So, I went to Patrick Watson at the Sugar club last night and it was one the most beautiful gigs I’ve ever been to. Josh who came with me can back me up on this one as he was also blown away.
The band are from Quebec, fronted by Patrick Watson, who has an AMAZING voice – traces of Jeff Buckley, Anthony and the Johnsons, and a more soulful thing going on too – bits of Little Jimmy Scott in there.
They were incredibly tight, all great musicians. They had lots of imaginative, creative stuff going on with percussion, effects pedals, sampling and improvising. The drummer in particular played a blinder.
They play a kinda space rock/jazzy/cabaret/indie rock fusion thang. For soundalikes, they’re not easy to pigeonhole but you could say they sound like (deep breath) Pink Floyd meets Rufus Wainwright meets Erik Satie meets Tom Waits meets late Beatles meets Animal Collective meets Esbjorn Svensson Trio and, though they hate this comparison, Coldplay, on the more piano driven numbers.
They come back to Dublin again on November 13 to play support to Cold War Kids (sorry but these guys are way too good to be playing support to Cold War Kids) in the Ambassador.
So go see them live and buy their super Close to Paradise album now!
P.S. In true music trainspotter style myself and Josh went up to Patrick at the end of the gig to generally gush and enthuse and ask him to sign our CDs and he was a real nice fella!
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Autumn/Winter Noteworthy Albums
Manu Chao, La Radiolina, Sep 3
Go Team! Sep 11
Kanye West, Graduation Sep 11
PJ Harvey, White Chalk Sep 24 UK Date
Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, Sep 25
Jose Gonzalez, In Our Nature Sep 25
Iron and Wine Sep 25
Band of Horses Cease to Begin October 9
Lupe Fiasco, The Cool, November 30
Go Team! Sep 11
Kanye West, Graduation Sep 11
PJ Harvey, White Chalk Sep 24 UK Date
Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, Sep 25
Jose Gonzalez, In Our Nature Sep 25
Iron and Wine Sep 25
Band of Horses Cease to Begin October 9
Lupe Fiasco, The Cool, November 30
Monday, June 11, 2007
Music - What's left in 2007
What's coming out this year music wise that i'm looking forward to? the list of definites first i.e. they're recorded, mixed, produced, and most of them have a release date.
On the hip-hop front, Talbi Kweli's 'Eardrum' album is coming out in July and if there's a few more tracks as good as the ones i've already heard - 'Say Something' and 'Listen' - it could be a cracker. Kanye West's 'Graduation' comes out in the Autumn/Winter and Common's got one done and dusted. The Beastie Boys are back too but its an all instrumental album.
On the indie boys with their guitars front there's Editors 'An End Has a Star' this month, their better American equivalent, Interpol with 'Our Love to Admire' in July. White Stripes with 'Icky Thump' this month too and Ash's 'Twilight of the Innocents' also in June. And Spoon's Ga Ga comes out sometime later this year.For electronica - there's Ulrich Schnauss's 'Goodbye' round about now.
On the Alt country front Ryan Adams, there's 'Easy Tiger' this month.
So that's
Ryan Adams, Easy Tiger
Beastie Boys, The Mix-Up
Talib Kweli, Ear Drum
Editors, An End Has a Star
White Stripes, Icky Thump
Spoon, Ga Ga
Ash, Twilight of the Innocents
Interpol, Our Love to Admire
Common,
Kanye West, Graduation
Ulrich Schnauss
And on the surely they must have finished that album by now front, there's
Radiohead,
Massive Attack
Portishead
Finally on the, isn't it about time they recorded something front?
PJ Harvey, Doves, Gillian Welch
On the hip-hop front, Talbi Kweli's 'Eardrum' album is coming out in July and if there's a few more tracks as good as the ones i've already heard - 'Say Something' and 'Listen' - it could be a cracker. Kanye West's 'Graduation' comes out in the Autumn/Winter and Common's got one done and dusted. The Beastie Boys are back too but its an all instrumental album.
On the indie boys with their guitars front there's Editors 'An End Has a Star' this month, their better American equivalent, Interpol with 'Our Love to Admire' in July. White Stripes with 'Icky Thump' this month too and Ash's 'Twilight of the Innocents' also in June. And Spoon's Ga Ga comes out sometime later this year.For electronica - there's Ulrich Schnauss's 'Goodbye' round about now.
On the Alt country front Ryan Adams, there's 'Easy Tiger' this month.
So that's
Ryan Adams, Easy Tiger
Beastie Boys, The Mix-Up
Talib Kweli, Ear Drum
Editors, An End Has a Star
White Stripes, Icky Thump
Spoon, Ga Ga
Ash, Twilight of the Innocents
Interpol, Our Love to Admire
Common,
Kanye West, Graduation
Ulrich Schnauss
And on the surely they must have finished that album by now front, there's
Radiohead,
Massive Attack
Portishead
Finally on the, isn't it about time they recorded something front?
PJ Harvey, Doves, Gillian Welch
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Revisionist Albums of 2006 List
Joanna Newsom, Ys
Arctic Monkeys, Whatever they say I am, that’s what I’m not
Band of Horses, Everything All of the Time
Fionn Regan, The End of History
Tapes’n’Tapes, The Loon
Cat Power, The Greatest
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Thom Yorke, The Eraser
Lupe Fiasco, Food & Liquor
K’Naan, The Dusty Foot Philosopher
King Creosote, KC Rule OK
Damien Rice, 9
Keane, Under the Iron Sea
Midlake, The Trials of Van Occupanther
Lily Allen, Alright Still
The Flaming Lips, At War with the Mystics
The Raconteurs, Broken Toy Soldiers
David Kitt, Not Fade Away
Snow Patrol, Eyes Open
The Guillemots, Through the Windowpane
Si Schroeder, Coping Mechanisms
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones
Razorlight, Razorlight
The Strokes, First Impressions of Earth
Jose Gonzalez, Veneer
Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, The Swell Season
Muse, Black Holes and Revelations
Beck, The Information
Arctic Monkeys, Whatever they say I am, that’s what I’m not
Band of Horses, Everything All of the Time
Fionn Regan, The End of History
Tapes’n’Tapes, The Loon
Cat Power, The Greatest
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Thom Yorke, The Eraser
Lupe Fiasco, Food & Liquor
K’Naan, The Dusty Foot Philosopher
King Creosote, KC Rule OK
Damien Rice, 9
Keane, Under the Iron Sea
Midlake, The Trials of Van Occupanther
Lily Allen, Alright Still
The Flaming Lips, At War with the Mystics
The Raconteurs, Broken Toy Soldiers
David Kitt, Not Fade Away
Snow Patrol, Eyes Open
The Guillemots, Through the Windowpane
Si Schroeder, Coping Mechanisms
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones
Razorlight, Razorlight
The Strokes, First Impressions of Earth
Jose Gonzalez, Veneer
Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, The Swell Season
Muse, Black Holes and Revelations
Beck, The Information
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