This blog is intended to do "exactly what it says on the tin" so below are some of my 'Thoughts on Music'. They predominantly concern recent matters but will not always do so. I'll also happily turn to matters of the music industry more generally if and when I feel so inclined. So there!
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Richard
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
New Music 2016 - Part 31 - On Dead Waves
This release has somehow blind-sided me but I'm very excited about it. On Dead Waves is a new act but it combines artists I am much in awe of. It consists of two artists with previous recording histories: James Chapman (as Maps) and Polly Scattergood (as herself). This is what has happened since they met musically, by dint of performing each the songs of the other, at a showcase at The Roundhouse, Camden, London back in 2011.
On Dead Waves - On Dead Waves (Mute Records, 20 May 2016).
This is the track list:
Blackbird
Never Over
California
Hollow
Alice
Dead Balloons
Blue Inside
Autumn Leaves
Jupiter
Winter's Child
The big question, and I'm not minded to make you wait until Friday to find out, is what does this synthesis sound like? I would have been terribly disappointed had the work been unremittingly cheerful.
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