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The Music Thread Strikes Back

I find that his acoustic blandness generally hides in the walls.
 
Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year revealed

The 2014 Albums of the Year are:

Anna Calvi One Breath
Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow
Damon Albarn Everyday Robots
East India Youth Total Strife Forever
FKA twigs LP1
GoGo Penguin v2.0
Jungle Jungle
Kate Tempest Everybody Down
Nick Mulvey First Mind
Polar Bear In Each and Every One
Royal Blood Royal Blood
Young Fathers Dead

“This year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist confirms that these are fascinating times for UK music”, says Simon Frith, Chair of Judges. “There are seven outstanding debut albums here, and five records by more established artists, all pursuing exciting new directions. What most impressed the judges was the inventive passion with which musicians explore music and emotional possibilities, refusing to be pinned down by rules or genre.”
 
Albarn's album is magic and BBC are ok. But the rest...shite.

Maybe I'm just getting old. I still haven't got over M-People winning the Mercury Prize.
 
Anna Calvin nominated for the second year in a row (i think. Might have been 2012). Cracking album and a touch more experimental than her first, which is a plus.
 
I like Calvi. That's a good album. She's supporting Morrissey on his tour, too, which could be interesting.
 
MARKakaJIM said:
It's the only song of his i can think of, doesn't mean it's the only one i've heard, but the fact that i can only remember any of his songs by a cover from a homeless nobody speaks volumes of how much of on impression his work has had on me.
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Ha ha. Missed this reply earlier!
You could be right... Or it could just be that you've not listened to his albums and are therefore too hugely ill-informed to have a worthwhile opinion? :shrug: :shock horror:
 
Maybe you just have honking taste in music*....







*Only joking babes. Your defence of low quality acoustic crooners and abysmal faux blues 90s bands is endearing. X
 
Plenty of non-acoustic stuff in Damo's back catalogue you ignoramus :D
 
I've seen the Albarn name before,and I think Calvi was married to Steffen Iversen?

Blank on the rest,as usual!
 
Damon Albarn was the lead singer of Blur, if that helps?
 
The only Damien Rice song I know is The Blowers Daughter. I think that's his most famous isn't it?
 
Yeah, probably. It was on the Closer soundtrack. Cannonball would be the other one, but the radio edit of it is horrible.
He's only released two albums, spend an hour and a half listening to them. They're superb.
 
after some workmen shorted the power and knackered my computer I've had to wait to check out new vinyl arrivals - new pornographers, protomartyr, brianjonestown and finally the new horrors album. i think someone said on here it was a bit crap, but sounded quite good to me on a 7 track listen or so.

not really bothered by the mercury - hope william doyle wins it as my brother knows him. usually it's populated by bands that have never done anything for me, epitomised this year by bombay bicycle club. each to their own i guess.
 
Royal Blood's album is quality. Great big dirty noise. Can't say I care much for Bombay Bicycle Club and Albarn is a pompous prick and for me it shows in his music. But I'm an ignoramus with most of this stuff.
 
Oh yeah Cannonball. I forgot about that one. Blowers Daughter is better.
 
Damian Rice is superb at what he does. 'O' was a fantastic dinner party album, and had some wonderfully crafted songs and some technically excellent guitar work, too. Be good to hear some new stuff from him.

After 3 Ibiza trips in 4 years, I've developed a massive in trance - something that I'd have never thought I'd say in a million years 5 years ago! Just got back and saw Markus Schulz at Amnesia, and ranks right up there as one of the best nights of my life, and certainly best gig I've ever seen. Just an incredible energy, had the crowd in his hands for 7 hours, and incredibly skillful.
 
A few gigs coming up. FKA Twigs at Oran Mor, Royal Blood at ABC Glasgow, 4 nights of Biffy Clyro (1 at The Troxy in London the same day as the Forest home game and 3 back to back nights at The Barrowlands in Dec) and Basement Jaxx at The Barrowlands on Nov 30th. Awesome.
 
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