Disc of the day
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
Features Disc of the day
Songs Of Green Pheasant
Aerial Days
(FatCat, 2006)
Sheffield teacher making agrarian dreampop off the MOJO radar.
The W11 bus travels every morning from the blasted industrial wilds of the Crooked Billet roundabout to the modern wipe-clean urban island of Walthamstow bus station, through the modernised post-war council high-rises of the looming Priory Court. It's not a journey to fill you with festive joy on a wet and windy December morning but the other day my ipod shuffled onto a track entitled Brody Jacket by Songs Of Green Pheasant and I found myself transported to a magical glade of distant fireworks, bright clock chimes, glistening guitar echo and melancholy brass lamentations. The track, an instrumental elegy for a lost item of clothing, came from Aerial Days, a mini-album of autumnal ambient atmospheres and shimmering Slowdive'n'Garfunkel harmonies released in 2005 by an artist and teacher from Oughtibridge called Duncan Sumpner who hides behind the arcane pseudonym of Songs of Green Pheasant. Turns out I have all of his albums on my iTunes but we've never reviewed any of them in MOJO. Sorry. I don't know why. Sitting somewhere between the blissful feedback and dreampop drones of such early '90s gloomoids as Flying Saucer Attack and Galaxie 500 and the '70s drummerless field-folk isolation of bands like Heron and C.O.B., the SoGF sound manages to be both airy and abstruse, light in melody yet mysterious in meaning and perfect for big-coated journeys on public transport through the depths of winter. That's how I roll, as the Grey Gang have it in Priory Court.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/12/2009
Further Listening
Songs of Green Pheasant - Gylling Street (FatCat, 2007)
Flying Saucer Attack - Chorus (Domino, 1995)
C.O.B. - Spirit Of Love (CBS, 1971)
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