Painter - Kissaway Trail, 2010

One of my absolute favorites... wish these guys still made music.

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Kissaway Trail “Breach” Their last album, a solid indie rock album with a nice upbeat rhythm throughout. This appears to be the bands last album, and it’s a good note to end on. (2013, Yep Roc Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS4tZriLY-i/?utm_medium=tumblr

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So me and Rough Trade are back together again after a break. It wasn’t anything serious. They had relaunched their website and it coincided with my credit card lapsing and it all fell into abeyance. I thought I would cold turkey for a while to see if I would miss the Album of the Month service.

The answer was I did a little. The service gives you a physical copy of one album selected by the store and then recommendations of another nine. These can obviously be streamed if you subscribe to such a service. The beauty of it is that you can generally find something worth listening to within these ten selections.

I had found that I was listening to less new music in the period between my last album, Angel Olsen’s “My Woman” in September of last year. Rather coincidentally, the same album has grown on me hugely in the period to become one of my favourites of the year. I’ve been mostly focussed on ECM jazz and classical, which is perfect for the winter months and R’n’B, with Solange’s album “Seat At The Table” getting many plays.

With spring coming, this felt like the right time to reconnect with the Rough Trade Album Club. The relaunch of the club felt like a good opportunity, promising a greater number of member benefits beyond the regular coloured vinyl with exclusive events. Let’s see how it goes.

First up is Holly Macve’s “Golden Eagle”.

This is Macve’s debut LP on ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union label. Raymonde is a good judge of talent. I remember fondly one particular evening at the Royal Festival Hall watching Stephanie Dosen, The Kissaway Trail and Midlake celebrating the album’s tenth anniversary. Raymonde spotted Macve at an open mic evening at the Bee’s Mouth in Brighton and signed her up. Originally from Galway, raised in Yorkshire, the LP was produced by Lantern On The Lake’s Paul Gregory in Newcastle. In the meantime, she’s supported personal favourite John Grant and Ryley Walker.

It is a spare record and one can hear the Lanterns influence. Most tracks feature a multi tracked version of Holly’s voice, piano and/or acoustic guitar and that is mostly it aside from a few embellishments such as the odd slide and tremolo guitar on “The Corner Of My Mind”.

Holly’s voice is front and centre along with her rootsy and country influenced songs. It is quite an instrument, blessed with a Hank Williams style falsetto yodel. If I had a criticism, it is that she overuses that yodel and it drifts into affectation occasionally. Some may love it though, although I found it a little wearing and too a slight degree, detracts from the high quality of the songs. “Heartbreak Blues” and “No-one Has The Answers” step the pace up a little but generally this is a slow and easy type of album. “Shell” has a touch of Ladies Of The Canyon era Joni.

The title track is dedicated to Holly’s grandfather, a composer who helped her learn the piano and started her musical education. She started singing around the house before she could talk properly and obviously the musical talent is in her bones. It is a very accomplished debut, stylistically self assured. It closes the album with a stately piano ballad and a choir of multiple Hollys.

It reminds me of Alela Diane, a personal favourite from the late noughties. Hear’s Alela’s early song “Pirate’s Gospel”, a folk sea shanty. Alela has a similar voice but doesn’t go in for the falsetto stuff.

I’ve been listening to the LP a great deal and get a little more from it each time which bodes well. It is available from Rough Trade on red vinyl with a bonus CD of covers, the highlight of which is a gorgeous cover of the Everly Brother’s “All I Have To Do Is Dream” and a decent crack at Ryan Adam’s “Call Me On Your Way Back Home” from my old favourite “Heartbreaker“.

Holly has done a Rough Trade podcast in the shoplifting series, where she picks her interesting records in store. Her selections certainly showed her influences quite clearly and a couple of the songs are stone cold classics IMHO:

Gillian Welch – “Revelator” (from “Time (The Revelator)”(2001)) – 0ne of my very favourite records too

Meilyr Jones – “Refugee” (from “2013” (2013)) – gentle piano track from a Welsh singer songwriter

Angel Olsen – “Lights Out” (from “Burn Your Fire For No Witness”(2014)) – as noted above, I’ve developed a bit of a fondness for Angel’s music over the last few months

Ryan Adams – “Bartering Lines” (from “Heartbreaker” (2000)) – she’s a big fan of “Heartbreaker”, which of course is fine by me!

Mazzy Star – “Fade Into You” (from “So Tonight I May See” (1993)) – another great song but from their second LP, not the first as the podcast states

The songs are all from the classic singer songwriter repertoire, albeit rather recent examples. Holly obviously has a good ear.

