Pictures of Montevideo, Speak,See,Surrender's contribution to the 2009 RPM challenge, is a wonderfully layered, astoundingly melodic album. it also has a nice nautical motif running through it. my favourite track is called 'Overboard'.
i'd wanted to post about it a while ago, but the rpmchallenge site was undergoing some major reworking, rendering it temporarily unavailable. but now it's back and you can download or stream it from this page [where you can also stream SSS's 2008 rpm album].
while we're talking about music i've been loving, the recent Bat For Lashes album, Two Suns, is fricking incredible. can't stop listening to it.
here's her/them on Later doing two songs with a short interview in between:
in other news, i've finally cracked open the macbook pro, have installed ableton and am starting to work my way around it. will share some results as soon as some decent ones appear.
after noticing a lyrical drought over the last while, i think i may have pinpointed the cause: i haven't been keeping a diary/journal. this is something i used to do a lot. lame as it sounds, it was really useful in generating lyrics [it was also really useful for settling interpersonal arguments regarding what happened where/when/with whom...]. so i'm going to try and resume that practice.
as well as that, i plan on taking more of a quantity over quality approach to posting updates to this site [and to twitter!], in the vain hope that relentless yapping will generate more interest in my music, if and when it appears.
any chance of that working?
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