'Collected Times' by Danny Short
Debut Album Release, April 2009
Danny Short is from Bolton. He's also from a planet where
70s pastoral progressive music can co-exist happily with
on-the-money noughties experimentalism. Take 'This Year Is Ours' - rapturous 12-strings glitteringly reminiscent of 'Trespass'-era Genesis but dragged by the neck into today by beautiful melodies and harmonies, and some slightly worrying interferences in the background keeping it all the right side of pretty. But then there's 'Truth Made a Man Of Me', where submerged vocals and drones are a bed for another gorgeous melody to sink into and dream.
Imagine if AMM had written pop songs. You can't? Listen
then. Danny Short is in a place of his own, but he shares
some of the universe with poetic souls like Six Organs Of
Admittance and James Blackshaw. And this miserable old
world needs more of this kind of beauty. Caressing
musicianship, tunes to melt the hardest heart. Treat your
soul.
Track listing
1 Dee
2 On The Ceiling
3 Leaving The City
4 Asleep
5 Stranger In The Snow 
6 Dream
7 To Be Different
8 People On The Hilltop
9 This Year Is Ours
10 An Idea
11 Just Before You Disappear
12 Truth Made A Man Of Me
'Tales From The City' by City Of Glass
Debut Album Release ...28.2.09
City Of Glass are a four piece from Hull in the UK.
They've recorded and mixed the material on the album playing
electronica synths with guitars and bass.
"Paranoia. Unrest. Unemployment. Society on the edge of ruin.
The state against the individual. Sounds like eighties, doesn't
it? But it's now..."
Track listing
1 Too Many Bands In This Town
2 L.I.V.E.
3 Seen On The Scene
4 Totally Uncool
5 Doughboy
6 Vigilante
7 Roll Call
8 Rules
9 Greyhounding
10 My Life Without Me
11 Anyday Now
watch a video of Track 1.. 'Too Many Bands'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTAMaApGUHY
