Garden - Round & Round
Release Date.: 03.09.2007
Street Date..: 03.01.2007
Label........: Static Caravan
Genre........: Alternrock
Playtime.....: 43:36 min
Grabber......: Audiograbber
Encoder......: Lame 3.97
Quality......: V2 --vbr-new
Rippers Notes:
Do you remember psychey pop also-rans Simian? Yeah I
do tooà sort of, I seem to remember they were
advertised a lot more than they probably sold, but
all the same, they were quite good too. Well Simon
Lord, ex frontman of said band is back with a new
album for one of our favourite British labels, the
lovely Static Caravan and I can reveal that itÆs a
bit of a stunner. Static Caravan seem to be pursuing
the nu-folk sound with all their might, and avoiding
the slightly spannered freak folk of labels such as
Fonal and Digitalis for a more classic, a more
British sound. LordÆs æRound & RoundÆ sums up this
sentiment absolutely and sounds like it could have
easily dropped out of the musical bush in 1974 as
easily as it could have come out today. The recording
quality is decidedly old fashioned, the
instrumentation is beautifully æclassicÆ and the
songwriting, the cover, everything suggests that itÆs
a long forgotten acid folk masterpiece that someone
pressed up 50 copies of and left in charity chops
across England. Just flick over to æYew TreeÆ for the
best example of this, its is a track that really
should be a hit single if there was any justice in
the world (newsflash : there isnÆt) and sums up
LordÆs skills in one bitesized chunk. If you got
chills hearing TunngÆs incredible debut æMothers
Daughter and Other SongsÆ then youÆre bound to enjoy
the flute-drenched folk loveliness of æGardenÆ.
Tracklist:
01 - Nightingale [03:58]
02 - Yours to Hold [04:08]
03 - Burnt by the Sun [03:51]
04 - Throw Yourself Upon the Wind [03:22]
05 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [04:09]
06 - Dandelions [04:06]
07 - 1234567 [03:17]
08 - Yew Tree [03:53]
09 - Sleepy Head [03:20]
10 - Rolling Down Hill [03:12]
11 - Bluebells [03:29]
12 - What Are Heavy? [02:51]
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