Just a few current faves;
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - "Twice Born Men": Brilliant, brilliant album. Hard to categorize but really worth listening to. Here's a snippet from a review of the album...
"Okay: remember how Wilco's "experimental" album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot turned out to be simply a series of brilliant pop songs? Same thing here. What makes Twice Born Men truly special is the way the indefinable floatiness of the verses is merely the springboard for a succession of delicious pop choruses."
and from the BBC site...
"Elsenburg's music is all about texture. Found sounds and clicks weave in and out of the mix. There is even, ahem, a tuned dishwasher on Kalypso. Longshore Drift rises and swells, snapping in and out of focus, while Joy Maker Machinery is an otherworldly ballad. But there are songs here, too. Truth Only Smiles is longing pop, evoking Talk Talk and the Beach Boys. Remarkable, too, is the album's closer, There It Will End; a hymn which features Elsenburg's voice overdubbed 30 times."
If you like left of center arrangements tied to quite wonderful but slightly melancholy pop songs then you will love "Twice Born Men". An added bonus is that the album sounds absolutely fantastic, if you're into that sort of thing
Jackson C. Frank - "Jackson C. Frank". Fantastic folk album produced by Paul Simon. Really the template for so much that came out of the British folk scene in the 60s. Well worth listening to if you have even the vaguest interest in 60's folk (Nick Drake, Fred Neil).
Can be found (Remastered) on Amazon.co.uk for a pittance.
