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Freshly pressed: Music tips from Hubert Schober

August 17, 2024 by world today news

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Whether it’s a turntable, CD player or Spotify playlist: we have new music for you.”>

Whether it’s a turntable, CD player or Spotify playlist: we have new music for you.

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Darwins – Day For A Carcrash (Scarecrow)

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Darwins – Day For A Carcrash (Scarecrow)”>

Darwins – Day For A Carcrash (Scarecrow)

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In the 90s, the Darwins were one of the big names in Hanover’s pop-rock scene, alongside Fury in The Slaughterhouse and Terry Hoax. Their second album was never released. Not because the band split up in a fight, like so many others. After the loving recordings of the second album, the unthinkable happened – Ulrich Haupt, the band’s bassist, was killed in a brutal attack while on holiday in Sri Lanka. The shock of the sudden loss of their friend and the endless grief paralyzed the band for good. The album disappeared into a drawer and the band finally met its unfortunate end, otherwise the band – like the aforementioned – would certainly have performed in Weiden at some point. When you listen to these recordings, which are now getting on in years, it’s almost hard not to shed a tear, as this pop-tinged indie rock was truly international class. Catchy melodies are paired with powerful guitars and a decent drive, and singer Hanno v. Daniels sounds more like the UK than the Westphalian lowlands. A lonely pearl.

Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I´m Called (Fat Possum)

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Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I´m Called (Fat Possum)”>

Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I´m Called (Fat Possum)

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Even though the first song is called “Andy Warhol,” the man from South Carolina has absolutely nothing on his Stetson with a Velvet Underground-like sound. He serves up longing, delicately orchestrated folk with country and pop notes, which he performs with fervor and emphasis in a sometimes faltering baritone. Even though the arrangements are very restrained and minimalist, with contributions from producer James Elkington (guitar, piano, dobro, synthesizer, organ, pedal steel, mandola, harmonica, arrangements), Blake Mills (guitar), Joan Shelley (vocals), Ben Whiteley (bass), Joe Westerlund (drums, percussion), Robin Holcomb (vocals), Anna Jacobson (wind instruments), Jean Cook (string instruments) and Hunter Diamond (wooden bass instruments), the album ends up being a whole music shop, which was atmospherically mixed by Tucker Martine (Decemberists, REM, The National, The Jayhawks, kd Lang, etc).

Sean Koch – Marching On (Tic Tic Bang)

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Sean Koch – Marching On (Tic Tic Bang)”>

Sean Koch – Marching On (Tic Tic Bang)

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Reducing the singer/songwriter from Cape Town to the folk genre is far too simplistic. Koch tells his touching stories about growing up and the beauty of nature in the second piece, “Give Thanks” to relaxed reggae rhythms – and is reminiscent of Jack Johnson or Dope Lemon. The hit-worthy “Old Kid” evokes Xavier Rudd or Angus & Julia Stone and at the end, with the lively “Let It Go”, the artist whistles us one more. A beautiful, small, euphoric and upbeat feel-good record for the summer.

Roddy McKinnon – Time Is A Dog (Silberblick Musik)

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Roddy McKinnon – Time Is A Dog (Silberblick Musik)

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Things aren’t going so well for the Scottish singer/songwriter at the moment. Starting out as a guitarist in various punk bands and later as a sidekick to his German colleague George Leitenberger, the recordings for his second album collided not only with Covid, but above all with a cancer diagnosis. Time is a dog, it can run away from you and also bite you. McKinnon sings about well-known singer/songwriter themes such as life, death, love, sex and sin, but also sees this work as a kind of self-therapy. The voice is a little shaky, the fingerpicking is gentle, producer Andreas Albrecht only added a few atmospheric accents afterwards, this record is a very intimate one, one for attentive listening.

Crack Cloud – Red Mile (Cargo)

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Crack Cloud – Red Mile (Cargo)

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The Canadian post-punkers have become art students. “Blue Kite” in particular, with its strings, sounds more like art pop than punk – if it weren’t for the grimly barked vocals and the slightly too venomous guitars. And the restrained, symphonic “Lack Of Lack” is also out of step and would do well on a prog rock album. Just when you think you’ve pigeonholed the guys, they wriggle out of it and surprise you with new twists and ideas. The beautiful “Lost Of The Red Mile” enchants at the end with wonderfully sprawling, almost chamber folk-like, finely chiseled, playful art pop. Anger and punk are miles away here.

Color Green – Fool’s Parade (Bertus)

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Color Green – Fool’s Parade (Bertus)

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“Fool’s Parade” is a meditation on loss, grief, confusion, frustration and the clarity that all these emotions lead to. The quartet from California dresses this up in an almost meditative maelstrom of psychedelic, feel-good melodies that brings the Byrds together with the Beach Boys, but makes the whole thing sound a little like Manchester rave or the power pop of the late Kinks. The fact that all members share the microphone (or use it together) provides variety, the guitar figures are playful and adorable, there is a touch of Woodstock, but also Canterbury, over these melodic, very vintage-sounding songs that transport the 70s into the here and now.

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