The Briar Bell highlights the vulnerability in Jana’s vocals that sit so well with Tim’s aching harmonies.Ī Shelter of Reeds is simply stunning. Why the Long Face feels like Steely Dan with a sprinkling of Field Music, and boy oh boy, what a perfect chorus. The trio of Why the Long Face, The Briar Bell and A Shelter of Reeds hits the absolute sweet-spot for me. By the time we get to Junkyard Dogs, the beauty of this album fully reveals itself. The first few songs are stripped back and highlight Tim and Jana’s perfect vocal interplay. I love the way the album slowly builds as each song progresses. Available in digital form from Amazon, or in physical form direct from the band, this is my favourite Sweet Billy Pilgrim album to date. The newly streamlined (now just Tim Elsenburg and Jana Carpenter) Sweet Billy Pilgrim released the wonderful Wapentak in mid-2018.
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Vocalist Tyler Lyle and fellow band member Tim McEwan perfectly capture that feeling of nostalgia and hope (tinged with melancholy) that ran through the music, film and TV of the 80s. Kids is The Midnight’s most recent album, and features the pure-pop of America 2 and is bursting at the seams with analogue synths and drums that sound like Simmons sds9.
Their artwork matches the music perfectly, and putting it simply, they write well-crafted electronic pop songs.
They are an electronic act from the USA, described as being part of the synthwave collection of artists, and are heavily influenced by 80s music / pop culture. If you are interested – my top 5 most played artists (via scrobbles) last year wereĪnyway, back to The Midnight. I stumbled across them via an online recommendation from Jacob Holm-Lupo from White Willow / The Opium Cartel, and 6 months later they are my 3rd most played artist of 2018 (thanks to Last.FM). The Midnight were a new band to me in 2018.
The album is a real late-career highlight.īuy the album at Amazon. Wanderlust is a much more stark electronic offering than the early Blancmange albums, but it contains three of my favourite songs of the year with Distant Storm, the insanely addictive In Your Room and Not a Priority (featuring Hannah Peel). Top 5 new albums (in no particular order) Blancmange – Wanderlustīlancmange released their tenth studio album, Wanderlust, in October. Here are my favourite music releases from 2018 AKA good ideas to use up your Christmas Amazon gift vouchers.