Started the week off by listening to a few CD copies sent to me from a friend - Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes - too folky for my tastes, but there were three tracks on this album that really hit the mark for me, Sun It Rises, Heard Them Stirring, and Blue Ridge Mountains.
Midlake: the Courage Of Others - is another group I also expected not to be my kind of thing, but to my surprise I really enjoyed it, there's a vaguely dark and faraway quality about this album that snuck up on me with its hint's of Moody Blues meets Radiohead. I particularly like the tracks Bring Down and Winter Dies.
Over the last couple of days I finally got around to buying two albums that were released a few years back, and just wish I'd got them sooner.
Paavoharju: Laulu Laakson Kukista, and Yha Hamaraa. Totally gorgeous albums of music, and I can't stop playing them. There's a rare fairytale-like sensibility at work here, with shades of The Caretaker, and Jacaszek in the haunted and lost folk-style songs and melodies, as they dissolve and disintegrate away into a haze of radio fizz and crackle.
Beautiful electro-acoustic works of art, which are just right for this present season as autumn gives way to winter.
