Listening to do
November involved lots of hard work at work. Which, as usual, had the side effect of lots of my buying lots of new CDs to listen to.
Now I'm a bit weird about the first time I listen to new albums. I like to be able to sit down and listen to them properly on my stereo at home at home, not on headphones at work and not in little glimpses in the car. Unfortunately this doesn't sit too well with working long hours, so I've got a few albums that I haven't listened to yet.
But for the ones I have listened to, here's some random adjectives to describe each (because I think we all know that wordsmithery isn't a talent of mine).
Tak (Sigur Ros): A lush, enveloping, beautiful album. I'm prepared to use it as justification to put Iceland on the itinerary of future European holidays.
Main Street (Epicure): playing as I write this post. A worthy follow-up to The Goodbye Girl and great accompaniment for tired Friday nights.
What Was Left (Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set): Quietly beautiful. Really should try to see her play live some time.
Tea & Sympathy (Bernard Fanning): as promised, a little bit country. Also very much great.
You Have to Dig Deep to Bury Daddy (Jeff Lang): I broke my not-at-work-through-headphones rule for this one and was glad I did. Amazing guitar makes a work day smoother and quicker.
And speaking of music, I also caught Epicure playing at the Fly by Night down in Fremantle (which is still one of my favourite venues -- for what's basically an empty shell it's got a strangely intimate vibe). A great gig, including the acknowledged faux-pas of singing Happy Birthday to the bass player, a sing-along to Armies Against Me and several song intro's featuring the words "here's another song about suicide."
Posted on Friday, December 2, 2005 and filed under Music.
Comments
I love the Bernard Fanning album. I will have to check out some of the other's you have listed.
Posted by: Gussy on December 19, 2005
