MusicRemedy.com announced today the release date of July 19 for the much anticipated TFDI album “When I Stop Running.”
TFDI combine acoustic artistry and honeyed harmonies with heartfelt honesty. Nash epitomizes Americana, Duke represents the alternative rock vibe and Lucca brings blue-eyed soul to the table. The threesome’s earnest songwriting and anything-goes live shows have won them a legion of diehard fans and critical praise.
Here’s a teaser from their studio session recording the delicious Stranger in a Strange Place:
Alex (Trugs) stole our hearts with his drole sense of humor and surprisingly soulful voice 2 years ago. He’s just finished college and is starting to work on his music … and is letting his fans along for the ride. He’s posted a few videos of his new songs up on his youtube channel for feedback. I am pleasantly surprised at how mature his music is, even though it’s clearly just the start of his development. His sound is influenced by Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and so forth, yet he has the makings of a real original voice. I’m looking forward to seeing how he grows and will definitely be following him along on this trip.
We Are The Fallen Tear The World Down
Universal Republic. 11 Tracks.
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
Remember Carly Smithson’s wild ride on season seven of American Idol? The Irish expat, who finished sixth in a strong pack that included eventual winner David Cook, always came off as a natural-born belter– Ann Wilson with a brogue, if you will. Yet sometimes it proved difficult to shoehorn her prodigious vocal talents into the show’s narrow musical themes. (Dolly Parton week was not her best moment.) It’s a treat, then, to hear her tackle a genre for which she’s extremely well-suited, namely the sleek goth-pop-metal forged by her new band, We Are The Fallen. Read More..
Natalie Merchant Leave Your Sleep
Nonesuch. 26 Tracks.
Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)
Seven long years have passed since Natalie Merchant last put out a solo record. Hold those cries of “slacker” though, if you please. In concept, execution and, well, sheer volume, her new release, Leave Your Sleep, leaves little doubt as to what the former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman has been up to all that time. Read More..
Groove Armada Black Light
Om Records. 11 Tracks.
Rating: 3½ stars (out of 5)
Why can’t musical artists just stick to what they do best?
It’s a reactionary, fogey-ish question—I picture one of the old coots in the Muppet Show balcony griping to the other. And sure, theoretically you want your favorite acts to take risks and stretch themselves. Without musical leaps of faith we wouldn’t have The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s, The Clash’s London Calling or Radiohead’s Kid A. But sometimes– like, say, when you’re suffering through Chris Cornell’s ill-fated collaboration with Timbaland or Lil Wayne’s awful rock Rebirth– you can’t help but ask yourself, what’s wrong with the way you usually sound? Read More..
Shout Out Louds Work
Merge Records. 10 Tracks.
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
Musically speaking at least, the 1980s was a benevolent decade. Many of today’s hit-makers owe their very existence to pioneers from the golden age of new wave and synth pop. Madonna bequeathed her style-over-substance act unto Lady Gaga. Duran Duran gave us the Killers. And Chris Martin borrowed A-ha’s falsetto warbles while the Norwegian trio was off fjord-hopping and poof! Coldplay was born. Read More..
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