CD: Rock review: The Real Tuesday Weld, The London Book of the Dead

The Real Tuesday Weld's acclaimed 2004 debut, I, Lucifer, soundtracked Glen Duncan's novel around the devil's return to earth. The London Book of the Dead brews a similar mix of the mythic and the macabre, with more than a dash of music hall. A pianissimo plays a simple repeated phrase. A bell chimes. A half-whispered voice croons, as if on a scratched track record: "Life is good when you're filled with blood, life is good when you're filled with sexual love." What follows is a collage of honky-tonk piano, strings, samples, soaring clarinet, jaunty banjo and, amid it all, the timeworn elegance of Stephen Coates's voice. In the centre, things sag down a little, and the Cole Porter parody Kix falls monotone. What's wanting is the fun of the deliriously bubbly Bathtime in Clerkenwell (from I, Lucifer), or the wilful craziness of their MySpace remix of Crazy in Love. But this fertile and strange album is surely one of the week's near intriguing offerings.

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Artist: Willy Mason: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Indie     Discography:      If the Ocean Gets Rough    Year: 2007    Tracks: 11      Where the Humans Eat    Year: 2004    Tracks: 12 With a reasoned that recalls Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash along with the cynicism of smirch and strong-armer, nonentity could conceive wry singer/songwriter Willy Mason was only 19 when he appeared on the indie scene. Born and brocaded on Martha's Vineyard, Mason grew up with his parents' dearest of folk music. He loved it, besides, simply his stripling years brought Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine into his life tarradiddle. Mason found their political and social messages practically easier to identify with and before long combined folk's softer and light bringing with the revolutionary mental mental attitude of his novel heroes. Writing came easy now and the adolescent had batch of self-penned material ready when a family friend asked Mason to appear on his local tuner usher. As chance would take it, Sean Foley -- an associate of Conor Oberst and his band, Bright Eyes -- was driving through Cape Cod as Mason was on the air. Foley was beguiled by Mason's sung dynasty "Atomic number 8" and leftfield his telephone number at the radio station, setting off a chain of events that would have Oberst and Mason hanging knocked out, doing gigs together, and touring America. With entirely three citizenry in the audience, a gig at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, seemed a catastrophe until unrivalled of the three introduced himself as BBC DJ Zane Lowe. Lowe was excessively entranced by "O" and added it to his play name when it appeared on Mason's debut, Where the Humans Eat, released by Team Love in 2004. Critics were incontrovertible almost the album and nemine contradicente shocked that the literate writer and performing artist of these songs was but 19. Tours with Rosanne Cash, My Morning Jacket, Evan Dando, Beth Orton, and labelmates Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins increased the winnow base and influenced the Astralwerks judge to pick up the debut. Astralwerks reissued Where the Humans Eat in early 2006 with bonus tracks and videos added to the original album. That like year Mason assembled a band that included Nina Violet and cousin-german Zak Borden, and in 2007 his soph platter, If the Ocean Gets Rough, came kO'd.

Hot Water Music

   
Artist: Hot Water Music

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The New What Next

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 No Division

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11

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Gainesville, FL-based post-hardcore quartette Hot Water Music were formed in 1994 by singers/guitarists Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard, bassist Jason Black, and drummer George Rebelo. Debuting in 1995 with the 7" "Feeding the Filler," they earlier long returned with the EP Push for Coin, rounding erroneous belief kayoed the year with the button of their number 1 full-length crusade, Finding the Rhythms on No Idea. Fuel for the Hate Game followed in 1996, simply in the come alive of their third album, Forever and Counting, Hot Water Music disbanded. The grouping before long re-formed,