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Listen to 26 new to me bands/artists, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet
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B - 12/6/2014
Band: Bishop Allen
Album: Bishop Allen & the Broken String (2007)
A little more 90s garage-y than I really enjoy, but there was some pleasant musicality underneath the raw guitar and teen boy vocals on some of the tracks, and others just had an enjoyable, if generic, beat. So far, none of these songs would I go out of my way to listen to, but I also wouldn't skip any if they came up on the radio. Mostly, I'm like, I'm not really all that interested in listening to the thin, reedy voices of guys who can't really breathe properly, and the quality of the songs themselves is uneven - so on some tracks I like the underlying music enough to make up for the vocals, and others it's not enough.
Lyrics weren't strong enough to make me pay attention to them, and there was usually too much repetition of the title phrase.
Another review said this album was very Paul Simon-y, but Simon & Garfunkel sang so much better, and had such beautiful harmonies. This sounds like something I'd love in covers, but I just don't want to hear these guys singing. Did their lead singer have laryngitis the entire time they were working on this album? (That review on Pitchfork did agree with my fave/least choices though!)
I do like the variety of instrumentation.
Favorite song(s): The News From Your Bed, Butterfly Nets (b/c female band member takes over singing, & she has an actually pleasant voice, while the music itself sounds very early TBLLT), Flight 180 (the singer almost ruins it, but that opening section & the bridge are just lovely; this is also the only song on the album that feels like it moves & has any development in it)
Least favorite song(s): Middle Management, Click Click Click
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B - 12/6/2014
Band: Bishop Allen
Album: Bishop Allen & the Broken String (2007)
A little more 90s garage-y than I really enjoy, but there was some pleasant musicality underneath the raw guitar and teen boy vocals on some of the tracks, and others just had an enjoyable, if generic, beat. So far, none of these songs would I go out of my way to listen to, but I also wouldn't skip any if they came up on the radio. Mostly, I'm like, I'm not really all that interested in listening to the thin, reedy voices of guys who can't really breathe properly, and the quality of the songs themselves is uneven - so on some tracks I like the underlying music enough to make up for the vocals, and others it's not enough.
Lyrics weren't strong enough to make me pay attention to them, and there was usually too much repetition of the title phrase.
Another review said this album was very Paul Simon-y, but Simon & Garfunkel sang so much better, and had such beautiful harmonies. This sounds like something I'd love in covers, but I just don't want to hear these guys singing. Did their lead singer have laryngitis the entire time they were working on this album? (That review on Pitchfork did agree with my fave/least choices though!)
I do like the variety of instrumentation.
Favorite song(s): The News From Your Bed, Butterfly Nets (b/c female band member takes over singing, & she has an actually pleasant voice, while the music itself sounds very early TBLLT), Flight 180 (the singer almost ruins it, but that opening section & the bridge are just lovely; this is also the only song on the album that feels like it moves & has any development in it)
Least favorite song(s): Middle Management, Click Click Click
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