lysergic acid diethylamide it's easy to imagine this group singing about moonshine, chewin' tobacco, dungarees, and inter-family marriages. Thanks to Albert Hoffmann however, this album isn't a tribute to troglodytes and instead is an album that has a similar sound to early Neil Young albums tinged with a little Jefferson Airplane. Well worth listening to.
4 comments:
I must say, I'm not big on reviews, however I do appreciate that many others enjoy them, and can be influenced by them. For many it is also a source of income. So, even though this little Euroafrican dont like it, you keep up the good work man!
Salagatle!
Shout! With the Sigur Ros, been a fan of their stuff for a while lately, they had a whole episode of the Culture Show dedicated to them just a few weeks ago, probably still catch it on the BBC iplayer if you fancy it, if not, let me know and I'll upload it, its very interesting - who'd have know that most of their vocals aren't icelandic but actual 100% gibberish, or Bullshit, as they're singer confessed.
They've not long released Hiema too, a docu-movie following their massive world tour...
I'll stop there cos I'm lying, never heard of them. :)
Wreckless,
Thanks for the coment man.
Jamie,
I caught the arse end of the culture show doc about Sigur Ros, which prompted me to dive into their catalogue. Damn good music all round.
Another musical suggestion from a friend that read the list of music tastes on my bebo, Explosions In The Sky... and Port Royal.
Bit of a mix between Mogwai and Sigur Ros there,,,
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