Long overdue, but finally here are three of Syd’s records recorded as The Loaded Whispers from pre-’Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth’. As always, they are free to download, but if you do then please take the time out to drop in at Syd Lane Music and let her know that you liked it. Because if it’s not about the money, then it’s got to be about the love, otherwise it just won’t work…

If you’re new to what Syd does then if you read on, we’ve got a brilliant guide to all of the records she’s made, written by her co-conspirator Jeremiah James. For those of you who already love her own unique brand of psychedelic-folk soaring songs then it is an equally enlightening, heartfelt and enjoyable read.

Nurturing Empty Screams

download: Nurturing Empty Screams

Sola

download: Sola

The Loaded Whispers – s/t

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Sola….

A new voice has arrived not quite fully formed but ready to lay it on the line for anyone bold enough to go with the feeling. The album was recorded on a very low quality pc mic with only a voice and an acoustic guitar late at night as people slept. This is where Syd first realised she had something to say and nothing was gonna stop her until she heard in her songs what she longed to hear on the radio. Sola like the albums that have followed holds a steady atmosphere all the way through sure of it’s own desire but nowhere near where the composer wanted to get to. It’s a collection of raw poetic songs that showcase ….Syd Lane….’s unique view of the human condition. There are some very intricate songs that I hope will one day become more whole but that like everything else is down to the inimitable ….Syd Lane….. A beautiful first shot at trying to say what needs to be said
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The Loaded Whispers….

I worked with a friend of mine to get a little studio set up for Syd in one of the bedrooms in our little home and this was the first album recorded using a piano as a midi controller for the soundcard on the pc. There are very brilliant songs here that soothe and caress at each and every listen. “Insouciance” and “Enlightened” are as loose and rocking as I could ever hope songs to be. “Bedroom window view” and “She talks to rainbows” well you listen and tell me what you think? Everything is still raw but there are glimmers of pure astral beauty that would become more fully realised the further Syd travels along her path
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Obliterate The Myths….

Sadly this record has all but been destroyed for Syd but I really love it. I think it’s a phenomenal achievement under the circumstances(which are far too boring to go into) I pray to the universe that someday Syd will return to this album and hopefully re-record the songs. This was Syd’s steepest learning curve so far and that learning had nothing to do with music or the art of recording and everything to do with empty promises and human deception. There are songs on this album that still stop me completely in my tracks in particular the way “In time we’ll return to the earth” finds it’s groove and “Nothing here is fair” brings this listener to a place I find incredibly difficult to leave. It also has one of Syd’s biggest pop anthems that has yet to be fully realised. Great album
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Nurturing Empty Screams….

Syd has now entered her very own heart of darkness and returned with some of the most guttural songs she has ever written. This record was a huge exhortation of pain fear grief and disillusion. An album that rightly deserves to be placed alongside Lou Reed’s “Berlin” John Lennons “Plastic Ono Band” and Primal Screams “XTRMNTR”. This is a fucking remarkable record bookended by two songs of desperate longing. It also contains a response to Ian Browns brilliant single F.E.A.R that really stands up to anything Syd has ever done both musically and lyrically. This was a record that showed a whole new Syd ready to battle the darkness head on and shirk no responsibility in doing so. This was a songwriter with something universal to say. It also marked a new studio setup which allowed Syd to record very quickly and keep moving as fast as she felt she needed to
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Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth….

This for me was the album where Syd became interested in pushing her songwriting wherever it wanted to go. She became more and more interested in communicating quickly and directly with her muse and the results are there for all to hear. A stunning collection of songs that are wildly disparate but hold together beautifully allowing the listener to journey with the composer/performer through the golden age of popular song as directed by the unique vision of ….Syd Lane….. I would like to state once and for all that everything Syd does in terms of recording music and writing songs is all done alone with no input from anybody else which when you look back over her 5 years of recording shows an unparalleled ability to do whatever she wants to do and make it fresh exciting and consistently brilliant. Her quality control is one of the most important things to her and she’s determined not to repeat or rest on her laurels.
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It Begins In Beauty….

