The Police Box: The Police Box 7
TEN TRACKS: THE POLICE BOX, April '09
This month something to remember Oxjam 09 by - an exclusive James Yorkston collaboration, and a King Creosote solo track no longer availalable anywhere except here... the best Police Box yet?
Cloud Cuckooland
The Real Tuesday Weld
A moreish transgenre nugget from a Sunday Times Album of the Week ‘The London Book of The Dead’ which "beautiful... giddily recalls Gainsbourg, Pulp, Cole Porter, early Disney soundtracks and seedy postwar revue bars". With some beat-boxing thrown in
Passe Par Tout
Orkestra del Sol
Grab Joe Acheson's fresh mix of Passe Par Tout, while it's exclusively ours: Nothing less than the sonic romp we've come to expect from ODS, PPT passes its brassy fingers par every musical pleasure centre, out of bounds or not...
The Silence That Makes You Mine
Chutes
This great recording (Chem 19 Glasgow) captures a big drum part, fine bass, impressive guitar relationships, enhancing heartfelt lead and backing vocals, this is pro production that keeps the baby safe whilst well and truly removing the bathwater.
Annabel
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim seems inspired by the songwriting of such new folk luminaries as Devendra Banhart; but the fixed memory in the words and onward journeying of the music makes for the unique tone in 'Annabel' .
Punchbag
King Creosote
No longer publically available anywhere but here, 'Punchbag' is released in celebration of the recently finished Oxjam and Fence Homegame Festivals, 2009. Understated but assured, this song exhibits cornerstone qualities of much of KC's subsequent work.
My Australia
Royal Edinburgh Music
My Austrlia is one of five Oxjam-curated tracks to mark the end of a successful year of fundraising with music. Here Royal Edinburgh music examine the less glamourous but no less real sides of life.
Closed Time Like Loops (Zemeckis remix by The Blessings)
FOUND
The Blessings, aka Dom Sum and FineArt, are the 'good moral people' behind urban music/art crew LuckyMe - doing here just as they say on their tin: 'taking on the odd extra-curricular remix duty'... Enjoy this colourful stroke of Luck.
Hollywood Has Ended
North Atlantic Oscillation
OK... bassline and drum part! But you'll have to wait for.. OK... really nice atmosphere and melody line. i.e.... thoughtful and uplifting electro-prog-pop-punk? Hard to categorise, easier to hear.
True Love Will Find You In The End
James Yorkston and Adrian Crowley
Does a strange song like this paint a thousand pictures? With the broken production, contradicting the faith of the words, you are faced with a void. The words ask you to fill it, but the sound says you won't...
Vibrations
Austen George
Austen wrongfoots us with this vocally rather than guitar driven piece of musical magic, which includes its ability to reference Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence and (dare I...yes I do) Queen, all at once. Ten Tracks' current #1 for going out AND coming home to.
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TEN TRACKS: THE POLICE BOX, April '09
This month something to remember Oxjam 09 by - an exclusive James Yorkston collaboration, and a King Creosote solo track no longer availalable anywhere except here... the best Police Box yet?
This really is one of the best TPB bundles. And the competition is stiff!
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