It’s the time of year to throw yourself into something new! Why not get involved with a drama group? La Touche Players. I got this from La Touche Players and I thought I’d pass it on. If it’s something you’d like to try out why not head down to The Teachers Club on January 10th and see what’s going on?! They’re a nice bunch, I promise!
‘Breaking Ballets’ is the follow up to Garret Moore‘s debut ‘Aggy’s Rest’ which was released on Toast Office Records in 2011. While ‘Aggy’s Rest’ was an eight track acoustic based, ‘Breaking Ballets’ sees Moore delve into percussion and amplification.
The three track E.P. opens with ‘JUST!’, which immediately grabs attention with the ferocity of its drum/percussion intro. The rhythm sucks you into the track and is joined by guitar and vocals. The track features gorgeous musical breaks and the vocals possess just the right amount of effect, if anything they could be a bit louder. ‘JUST!’ does more than enough to get you to listen to the rest of the EP.
‘Breathing Hard on Thin Air’ immediately reminds your scribe on the production on Sophie B Hawkins’ The Darkest Childe from the album Timbre. Layers of percussion, pips, squeaks and breaths provide a great info for the track, which wouldn’t be far away from Little Comets, a ska reggae indie combo. This features a memorable refrain and guitar hook and makes you want to dance. Like this a lot.
The title track comes last on the EP and opens with a dramatic atmospheric style. Cleverly, everything drops to leave Moore’s lone vocals before the instrumentation kicks in. This is very much in the indie rock category built around piano, there’s something about Moore’s vocals that are reminiscent of Dan Broeckner from Handsome Furs, vocals providing a happy dischord with the instrumentation, a throwback to a folk style perhaps.
This is a good step from Moore’s previous releases and is a good indication of him as an electric artist. The EP features interesting tracks with good production and song writing ability. I’d like to hear more.
Breaking Ballets EP is available from Bandcamp as a free download below.
So far 2013, seems like it could be the year of the re-emerging artist, yesterday Suede, today on his 66th birthday good ole, David Bowie decides to show off his new video for Where are we now?, his first release for ten years and if that wasn’t enough, gives us details of his new album, ‘The Next Day’ which is according to iTunes ‘expected on March 12’ .
‘Where Are We Now?’ seems to be a retrospective of Bowie’s time in Berlin, it will be interesting to see if the rest of the album will go along with the same theme. If Bowie is looking back at his musical life, I’m sure he has a wealth of rock n’roll stories to tell. I’d love to hear them.
I love how even on his 66th birthday Bowie is still pushing technology and this can be seen with clever green screening in his video. I’ve booked March 12 off in my diary to sit and listen to ‘The Next Day’.
Wow! So Suede have unveiled some new music from their new album, ‘Bloodsports’, which will be out in March. The first single from the album ‘ It Starts and Ends with You’ will be released in February but in the meantime Brett Anderson and his band of merrymen have decided to give us ‘Barriers’ as a free download to whet our appetites. You can grab it from here. What do you think of it?
You can hear it on this week’s Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM at 2pm on Wednesday.