An absolute masterpiece from start to finish. I still can’t believe how this album makes me feel loved, lost, scared and inspired all at once with an infinite amount of other emotions experienced as the songs wash over me. This is the work of an artist in complete control of her craft. Each song creates a world of it’s own that never excludes but rather welcomes the listener while at the same time challenging your ability to keep up with the idea’s contained within. I absolutely believe that this album will always show me that human beings only real legacy will be their connection with great art and the fact that so few people have heard this music is a real shame. “Not a poet be” and “You kept me humble” are my current favourites but these are only two of twelve reasons to weep for joy. We’re alive and where there’s life there’s hope man but you won’t find that in jobs/money/things.
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The Solstice Sessions….

A tantalising and intriguing peek into Syd’s ideas for her next full album. Recorded in a couple of hours on 21st December last. The date has particular significance as it’s the ancient pagan festival for the shortest amount of daylight hours in the northern hemisphere. This date was clumsily and crassly manipulated into the roman calendar as Christmas time. Listen and enjoy Syd’s songs stripped to their essential components and be ready for when they re-appear in perhaps completely different forms. Thank you Syd we are all in your cosmic debt.

by Jeremiah James

download: It Begins In Beauty

Then from out of nowhere,  CHANSONS DE GESTE’s “It Begins In Beauty” landed in my crowded in-box. My initial reaction was ‘Oh well, if I’m really done, then there’s no harm in downloading this and digging it for fun.’ So download it I did. And dig it I did. Only I kept on digging it, and though new music continued to pour with alarming frequency into my brain through my headphones, from time to time I felt drawn back to this record, like somehow I’d been magnetized to its melodies.

Anyone tuned in to what we’re doing here surely by now knows how great The Loaded Whispers are. Chansons De Geste is the latest Syd Lane of The Loaded Whispers manifestation and instantly you’re thinking that a name change means something – upheaval and change, a new direction, or quite possibly an experimental noise instrumental record to fill a creative gap in time. But actually it is the complete opposite. Chansons sounds to the untrained ear like the culmination of what she and Jer were doing on the four previous Loaded Whispers’ releases. Where the melodies flew before, now they soar. Where once it sounded soulful, now it sounds spiritually incandescent. And before where the distinctive poet voice reached for magical notes, now it brushes the magical notes aside and bursts upwards into incomprehensible stratospheric heights of song.

On the now seemingly final Loaded Whispers record “Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth”, you could sit back and listen to Syd’s voice dancing across the sky, on “It Begins In Beauty” it seems to have somehow vanished out of sight, up above the clouds. In a weird way it’s like a butterfly in reverse – the more developed the songwriting and sound becomes, the more it sounds like Syd, confidently emerging from some cocoon as herself.

Please excuse these clumsy metaphors… it’s the inevitable by-product of the finished record, guided by the mighty muse. The songs themselves, albeit framed in this epic sound (quite remarkable considering this is a home recording project), are extremely personal, autobiographical, and philosophical – as genuine as it gets. You get the feeling that going into a big studio with a full band would kill the fragility and honesty out of tracks like “Not A Poet Be”, “Ontario Place” or “Astride A Grave”. Make no mistake – it is one thing to write a solitary timeless song and then to record it in such a way that it captures it perfectly, but it is another to write a whole record of them. From start to finish these are gut-wrenchingly beautiful words and tunes and I don’t think anyone of us will fully understand just how incredible a record it is until many, many years from now. On “Artists…” I got addicted to listening to “Sick of Writing Sad Songs”. On “It Begins In Beauty” I could get (and have been) addicted to listening to five or six of them, and expect the rest at some point to take centre stage in due course.

Don’t believe me? Well take a listen to “Ontario Place” for yourself:
Download audio file (OntarioPlace.mp3)

The gravity of this great little record was enough for me to seriously reconsider walking away from this adventure forever. It wasn’t an immediate revolution and there were other contributing factors, but these psychedelic pop ballads soaked in reverb carrying candid poetry on shoulders of song hooks gnawed away at my conscience over days and weeks until finally all that was left for me to do was say “Ah fuck it. Who am I kidding? People need brilliant life-affirming, comforting and inspiring songs to keep going and here I am sitting on a record like this…”

