Last thread for the year, let’s make it a great one!
An under-rated, under-appreciated album.
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@CrystalGipsy
What do you think of this? I quite like it. After a few listens i’m wondering why someone would leave a band (on good terms), to then produce an album that sounds an awful lot like the band he has just departed from. 
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Yes I like it, I kind of agree although it at times feels like other influences come in though, I hear a lot of Felt and other bands of that ilk and less the psychedelic side and much less reverb overall. You can tell Alasdair’s songs instantly because of his heavy use of reverb and obviously his voice. But considering all the Clientele are involved plus other band members perhaps as it says it was the more collaborative nature he wanted?
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Yeah. I can hear Felt as an influence. Your gig next week should be interesting. Wonder who will turn up? I would have been up for it, but we have Ian Prowse (+ Blow Monkeys) on the Saturday, and then away the following week…including a Jane Weaver matinee performance. All good 
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"Woke up on Monday and got ready for school
Put on my uniform it was three sizes too small
I said “dear, dear, dear teacher
I’ve been six years away
And ain’t finished my essay
Coz rock’n’roll rules ok!”
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Blow Monkeys, Dr Robert still going wasn’t aware of that. Enjoy, you back to Calder.
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Aye. Never a big Blow Monkeys fan, so I’m looking forward to what they offer. Two years ago Ian Prowse had Baby Bird as the support band, and they were excellent.
Then it’s Calder Valley, via the Piece Hall, Hebden, Haworth and a wander up to the Bronte Falls and ‘Top Withens.’ Gotta keep up with the exercise, as weight seems to magnetically attach itself to me during the winter months.
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A new album from Americana-Roots icon Gurf Morlix, In Love at Zero Degrees is his second release of 2024. (The first was Melt Into You, January 2024.) For this producer/songwriter/performer, the music just keeps coming. And who better equipped than the man who has produced chart-topping albums for the likes of Ray Wylie Hubbard, Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Robert Earl Keen, and more, who has been named the Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year, and was inducted into the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame? In his own words:
My new album is here. After hearing it many hundreds of times while creating it, I took a break from it and didn’t listen to it for 3 months. I listened to it again tonight, and I was struck by the thought that it is likely the most personal album I have recorded. The most intimate. My time away gave me new perspective, and I heard new things I didn’t realize were there. This has never happened before. I’m gonna call this a good thing. You can listen, and decide for yourselves. [bandcamp]
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