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Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 15 August 2010 CE
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Edited Aug 15, 2010, 10:59
Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 15 August 2010 CE
Aug 15, 2010, 09:26
Lewis Taylor - Lewis II - from the album Lewis II
Lewis Taylor - Waves - b side of Whoever cd single
Lewis Taylor - Damn & Spirit - from the eponymous debut lp

Lewis Taylor's debut album was lauded to the heavens by such tastemakers as Mojo Magazine and er ... Elton John. It became the record that everyone in the music business seemed to love and yet nobody paid for. Island tried to market him as blue eyed soul when he was clearly coming from Peel and Sunday nights at the Roundhouse rather than Global Village, Caister and Robbie Vincent. A music biz hipsters' five-minute-wonder of an album for sure but you have to respect a man who plays Free's "Mr Big" and "21st Century Schizoid Man" at a Nu Soul show. Superficially he was one of those 1990s D'Angelo / Angie Stone soul revivalist type of R&B artist, all authentic sounds and emotive singing but no great songs to write home about. Don't let that put you off though as his music is a gorgeous gothic mixture of Todd, Marvin, Tim Buckley, Brian Wilson, Darryl Hall, Prince and Yes. Not just his kitchen sink but everyone else's kitchen sink too. And the songs are there you just have to let them blossom with repeated listening. He shares with Marvin a tendancy to slip into superficial baby-baby-baybeeee lyrical structures but his conversational songs also expose a core male vulnerability in the romance stakes. It's that Paranoid-Sex-In-60s-Soul insecurity thing qv the O'Jays "Backstabbers" but priapic with it. He also has that classic Motown knack of knack of writing beautiful bass lines that are almost separate songs in themselves. And the harmonies! Angels, my friends. Angels. Now retired from the music business you can see that Taylor will be one of those artists that gets the 6 page Mojo revival feature treatment in about 2020. Get in early! Seek out these four tunes as starters and if they crank your handle I would very highly recommend the debut album, "Lost" and "Stoned". If you love Todd I can almost guarantee that you will love Lewis too.

Black Tempest - Ex Proxima
Bloody hell! You can't knock the standard of music made by people on HH. This is a great TD meets Popol Vuh record with a Free Jazz interlude t'boot. If this range and depth is replicated across the other underground music forums then the state of the nation's music is in pretty rude health. If it isn't then you could make a career as an a&r man just hanging out on Unsung!

Black Crowes - Croweology
There is life in the Classic Rock beast yet. Great double album of stripped down versions of BC favourites. If you've not heard anything they've done since Jealous Again or Amorica then this is as good an entree as any to their Stones/War/Band/Parsons mash up

Kleptones - Shits & Giggles
A new Kleptones record is always worth an hour of your time and even with these are outtakes from Uptime/Downtime there is barely a weak moment or a bad idea.

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
The post Syd Floyd sound rebuilt for 2010 and a Prog album that wont get you into trouble with the discography police. What the Flaming Lips would have sounded like in their early years were they not total chancers.
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