So bearing in mind that I’d already been sent a life-changing record from across the Irish sea and was struggling to keep my feet on the road of finality, it was something of a killer blow to receive this in my in-box a month later:

download: The Solstice Sessions

A SYD LANE solo album, recorded on the run, the bare bones of  the process behind “It Begins In Beauty’s” songs. Sure, the subject matter of these confessional hymns are sung from the same page as its older, more mature and intricate sister, but “The Solstice Sessions” is like a more playful and less self-conscious younger sibling. It perhaps doesn’t pack the same punch, but from a fan’s perspective it is a wonderful insight into the song-writing bubble, sounding less psych-pop and more folky and just as important.  Credit must go to her partner in crime, Mr Jeremiah James, maybe not such an audible presence on these recordings (though contributions to “Astride A Grave” help really make that song), yet you sense him there every step and note of the way. I’ve got a feeling that without Jer then Syd herself might be content to simply make music for the love of making music, and you and I would be none the wiser. So hats off to him.

If you’ve never heard The Loaded Whispers before then I’d recommend you work chronologically starting with “It Begins In Beauty”, because it truly is a featherweight champion of the world, and save “The Solstice Sessions” for when you’ve had your fill. If you’re already a fan like me, then you might as well close your eyes, or flip a coin and download either first. They both have a place off the beaten track, like leaves of technicolour skin, or trails of poem in the sky. I fucking love pretty much everything that comes out of the Lane/Jones studio, and I’m betting a change of direction that you will too.

Visit Syd Lane at:

http://theloadedwhispers.com and

http://www.myspace.com/chansonsdegeste

Ladies and gentlemen… the one and only Syd Lane.

1 You can take one record to a desert island for the rest of your life – what would it be?
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

2 Who is your favourite artist?
Brian Wilson

3 Favourite chord?
D minor

4 Can God invent a rock that he cannot lift?
Maybe Goddess can.

5 Who did you last vote for in an election?
I don’t vote. I don’t trust in or approve of the government, and I think politicians are dangerous. They’re all on the same team anyway, the supposed different parties are there just to make the proles feel comfortable and to project the illusion of choice and democracy.

6 Favourite fiction writer?
Hakuri Murakami

7 If you could invite 5 people to dinner (dead or alive) who would they be?
Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Ian Curtis, Neil Young, and Beethoven

8 What pisses you off?
How sassy everyone is now. How it’s cool to be dumb. That no one knows what music is anymore, and that history keeps repeating itself and we never learn. That drugs and sex are illegal. That we spend trillions of dollars on weapons every year, when we could take that money and use it to feed, clothe, and home every single human on the planet – not ONE person left out… But we don’t.

9 What’s the best song you’ve ever written?
Astride A Grave from my latest record It Begins In Beauty

10 One wish – what would it be?
That Jer and I could be American Indians hundreds of years before the white people landed. We’d live in Canada, in un-touched nature, life would be difficult but pure and beautiful. We wouldn’t know the meaning of posessions or money and greed.

11 Favourite band?
The Beach Boys

12 3 websites worth checking out?

http://www.myspace.com/chansonsdegeste

http://www.myspace.com/theloadedwhispers

http://pupe.ameba.jp

13 Posters above your bed when you were a teenager?
Hanson! Lots and lots of posters of Hanson.

14 When was the last time you cried with laughter?
Last night, after I figured out that the way to deal with difficult people is pure unadulterated psychedelia.

15 If you could learn and play one instrument, what would it be?
I could learn and play any instrument, it’s only a matter of whether they’re available to me or not. But the next instrument I’d like to learn is Cello.

16 Preferred mode of travel?
Train. Trains all the way. They travel at the perfect speed, you have room to walk around, and you can see the countryside. Boats are my absolute favourite mode of travel, but unfortunately I don’t live on the water anymore.

17 Shuffle your iPod – what are the first five songs that play?
Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon And Garfunkel
See My Friends – The Kinks
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
Christines Tune – The Flying Burritto Brothers

18 Snowballs, snowmen, or sledging?
Tobogganing

19 Best gig you’ve ever been to?
Mercury Rev in Waterford when I got to open for them.

20 What’s the most embarrassing record in your collection?
I’m not embarassed by any music I’ve liked. There was a reason at the time I liked it, and I don’t subscribe to any rules of coolness.

