The Oedipus Project
Off the road for a month so back to posting music that is worthy, and what better way to begin than with the exquisite Laura Marling.
She has collaborated with the Mercury prize-winning producer Mike Lindsay and together they call themselves LUMP.
Curse of the Contemporary is their first offering.
The Take Off and the Landing of Everything is the title of the new album from Elbow.
These former Mercury Prize winners lead with the beautiful melancholy of “New York Morning”.
Once a member of Pulp and the Longpigs, Brit guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Hawley has 7 solo albums under his belt.
His latest, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, (a Mercury Prize nominee) is stellar.
Listen here to “Down in the Woods”.
∆, pronounced in this case Alt-J, just won the Mercury Music Prize.
The award is given annually to the best album from the UK and Ireland.
(The band’s name derives from pressing Alt-J on a Mac keyboard to achieve the Delta symbol. Delta is used to denote “change” in mathematical equations. )
“Fitzpleasure” is from An Awesome Wave, Alt-J’s winning debut.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark formed in 1978 and lasted in various incarnations until 1996. Part of the synth-pop new wave, OMD’s early songs “Electricity” and “Enola Gay” were guaranteed to fill the dance floor at New Wave dance emporiums. The height of the band’s popularity was in the early 80’s.
After a ten-year absence OMD reformed in 2006 with the original classic line-up: the two principles– Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys–plus Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper. And now Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark has just released History of Modern, their first album in fourteen years!
The band is offering a free download of the demo for the song “Sister Marie Says” on their website. Not included on the album is OMD’s cool cover of a song by The xx (this year’s Mercury Prize winner). “VCR” is the Song of the Day.
The band The xx were just named the winners of the 2010 Mercury Prize awarded for the best album by a UK or Irish band. Established in 1992, Primal Scream’s Screamadelica took home the initial award. Other winners have included Suede, Portishead, Pulp, Badly Drawn Boy, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Antony and the Johnsons, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons and Elbow. Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Foals, Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal, Corinne Bailey Rae and Wild Beasts were among this year’s nominees. The trio receives £20,000. “Crystalised” and “Islands” are two singles from The xx debut album xx, plus the song “Infinity” a personal fave.
“Crystalised”
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“Islands”
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“Infinity”
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In 2007 the British band Klaxons won the coveted Mercury Music Prize (an award for the best album from the UK or Ireland) for their debut album Myths of the Near Future. This month these four lads follow it up with Surfing the Void. From the forthcoming album, “Echoes” is the Song of the Day.
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“Echoes” by Klaxons
