Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Graves
Easy Not Easy
(Hush, 2007)
Portland pop genius seemingly uninterested in promoting wares and stuff.
I mean, look at that cover. What is it? Turkish pop vinyl from the late ’60s? Some Far Eastern folk prog madness reissued by Finders Keepers? Nope, it’s album number four from Oregon DIY pop whiz Greg Olin, a man who, as far as this writer is aware, is about as desirous of self-promotion as these two chaps. Whether I played it out of boredom, curiosity or a rare combination of both I can’t remember, but what was contained within came as an extremely a pleasant shock. Rather than enduring some crackly Manolis Angelopoulos soundalike I was ushered into a gently loping indie country popworld suggestive of Beck kicking back with The Sons Of The Pioneers, albeit after a lot of this had been consumed. Coloured by vibraphone and soft second line horns, suffused with the kind of lazy warmth that might come upon you whilst dozing on the couch, in the sunlight, at the rented flat of an out of work friend, Easy Not Easy’s throwaway lyrics are glimpses of the passing-by world on the other side of half-closed venetian blinds, reminiscent of the quiescent genius of UK poet John Tottenham. Olin has the ability to turn apathy into a blissful artform. The fact that he is seemingly unarsed about promoting this just makes it all the more true. In fact, a quick check reveals that another album came out in 2007. Not so as you'd notice.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/01/2009
Further Listening
Graves - Seldom Slumber (Hush, 2007)
Beck - Mutations (Bong Load, 1998)
Basehead – Play With Toys (Imago, 1992)
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