Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
(Domino, 2008)
Yale-taught muso oddball consummates early promise with heady avant-pop opus.
Captain Beefheart's quest was to unseat the 4/4 "mother heartbeat" of rock. He has an heir in DPs' David Longstreth, whose virtuoso skills (Afro-math-mess guitar, four-part vocal arrangements to make your hair stand on end) are applied to a comparably torn-up canvas. This is his poppest to date (for context, he once made a "glitch opera" about Don Henley), crypto title track Useful Chamber's ecstatic chorus (at 2.43 here), the quasi-Beyoncé strut of Stillness Is The Move and the exquisite chamber pop swoons of Angel Deradoorian showcase Two Doves indicating a desire to play nice, even if the lyrics ("your hair is like an eagle"; "what hits the spot like Gatorade?") remain reliably outré. This is fresh music, making exciting shapes with primitive resources, and though some will find Longstreth's keening bleat and bravura deconstructions show-offy there are constant flowerings of devastating prettiness, and when all the singers blare in unison, the beauty they summon is almost overwhelming.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 11/01/2010
Further Listening
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (Rough Trade, 2007)
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (ATP, 2007)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp, 2009)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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