The record is a deeply personal meditation on the ebbs and flows of today’s cultural climate. Drawing from her own experiences and perspective, Pruitt’s raw, unflinching delivery, very cuts through the noise with a vulnerability. On Fools For The Fleeting, she delivers her most expansive and resonant work yet, an album that embraces impermanence while searching for meaning within it.
Legendary songwriters/voices Stephen Stills and Neil Young made one
LP together as a duo under the name TEH THE STILLS-YOUNG BAND.
The album, titled LONG MAY YOU RUN, was released
today 50 years ago, on 20 September 1976.
Following the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young stadium tour of 1974, an attempt by the quartet to finalize a new album ended amidst acrimony without result. David Crosby and Graham Nash resumed their partnership, while Stills and Young continued their independent careers.
In early 1976, Stills and Young reached a rapprochement and began to work on a joint album project from a desire by both to pick up where they left off with Buffalo Springfield (1966-1968). Crosby and Nash signed on as well, and briefly Long May You Run looked to be the awaited CSNY reunion album, but in the end it was just Stills and Young.
Young about working with Stills: “The Stills/Young band was a sort of attempt to wrap up something that we had started a long time ago. It really wasn’t as hot as the early stuff we did. When we were about twenty we used to lock horns a bit, and that was good for the group.”
AllMusic said in retrospect: “Young’s songs were pleasant newly written throwaways with
the exception of the title track, a trunk song he had written as a tribute to an old car. Stills’ compositions seemed more seriously intended, but still were not substantial.
The playing, largely handled by the professional sessionman types in Stills’ band, was far smoother than what one was accustomed to in a Young album. The result was a listenable record, but not a compelling one.”
Original photo: Ada Duffy. Handmade mixed-media collage by Billiam
Artist: BILLIAM Who:Australian punk who says he produces Autism-core, a term he uses
to describe his deeply personal, anxiety-fuelled punk paired with irresistibly
catchy hooks.
Album: FANG THE SNIPER
His 5th. Ready for release
on October 22th.
“I grew up on a diet of Dylan. My mum was a big fan. And now when I’m feeling lost or lacking in inspiration, I listen to him. It’s not just his wonderful lyrics, it’s the mixture of everything, the words, the music, and his voice.”
Young: “It’s quite a special album to me. Music is a gift and when it comes
like this I really feel it. Everything here feels so good. I hope you will agree.”
Album artwork
TUTV: It’s the melancholic Young we hear here, strumming his acoustic guitar,
playing his harmonica here and there, and adding the fitting vocality, intimate
and kind-hearted. All very familiar. He looks back with old romantic memories,
soothing cogitations and nostalgic reveries.
Second Song sounds like a solo album from his
inexhaustible Archives, like candlelight moments
from bygone times.
. Consequence (USA) said: “The new album’s emotional backdrop is heavy, sure,
but there are dozens of little joys swimming through I Built You a Tower.”
The band will travel around in the US next year to build towers.
The song was co-written with Australian
musician and producer Matt Swanton.
It’s about the toxic relationship between a man and a woman,
who nevertheless stay together out of habit, fear, and laziness.
TUTV: My ears hear a kind of restlessness and stress sonically and vocally, expressing
the core of a toxic relationship, the song’s topic. My ears also hear Wilco echoes with rich arrangements and layered orchestrations, while a drum/bass groove controls the pace all the way.
Halfway there’s a dark moment of near-collapse but expressive guitars and subtle harmonies restart the shadowy jam. Give a couple of listens. It’s a magnetic tune to
go back to.
