Monthly Archives For August 2008

The Seabellies: ‘Prairie’

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The Seabellies – ‘Prairie’

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Has anyone else noticed the resurrgence in piano accordian use? First Holly Throsby, then Baseball and now the Seabellies on their new single ‘Prairie’, continuing their trend for ’08 of releasing only digital singles. This follows on from ‘Heart Heart Heart Out’ and finds them returning to their Canadian music influences, building a bombastic tune not alike that of Arcade Fire but compressing their multilayered sound into more standard song structure fare. It’s build nicely, there’s plenty of textured harmonies, but at the time of writing this, the song hasn’t grabbed me just yet – and I’m a fan of these guys. Maybe I just have to give it time.

http://www.myspace.com/theseabellies

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Jessica Chapnik

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Jessica Chapnik – ‘Sand’

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Jessica Chapnik is a new name to me but she might be better known to the Australian public as Sam Tolhurst, a character from Home and Away. Argentinian born and Australian raised, she is a trained actress, but we’re interested in her for her music rep. She was a backing singer to Sarah Blasko when she met Ben Lee who ended up writing a whole album’s worth of songs for a soundtrack to the movie The Square and got Jessica to sing it. The songwriting is very Ben Lee, and I suspect if he was singing I wouldn’t bother listening to the CD, but Jessica’s voice gave the songs a new angle and feel to them. One to watch in the future.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chapnik

www.squarethemovie.com/soundtrack.html

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Micky Green

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Micky Green – ‘Oh!’ (mp3)

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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of pop music, I grew up on a diet of Top 40 radio so it’s impossible to shake off the habit. Paris based Micky Green in this category of easy light guilt free pop, something that I enjoy every now and then. Tall, blonde and stunning, 23 year old Michaela Gehrmann can easily be a fashion model…well as a matter of fact she is! She moved to France when she was 18 and are on the Ford and Vivien modelling agency books.

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www.myspace.com/mickygreenmusic

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Mammal: ‘Smash the Pinata’

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Mammal – ‘Smash the Pinata’

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Mammal are moving further and further away from Ezekiel Ox’s former band Full Scale and finding a sound of their own, which sits somewhere in the middle of a triange of metal, funk and alt. rock. The typically loquacious Ox is again preaching to the masses, but he’s the ultimate frontman: his effusive personality and unbridled energy which is the key to Mammal’s blistering live shows is captured perfectly on their new tune, ‘Smash the Pinata’. It’s not as simplistically catchy as their other material, but it’s still got that stomping beat.

http://www.myspace.com/mammaltheband

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