My credit card bill is all music music music as usual
It’s time for What Came Through The Letterbox This Week? time!
Morcheeba are back! Syke is back! Yes they have made another album together and if you like their previous work you’ll like this. That’s not to say it’s just a re-hash of what went before but it’s very them:
Blood Like Lemonade (good name) is perfect Summertime relaxing music, as you might imagine.
The Divine Comedy is/are back! Neil Hannon is back using his usual alias after that crickety diversion. Featuring that cracking single At The Indie Disco and some other songs which cover various Divine Comedy styles that you’ll love if you’re a fan and will be pleased to discover if it’s all a bit new to you.
Bang Goes The Knighthood (another great title) is another excellent Divine Comedy album and has no duff tracks. A scary long note at one point but that should only put people with special ears off a little bit. So Hip It Hurts reviewed it better than I could so ready Vinny’s review here.
You might not have heard of Thomas J Speight but he’s kind of great. Reminds me of Ryan Adams in the days where he made music I didn’t hate. Oh no, am rhyming all over the place now. Anyway, I enjoyed some of his previous songs and his Willow Tree EP (limited edition of 100) was advertised on Twitter and Facebook so I bought it. Simple! There’s been quite a lot of purchasing nice shiny discs direct from artists recently and it’s definitely a good business model.
I bloody love that Willow Tree song.
The other recent purchase was the ‘This Day’ World Hepatitis Day compilation album:
There are some stunning tracks on this album including people you’ll know like David McAlmont, Siuobhan Donaghy, Bernard Butler, Cirkus and Skye, plus loads I had never heard of. It’s a good album and for a good cause, available in the usual downloady places but also on good old CD which I bought from Amazon.
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