Post by blade on Dec 24, 2014 23:20:26 GMT
In the past we've put up our best albums of the year, but I've checked and this year I have bought but two new albums: Howling Bells "Heartstrings", of course, and one other, so the one other has to be my non-Howling Bells album of the year.
This is Annie Eve's debut, called "Sunday '91".
Timeout magazine says: "Oh, to be so beautiful and troubled. Fans of introspective, kohl-eyed woe will lap up this debut record from north Londoner Annie Eve: such listless guitar picking is the right and proper soundtrack to existential teenage melancholy. Suffused with vocals dark and sweet as Amaretto, ‘Sunday ’91’ is an intoxicating listen."
I heard her by chance on Youtube after watching the "Original Sin" video and within two weeks I had bought the album and EPs and seen her live. If you get the chance, go and see her.
My second discovery of 2014 was Wolf Alice, but this unfortunately came a few weeks after they played in Sheffield, so I will regret missing them for ... ever??
One of the BBC's "Sounds of 2015" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebh6v2 - "Their sound has been compared to The Joy Formidable and Hole, and was described by Clash Magazine as “the lovechild of folk and grunge”."), their debut album will be released early in 2015, but their 4-track EP "Creature Songs", released last May, drew rave reviews.
Here's what thelineofbestfit said: When Wolf Alice dropped a music bombshell on us in April with "Moaning Lisa Smile", critics were quick to box them up as a rock act and a grunge act, with some passing references to riot grrrl. A more audacious follow-up to singles "Fluffy", "Bros" and debut EP Blush; "Moaning Lisa Smile" was to spearhead a remarkably assured second EP in May called Creature Songs. The song's ballsy five-chord riff was the meatiest guitar hook we'd heard since Foals went all alt-rock on us with "Inhaler". Creature Songs is no one-genre pony. Indeed top-loaded with beefy guitars, earworm melodies and tumultuous drums in the form of "Moaning Lisa Smile" and "Storms", the EP is concluded by two contrasting semi-acoustic tracks that lilt in love ("Heavenly Creatures") and in broken love ("We're Not The Same"). The latter tracks show off the band's versatility: experimenting with dulled breakdowns, earthy harmonies and more fluid arrangements. "We're Not The Same", in particular, is a master of dynamics. Opening with doom-pop guitars and sensual harmonies between Rowsell and drummer Joel Amey, the song slowly evolves into an hefty EP closer replete with ominous reverb and an epic rhythm section. It's this healthy juxtaposition between the loungey skeletal guitar pop of "Heavenly Creatures" and the anthemic rock of "Storms" and "Moaning Lisa Smile" that had us pressing repeat - and why it's our standout EP of the year.
Go see them too, touring in March and April 2015!!
This is Annie Eve's debut, called "Sunday '91".
Timeout magazine says: "Oh, to be so beautiful and troubled. Fans of introspective, kohl-eyed woe will lap up this debut record from north Londoner Annie Eve: such listless guitar picking is the right and proper soundtrack to existential teenage melancholy. Suffused with vocals dark and sweet as Amaretto, ‘Sunday ’91’ is an intoxicating listen."
I heard her by chance on Youtube after watching the "Original Sin" video and within two weeks I had bought the album and EPs and seen her live. If you get the chance, go and see her.
My second discovery of 2014 was Wolf Alice, but this unfortunately came a few weeks after they played in Sheffield, so I will regret missing them for ... ever??
One of the BBC's "Sounds of 2015" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebh6v2 - "Their sound has been compared to The Joy Formidable and Hole, and was described by Clash Magazine as “the lovechild of folk and grunge”."), their debut album will be released early in 2015, but their 4-track EP "Creature Songs", released last May, drew rave reviews.
Here's what thelineofbestfit said: When Wolf Alice dropped a music bombshell on us in April with "Moaning Lisa Smile", critics were quick to box them up as a rock act and a grunge act, with some passing references to riot grrrl. A more audacious follow-up to singles "Fluffy", "Bros" and debut EP Blush; "Moaning Lisa Smile" was to spearhead a remarkably assured second EP in May called Creature Songs. The song's ballsy five-chord riff was the meatiest guitar hook we'd heard since Foals went all alt-rock on us with "Inhaler". Creature Songs is no one-genre pony. Indeed top-loaded with beefy guitars, earworm melodies and tumultuous drums in the form of "Moaning Lisa Smile" and "Storms", the EP is concluded by two contrasting semi-acoustic tracks that lilt in love ("Heavenly Creatures") and in broken love ("We're Not The Same"). The latter tracks show off the band's versatility: experimenting with dulled breakdowns, earthy harmonies and more fluid arrangements. "We're Not The Same", in particular, is a master of dynamics. Opening with doom-pop guitars and sensual harmonies between Rowsell and drummer Joel Amey, the song slowly evolves into an hefty EP closer replete with ominous reverb and an epic rhythm section. It's this healthy juxtaposition between the loungey skeletal guitar pop of "Heavenly Creatures" and the anthemic rock of "Storms" and "Moaning Lisa Smile" that had us pressing repeat - and why it's our standout EP of the year.
Go see them too, touring in March and April 2015!!