Another track to file under album cover does a better job describing the sounds within than words could describe.
Robert Palmer - Johnny and Mary [1980]
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A new idea from Know Phase and Haussmann. A song for the sunset each week. No articles to sort through or play buttons to find, just expect immediate satisfaction: Future Hymns. Now featuring Know Phases favorite song uncovering of the year, Joan Armatrading’s 1981 celestial ballad “Only One.” Future Hymns will be updated every Friday.
Joan Armastrading – Only One [1981]
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While his duet with Grimes garnered a lot of fanfare, the lead off track to Majical Cloudz II brings Devon Welsh closer to the foreground and reveals just how capable he is playing solo. This track really deserves some more attention:
Majical Cloudz – Your Eyes
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The healing powers of Bernard Sumner (Joy Division/New Order), Johnny Marr and Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) combine in the late eighties to form everything you could never expect. It’s Winter:
Electronic – Second to None [1991]
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B_Side to feel every beat. Their peak
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Electronic – Feel Every Beat [1991]
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More representative of their overall sound, just listen past Summer’s rap. The keys and outro..so so good.
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Electronic - Lean to the Inside [1991]
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Eat yr heart out James Ferraro. 2nd B_Side to feel every beat
Colin Newman’s solo output is largely and criminally overlooked. After exhausting the Wire discography and generally being more fond of their more melodic moments his solo explorations throughout the 80′s are something of a godsend. Like any good solo undertaking, his best songs are found the deeper in you dig. I’ll never understand the phenomena, the only thing I can think of is that when those briefly cast aside peak creative moments occur they need just a bit longer to ruminate and by that time the record has been sent off. Like those same forces at play when your soon to be favorite album doesn’t make complete sense at first but leaves you longing for it all the same.
Colin Newman - We Means, We Starts [1982]
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One of his more optimistic tracks, I think it’s my favorite song he’s ever done. It also just happens to be one of his hardest songs to find.
Colin Newman – Feigned Hearing [1986]
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Colin Newman – It Seems [1988]
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Colin Newman – Truculent Yet [1982]
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Cass McCombs – Meet Me At the Mannequin Gallery
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Off his latest album Humor Risk
This song and video are both so beautiful that it was really starting to upset me that the music video for it on youtube was of such terrible quality. I finally sourced a good quality video for it and uploaded it to Know Phase’s ongoing Classics vimeo series. Stay tuned for rare short films and other essential music videos that are either unreleased or difficult to come by.
Close to home. True to life/Cyan| I’ve been increasingly addicted to this new single by Kindness over the past few weeks and this video really just puts it over the top. It also made me go back and rediscover the brilliance of his last single that saw him reworking the Replacements Swingin’ Party to something Byrne would be proud of:
Kindness – Swingin’ Party [2009]
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The Replacements – Swingin’ Party [1985]
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