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Showing posts with label Small Town Boredom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Town Boredom. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Most-read articles in 2013
Here are the 10 most-read articles on Sacred Cowpats in 2013:
10 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
Kicking Against the Pricks - http://sacredcowpats.blogspot.
Henry's Dream - http://sacredcowpats.blogspot.
Thanks to those who stuck with this as I have hobbled through Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' back catalogue. A joint entry at number 10 for covers album Kicking Against the Pricks and for 1992's Henry's Dream.
9 J Mascis + The Fog - More Light:
Mascis goes solo on this 2000 effort.
8 Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle - Perils From The Sea:
Kozelek's most unusual release of his career to date, and undoubtedly a triumph.
7 Bob Mould - Body of Song:
Late period Mould from 2005.
6 Top albums of 2013:
You liked this. Or it so it seems.
5 The Mission - The Brightest Light:
Hussey and co miraculously still around.
4 The Savings and Loan - Today I Need Light:
Scottish band, not too many of those on this blog usually...
3 Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly of A Mountain
Final album from Linkous.
2 Small Town Boredom - Notes From The Infirmary
And another (defunct) Scottish band.
1 Mark Eitzel - Glory
Fans only release and I take it everyone who bought it read this!
Monday, January 14, 2013
Album Review: Small Town Boredom - Notes From The Infirmary
Where Small Town Boredom's debut album featured 14 songs, their 2010 follow up is far more focused at six songs. Fraser McGowan's whispered lyrics on the slow-burning Song for Matthew Leonard leave little to the imagination ("they gave me Librium to mend my broken heart"), unfurling slowly and carefully. After the lush instrumental White Cart Water, they return to sparse, hushed folk with Black Cart Ways and the haunting Void Lighting.
The bleak World's Most Unwanted explodes with despair mid song, almost like a release of tension, with wordless cries and guitar distortion. But this is a rare moment of disquiet. Final track Moments for Denial has a beautifully picked acoustic guitar over a simple, electronic beat with minimalist vocals from McGowan, which works as well as anything else here. It's available from http://tromerecords.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-the-infirmary
Friday, October 5, 2012
Album Review: Small Town Boredom – Autumn Might Have Hope
Small Town
Boredom is the bandname for Fraser McGowan and Colin Morrison from Scotland. They deal in a brand of downbeat, gentle
melancholia, framed by McGowan’s ‘delicate’ vocals.
The approach
is very much lo-fi, and very moody… the titles will give you a clue – Apologies
For Apathy, Sympathy For The Drowning, Understanding Blackness. At 14 tracks there is quite a lot to get
through here but there are some strong songs.
The gorgeous picked guitars of For Today I Missed The Dawn Break makes
it an early highlight. The Great Lodging
and Sympathy for the Drowning aim hard for the gutter, while other tracks like
the accordion-tinged Monday Night H.O.P.E. Group and the gentle duet Elder Park
& All That Followed are more reminiscent of miserabilists like Arab Strap
or Dakota Suite.
Many of the
other tracks are quite brief, featuring barely audible guitar and whispered
vocals (Another Coded Message, How I Learned To Love The Waterboys). The instrumental interludes are more
successful, with alluring guitar picking on William Summer’s Blues and On The
Crookston Line.
The album
could probably do with shades of light here and there to break the relentless
misery. So sad b**t**d music then, in a good way. It's available via bandcamp: http://tromerecords.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-might-have-hope
Friday, September 7, 2012
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