Aberfeldy -- anyone know anything?

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New(? I think) Rough Trade band. I've heard "Love is an Arrow" (which I quite like) and one other mp3 that didn't excite me so much. Anyone else heard them? Thoughts/opinions?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

saw them supporting the mountain goats, at nice'n'sleazy. nice.

they should play the winchester club.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

the cd promo I got sent was good. I like them. folky pop. lyrics a bit trite but in a good way. for some reson it works. put on above mentioned show and enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

aberfeldy are a band and a place as well
you can look it up on google under.. a

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying to get my hopes up, as it's probably just a case of "Love is an Arrow" being a nearly perfect song, and the record ending up being boring to me. But who knows?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone else heard the LP? I quite like it, actually. They have a way with a harmony and a goofy rhyme. "Love is an Arrow" and "Veg Restaurant" are the obvious standouts to me so far.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I rather like it too. It's not twee enough to annoy me, but it's still cute and fun.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

a little bit of puke came up in my mouth when i heard this.

― doomie x, Thursday, 19 August 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet it tasted like neopolitan ice cream.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of like the album cover, even if it is a bit off:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0001Z2TL2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it! I hadn't seen it yet.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

they're rotten and this as i am pre-programmed to like this sort of thing.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 20 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

they're great and this as i am not programmed and this as i am not a comput0r.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Love is an Arrow" is a great song but I am not keen on the album. I think they'd have got away with it if I'd never seen them live - the charm of the recorded tracks just came over as a more amateur Deacon Blue in person.

And jeez, I know I'm no oil painting, but for fuck's sake, they really aren't making an effort at all...

― reclusive hero (reclusive hero), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

That's certainly true. They should just do the enigmatic/faceless bit for a time like Belle and Sebastian did. I think "Love is an Arrow" is the only truly good song on the album, but I enjoy it mostly throughout. Some of the rhymes and lyrics are so self-consciously bad/good.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

i love the ah ah ah ah-ah's in "a friend like you"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Heliopolis By Night. Great, misleading album cover too.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah the album cover is cool. i got it when it first came out, at the beginning of our summer, and 'summer's gone' seemed so wrong and weird. now summer is gone and it's all sad. i thrashed it too hard when i got and got fed up with it, but it definitely has some nice poppy tunes. i like the one about jennifer too.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i have a massive new respect for this record after learning how it was recorded. one microphone??!

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep04/articles/aberfeldy.htm

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

That is pretty neat. It's a charming record.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, their second album just seems to have kind snuck out this July. Didn't know a thing about it until just a minute ago.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 25 August 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/aberfeldytheband

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

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