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As downbeat as Julie can be she always has a sense of humour.
Real life lyrics and slo-fi music to take it easy to.
Having said that, this is a bit more upbeat than her previous releases such as Goodnight Nobody and Heart and Crime.
Julie Dorion – ‘Me and My Friend’ from the album ‘Woke Myself Up’
Julie on MySpace
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The first solo release from Monica Richards, the front women of Faith and the Muse.
To be expected it is a gothic/tribal/political/earthy/textural affair.
Every track has its own journey but the album holds together brilliantly.
Reminds me of Danielle Dax in terms of the scope and range of her audio usage.
She is a very creative gothic bunny. Check out her website for her artworks and the comic project “Anafae”
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Monica Richards – ‘Death Is the Ultimate Woman’ from the album ‘Infrawarrior’
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These two have a new release out in May 2008 so I have been revisiting their first workout together from 2006.
The comparison with Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood is impossible to ignore, with Marks growling wavering deep vocals and Isobells flotsam softness, but this album goes to much darker places than Nancy & Lee ever did.
A great album that I never know when to put on in its entirety, but all the tracks here made it on to my various playlists.
The new album is called “Sunday at Devil Dirt”… Sounds like a barrel of laughs.
I can’t wait.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – ‘Revolver’ (live version) from the album ‘Ballad Of The Broken Seas’
Isobel (previously in Belle & Sebastian and The Gentle Waves), Mark (previously in Screaming Trees and his own great solo work).
Isobell on Wiki
Isobell on MySpace
www.marklanegan.com (Marks site seems to be down right now)
Mark on Wiki
Click here to buy Ballad of the Broken Seas
Comments(0) Here are links to two related articles on BoingBoing I saw today. They both touch on things I have been thinking about for quite a while. I suggest you read the original articles and the comments on both.
Kevin Kelly’s just posted “1000 True Fans,” a business plan for all kinds of creators in the twenty first century:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/04/howto-earn-an-artist.html
Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons, runs the numbers of Nine Inch Nails’s Creative Commons download experiment and discovers that it only took the band two days to exceed the typical net from a massive-selling traditional CD release.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/nine-inch-nails-made.html
I don’t agree with some of the sums in the NIN article, but it does underline the “True Fans” point of the first article.
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A sweet 2007 release from Abra. A mostly chilled affair.
I must check out some of her previous work.
Abra Moore – ‘Sugarite’ from the album ‘On The Way’
Click here to buy On the Way