Monday 10 September 2018

Popular Music - March 2018

Tori Amos
  • From the Choirgirl Hotel
  • To Venus and Back (Venus Orbiting)
  • The Beekeeper
  • Native Invader
Beyonce - Lemonade
James Blake - Overgrown
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn
Eskimo Joe - A Song is a City
Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Patty Griffin - Silver Bell
Missy Higgins - The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
Jars of Clay - The Eleventh Hour
Moloko - Things to Make and Do
Janelle Monae - Metropolis Suites 1, 2 (from The Archandroid), 4 and 5 (Electric Lady)
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

The thing of most note here is that I spent some finally getting to grips with Patty Griffin's Silver Bell album, a long-lost gap in her career that was released in 2013.

For some reason it takes me a long time to completely engage with new Patty Griffin albums, after the four or so that I was initially introduced to by an American friend. I think that this is partly due to not being convinced in some cases that they are genuine albums, as opposed to a series of (often quite magnificent) songs that happened to find themselves on the same disc.

Anyway, Silver Bell does play quite well as an album, though it will always be hampered slightly by the fact that a couple of songs ended up being re-housed in the 13 years between recording and release. It's worth having.

And... that's all I'm going to say. Efficiency is the key here as I try to catch up. Again. Sigh.

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