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I'm completely and utterly hooked on this artist right now having just seen her as the support act at a recent gig, I've had to buy her two albums. Grimes (Claire Boucher) was totally fantastic onstage, a one woman lo-fi powerhouse of keyboard and loops:

Crystal Ball - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bWmLFaJA-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLkizJ041Jc&feature=related

Dream Fortress - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXRWNnp0_s&feature=related

Grimes Crystal Ball video struck a chord and immediately led me to this one from Madonna, never been a big fan of Marge, but she had me bewitched back in '98 with great music and visuals that lean towards Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky making this one of my favourite audio-visual works:

Frozen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJ8Knxoazc

Uma - Civitas Soli

Latin Quarter - Swimming Against The Stream

Heligoland - All Your Ships Are White

North Atlantic Oscillation _ Grappling Hooks

Particularly enjoying Richard Hawley's "Truelove's Gutter" at the moment. Bought the album months ago but only just getting round to listening to it; a real slow burner of al album - at times so laid back it's almost comatose but wonderfully atmospheric and evocative.

Funny really as years ago I used to be in a Sheffield band that shared a practice room with Hawley's former band Treebound Story, and he once accidentally (I hope) locked me in the room overnight!

Scott, I notice that NAO are playing in Glasgow and Edinburgh this September.



He clearly saw your talent as competition and wanted to keep you off the scene! I hope you had some snacks to keep you going overnight!

Haven't listened to anything by Hawley since his first two albums, I'm intrigued to check out this more recent one. His sound is one that stirs mixed emotions in me, it whisks me back to a childhood time of being dragged around the Glasgow 'Barras' by my father (he grew up in the bad old days of the Gorbals), we'd go into these strange little places around the market with ramshackle stalls that were illuminated by bare lightbulbs dangling on cables from above, selling bric-a-brac, and sometimes just plain rubbish, rusted food tins, broken electrical appliances, boxes of faded postcards or photographs of anonymous people, it was usually raining outside, and always in the background there was this mournful sound of country ballads coming from an old record player or radio, or Jim Reeves singing "Welcome To My World", it used to both disturb and move me emotionally:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbHOnHAG-g


But Hey, its Friday, and time to be stupid,

bring on the stupidity and lets all have a big group smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8vjvPqQIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8DYWMA6DMA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA5GkLM5C7M

Scott, I notice that NAO are playing in Glasgow and Edinburgh this September.


I believe they are playing the same night as Numan.

Nighthawks, such a beautiful album.

A fine compilation - Electric (Cat # WSMCD223)

Mesh. All their albums - on shuffle!

After hearing the diabolical new single from Erasure, decided I needed to go back and listen to some of their classics so it's Total Pop tonight for me.

Anyone else heard their new single?? What are your thoughts?

I like the chorus and think it works as a single because it has that Erasure catchiness and sweeping arrangement we know and love. A little cheesy - but isn't that what they do?

However I found the verses clumsy and Andy's voice cringe-makingly awkward. It's too high in the mix for me as well, as if he's singing over the music that is very quiet by contrast.

Not the sort of thing I'd buy, but it's ok and should do well.