I can imagine Holly working well on the summer festival circuit in the acoustic arenas. One to watch.

Back with @RoughTrade with @hollymacve and her debut LP. It's the #albumofthemonth So me and Rough Trade are back together again after a break. It wasn't anything serious. They had relaunched their website and it coincided with my credit card lapsing and it all fell into abeyance.

So late we even woke up the stars Our hearts reflected melodies no one ever could sing Go out, let's dance it away The city never looked prettier A sad look always beats a smile

Kissaway Trail, Nørrebro 

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_Ohc95R9Q)

SCANDINAVIAN INDIE MUSIC SCENE 

Scandinavia is quite popular to produce some great musicians, especially when you talk about music industry in Sweden. What about its indie music scene? This article will cover short discoveries in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.

Sweden. Other than big names in pop music and EDM. This country is previously well-known with the big names such as Peter Bjorn & John and The Tallest Man On Earth in indie zone. Anyway, there are some underrated alternative pop bands such as Air France, First Aid Kit, Simian Ghost, The Radio Dept, Shout Out Louds, etc. Sweden indie music scene includes alternative rock groups including the uprising Makthaverskan, Holograms, and Agent Blå, also the older ones like The Genuine Fakes, The Perishers, which surprisingly still sounds cool today. Sweden is also heading to be the first country which gives more chances (proven with more and more rising female music stars) and safe environment for women involvement in music. After sexual harassment incidents in Bravalla Festival 2017, the women movement in music is getting bigger there and the first women-only music event is fixed to be held next year there.  

Norway. “Misread” by Kings of Convenience is widely known as one of the most popular songs we often listen on TV commercial. Not many knows that the breezy-cozy tunes actually belong to a Norwegian band. Norwegian music is not that popular as Swedish certainly. Norway also popular with classical pop groups such as A-Ha and Secret Garden. Yet, Norway has broad indie musicians, from typical alt-pop artists/groups, hardrock bands to rappers/hiphop artists like Awill, Yoguttene. For alt-pop band/groups recommendations you better hear Truls, Highasakite, Comet Kid, Minor Majority, Kid Astray, Jaga Jazzist Meanwhile if you want try the solo artists, there are AURORA, Emilie Nicolas, Farao, Mr. Little Jeans, Pandreas. If you want harder tunes, try older bands like Skambankt and Zyklon. 

Denmark has less popularity compared to Sweden and Norway. Most of Danish musicians still using their native language instead of English. Anyway, similar to the other Scandinavian countries, pop and alternative pop becomes the most common genre to be picked. Anyway, it seems to keep improving when talk about musicians who commit to enter global market like Asbjørn, Broken Twin, Blaue Blume, Dinner, Rangleklods, Sekuoia, The Kissaway Trail, Efterklang, When Saints Go Machine. Danish indie music scene is crowded with alternative pop bands and solo artists though. Not many of them enter hard or alternative rock, Iceage and MEW are ones of the few indie-rock bands in Denmark though. 

Finland. This Scandinavian country is surprisingly dominated by electro dream pop and folk when talk about its music. Hexvessel, Black Twig, Cat of Transnitria, Liima, Satellite Stories, Husky Rescue, Jaako Eino Kalevi, Talmud Beach, Frigg (folk-pop) are our recommendations to introduce you to the Finnish music scene, but you can also try some anti-mainstream electro-rock bands like Fear of Domination and K-X-P, rock and roll band Thunderstone, or even hip-hop artist Noah Kin and Gracias.

Iceland is ironically the least popular country in Scandinavia. Very well known as the hometown of Björk and Of Monsters and Men, don’t you ever try to underestimate its indie music scene. In the same spectrum of its fellow countries in the Scandinavian land, electro dream pop become the most common or popular genre picked by contemporary musicians. Try alternative pop musicians Asgeir, FM Belfast, Just Another Snake Cult. Don’t worry, there are some indie-rock bands such as Mammut and Kaleo with their new wave rock touch. Icelandic music scene is beyond unique. It is not exaggerating to conclude Björk musical approach as the representative of the country’s music scene.  

If you want to know more about Scandinavian musicians list go to High’s Nobiety.

This Weeks Noise New music from Anika (with a mixtape) and Uwoman. An album from Kissaway Trail, more harp with Camille and Kennerly, and a Rough Guide to Country Blues. Listen Hard https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsxe87Liwo/?utm_medium=tumblr

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