“Strange Affairs“ is the debut of French/Swedish collaboration of Arthur Vere and Jack L. Stroem. Purest, highly melodic AOR of the finest sort which touches your heart ans soul. It was recorded with vintage equipment and without any fuzz like Autotune etc. Simply authentic eighties music …brilliant! Songs like “Stranger At Heart“ or “Love Affair“ to name just two make a really good first impression. Amazing!
Songs of Experience is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder with Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow, and Jolyon Thomas, and it will be released on 1 December 2017. The album is intended to be a companion piece to U2's previous record, Songs of Innocence (2014). Whereas its predecessor explored the group members' adolescence in Ireland in the 1970s, Songs of Experience thematically will be a collection of letters written by lead vocalist Bono to people and places closest to his heart. The personal nature of the lyrics reflects a "brush with mortality" that he had during the album's recording.
Brisbane 5-piece Ball Park Music have sunk a hell of a lot of time into the process of sound sculpting. Very few acts in Australia nowadays have the same kind of feel that Ball Park has achieved. Now their songwriting harks back to their early days of QUT-flavoured sardonic power pop, but with the newfound sonic maturity of a band that has a near-decade of recording under its belt . This is a good thing…