Month: April 2020
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Smoke Fairies: Darkness Brings The Wonders Home
We’ve never really warmed to Smoke Fairies (Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies), who’ve been going for years, releasing music every now and then, but this is solid, comforting indie, with injections of goth and blues. The vocals may be your decider, as they’re bold, powerful and to the fore. The album opens with On The […]
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baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chew Your Bones, Chocolate Rabbit, Chronicle Series, Classical, Coffee Shop Blues, Congleton Chronicle, Darkness Brings The Wonders Home, Disconnect, Don’t You Want to Spiral Out of Control?, early, Elevator, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Left to Roll, music, On the Wing, Out of the Woods, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Smoke Fairies, soul, Super Tremolo -
Howard Skempton: The Man, Hurdy-gurdy and Me
We sometimes rave about albums but this is 100% wonderful. If we ever send a space rocket into space (in case you wondered where space rockets go), you could send this recording to sum up Britishness: witty, joyful, a bit mad, wildly eccentric and lots of fun. Whatever you want it’s got it, from early […]
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Apple-Blow, Bagatelle, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Concerto For Accordion And Oboe, Congleton Chronicle, early, Feste’s Song, funk, Gentle Melody, Gloss for oboe and vibraphone, Half Moon, Howard Skempton, Hurdy-gurdy and Me, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, pop, Random Girl, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, The Man, Two Highland Dances -
Stumbleine: Sink Into The Ether
Producer Stumbleine’s seventh album, offers, say the Press notes, “a deep submergence within a celestial upper region somewhere beyond the clouds”, which in a nutshell is Moby in his more thoughtful moments. It’s a decent album, albeit low key: one for late nights and reflection. If you weren’t locked in your house, it would be […]
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Aloof, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Disintegrate Together, early, Elizabeth Heaton, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Lost To The World, Malibu, music, My Head Hurts, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sink Into The Ether, Sonder, soul, Stumbleine, Supermodels, Tidepool, White Noise Therapy, Words Fail Me, Your Angel Was A Fake -
Littlemen: It’s a Beautiful Thing
If ever an album hid its delights in its opening bars, it’s this. The start of opener The Girl With The Red Blouse sounds something like a country take on Wet Wet Wet’s Something In The Air, a gentle, slow pop tune with soft vocals, no indication of what’s coming. Then it builds in power […]
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baroque, Blues, brother, Cat Song, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Feel The Heat, For The First Time, Front Page News, funk, Into The Sea, It’s a Beautiful Thing, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Littlemen, Moving On, music, Obstacles, Obstacles Remix (Strawberry Popsical Mix), pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, The Girl With The Red Blouse, Twist Of Fate, Walking
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