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June 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois: Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois Timesig/Planet Mu This surprise collaboration features two Canadian wunderkind musicians that push and pull in very different directions. It might be a head-scratch (or indeed a head-fuck) for many, particularly if you are arriving at this as a Lanois fan unaware of Venetian Snares. But there’s gold […]Archive
July 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Chuck Johnson: Balsams
Chuck Johnson Balsams Vdsq Californian-based guitarist and soundtrack composer Chuck Johnson has used the pedal steel (and other guitars) across a couple of very fine albums, but where, then, they were one component of the sound here they’re centre-stage; so much so that it’s almost as if he took the idea of Daniel Lanois’ treated […]Archive
November 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Black Dub: Reluctant Supergroup
Black Dub was a band/collaboration/project created by master-producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Lanois. I found this the way I find most good music, when searching for some other music entirely… In this case it was a clear correlation, a logical segue – I was looking at Lanois videos on YouTube (the guy can produce U2 all […]Archive
February 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Daniel Lanois: Flesh and Machine
Daniel Lanois Flesh and Machine ANTI Records Here’s Daniel Lanois playing the studio, putting almost every kind of “Daniel Lanois” down in one studio album. It might lack the songwriting of some of your favourite Lanois singer/songwriter moments but to me it’s his career-in-microcosm, the guitar squall of his soundtrack work (The End), the sinewy […]Archive
July 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Ilias: All The Way Up
Ilias All The Way Up Aguenar Records Ilias is an Algerian/Australian music producer/multi-instrumentalist from Sydney, Australia. And All The Way Up is his latest – a mix of moody instrumentals and charming, bright, happy pop songs. You might think at first (description) that’s an odd mix, but All The Way Up hangs together despite the […]Archive
June 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Daniel Lanois: My Music For Billy Bob
Daniel Lanois My Music for Billy Bob Red Floor Records This isn’t a new album by Daniel Lanois – although it could be, for you…if you’ve never had the soundtrack to Billy Bob Thornton’s movie, Sling Blade – the score created by Lanois – then this is your chance. Long out of print, Lanois has […]Archive
November 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Icebreaker w/ BJ Cole: Apollo
Icebreaker w/ BJ Cole Apollo Cantaloupe Music Brian Eno’s original Apollo album is one you can still sit down with – hard to pick a favourite from him but that’s certainly one of mine. So at first I wondered what I would get from hearing this new version by Icebreaker and BJ Cole. But just […]Archive
September 9, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Aoife O’Donovan: Fossils
Aoife O’Donovan Fossils Yep Roc/Southbound Wow! What a great record. And I mean instantly. You hear opener, Lay My Burden Down, and you’re hooked. Well, that was the case for me anyway. Turns out I knew that wonderful voice already, I didn’t straight away connect the name, but I’d been a fan of Aoife O’Donovan’s […]Archive
July 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Trixie Whitley: Fourth Corner
Trixie Whitley Fourth Corner Strong Blood Records I guess I had very high expectations for this given the superb Black Dub album – and so at first I was a bit let down by Trixie Whitley’s full-length debut. But it’s unrealistic to expect her to carry the full weight of what that band offered across […]Archive
May 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Phosphorescent: Muchacho
Phosphorescent Muchacho Dead Oceans Under the name Phosphorescent, American singer/songwriter Matthew Houck has built a career – with six albums so far – that sees him regularly receiving the hushed-tones and revered-raves that cult fans, completists and critics hurl at the likes of Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin, Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters’ Mark Kozelek, American […]Archive
February 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman