May 2009
The Archives
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05.22.09Review: THE LOADED WHISPERSArtists Use Lies To Tell The Truth Syd Lane from The Loaded Whispers says there are two kinds of music - "That which moves you, and that which doesn't". I challenge anyone to tell me that the music she and poet partner-in-crime Jeremiah James make doesn't fall into the former category. From the first song I ever heard ("Easily Loved / Easily Hated" on Daydream Generation 6) I knew that this was very special music, but nothing prepared me for just how mind-blowingly great a full-length Loaded Whispers record would be. It was a weekday and with an early morning working start ...
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05.18.09THE LOADED WHISPERS – Artists Use Lies To Tell The TruthTHE LOADED WHISPERS Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE TODAY download it at Quixodelic Records Every once in a while a record lands in your life and blows you away. This is one of those records - an intelligent and heartfelt collection of folk-psychedelics, with songs that will linger in your mind like ghosts long after they have played. Dublin's THE LOADED WHISPERS are probably as great as lo-fi musicians get, combining the brilliant poetry of Jeremiah James and the unmistakeable mind-blowing voice of Syd Lane, over fuzzy stripped-back psych guitar and dancing piano keys. "Artists Use Lies To ...
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05.15.09Interview: SIMON PILERThe interview of interviews? Quite possibly. Either way, this is one long and mightily interesting reads, so strap yourselves in, get comfy and dig on it. 1 How did you get into making music? I think I was singing little songs from a very early age, and I'm sure that my father would sing his (unaccompanied) songs to me as well, when I was very young. My first song didn't really have a name, and was only one line long, repeated over and over - Òwe gotta do one thing, we gotta put the lights on the Christmas tree.Ó I was probably ...
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05.13.09Something Else – Song By SongJon of the Atom kindly takes time out from his action-filled secret life as a musical superhero and tells us all about the latest great offering from DEAD CANARIES - "Something Else" (FREE to download from your cheap and spookily cheerful QUIXODELIC RECORD STORE above). The lion’s share of this album was down when I decided to write and record a song a day, hoping that after a couple months, I’d have enough songs to point a stick at. I was in a lull. I had started I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard against my will, but was glad I had done ...