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It’s been way too long since we last updated you with some of the favourite videos we receive, so I won’t blather on today, let’s get on with it!
We’ve written about Losers before, but here’s the video to Flush, their new single. Coming on as a Terry gilliam mental breakdown, it’s something to behold…
I don’t think I rerally have th words to describe Boe Weaver‘s video for I Think You Two Should Leave… so I’ll let it do the talking for itself!
Rambling Man is, without doubt, one of Laura Marling‘s most haunting tunes yet. We fell in love from the moment we heard her new album, and if you cvheck this out you might do too!
We recently reviewed Kyte, and one of the tracks we highlighted was IHNFSA. Well, it’s been released as a single, so check out the video
Lastly we’ve got Ignition from County Armagh. These guys are firmly entrenched in a 90′s indie rock soundscape, but they do it well. It’s not a video laden with effects, but check out Take Me There to get a flavour of what these guys do!
Lots more lovely new videos for you fine folks this week, so rather than waste time, let’s dive right in!
First up we’ve got folk songstress Laura Marling with Devil’s Spoke. Set to be released in March this will be the first track from her new album so check it out to get a flavour of what to expect.
Next up are Pendulum, not a lot to say about this one besides that it’s a preview video featuring some impressive new material from their forthcoming album.
We reviewed Life We Live last week, but the track is out today and as we enjoed it so much, we thought we’d share the video with you. Check it out and then follow up on checking out the guys who wrote it, Let’s Go To War are gonna be big – and you heard it here first!
Another track we really enjoyed and featured in last week’s singles corner was Like Home by Musee Mecanique, so while we’re at it, why don’t we check out their video too?
Last, but not least we’ve got Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip with possibly their best track yet, Get Better. It’s a cracking tune and though it isn’t released for over a month we couldn’t resist sharing it with you!
Laura Marling will release her Ethan Johns-produced second album ‘I Speak Because I Can’ on March 22nd, the follow-up to her Mercury-nominated debut ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’. The album will be preceded by new single ‘Devil’s Spoke’ on March 15th.
Laura is to release a second album this year with recording starting this March, again with Johns at the helm, scheduled for release in September 2010.
TRACK LISTING:
01 – Devil’s Spoke
02 – Made By Maid
03 – Rambling Man
04 – Blackberry Stone
05 – Alpha Shallows
06 – Goodbye England
07 – Hope In The Air
08 – What He Wrote
09 – Darkness Descends
10 – I Speak Because I Can UK & IRELAND APRIL TOUR:
09 – Belfast – Limelight
10 – Dublin – The Academy
12 – Manchester – Lowry
13 – Glasgow – Fruitmarket
14 – Edinburgh – Queen’s Hall
16 – Birmingham – Alexandra Theatre
17 – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
19 – Newcastle – Tyne Theatre
20 – York – Opera House
21 – Bristol – Colston Hall
23 – Southampton – Guildhall
25 – London – Palladium
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‘I Speak Because I Can’ is Laura Marling’s coming of age album, its 10 songs imbued with a new richness, ripeness and sophistication. It is also an album marked by its quintessential Englishness. For all its American instrumentation, its shades of Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, its American producer, these songs are no pale Americana interpretation; rather they are tales deeply rooted in England.
Marling chose Ethan Johns to produce as she credits many of his earlier records (among them Ray LaMontagne, Kings of Leon, Emmylou Harris, Sarabeth Tucek) with kindling her interest in music, had long admired his way of working, his use of reels, his quiet, traditional methods of production. He gave her the space to find her own identity; the record reveals in a new maturity, and at points Marling’s voice sounds a little harder, a little world-wearied.
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