tunesmithery

Gavin Guss, whose second album On High has become a favourite here at Shindig! Towers, has kindly offered us exclusive presentation of his new video, the darkly humorous ‘Avenue A’.

Our very own Andy Morten wrote of the song and album, “quietly confident tunesmithery hinged around piano and drums and Guss’ appealing multi-tracked vocals."

Laura Marling is a UK indie folk star in the ascendant whose striking melodies and wise-beyond-her-years vocals could melt even the iciest of hearts. The 18-year-old small town girl sings about love, lust and romance, the futility of religion, self-loathing and human psychology. Each one of her songs is a mini-blast of prime poetry, gorgeous melody and sublime songwomanship.

Fans of the wispy tunestrel will be pleased to hear that she hasn't strayed far from her familiar stomping grounds of melodious folk-rockism and tales of love and yearning, the focus (in fine Seventies style) fixing on the singer's emotional trials and torments.

After a brilliant afternoon working with KT Tunstall, on an extremely top secret project, heehee(I’ll tell you in March). I’m sat here with her album “Tiger Suit” on full blast thinking of old times and trying to learn all the lyrics to glamour puss!!!! This rockstrel is not only amaaaaaaaaaaazing…..This post tbc’d in March…xxxx Karen

the tracks on here are, without exception, superlative (and slightly terrifying) slabs of forceful, expressive, rocksmithery

And So What punkstrel Pink is also doing her own live thang.

My source getting the party started on the Funhouse tour revealed: "Pink is really angry at the idea of elephants being carted around on tour, especially with the loud music, lights and craziness that generally ensues on a tour of any kind.

"But she's waiting to see if the rumour about using animals is true and what Britney will be doing with the animals before judging."

Ironically Pink used an elephant herself in one of her own early videos but it was something she's always regretted.

No, we're not speaking of the whiskey-rotted, cowboy-hatted, delusional Americana of a Townes Van Zandt wannabe, nor the wasted Cocaine California decadence of the Jackson Browne-Eagles brood, nor the weepy, terminally depressed Nick Drake-wish-upon-a-Pink Moon-songstrelsy either.

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The Messenger by Johnny Marr, cracking album on first listen. Some great guitarsmithery. Would recommend highly. #johnnymarr

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Excellent day of beatsmithery with @benwestbeech some epic highs, and lows, a great curry and many custard tarts.
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Fusing ambient soundscapes with global beatsmithery and dubbed-out audio excursions, Masonik utilise disparate instrumentation to meld a soundworld that is truly immersive and exploratory,

Milo, the Philosoraptor. Rap Game Kwame Appiah. Elrond Hubbard, your idiot vagabond brother. He’s not a rapper, he’s a rapsmith. If you can’t discern the difference, you’re thinking too hard.

"It's an insider's celebration of the form, studded with straight-to-camera rhymesmithery from its best practitioners" - DAILY TELEGRAPH.

jesus

that's by tim robey who is not a terrible writer insofar as i am aware, his defence is probably that he is a film critic by trade

Bona has already proven his value to others by lending his bassmanship to an array of artists ranging from Bobby McFerrin (whose scat-informed vocal style is not unlike Bona's) to Paul Simon, Chick Corea, and Queen Latifah.

The Monochrome Set’s dry wit and 1960s pop sensibilities might not have made them fashionable back in the decidedly dour late 1970s, but with the patronage of John Peel and some fine tunemongery, for a while they were one of the biggest “indie” bands in the country.

With an "Ape Shit" D -Boy swag, stupendous lyrical prose and word smithmanship, natural charisma, and an exceptional ability to deliver high quality records with an R&B influence as well as infectious club bangers, and certified street anthems, this new contender may at first glance leave you somewhat baffled.

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Lyrically, Pallot often gets political (particularly on her biggest hit, “Everybody’s Gone To War” and 2009′s beautiful Kate Bush-reminiscent ballad, “English“) but for this special album-launch evening, politics were left behind and, instead, we got a selection of more personal songs, including “Grace” (which the songsmithstress wrote the night before she gave birth to her son, Wolfie, last year) and “If I Lost You Now” (apparently written the day after Wolfie was born).

Wolfie songSmithstress

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It’s been a busy year in the music industry, though sadly it seems labels are putting the majority of their efforts into thoughtless, genre-reversing pop and throwaway, forgettable dance. On the plus side, it means we’ve had a veritable diarrhoea smorgasbord to wade through and make our selections of musical cuntery from, so behold, 2009’s worst singles...

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considering a thread of forgetable dance

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The other day when the death occurred of Percy Grainger—whom, your Lordships may recall, wrote Country Gardens and Handel in the Strand—one of the obituary notices criticised him for being not really a composer, but only a tunesmith. May I remind the author of that obituary notice that Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert all wrote a large number of thundering good tunes!

In this post-world world of ours, it is refreshing to see somebody still cares about good old-fashioned songsmithery.

