If your Dido and Luther Vandross CDs are starting to feel a little overplayed - or, this being KEXP, let's say your Iron and Wine and Feist CDs - and you're looking for some new music of the swoony lovey variety for this Valentine's Day, you could probably do worse than Fairground Attraction. It's romantic and accessible - they were top of the pops in the UK in 1988 - but if you've heard this album at all, it's probably been a couple decades. And look at this album cover! And title! How could you go wrong?"This is really sweet. Shuffle/folk/jazz played on acoustic guitars, guitarron, & stand up drum kit. Singer was w/Gang of Four in their waning days, if that means anything. 1-2 and 1-4 were major hits in the UK. Look around." "This irritates me. (1-2 is OK)" "These guys were number 1 in England this spring. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing 'Perfect.' I got pretty sick of it!" "Try 'The Moon Is Mine' and forget the big hit ('Perfect'). Better all-round on the second or third listen." |
Pigface is yet another band that I should have been all over in my high school years, as a fan of Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Big Black, Foetus, and all things tinny and discordant and rhythmic and yelly. I know I was aware of their existence, but did I know their debut full length album, Gub, featu…
Leave it to a Welsh indie pop band to take a perfectly innocent game invented by beloved children's author A.A. Milne for his son and turn it into a band name with unpleasantly coprological overtones. (The most unpleasant part: "The Pooh Sticks" works as both a plural noun and a sentence. Ew.) In c…
