I’m so far behind that I think I’m winning. I’ve been listening to a ton of excellent music recently that I should be writing blogs about but have never gotten around to. My apologies to the artists and the PR teams. I will go with the argument that a little is better than nothing.
The Cat’s Eye by Sun Atoms. This track is from 2021. When I encounter a band I am unfamiliar with, I will listen to their back catalogue. Thus, it was the amazing single The Cat’s Eye because I got invited to listen to the Sun Atoms’ new single Ceiling Tiles. Both of these are worth the time to listen to them.
Thanks to Shauna McLarnon from Shameless Promotion PR
Adam Ant. When I listen to the opening song of The Dave Clarke Five’s new album Zoom and the Gadflies, that is what I hear: Adam Ant.
It is not plagiarism. It just managed to bounce off a couple of memory chips in my brain because of a similarity. The whole album, Zoom and the Gadflies, has a retro feel. A loving glance back to the music that we grew up with, that we made love listening to, and for some like me, music that we still listen to now and again. Excuse me while I dig Adam Ant out of the box and dust it off.
James Clarke Five is James Hughes’s solo project. He is perhaps best known as a keyboardist and vocalist for Liverpool 80’s new wave band The Cherry Boys, contemporaries of Echo & The Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, whose members also played with The LA’s, Cast, The Icicle Works and Lightning Seeds.
Hughes now lives in London.
Thanks to Shauna McLarnon from Shameless Promotion PR
Between the Dead and the Dreaming. I don’t know anything about this recording. On Bandcamp, Between the Dead and the Dreaming is described as “dark ambient/instrumental music from Jason Herring of the Mystery Plan, the Interstellar, and Muchacho.”
It was released on February 23, 2024. That’s all I have, so it’s good that this is about the music. I like the music. Yes, it has bits of ambient moments, but it is also an album that deserves serious listening. Plenty is going on that could be lost without focused listening.
Thanks to Ten Millimeter Omega Recordings.
Rose Alaimo – A Place To Go When You Need To Hide
“The song ‘Power Lines’ is about the connections that exist between us, whether we are aware of them or not. One thing that was highlighted during Covid was how unbelievably interconnected we are. How fast the virus spread across the world was astounding, and in the middle of everyone debating mask and vaccination mandates and people becoming increasingly stressed and angry and there being more and more division between everyone, a tree was blown over on my property, taking the power lines down in front of my house. I walked outside and, after the shock of seeing this healthy tree ripped up by the roots by a strong wind, I noticed the lines that were down,” says Rose Alaimo.
“I saw how they were connected to my house, and how the main lines also connected to my neighbor’s house, and how those same lines connected every single house on the street. I never stopped to notice how physically connected all of these houses were by these power lines and how what happened to my house affected everyone else around me. It struck me as an interesting analogy to how we as humans are also all more connected to each other and to the world around us than we might initially assume. These connections may not be visible but they are definitely there. We can spread viruses to each other and we can spread anger and fear, but if we are mindful of this interconnectedness, we can also choose to spread GOOD things: kindness and understanding and peace.”
Thanks to Thanks to Shauna McLarnon from Shameless Promotion PR
Weathered Music 