Manchester’s The Slow Readers Club return with their fourth album, The Joy Of The Return. Opening to an energetic blend of driving drums and infectious guitar lines, the opening track builds through evocative verses and anthemic choruses, imbued with their idiosyncratic brand of insightful and confronting lyricism and set against relentlessly danceable and energy-provoking instrumentation. “‘All I Hear’ is about a lack of agency and an inability to affect change. That there’s something happening, and you have no choice but to go along with it,” explains singer Aaron Starkie.
The Best of Culture Club is a greatest hits album of British new wave group Culture Club, released by Virgin Records in 1989. The album was Culture Club's second greatest hits compilation. It originally included 16 tracks: 13 singles, 2 songs previously not available on any Culture Club album, and a non-single track. In 1999 and 2004, Virgin and EMI Gold, respectively, released the album with different artworks, retaining the original track listing. The compilation reached number 4 in French Compilations Chart in 1992. In 2005, the compilation was certified Silver in the UK.
Club Des Belugas is one of the leading Nujazz projects in Europe, probably in the world combining contemporary European Lounge & Nujazz Styles with Brazilian Beats, Swing and American Black Soul of the fifties, sixties and seventies. Featuring guest appearances from Swedish vocalist Anna Luca and multi award winning Californian jazz impresario Brenda Boykin. Recorded at the Rex Theatre, Wuppertal 2010 and the Grillo Theatre Essen, Germany, June 19, 2009.
Slow Readers Club are delivering unto our mouths a pulsating, groovy, and hypnotic 3rd album with fresh sounds, fresh melodies, and rapid innovation…
The Slow Readers Club are one of those bands whose records make you wish you were at a gig. Their music is tailor made for the live arena – soaring synths, effects-laden guitars, driven bass and impassioned vocals, perfect for being mirrored back by thousands of fans…
Although as one rock critic points out "the blood of Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Tull, Pink Floyd and others floods their veins", Dead Heroes Club manage to achieve an original and inventive approach to their music. DHC offer modern melodic and passionate music & songs that deal with themes rooted in the modern world.
Irish outfit Dead Heroes Club was formed sometime after the millenium, when Gerry McGerigal (guitars, vocals), Liam Campbell (vocals, guitars) and Mickey Gallagher (drums, percussion) decided to form a band of their own. They all had previous experience in different bands, and all of them had become tired of playing only plain mainstream-oriented pop and rock music - and all shared a passion for progressive rock from the 70's and 80's…
This aptly titled release from '80s art rockers and Talking Heads side project Tom Tom Club is indeed good, bad, and funky. Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz have explored a stunning amount of musical styles within the confines of this album, with every song sounding like it was produced by a different group. The use of a variety of vocalists, including Weymouth, who at times sounds like a 16-year-old Japanese girl instead of her more mature self, as well as Mystic Bowie and Charles Pettigrew only seems to heighten the variety of sounds offered. The lyrics are simple, yet clever, and laid over a variety of sampled tracks, scratching, and other turntablism and live instrumentation. The resulting sound ranges from dub to dance-pop to spacy funk. The variety does allow for some unevenness, however, though duds like the repetitive and spare "Time to Bounce" are more than balanced by gems like "Happiness Can't Buy Money" and the instrumental cleverness of "Lesbians by the Lake," among others.