Posts tagged with pink floyd

04/20/2011

Julian Lynch – Terra

File Julian Lynch under “Artists I’ve never listened to but whose upcoming album everyone seems to be pretty excited about so my interest has been piqued”. And while I still know almost nothing about him, based on the two tunes below, I, too, am excited for his upcoming album Terra which should be hitting the streets on April 26. The title track starts out with a blistering sax solo, something that I can’t get enough of ever since that Destroyer show a few weeks back. It then falls into an earthy sounding just slightly lo-fi folk rock tune sprinkled with just a hint of psychedelia here and there. Just enough that you notice it when it hits. I’d say it’s got a somewhat earthy sound to it. Not like smelly hippie earthy though. We also got a taste of “Back”, the closing track on the album. This one crosses the bridge from acoustic folk into slightly Pink Floyd-esque effects, and I am totally OK with that. When someone is able to blend so many different styles so seamlessly it is never a bad thing. Check out a bunch of Julian’s previously released tunes over at his bandcamp page just as I’m about to do right now.

Julian Lynch – Terra

Julian Lynch – Back

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07/11/2009

nelly furtado – hey man

nelly furtado

i have a specific memory of purchasing nelly furtados debut album “whoa, nelly” many moons ago. i just got the bonneville (rip bonneville….i miss you) and for the first time ever i had a cd player in my car. a real life cd player. not a tape deck contraption discman that only played when you held it at a 23.43 degree angle only when you were going 34 miles per hour on the third sunday of the month during the year of the rat in the year 29301 on the aztec calendar. no, a real live cd player. so one of the first things i did was go to harmony house (rip harmony house too) and picked up a few cds. i had plenty of cds, but i needed some fresh ones that hadnt been tainted by the cd players of cars gone by. one was this one, and the other one was pink floyd “dark side of the moon”. what a weird combination.

so then i listened to it a bunch and liked it a bunch. then i heard her second album but once. then what i think was her third album came out and suddenly she was all r&b hip hop whatnot. she definitely tied gwen stefani/no doubt for the award for weirdest transition from one genre to another without any warning. the good thing though is that we were treated to the promiscuous girl video, in which nelly furtado looks super hot. but she also looked super hot before she went all timbaland. so i guess shes got that going for her. im glad that she was able to achieve success with a bunch of different audiences and i appreciate her versatility as an artist, but i do wonder what could have been if she stayed down the path where she began.

todays track is “hey man”, the opening track from whoa, nelly (aside: didnt she also step into the spotlight when nelly the rapper was huge, confusing people even more?). this song epitomizes what nelly furtado was back then. strong and confident, but still innocent. you know how sometimes there are those songs that can only come at the beginning of an album or theyll be completely out of place? this is one of them. it just sets a great tone for the rest of a great debut album.

nelly furtado – hey man

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