This is another recent discover who I haven’t been able to stop listening to. This is taken from Fleetwood Mac sound-a-like’s Pure Bathing Culture self titled EP.
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Chance the Rapper – Brain Cells
I haven’t been able to stop listening to this guy since posting him a few days ago. I suspect he is going to be big – the next Kid Cudi?
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Donnnie and Joe Emerson* – Baby
I hear this track on a movie soundtrack recently and was reminded of utterly how brilliant it is.
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*Artist #684
Blue Highway* – Lonesome Pine | (GPF)
I stumbled across this on YouTube earlier in the week (it’s scary that Google has worked out I have a weakness for Bluegrass) and inexplicably have had it stuck in my head since. It might be the banjo…
Apparently Blue Highway are a contemporary Bluegrass band from Tennessee. This track is from an album of the same name which was released on Rebel Records in 2006.
Blue Highway:
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*Artist #683
London Grammar* – Hey Now | (NAT)
This is a little grave, but I have been really enjoying it all week. It is from up and coming UK band London Grammar. I don’t know too much about them but intend to keep my eyes peeled for an album by them later in the year.
London Grammar:
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*Artist #682
Bronski Beat – It Ain’t Necessarily So
CjK Guest Post – Summer Cover #1
Summertime from Gershwin’s Porgy and Best, which has been covered on a number of occasions, might have been the obvious choice for a summer time cover to kick off ‘summer covers’.
Jimmy Somerville’s reedy voice, recorded in 1984, seems to nail this version of It Ain’t Necessarily So from the same musical. The song was controversial in appearing to openly challenge biblical stories. The video could not be farther from the stage version of the show.
Bronski Beat:
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Laura Welsh* – Unravel
This is the new single from up and coming London singer Laura Welsh. I really like it’s stripped back simplicity. The smoothness reminds me a little of Jessie Ware, which is no bad thing.
Laura Welsh:
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*Artist #681
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
This came onto my MP3 player this weekend for the first time in a while and still sounded amazing. I was surprised I hadn’t posted it already.
I still remember hearing it for the first time and the opening leaving me utterly speechless. The opening line must be one of my all time favourites, full of mysticism and longing just like the album to which is gives it’s name.
If I ventured in the slipstream, between the viaducts of your dream…
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Joey Bada$$ – Snakes (Feat. T’nah)
Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ is someone who I first discovered earlier in the year and have been enjoying his mellow rhymes ever since.
This track is taken of his excellent mixtape 1999, which was released last summer. It featured the beat from a track called Alien Family by the late, great J Dilla.
Joey Bada$$ – 1999:
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Solange – I decided
I have been wanting to re-visit Solange since posting Losing You, which was one of my top tracks (and probably my favourite video) of 2012.
I really like this track’s old school flavour. The intro has all the hallmarks of a Motown classic. It could almost be Diana or Martha jumping in with the vocals. A real feel good classic.
Since hearing this I have been reflecting on how astonishing it is that Beyonce may not even be the most talented member of her own family!
Solange getting her Diana Ross on:
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