Tame and Quiet is a trio of giants who harness the power of a million wild, fire-snorting stallions into concise blasts of raw, clanging riffage, epically sweet melodies, and crashing drumsmithery.

ladies and gentlemen, Lauren Laverne

I hadn't given ironic aesthetics a lot of thought since 2003, when the Darkness released their debut album Permission to Land in a blizzard of highlights, catsuits and Van Halenesque axe-smithery and it seemed briefly important whether they actually meant it.

Nearly two decades since his international breakthrough, Per Gessle is still an underrated tunesmith, and En Handig Man shows him to his best advantage.

there are fuckloads of underrated tunesmiths apparently. the ones that get me are the dudes that write it on forums, all casual like

yeah finding vbb people or commenbox mavens trying to write like phil mcnulty or dave simpson lauren laverne is harsh

Andrew Farrell (afarrell) wrote this on thread World in Motion vs Three Lions on board I Love Music on Mar 27, 2003

When it's good populist pop-music (and indeed tunesmithery), no-one can beat an on-form Ian Broudie. His miserabilism also gives it a fantastic hook-em-in factor for people who hate sports: it's the only sports song I've ever heard which is realistic about what "we" are hoping in the face of. "Thirty years of hurt" in a football song!
In a football song, generally the home of "We're better than you, and you know it". Well, we're not better than you, but we could be.
Clearly, the only thing that would make Three Lions better would be if Johnny Cash covered it.

Zurkownian Blogsmithery. By the extraordinary Derek Woods. Watch out everyone!

top pop vocalists polishing their tunesmanship in&around winchmore hill-might that look something like this pic.twitter.com/rAiaTg38Yg.

For all its in-your-face melodramatics and its to-your-gut tunesmanship, the L.A. Opera's take on Puccini's "Tosca" has never yet raised the work

The thunderous riffery, for instance, on the groove-driven stomp of "I Said It" provides a solid foundation for their patented, aggressive style, while Soriano's guttural roar on the fervent "That Day" overwhelms the senses with a heavy dose of dynamics and urgency.

Great lyrics, wonderful tunes-womanship, top-notch collaborations, and far too wonderful to be deemed a diamond in the rough.

Two channels of intercontinental beatsmanship by DJs representing Austin (ACL channel) and parts unknown (OCL).

blends a vintage-soul sound with state-of-the-art beatsmanship

low bassline workouts from 'Hot get Hotter' and 'Jah Glory' to frigged up break beatery from 'The Return of Sleng', 'Dub of the Sphinx', 'Hustlers Choice',

On past album covers, Dumfries folk troubadress Emily Smith resembles Kate McGarrigle, Celine Dion and Suzanne Vega. On her latest album sleeve, she's turned into Dido. See, like all talented folkies, Smith is a shapeshifter. On her delightful fifth album she goes from McGarrigle to the aforementioned dinner-party-botherer in a few bars. The title track is a countrified number with warm pan pipes and violins, setting the Celtic agenda. Guest fiddler Stuart Duncan provides exemplary work on the uplifting love song 'Take You Home', a heart-shattering tune with the weepy refrain: “Put your hand in mine love, and I will take you home.” Smith is a scholar of the folk genre: the emotion, wit, drama and passion are tools at her command. Regard the timeless piano ballad 'Dreams and Lullabies,' with its tingling triangles and bass fluming along a moonlit plateau, Richard Thompson's smoky lament 'Waltzing's For Dreamers,' or Alan Doherty's flute on the gorgeous 'Sweet Lover of Mine' for examples of knockout beauty. 'Still We Dance On' brings the pathos, 'Butterfly' the ceilidh ruckus, and 'Lord Donald' the flair for interpretation. Ending on the a cappella 'What a Voice,' this is a sublime (if a wee bit long) modern folk record

aforementioned dinner-party-botherer

"DRUMNBASSERY", a playlist created by optikalblitz.

There are at least five instances of horrific syntaxmanglery in that review, which is why I posted it in its entirety.

someone on etsy should start making and selling troubadresses.

<3 this thread

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Welcome to the Tunesmith's Forge

The new release Dope Dogs proffers a heady cocktail of roiling rhythms, Hendrixian fretmanship and wild-eyed conspiracy-laced rantings, taking Clinton's peculiar fascination with the four-legged creatures to its illogical extreme. This is a concept album rife with waggish tales.

Andy was awarded Acoustic Guitar Magazines esteemed worldwide silver medal award for his fingerstyle approach. But most fans first exposure to Andy’s guitartistry has been through his youtube presence; the Topeka Kansas native’s 100 million cumulative youtube views puts him in the top 3 most viewed subjects on the site’s storied 7-year history. Listen

Look styling while you rock on your guitar with this Guitartisan Trucker Hat!

Andrew St James is an 19 year old singer songwriter from San Francisco's foggy west side.