21 Favourite drink?
Shirley Temple with a maraschino cherry. A few maraschino cherries actually.

22 Drug of choice?
Marijuana.

23 If you were an animal, what animal would you be?
A snow leopard.

24 And if you were a colour, what colour would you be?
Black.

25 Are you good at any sports?
Yes, I’m athletic.

26 Last book you read?
Charles Chaplins autobiography.

27 First thing you think when you get up in the morning?
Why am I an insomniac who can never sleep, why do I never feel rested?

28 Last thing you think when you go to bed?
Will I be able to sleep tonight, or will I lay here all night thinking of all the things I want to be doing until it’s morning and I have to get up.

29 Describe your music in three words?
Genius, Truthful, Emotional

30 If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be?
I’d be the president of The United States (who is really, let’s face it, the president of the world)… I’d disban the government, bring all the troops home, end the war, and use all the money to make sure every single person in the world was fed, sheltered, and understood, thus abolishing the resentments which are a great factor in causing wars in the first place.

31 Favourite comedian?
Bill Hicks

32 What colour is your front door?
Mahogany

33 Favourite film?
Buffalo 66

34 A quote that stuck in your head?
You’re all people softened by the false reflection of loss

35 Favourite subject at school?
Art, everything else was intolerable for me. School is a state sponsored manufacturer of echoes.

36 Which actor/actress would play you in a film about your life?
Gene Tierney would play me, she’s the only one precocious enough.

37 What music makes you want to dance?
N.E.R.D

38 What should they write on your gravestone?
I want to be cremated, and my ashes thrown to the wind, I don’t want to be pickled, boxed up, and buried underground. Though if I were to be buried, I’d want to be buried naturally, just buried naked so my body could actually go back to the earth. In that case, I still wouldn’t have a headstone. Bury me under a tree so I can nourish it.

39 How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
I’d call a man a man when he is able to be completely emotionally honest.

40 When did you first start writing your own songs?
5 years ago.

41 What’s the weirdest thing you ever saw?
I’m having a difficult time choosing, because there have been so many weird things… But I’ll say, the father-daughter and mother-son dances in American high schools. When I moved there, and everyone was getting so excited about it, I thought it must be a joke. It wasn’t.

42 Favourite smell?
Pho

43 Favourite sound?
Grand Piano, in a large hall

44 Swings, roundabout, chute, or climbing frame?
Climbing Frame AND swings

45 Who is your favourite Beatle?
Argh, I really cannot choose. Paul and John write the most consistantly brilliant songs, but Georges solo record is the best of the bunch, and Ringo is so clever and witty. Can’t choose.

46 Point us in the direction of a band one of your friends is in?
I don’t have any friends.

47 A YouTube video the world should watch?
I really don’t know.

48 Cats or dogs?
Cats, all the way. Dogs are too needy, too willing to please. I like a challenge.

49 If you had to join the circus what would you be?
I’d be a gymnist/acrobatic type person

50 Favourite book?
The complete collection of Emily Dickinsons poems.

51 Have you ever been on TV?
Yes, when I was eight and I won a music scholarship from the Toronto Conservatory of Music for Piano. It was a competition held every year, a music festival, and I won the overall category.

52 Have you ever been arrested?
No, although I break the law every day in more than one way.

53 What songs do you (would you) sing at karaoke?
I can’t stand karaoke!! It’s not fun to me to listen to people who can’t sing and the whole thing is just too camp and happy for me.

54 Have you ever seen a ghost?
No, but I’ve heard a ghost. My sister and I were sitting under the dining room table singing Disney songs… we were singing “whistle while you work” but we couldn’t do the whistling part, so we were humming it… The next time we came to “Whistle while you work” there was a clear and loud whistle in the tune of the song. We were alone in the house, and when we heard that we both looked at each other and my sister started crying. A minute later, I ventured out to see if anyone was there but they weren’t. My oupa was an avid whistler, and it was probably him. When I told my ouma, she got mad at me and thought I was lying.

55 How do you like your coffee? Or would you prefer a wee cup of tea?
I prefer a wee cup of hot chocolate.

56 Punk or Raver? Mod or Goth? Hippy or Beatnik? If you had to label yourself, what gang would you be in?
I don’t fit into any labels, even if I wanted to. I’m a freak who freaks out the freaks.

