The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Peyton on Patton (Side One Dummy Records)
It’s very raw, so people who aren’t already Blues fans may struggle to enjoy it.
we wouldn’t have Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry or even The Rolling Stones or The Beatles. The Reverend Peyton, who heads up his own Big Damn Band, has long been a fan of Patton’s work, and this record sees him covering 13 of the original songs in a style as close to the original as could be managed; the few instruments used include a washboard and a 100 year old barrel. Many of the songs are simply recreated with an acoustic guitar and vocal by The Reverend, and because he has obviously so much love and respect for the originals, these simple and timeless songs come together to make a cohesive and warm album, perfect for evenings in during the coming autumn. It is very raw, so people who aren’t already Blues fans may struggle to enjoy it. However, for those down with the bass, the slide and the wail, it’s a real Blues explosion. Lizz
C Plaid – Scintilli (Warp)
have to confess that I’ve been out of the Plaid loop for a while so I was very eager to get Scinitlli into my CD player when it fell through my letterbox. And what I was greeted with was not what I was expecting, but I was certainly not disappointed. The opening track, Missing, channels Sigur Ros in their more acoustic moments, before we’re torn away from our reverie with Eye Robot, a much dirtier, electronic affair. And it’s glorious. One of the defining elements of this album is its diversity, but it still manages to hold together as a single work somehow. By track 4 we’ve got elements of Dr Who, before being thrown a smattering of Efterklang and some hints of one time collaborator Bjork. Scintilli has apparently been something of a labour of love for Plaid, and indeed they claim to chant the word for 2 hours every morning as a kind of self-affirming mantra (it means ‘I am many sparks’). They’ve also calculated that each beat contained on the album has taken roughly one day to construct. Now that’s some attention to detail. Overall, Scinitilli presses a lot of my buttons, and you should let it have a poke at yours too. BBV
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By track 4 we’ve got elements of Dr Who.
Feist – Metals (Polydor)
There’s no novelty to this album, and it’s completely warranted to take herself seriously this time.
delightfully, Feist could equally have sung, “I went to a Chinese Restaurant to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread” and it may have had the same effect. The voice is mesmerising, yes, but there’s a bigger point to Feist – she has phenomenal taste in music; a member of Broken Social Scene, Jose Gonzales’ missus, toured with Peaches and has had her song ‘Limit to Your Love’ covered and brought to light by James Blake. The experience seems to culminate here, in a loaded album of bluesy, spacious, isolated and rural folk. I found it hard to get beyond the captivating first track, ‘The Bad in Each Other’, just repeating, letting it draw me far in each time. There’s no novelty to this album, and it’s completely warranted to take herself seriously this time. Let’s just hope Diaggeo or the likes aren’t in the market for a new slice of Feist. Emma Garwood
T 40 / October 2011/
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he trouble with Feist is – and let’s be certain that the Canadian songstress doesn’t inflict much strain – is that she continues to be known for her delirious little singles. ‘Mushaboom’ and ‘1,2,3,4’
were deemed to be the perfect songs to sell polo shirts and iPods, and while they skip over you
harlie Patton was perhaps one of the most influencial musicians that has lived thus far in our planet’s history. Growing up on a plantation on the Mississippi in the early 1900’s, he grew into America’s greatest Blues star, travelling all over the USA. Without him, it could be argued that
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