Out today for free:
http://euroschilds.com/downloadsonofeurochild.html
Quite good.
― teflon monkey, Monday, 7 September 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago)
day, July 28, 2009 Son Of Euro Child - New AlbumMy new album ' Son Of Euro Child' will be available to download free from this site from September 7th onwards. To do so all you need to do is sign up to the mailing list and you will be given a code which will enable you to download. The cd version will be available to buy at gigs from September the 7th onwards.The album will be on the National Elf label, a label I've started. Other signings to be confirmed (or not as the case may be). Recording took place in various locations in Pembrokeshire from summer 2008 to Spring 2009 and was engineered by Iwan Morgan ( a.k.a Recall) and Stephen Black ( a.k.a Sweet Baboo). I play a sheds worth of synths and joined as always by Peter Richardson on drums.The track listing runs as follows..Part 11. Shithausen2. Gently All Around3. Like This? Then Try This4. How Do You Do?5. Rat-Clock6. Look At My Boots7. 1,000 Pictures Of You8. Carrboro9. My Baby JoyPart 210. The Dog11. Harp i a ii ar #112. The Fairy Feller's Master-stroke13. Harp i a ii ar #214. Mother/Kitchen15. Son of Shithausen
The album will be on the National Elf label, a label I've started. Other signings to be confirmed (or not as the case may be).
Recording took place in various locations in Pembrokeshire from summer 2008 to Spring 2009 and was engineered by Iwan Morgan ( a.k.a Recall) and Stephen Black ( a.k.a Sweet Baboo). I play a sheds worth of synths and joined as always by Peter Richardson on drums.
The track listing runs as follows..
Part 11. Shithausen2. Gently All Around3. Like This? Then Try This4. How Do You Do?5. Rat-Clock6. Look At My Boots7. 1,000 Pictures Of You8. Carrboro9. My Baby JoyPart 210. The Dog11. Harp i a ii ar #112. The Fairy Feller's Master-stroke13. Harp i a ii ar #214. Mother/Kitchen15. Son of Shithausen
― teflon monkey, Monday, 7 September 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago)
Really pleased to see that he's touring with Yo La Tengo too. I'm going to try my best to get to the Glasgow show. It will be a nice reliving of the one time that I saw Gorky's, which was at the Arches playing with YLT.
― krakow, Monday, 7 September 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago)
Posted this here a few days ago but I saw him about a week ago and the new songs came off like he was trying to transform himself into John Shuttleworth or something... he brought the lols but it was weird. TBF he had two cheap keyboards rather than a 'shed' of synths so
― fingerNAGLs (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 September 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago)
the lyrics are a riot on some of the tracks. I couldn't build up much enthusiasm for cheer gone. honestly, it was just really dull, pretty euros songs. this is more in line with chops, which i loved.
― teflon monkey, Monday, 7 September 2009 23:46 (fifteen years ago)
am i the only one who thinks all of his solo albums are terrible? i wish he'd just reform gorky's. funny, he wrote most of the songs but he hasn't come anywhere near their beauty on his own.
― keythkeythkeyth, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago)
much prefer Bore Da to most of the Gorkys albums tbh
― zappi, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago)
Chops and Bore Da are great. I kind of like the new one. Think I'll like it more later on. The last one was boring as hell.
I think Gorky's just kind of dissolved into itself anyway. The excitement was there until the last couple LPs.
― teflon monkey, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago)
i don't know, 'sleep/holiday' is miles better than 'chops' or 'bore da' and before that was the untouchable 'how i long...' so that's almost crazy talk. has anyone ever heard the infinity chimps record? what about richard james' solo records, i downloaded the first one once but it seemed precious and dull which again is strange since i like all of his songs in gorky's. maybe we need a megan solo record then?
― keythkeythkeyth, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 03:41 (fifteen years ago)
There's two Infinity Chimps albums IIRC - the first one I've not heard and the second one is like a side of Pavement-y type songs and then a side of ambient drone and bedroom IDM. Richard James album... yeah not a classic
― fingerNAGLs (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 07:17 (fifteen years ago)
Saw him last year supporting The Dodos, and we all thought he'd gone a bit John Shuttleworth then. (A year prior to that, the comparison would never have occurred to me.) Collared him after the show, for a Kevin Ayers fanboy chinwag. Nice chap.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:14 (fifteen years ago)
OMG OMG, he's covered "The Fairy Feller's Master-stroke"...?!?! Can't wait to hear that....
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:16 (fifteen years ago)
Sounds like some sort of Dadd-rock to me.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00454/Basil_brush_280_454106a.jpg
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/ivanpollard/ali%20bongo.jpg
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:29 (fifteen years ago)
^too soon
― fingerNAGLs (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:40 (fifteen years ago)
Boo, it's not a Queen cover at all. I had such high hopes.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 09:52 (fifteen years ago)
Revive as I just pulled this down and really like it.
Sometime ILM poster wetmink put this YouTube playlist together of solo Gorky's stuff a few years back. Pretty darned good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fMkoR-Oenc&list=PL4F30CC3F0A0E23D6&sns=em
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 14:24 (ten years ago)
My new album 'Kitty Dear' is out today and available to stream and download at https://t.co/U72o9YMPnu on a pay what you can basis. Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/SAktYjTamC— National Elf (@National_Elf) December 22, 2020
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