57 What’s the worst job you ever had?
Working for PayPal, answering phones in the disputes department. I lost my faith in humanity at that time, with the way customers calling in would treat me. It was the first time anyone ever said “Fuck You” to me, and it was horribly upsetting.

58 What’s brown and sticky?
Marijuana resin

59 Do you have any recurring dreams?
I used to, but not anymore. I used to dream I followed a little cat to a hole in the wall. I look in the hole and I see a little classroom full of little animals. The teacher (a cat) asks me to come in. I say I can’t because the door is too small. She points to a bigger door, and I come in. Once I am inside, she tells me that I can never leave this classroom again. That I am stuck there forever.

60 How many records have you released and which is your favourite?
Six, my favourite is my most recent. It Begins In Beauty.

61 Where in the world would you like to go?
Venice.

62 Favourite kind of cloud?
Cumulus clouds

63 Favourite line from a song?
I used to care but things have changed

64 What’s the music scene like where you live?
Full of dilatantes, fakers, singer-songwriters with guitars singing the most boring songs ever.

65 Who would make up your dream band? (one singer, one guitarist, one bassist, one drummer, plus one extra)
I’d clone myself, and have myself playing all the instruments and singing harmony.

66 Favourite cover art?
The Best of Leonard Cohen.

67 Early bird or night owl?
Night Owl

68 Which of the seven sins are you?
Sloth. I’m sedentry as fuck. I like to stay in one spot.

69 Three words people use to describe you?
Selfish, Aloof, Ego-centric

70 You have ten minutes left to live, what would you do?
I’d start listening to Pet Sounds, and cuddle with Jer till the end.

71 Do you support any sports teams?
No.

71 What do you want for Christmas?
I hate christmas, I celebrate the winter solstice and for that I don’t have presents, we eat good food. If I did celebrate Christmas and I wanted presents, I always want more instruments… but besides that I have everything I need and more.

72 Favourite track from all the Daydream Generation compilations?
Is it wrong to choose my own? I’d choose You Kept Me Humble. If I can’t choose mine, I’d say… Grey Dawn by William Carpenter.

73 Can you cook up a storm in the kitchen?
Yes! I love to cook, and I love to eat.

74 What’s the first thing you remember?
Looking out over the water of Georgian Bay and hoping I could stay there forever.

75 How do you go about writing a song?
I don’t go about writing songs. They come to me in dreams, or when I’m in the bathtub, or any old time really. They come to me fully formed, and I merely get them out. I could never sit down and choose to write a song.

76 When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
This is a funny question. I rarely look in the mirror, and when I do I’m not really looking at myself… Sounds strange but I don’t really associate with or acknowledge my physical appearance. I see a girl with deep dark unknowable eyes staring back at me, we stare at eachother for a moment and then I walk away.

77 What’s the best advice you were ever given?
It’s not happening to me, it’s happening to them.

78 Do you smoke?
Not cigarettes

79 Tell us a joke?
I don’t know any jokes

80 Pick a card, any card?
I’ll take the get out of jail free card

81 One question you’ve never been able to answer?
Why I was born to the family I was born to

82 If you could travel back in time, when and where would you go?
Ahh, I sort of already answered this! See answer number 10.

83 Favourite philosopher?
Bill Hicks

84 Do you have any pets?
Yes, three cats

85 Ever climbed a mountain?
I would love to… One day man.

86 What do you do in the real world to pay the rent?
Jer works and he pays the rent. I only do music.

87 Self-diagnosis: any psychiatric disorders?
Oooh you’re opening a can of worms here! The way I see it, there is no such thing as a psychiatric disorder. In order for there to be disorders, one has to judge it against what is apparently normal. I don’t believe in normal. We’re all fucked up in different ways, and some ways are more socially acceptable than others.

88 Favourite poet?
Bob Dylan

89 What wouldn’t you do for a million dollars?
Write dishonest music.

90 Adrenalin junky?
Not really, I like to play it safe.

91 What bands have you been in?
I was in jazz band in highschool… Other than that, it’s always been me on my own.

92 Favourite board game/computer game?
I adore all things Nintendo, and the love affair started in the 80’s with the SNES (still have a snes, and play it on a regular basis)

93 What kind of recording set-up do you have? Equipment etc.
I use a Roland RD-700GX electric piano, a Roland KC-550 piano amp, a Fender American Telecaster, a cheap little Behringer guitar amp, a Tanglewood acoustic electric, Steinberger Street Guitar , a vintage Blade electric guitar which has been modified (not by me), a Line 6 POD X3, Cubase studio software, and an E-MU 1829 soundcard. I also use an autoharp, a melodica, a Harley Benton jazz bass, a flute, and tambourines and shakers.

