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Posts Tagged ‘2003’
Athlete: Vehicles & Animals
Vehicles & Animals is the name of the debut album from Athlete, released in 2003. It is also the name of one of the songs off the album, a ballad that turns the hands of time back to the simplicity of your youth. When released, Vehicles & Animals was welcome and fun [...]
The Thrills: Big Sur
“Just don’t go back to Big Sur, Baby baby please don’t go”
The Thrills 2003 debut album, So Much For The City, is an unusual mix of solar-powered Californian Pop and thick Irish-stew style Indie-Rock. The reason for all the references to the sunshine of the West Coast, Conor Deasy (Lead singer of [...]
Starsailor: Silence is Easy
As promised yesterday, Starsailor rings out again from A Track a Day. This single, taken from their second album copies the blueprint of their earlier work… sympathetic lyrics, strong vocals mix to create a sound that is unmistakably Starsailor. They are not pushing any new boundaries here, but with their previous work being so [...]
The 88: How Good It Can Be?
Last.fm threw this at me as a recommended artist, they told me: “The 88 sound like The Redwalls, Locksley, The Thrills”. I took them up on their offer and listened to this up-beat poptastic track by The 88. Last.fm were partially right – I don’t hear The Redwalls here, but I can [...]
The Jayhawks: Save It For a Rainy Day
I recently (in the past year) discovered The Jayhawks as a band. Jays… Hawks… Is it any coincidence that this band sounds very similar to the records The Byrds were dishing out in the 60’s? The Jawyhawks released “Save It For a Rainy Day” on their most recent album, “Rainy Day Music”, [...]
The Coral: Bill McCai
Hurricane Bill is almost yesterday’s news, having kept away from the US coastline and threatening to graze Canada. Here is today’s quick – Bill McCai by The Coral. I’m enjoying finding trracks that are as obscurely related to hurricanes as possible! The Coral hail from Liverpool, and are greatly influenced by The [...]
