Hi Everyone,
Hope all is good with ye…
Nothing major out for the 23rd of January but a nice few bits and pieces all the same.
I will start with Universal who has the new album by Irish band JAPE.
Richie Egan has being doing the rounds for quiet a few years now having started out (I think) with THE REDNECK MANIFESTO a good ten or fifteen years ago.
This is JAPE’s fifth record and not that I am an avid fan but what I know of them has always being good.
You would know the song “floating” if you heard it and maybe “ Phil Lynott” also and the opening single ( if that’s what they are even called these days!) from this record “ the hearts desire” is a really good tune also.
So another really good hardworking Irish band who probably deserve a lot more success than they will ever get….check them out if you don’t know already.
I think they have something more than a lot of the other Irish bands signed to majors.
Universal has a new album by GAZ COOMBES of Supergrass fame ( I know ye know)….this record has been getting 4 and 5 star reviews, Supergrass didn’t really float my boat to be honest ( “ we are young, we run free, we’ve got teeth nice and clean” ….some might say that’s about all ye had.)
But, I did see our GAZ on something recently doing a little solo acoustic thing and I must say it caught my ear and I listened on….more than just clean teeth I thought, more mature, which is probably more than you can say for some!
Speaking of what some might say, our boy Noel (Gallagher) had a pop off the golden boy ED SHEERAN this past week saying something along the lines of I don’t want to live in a world where ED SHEERAN sells three nights out at Wembley….ED retorted with something along the lines of it’s a pretty fine world to me. (Always nice is our ED)
Now, the two boys could have being having a pint the other night for all we know and the conversation could have went something like this,
NOEL: I’m doing this NME f*** ing thing tomorrow to promote the album.
ED: ah sure, it has to be done, a load of balls I know.
NOEL: I’ll be asked the usual boring f***ing questions about our kid and all that Oasis rubbish
ED: why don’t you have a pop at me at the interview?
NOEL: jays , that’s a great f***ing idea.
You get my drift I take it; everything in business has some sort of angle that’s what I’m saying, especially if you are selling something.
Me doing this is an angle, trying to get ye guys to buy records from me and not some other place in the sky or elsewhere. (Now that’s only a baby example, don’t worry about it!)
Now, I could be way off the mark also, and Noel could think his music’s shite and it keeps him all night, worrying about all ED’s success!
Really like the new Noel Gallagher tune btw.
Seen as I’m on rock n roll spats, ROBBIE WILLIAMS has moved in next door to JIMMY PAGE and they are having a barney over planning permission for some bay windows I believe….very rock n roll fellas….
Anyway, tangent over….
Universal also have new albums by POND and NATALIE PRASS as well as TYRANNOSAURUS REX reissues of “my people are fair” “prophets, seers..” and “ unicorn” across 3 formats, CD, deluxe CD and double LP.
Lastly, Universal have two reissues from the genius that was JOHN MARTYN, namely “piece by piece” and “sapphire” ,again on the same three formats as the T-REX.
Oh sorry, they also have a LYNYRD SKYNYRD 6 LP box set and some nice bluenote Jazz reissues including HERBIE HANCOCK and ART BLAKEY.
Warner have a debut album by a girl called RAE MORRIS….is it a name that will go down in the rock n roll hall of fame ….here is what’s being said about her..
Rae Morris is becoming the country’s most beloved singer songwriter” – Zane Lowe
“A pop star in waiting”- Clash
“Stunning”- The Independent
“A truly gifted songwriter” – NME Magazine
“Morris’s debut album is going to be sensational”- Sunday Times Culture
“One of the UK’s finest young talents”- The Line Of Best Fit
“The singer’s keening melodies and lustrous vocals suggest Adele might have to defend her World Piano Balladry title” – The Guardian
Warner also has new albums by THE PUNCH BROTHERS, PAPA ROACH, GOV’T MULE featuring JOHN SCHOFIELD and a seemingly very nice J.J CALE unreleased recordings on Vinyl.
PIAS have a debut album by a band called ALL WE ARE which have an Irish lad Richard O Flynn as a member of the three piece…all three met in college in Liverpool.
They have a bit of a bee gees sound going on, only a bit dreamier and trippy, with underpants maybe even tighter, if that is possible.
Limerick born Richard D James aka APHEX TWIN has a new EP coming out…he’s a mass of business of all a sudden after was it a 13 year hiatus….(” Syro” is up for a Grammy as well as a Meteor) and I have to mention the title of the new EP, ITS “ COMPUTER CONTROLLED ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS PART 2 “
BLIND GUARDIAN has a new metal album and I personally like the sound of SUNDOWNERS….ala Cocteau twins.
SONY has the debut album by MEGHAN TRAINOR which they I’m sure, and me also for that matter, hope will be a massive smash.
SONY also has the TV advertised NOW POWER BALLADS which again we hope will be a massive smash!
REPUBLIC OF MUSIC for the 30th Jan….
Singles – Two this week, from the RAM stables we have a double 12″ pack from Frankee “All For One EP” & the 3rd single to be taken from the forthcoming The Charlatans album “Come Home Baby” on limited 7″.
Albums – Next from the Numero Group is the heartworn country/folk of Jeff Cowell “Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold” I like this a lot! John Carpenter, yes the mighty John Carpenter releases his debut solo album, this is also cracking “Lost Themes” on Sacred Bones. More greatness as New York’s Mincha’s releases his second album “Thousand Thursday” on Ghostly; a double 12” repress of the seminal Mount Kimbie album “Crooks & Lovers”, Nite Fields debut album “Depersonalistion” on Felte and finally a recording of the fantastic live show from Fabio Frizzi “Frizzi 2 Fulci – Live At Union Chapel” a couple of us here had the pleasure of going to that show, it was pretty special.
Check out our website for comings anyway….
sin e for this week,
Thanks for listening,
I’m off to brush my teeth.
Ray.