The Concretes: “On the Radio” (2006)
Low-key but infectious, The Concretes create what has been called The Stockholm Sound, a sunny brand of pop sound from a country that doesn’t actually get a lot of sun.
Songs You May Have Missed #451
27 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: on the radio, the concretes
Songs You May Have Missed #450
23 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
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Sloan: “Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore” (2003)
Count the guitar tones used here by underrated Canadian power pop masters Sloan.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/04/09/songs-you-may-have-missed-71/
Songs You May Have Missed #449
23 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
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Keane: “Everybody’s Changing” (2004)
From their 2004 debut, which featured the single “Somewhere Only We Know”, their biggest radio hit.
Keane’s anthemic sound eschews lead guitar in favor of piano, and their emotive songs and soaring choruses have always invited Coldplay comparisons. Somehow, though, Keane have mostly managed to avoid the mainstream audience.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2013/10/28/songs-you-may-have-missed-494/
Songs You May Have Missed #448
21 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
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Man Man: “Head On” (2013)
Man Man tone down their quirky, Tom Waits-style nightmare cabaret tendencies on the new single “Head On”, perhaps indicating that the forthcoming On Oni Pond LP will follow this trend.
Amazon.com calls the new album “a compelling mash-up of Fear Of Music-era Talking Heads, classic soul, psychedelia, hip hop, and 50 s rock and roll”.
Can’t wait.
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Songs You May Have Missed #447
13 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
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Heywood Banks: “Toast” (1998)
Heywood Banks is probably the premier toaster virtuoso among all comic songwriters. And he really likes toast.
Songs You May Have Missed #446
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Rita Ribeiro: “Banho Cheiroso” (1999)
Brazilian singer Rita Ribeiro’s “Banho Cheiroso” (“Aromatic Bath”) simply extols the virtues of bathing “to get rid of this indolence”, with the use of various Brazilian aromatic plants, several of which she lists in the song. So, basically: You need an attitude adjustment–go take a bath.
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