When You Walk In the Room 3:26
So Brand New 3:29
Barricades 4:03
High On the Tide 4:57
Faster Than the Setting Sun 3:40
Livewire 4:19
Firebird 3:48
She Needs Me 4:52
Don’t Be Shy 3:59
Any Direction 3:43
She’s Always a Woman (Bonus Track) 3:14
Awake, Asleep (Bonus Track) 4:17
Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins (born 7 July 1980) is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the founding member of the Avant-garde pop band Guillemots.
Born in Birmingham in 1980, Dangerfield was classically trained from a young age. Although originally from Moseley, he moved to Bromsgrove at the age of 8. He studied at Bromsgrove School. He was also a music teacher at Cranbrook College for a brief period. Dangerfield is releasing the album Fly Yellow Moon under his own name on January 18, 2010.
My new favourite band of the moment is Fenech Soler hailing from Kings Cliffe in the UK. Having released two singles, The Cult Of Romance and Lies, they stormed onto the blogsphere after doing a remix of Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood. Recently, the band’s vocalist Ben Duffy was featured on the track Paper Romance by Groove Armada taken from their latest album Black Light.
They play Crawdaddy next Friday 23rd and with tickets being a recession busting €8 you'd be foolish to miss it!! (unless that is, you're like me and going to see Brandi Carlile in the Academy, then it's not your fault!)
Speaking of Marina and the Diamonds here's a taste of the forthcoming UK tour visuals, shot on Hollywood Boulevard, and is also Marina's very own entry into the Robot Re-Make video competition! - more details on the competition here.
'I Am Not A Robot' is released in the UK on 26th April 2010 via 679/Atlantic. The single can be pre-ordered from iTunes
**This is not the official video for "I am not a robot", that would be here.
1. The Hunt
2. Out of Our Minds
3. Isis Speaks
4. Lead Horse
5. Follow the Map
6. 22 Below
7. Meet Me on the Dark Side
8. This Would Be Paradise
9. Father's Grave
10. The Key
11. The One
12. 1000 Years
Out of Our Minds is the second solo album from Melissa Aud Der Maur, released six years after her self-titled debut, the album was also accompanied by a feature film and comic of the same name. According to reports, the album has been completed since 2007.
A highly skilled bass player, we already noticed her as a songwriter among the girls in Hole the great redhead appears, through her intimate work, as a very complex person, assuming the schizophrenic part inherent to any independent artist: feet in the ground and mind high in ethereal world of dreams.
Melissa assumes her musical roots on this album and speaks to the Elements over “Follow the Maps” to tame them, to calm their epic tension and to guide the listener beyond the waves of guitars which break out by fits and starts, rough sometimes, tourmented often, moving always to their most quiet passages. Quiet times that announce the storm (“22 below”).
Climates move so, along kind of a Sabbath the Queen of which would wear hair of fire and sing ancient chants (“1 000 years”, definitive and excellent). Forests are bleeding but resting reproved peoples gathered for a last dance around the father’s grave. The mass is told. This record shakes deep in as much as it appeals to soul. And we will be the ones who follow her to the end.
1. "If I Had a Heart"
2. "When I Grow Up"
3. "Dry and Dusty"
4. "Seven"
5. "Triangle Walks"
6. "Concrete Walls"
7. "Now's the Only Time I Know"
8. "I'm Not Done"
9. "Keep the Streets Empty for Me"
10. "Coconut"
Fever Ray is the solo project of Karin Dreijer Andersson, who is one half of the Swedish electro act The Knife (the other half is her brother Olof Dreijer). Andersson was also the lead singer and guitarist for the defunct indie pop group Honey is Cool.
What would you do if one decade into your career you suddenly saw one of your songs turned into a worldwide hit, won six Grammis in your native Sweden and your latest release was declared album of the year by one of the world’s most influential music websites? If you’re Karin Dreijer Andersson, formerly singer with ‘90s pop hopes Honey is Cool and now one half of The Knife, the answer is to take a couple of years off and return as a solo artist under a new name: Fever Ray.
Fever Ray’s self-titled debut album was groundbreaking. The electro sounds and lyrics are similar to frontwoman Karin Dreijer Andersson’s former project The Knife, yet evoke an even eerier and emotionally intense feeling that is fast-paced and experimental in sound. Karin delivers a truly unique auditory experience that blends fantasy with the nightmarish and unknown. Seeing Fever Ray perform live at Webster Hall in New York City this year was definitely unlike any other live show I’ve seen to date. “When I Grow Up,” “Seven,” and “If I Had A Heart” are among the best tracks on the album, with videos that parallel in the strange and unique. The album penetrates your curiosity, half-terrifying, half-calming, and draws you into Karin’s world — highly emotional, complex and wonderfully weird.(ForTheBeat)
