Son Lux - Alternate Forms
Very quiet week for me. Here’s an album of reworked songs from Sonn Lux’s Lanterns album, with Kishi Bashi, KAINA, Anna B Savage, D M Stith and others.
Albums from two of my favourite outsider artists today.
Paul Rooney - Surface Industries II
Experimental. Second of Liverpool artist’s two albums of “ambient skewed-pop albums focusing on service industries jobs”.
“The lyrics of Paul Rooney’s third solo album Surface Industries II, like it’s predecessor, are themed around service industry occupations, this time focusing on roles in retail, banking and hospitality, often using interviews with the workers themselves. The songs describe transient everyday customer interactions and repetitive drudgery, but also reveal creative moments of playfulness, mischief and vengeance. The music is voice led with a spoken word and choral focus, but it often collides real voices with synthesized, digitally processed mock/real chimes and beats that echo the laminated, wipe-clean, customer-captivating environments the songs emerge from”.
Connie Converse - Musicks
Singer-songwriter. Connie Converse was active in the 1950s in the developing Greenwich Village scene. She never got a recording contract and she didn’t release any music at that time. She quit music by the early 60s. She disappeared in 1974. There are very few recordings of her, most of what we have was released on the How Sad How Lovely compilation in 2009. To commemorate/celebrate her 99th birthday, this Musicks album is a two volume set of one-off tape reels that Connie made for her brother and sister-in-law, and includes some previously unreleased material.
Anniversary edition of snow patrols final straw album out today. Interesting to hear the demo versions of some big tracks. More akin to their early stuff.
Looks like Run had a lot of work done to it before it became a huge hit
Din Of Celestial Birds newie out today. We played with them a little while back and they were very, very impressive. So much so I pre-ordered this as soon as I could.
