The Charlatans versus Public Service Broadcasting
The album for this week was supposed to be the Charlatans, Modern Nature and I even bought the deluxe version, it was a throw back to my childhood and I really wanted to like this but it was utter garbage (sorry Colin Burns) I am not even going to blog about it… it was that bad!
I had to change midweek and I took a recommendation from Ross and Morag Anderson (thank you both) who have now become my music gurus, not least after our holiday at New Year.
Public Service Broadcasting replaced The Charlatans and the album inform-educate-entertain is absolutely stunning and like nothing else I have ever listened to. I got a handle on this on Facebook when Morag posted a video and I bought the album straight away (I am buying too many albums and getting into trouble with my wife now!)
This album was released in 2013 and the new album has just been released. This album is stunning. It is a mixture of instrumental and samples, the samples all being from 1930s, 1940s, 1950s broadcasting; some American, some UK, it’s hard to explain unless you listen to it. It’s almost like a meditation. There are lots of different instruments; an electronic drum machine and even a banjo!
The title track is fantastic. Spit fire is one of the tracks that is downloaded most from the album which is incredible, as is Everest which is a truly inspirational track about Mount Everest. My favourite track is ROYGBID (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) which is sampled with very posh, mid-twentieth century broadcasting voices.
The make up of the album is quite unlike anything I have seen before, it is really something different and well worth investigation. Do it first on YouTube and then if you like it buy the album.
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