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Top 10 Albums 2024 – Killian Laher
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The Innocence Mission - Midwinter Swimmers
The Innocence
Mission have been on the go since the late 1980s, and this is their fourteenth
album. The opener This Thread Is A Green
Street has gorgeously strummed guitars and Karen Peris singing over it, and it
is the guitars on the track that really lift it. It’s not a million miles away from Mazzy Star,
with a dash of Sundays.
Her singing
can be a bit polarising at times, like on the title track, but again the
instrumentation really works here, gorgeous guitar and keyboards. The Camera Divides The Coast of Maine has a gorgeous
guitar coda, while on John Williams there is twinkling piano, yet more extraordinary
guitar playing and blushingly sunny keyboards.
Your Saturday
Picture has another gorgeous guitar figure, as does Sisters and Brothers. The vaguely countrified A Hundred Flowers has
more prominent backing vocals than the rest, and the album finishes with A
Different Day, which has more guitar playing to luxuriate in with a little French-sounding twist. It’s just the little touches here and there
that make this album.
You could
argue that this album is a bit samey and repetitive, or just accept its
consistent sound. Either way, it’s a
gorgeous Sunday morning soundtrack.
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Behind The Moon – Tim Blanchard – Book Review
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Midwife – No Depression In Heaven – Album Review
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The Breeders - Pod
The Breeders’
debut album Pod. Or rather – the one without Cannonball. Most certainly overshadowed by what came
after, this 1990 album is a delight. It
starts off slowly and menacingly with the understated Glorious, Kim Deal
singing over grinding guitars. Doe kicks
things into gear, Deal’s sweet vocals against a pounding beat and guitars that
do as much as they have to do and little else. Which is a good thing! They do a heavy cover version of the Beatles’
Happiness Is A Warm Gun, stomping all over it with ‘hobnail booted’ drums. Oh! is
an odd but addictive slow burn, with an almost strangulated vocal from Deal.
The album is
full of pacey guitar-driven songs such as Hellbound, Opened, Limehouse, the
last of this being way better than the penultimate song on any album has any
right to be. There are highlights all
over the album: When I Was A Painter with its thrilling stops and starts, Fortunately
Gone’s exquisite vocal harmonies and the swaggering Only In 3’s. Final track Metal Man provides a rare moment
of quiet before a final blast of guitar.
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