94 A character you love from a book or a film?
I love Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden

95 Who is the sexiest person in the history of the world?
Leonard Cohen

96 If you could genetically fuse two animals together what would they be? And what would it make?
A cabbit. A cat and a rabbit.

97 What kind of drunk are you?
A sweet drunk. Alcohol softens me and makes me cuddly and nice, whereas when sober I am stoic, serious, and unyielding.

98 What was the first record that really blew your mind?
OK Computer by Radiohead

99 What are your musical plans for the future?
Keep making music as long as the muse is speaking to me, get more instruments, get vintage equipment and start recording in analog.

100 Got some websites of your own we can visit?

http://www.myspace.com/chansonsdegeste

http://www.myspace.com/theloadedwhispers

Artists 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 I was planning on being asleep no later than midnight when I first downloaded “All Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth”. My intention was to listen to a couple of songs before I drifted off. In actual fact from the moment “I’ve Got Sunshine” magically burst into my ears utterly stunning me to the pillow in amazement, there was no way I was drifting anywhere until the last notes of final track “Up The Shore” had rung out.

The composite elements of this self-recorded Dublin duo are actually quite simple. Syd Lane has one of the most incredible voices you are likely to ever hear, gliding and soulful, carrying hers and Jer’s words over stripped back tremelo electric guitar or shimmering piano melodies. At the root of it all is simply great songs – heartfelt without being mawkish, and cool enough to carry even the most charged of emotional content to a different stratosphere in your mind. An instantly recognisable breeze of sound blows through the recording moving it in the same direction, so even though a whole handful of genres are toppled like dominoes (psychedelic folk, piano pop ballads, Pixie-esque guitar, country-tinged folk blues, and 60s acid rock & roll), it’s the consistency that kills you – that feeling that the flawless songs surely at some point much reach some kind of logical conclusion and snuff out. But no, even as the playful (and damn brilliant) Carpenter’s nod right at the very end makes you grin, The Loaded Whispers are still whispering away from you.

Stand out tracks? Oh where do I begin? “I Got Big Dreams” is beautiful and poignant and timeless, could have been written in any of the last five decades and been loved by any of its generations. “Tell Me How” is almost like hearing Nico hitting high notes – so good that it appears (quite rightly) twice on the record. “Eidolons” is a feisty boy/girl duet full of fire barely concealing the laughter below the surface. “Charlotte” is the kind of song that someone would have sold their own Grandmother for to put in Marianne Faithful’s mouth in 1965. “Suicide In The Trenches” is a lyrical heavyweight synchronised to perfection in Syd’s voice. And if I had to pick a favourite of all the songs it would probably be “Sick of Writing Sad Songs” – I don’t think a day has passed since I first heard this record when I haven’t gone back to it at least once, with it’s rolling majestic piano and understated explosive melodies. Some days I’ve listened to more times than I can count on my fingers and toes.

So there you go. If you haven’t heard The Loaded Whispers before then now’s your chance – I can vouch from experience that “Artists Use Lies…” is as great an introduction to a genuine talent as you are going to find this year. And if you already know about them, then I’m sure you will have been nodding your head in agreement through these clumsy paragraphs where I’ve attempted to convey just how great a record this is. Sometimes when you discover a band whose music you love you get an insatiable urge to go out and find every song they’ve ever recorded and gorge yourself over the following weeks and months and hopefully years of your life. In this instance though, I feel completely different – I want to savour this one, give it weeks at least to go back to it again and again, hear things I didn’t hear the first twenty times around, and re-hear the things I’d happily hear twenty times more. Listening to it now as I write this I still feel as stunned as I did when I first heard it on the wrong side of midnight. Long may the wind of song whisper.

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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 Tell The Truth” is a perfect introduction to what they do, with so many stand-out tracks that all you can do is let the record play out from beginning to end. And that really is the truth.

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