First blog and very possibly the best album of the year.The Cinematic Orchestra
Nice!
Cooler than cool without need of cool they just are.................cool
Outside, and quite possibly ignorant of, the current morays and categorisations of the music biz.
I can't say, however that this album surpasses "Everydays"; it kind of sidesteps it. You know that J Swinscoe has a fascination with cinema and this album is, to coin the cliche, "a soundtrack to an un-made movie": cinematographic, slow tracking, wide angle and enigmatic. A bitter sweat love story with a subtly twisted open ending.
It's not a very good rip so I'm hoping that the real CD will sound good as I'm determined it should be the opener to when I get a new flat with my stereo set up again - fingers crossed.
The shock horror of this album though is the introduction of guitars, shock as in not shocking, Will Ackerman rather than Van Halen, adding beautiful tonal texture and colour to a very pared-back "less is more" production.
The good news is Fontella Bass is back, she's a true original as opposed to Patrick Wilson's and Lou Rhodes' respective pastiches of Jeff Buckley and Marianne Faithful; bad news.
This title will be released on May 7, 2007. Pre-order now! and in the meantime enjoy this download.
