Monday's Long Song

 

Back from a modest but very good skat tournament, today I’m featuring a band that hasn’t yet received the recognition it deserves. In 2019, W.H.Lung, a band from Manchester named after a Chinese supermarket, released their debut album.

Musically, they follow a path that blends shoegaze with elements of krautrock and post-rock. The album is so varied that it can veer between new wave and synth-pop without ever sounding cringey. The album’s opener captivates with a gleaming, driving beat and no-frills guitar solos that keep the track alive for over ten minutes.

W.H.Lung - Sympatico People

Your Love Walks Alone

 

A couple of days ago Andres Trentemøller released the third single from his upcoming album. Your love Walks Alone is different from his work the recent years. Whilst the Danish DJ and producer ha d previously focused on electronic compositions and film soundtracks, his is now taking a completely different direction. That may be because he has teamed up wit a few singers from a completely different camp. Together with The Ravonettes Sune Rose Walker  he distances himself completely from the club scene by producing a somber ballad consisting a thick layers of fuzz.

Later this morning; I'll heading off to Ingolstadt for the rest of the week to take part in an annual skat tournament. See you next week at the same place

Animal Wednesday

 

Our journey today through animal-inspired songs begins in 1969, when Fleetwood Mac’s guitarist at the time was something of an anomaly for a band that played blues rock. No blues and no vocals, but instead cymbal crashes that, like gentle waves, laid the foundation for several minutes of enchantingly beautiful guitar and slide solos.

In 1977, the American rock band Heart released Barracuda, one of their biggest commercial hits. The song begins with a riff that was iconic for its time, and which might well feature in Jez’s series Rifftastic, mate.

To this day, I still cannot fathom how a song about a skunk that had been run over could become such a hit in the United States. The fact is, however, that in 1972 Loudon Wainwright III released a folk-inspired song which he probably didn’t take seriously himself.