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May Kasahara said:
Diane Cluck

She's absolutely amazing :) Oh Vanille is a wicked album, I thoroughly recommend it.
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Good album. (-Handmade sleeve too!) :)

(-It's not on that album, but...) I love that song of hers Monte Carlo:

And the three lonely things poking up from the water
are her nipples and her nose as she floats on her back
And the sand is deserted except for me standing
I stand as the landmark to keep her on track
So the ocean wont pull her away
 
Completely overwhelmed with all the recommendations - thanks folklets :)

Trying to work through it all in some sort of order!
 
I'm liking Kimya Dawson - thanks for the rec. Am ordering a Jeffrey Lewis album from play.com at the moment, but want to maybe get a couple of other things while I'm at it and don't really know what to go with.

May's suggestions look filled with enthusiasm, so I'd like to look into Low - what album would people recommend to begin with? iTunes is being buggy and won't load any of my searches at the moment, so I'm a bit stuck for listening to snippets :mad:
 
Am listening to snippets from that on HMVs website at the mo (damn itunes for being broken - HMVs snippet listener has the worst sound quality I've ever experienced :mad: )
 
fourth for joan as policewoman, shes great
i am also listening to cat power(still), windmill (flaming lips meets REM with incomprehensible lyrics)
flipping itunes :mad: i want to go and check soe of these people out.
 
iTunes is working again for me now yay!

Ok, absolutely loving Devendra Banhart!! Am getting both albums - it's rare something strikes me enough to go the whole hog straight away - thanks Firkles :)

e2a: scrap that, itunes has gone again - arrgghhhh, I was just listening to joan as police woman!
 
Vintage Paw said:
May's suggestions look filled with enthusiasm, so I'd like to look into Low - what album would people recommend to begin with? iTunes is being buggy and won't load any of my searches at the moment, so I'm a bit stuck for listening to snippets :mad:
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I'd probably start with Things We Lost In The Fire - it's beautiful, accessible without losing anything, and balanced between the early low-gloss simplicity and their later experiments with production.
 
May Kasahara said:
I'd probably start with Things We Lost In The Fire - it's beautiful, accessible without losing anything, and balanced between the early low-gloss simplicity and their later experiments with production.
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^^ bang on.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Oh I love you :D
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Was easy from what you posted :)

I'll have a scratch and a think later and see what else you may like.


e2a: I like being called Firkles :D

ee22aa: I'll upload his stuff to my webspace if iTunes shits out on you again.
 
I got the devendra banhart stuff - likey :)

I've discovered Last.fm's 'similar artists' feature - so am listening to Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, and various others, at the moment.

It's of course difficult to get the feel for an album from 30 second snippets. Some of the stuff sounds very samey. I like Spektor for her quirkiness, and that seems to be missing from some of the other folky stuff.

I downloaded Pink Moon by Nick Drake - who knew?

/music noob
 
oh vp i got pointed in the direction of mr drake last year
fuck yes.

def get five leaves left and bryter later too.


oh and very very very check out the cowboy junkies :)


AND

epic 45 (may your heart be the map is absolutely gorgeously divine)

and.. and.. and..
download 'chronic town' by rem ('s about five tracks, likely to be of low quality but very worth it)
 
Has anyone said Joanna Newsom, yet? I reckon you'd like her too. She plays the harp :cool:

I f'ing ADORE her!!

 
More Nick Drake then? This is fun :D

Firkles, I listened to some Joanna Newsom last night - need to listen again I think before I make my mind up.

Listening to Fiona Apple now, and have CocoRosie scheduled after that :)

What do people think of Ani DiFranco?
 
hmmmm
very acousticlesbian, from what i remember.
think she did a nice song about picking noses.
giver her a go :)
(oooh ms apple! gonna dig that out again)
 
theres this guy in virgin who i got chatting too, hes amazing at , im really not sure about recommendations and when i said i was looking for regina spektor he suggested cocorosie im really not sure......will have to try it again methinks
same with joanna newsom, i saw hger on jools holland once and was v impressed but listening to the snippets of album left me a little cold. i do love hte harp though so i'll give it another go
 
ooooh, I like Cocorosie. The singer has a voice that sounds like when Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman sang that Prince song in the bath - all croaky :D

*happy place*
 
ShiftyBagLady said:
same with joanna newsom, i saw hger on jools holland once and was v impressed but listening to the snippets of album left me a little cold. i do love hte harp though so i'll give it another go
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Go for 'The Milk Eyed Mender' - tis more accessible than her latest one :)
 
oh
listen to the cribs

they don't fit anywhere in with any of the previously mentioned bands, but i've just found 'em (and realised i stupidly turned out a freebie ticket for em t'other week) and they're rocking my world today.
 
Thank you for all the recs for Joanna Newsom. I'm glad you persevered, because I'm listening to The Milk-Eyed Mender now and really like it :)

I'm going to have to listen to some Scissor Sisters or Bon Jovi or something soon or I'm going to turn into a folk guitar :D
 
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