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| TYTHE 'And Also With You' |
As
part of my ongoing occasional work for Clash, I was recently asked to
review four debut albums for their website.
Benin
City are named after a Nigerian state capital city and their music
represents an ambitious blend of everything from dubstep through to
sonorous brass recalling the arrangements of Burt Bacharach. Their
debut album Fires In The Park was released at the start of July. My
review can be found here, and a feature I wrote on the band will be
published in the next physical issue of the magazine, due to hit
newstands in early August. That issue also finds me reviewing the
reissue of All Hail West Texas by The Mountain Goats.
Half
Moon Run's Dark Eyes is an audaciously polished first album from this
Canadian unit, and this is a band that have a stadium-filling career
ahead of them if they knuckle down and work hard enough. My review of
Dark Eyes can be found here.
Producer
Julian Peck operates under the alias TYTHE and his first album And
Also With You is one of the freshest things I've heard this year,
referencing the sort of eclecticism that characterised the Balearic
scene at the end of the Eighties. Every year I alight upon an album
that becomes a sort of informal 'summer album' that I listen to over
and over until the air turns cooler. And Also With You is probably
that album for summer 2013 for me. My review is here.
Having
long been enjoying a love affair with New York, I jumped at the
chance to cover the debut album from Scott & Charlene's Wedding -
the brainchild of Aussie frontman Craig Dermody, Any Port In A Storm
recounts his disenchantment and homesickness at having moved to NYC
from Melbourne. Man up Dermody and quit your whining! I would give my
right arm to have the chance to live in New York! You can read a more
balanced assessment here.
