From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #590 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, November 1 2012 Volume 16 : Number 590 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Luckless [Phil Sainty ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:00:38 +1300 From: Phil Sainty Subject: Luckless I recently (and fortuitously) happened upon the single "Hawks" from New Zealand two-piece Luckless (previously unknown to me) and, loving it immediately, went in search of more. I've only had their eponymous album in my possession for a couple of days, but I'm pretty sure I've found my album of the year, and I'm absolutely certain that at least some of you will want/need to buy this. It seems like a long time since I've finished listening to an album for the first time and simply thought: That was amazing. I get a strong Moon Seven Times vibe from some of the tracks; but it's more like M7X as produced by P J Harvey*. On the whole there's a more driving rhythm than most M7X songs (considerably so at times), but Ivy Rossiter's beautiful clear vocals and her reverberating guitar notes washing over Will Wood's drums and shimmering cymbals brought that comparison to mind pretty quickly. (I imagine there are better reference points, but I couldn't think of any myself.) Even if that didn't pique your interest, I can only strongly recommend having a listen, as the album is available to listen & buy at http://luckless.bandcamp.com/ The site queues up the "Hawks" single by default, which is the song that originally caught my attention, but has the possible downside that the one immediately following it, "The Snake & the Crocodile", is the only song on the album that has yet to resonate with me; so if that one isn't doing it for you, I say go ahead and skip it for now. (If you can, I'd say just start from the beginning, and let the whole album play.) - -Phil n.p. Luckless - Luckless. Obviously. :) (*) I'm not entirely sure about that bit to be honest. I'd read the notes about the EP Ivy put out when Luckless was a solo project, which say that "The four original tracks are diverse in their influences, at one moment recalling an early PJ Harvey...", whereupon the comparison was stuck in my head. You can listen/download that song at http://luckless.bandcamp.com/track/my-machinery (and it does indeed sound a great deal like Polly Jean, but the LP doesn't feature anything particularly like that one). ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #590 ***************************