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Showing posts with label Th' Faith Healers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Th' Faith Healers. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Th' Faith Healers - Imaginary Friend


Iv left the song times up on this one.... yep you are reading it right , 7 songs and a 40 minute epic to finish with! il have a bit of that.. iv blogged about the excellent Tom Cullinan previously so il spare you the details etc... enjoy the tunes!

The fact that Th Faith Healers were originally picked up by the spacy English label Too Pure is certainly significant -- their music, while seemingly in line with indie-rock conventions, has so many elements of noise and drone in it that it appears to have crossed over to listeners of more spacy, organ-driven music. Imaginary Friend manages to satisfy all of these different interests, floating back and forth between soupy waves of distorted guitars and clean, ringing, indie-rock tones ("Kevin," "Heart Fog"). The real thrill of the band's songwriting lies in the way surprising pop moments can emerge from the mess of sound -- the chorus of "See-Saw" is an unexpected burst of melody that transcends all of the band's noisier tendencies. Imaginary Friend is arguably Th Faith Healers' defining album, and that makes it well worth a listen; somewhere in between sounding like a Too Pure band, a noise project, a precursor to Snowpony, and the badass cousins of Madder Rose, Th Faith Healers managed to find a unique and compelling style that no other band has truly approached

Sparklingly Chime - 4:52
Heart Fog - 6:53
See-Saw - 3:18
Kevin - 5:39
The People - 7:12
Curly Lips - 4:29
Everything, All At Once Forever - 40:08


Friday, 3 February 2012

Th' Faith Healers - Lido



Th' Faith Healers.... Th' Camden Lurch ! 

Music defined by the dancing of your audience.. brilliant... I think it might have been Steve Lamaque in his role as live music editor of the NME who christened the term. For me krautrock and shoegaze are the key references and influences here, The band cover a Can song on this too which is always a good thing, if done well of course... no one should desecrate the grave of Can !! 

 Tom Cullinan the bands guitarist went on to form Quickspace who iv written about previously and Joe Dilworth the drummer worked with Stereolab.

This Time
A Word of Advice
Hippy Hole
Don't Jones Me
Love Song
Mother Sky
It's Easy Being You
Spin 1/2