With a beyond-his-years lyrical vision and a unique gift for melody-making, St James's music lands firmly in the alternative folk world. His timeless songwriting skills will make you second guess his age.

ugh, the Chicago radio station WXRT (which, if it still exists in anything resembling its 1990s form, would be catgeorized as "Adult Album Alternative") had a particular fondness for middle-aged singer-songwriters that were precisely the type to be described as "songsmiths" or "craftsmen." that included pretty great (yet still kind of boring, in a certain view) folks like Elvis Costello and Richard Thompson, but also people like Freedy Johnston and a million others either more obscure or too dull to recall.

the whole tunesmith/songsmith/craftsman meme always bugged me because the range of music described as such was always so circumscribed, and therefore the whole notion had a reactionary flavor, like this certain type (and only this certain type) of temperate rock music with punning lyrics and self-consciously twisty melodies was some kind of pinnacle of aesthetic achievement. like I said, I actually don't mind much of the music made in this vein (see also Aimee Mann) but the attitudes that circulate around it--and the word/concepts of tunesmithery/songsmithery/craftsmanship as they are applied to it--make my stomach churn.

guy clark, whose music i like but don't love, seems to have :ahem: "crafted" a persona that is all about this. in fact at least two of his albums refer to his status as a songwriter/craftsman. now some of that is just marketing, some of it is just plain true... but a lot of it seems like a weird (and unnecessary?) defensive gesture against accusations/anxieties (on his part? labels?) that his music is too even-keeled, too plain, too samey, or just too dull. it's pointing critics and audiences toward a certain kind of appreciation, suggesting that they are smart, mature, etc. for appreciating the modest but true virtues of sincere and patient craftsmanship. again, not sure there is anything wrong with this per se but when this stuff becomes a kind of credo it's hard to take.

The mere sight of Kim Wilde's luscious, simmering smouldering (I could go on and on) pout is enough to reduce the Ed to a puddle of quivering 501s. Her effect on men is more than enough reason for us chicks to resent her, one would think, but it's impossible to dislike either the songstrel or her pert electro-pop dance numbers.

Kate Bush's Babooshka storyline as follows - wife wants to test husband so pretends to be younger foxtrel named Babooshka and seduces him via snail-interweb (i.e. letters). Husband likes Babooshka because she reminds him of his wife. They then meet and he still doesn't twig and falls for wife-in-disguise. This is all meant to be very bad according to KB but she doesn't explain why.
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A passionate beatsmith from the start, Roman Flügel’s thirst for inspiration always drives him to where the party is happening

http://crackmagazine.net/music/roman-flugel/

this is written by an ilxor afaik, hope this is a 'shout out' to this thread mb

Solar Motel was received as a singular work of guitarroristic finesse, turning up across many year ends lists (Uncut, New Yorker, etc) and provoking ecstatic comparisons to psychedelic visionaries and the countless champions of guitar-based music who tend to outlive the trends.

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Solar Motel was received as a singular work of guitarroristic finesse, turning up across many year ends lists (Uncut, New Yorker, etc) and provoking ecstatic comparisons to psychedelic visionaries and the countless champions of guitar-based music who tend to outlive the trends.

― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Friday, December 26, 2014 12:37 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know someone in this band. Not gonna engage in name-droppery though.

very good album but they could do with a better press release writer

they are not skilled in the art of publicitry

press releasemanship

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It is bands like Embers that blow us away by the mere fact that they are willing to take a risk, which a lot of people never do during their entire lifetimes, and that through doing so we’re reminded of the reasons we love working with bands like them in the first place. Isn’t it just fucking brilliant how things change when you least expect them to? We’re now overjoyed that they’ve allowed us to release their next offering, Part Of The Echoes, via Killing Moon which will be out on Monday 8th July at a limited edition 7″ vinyl and digital download. Now check out the press releasery bit…

'Part Of The Echoes' is another wonderful piece of songwriting, with Embers managing to match those widescreen, Sigur Ros style moments to something approaching a pop song.

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Don't think she's got an ILX mention, but as pedal-steel dreamballadry goes, this is truly astounding. Listen if you like widescreen melancholia (which I often don't, hence the surprising extent to which this has gotten under my skin)

― imago, Friday, 18 April 2014 21:30 (9 months ago)

^obvs tongue-in-cheek, but well played

Equal parts jagged street swagger, frayed country ballads and boozed-up blues, the third record from this NYC quartet seems torn largely from the Rolling Stones playbook, circa 1971. Album opener "The Madman Sleeps” and the rough-hewn "Dead Man” are driven by Keith’n’Ronnie-style interplay between singer (and sole songwriter) Mike Storey and fellow guitarist Steve Strohmeier, while "Slow Drag” finds the two trading ragged, grabbed-at harmonies. The album’s highlight is traditional blues number "Real Cocaine Blues,” given a live-off-the-floor treatment here to gloriously ramshackle effect. That said, The Violent Bear It Away is not simply a collection of Stones-ian riffsmithery. The oddly named "Drinking Who Hit John,” as well as the title track, bears witness to the band’s artier ambitions, while poetic closer "Gone (Like Fighting Fire)” suggests less conventional possibilities for the future.

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^ copy of uncut and a discounted bar of dairy milk

Epic soundscapery formed the backbone of his tracks that would be a fitting soundtrack to watching 300 years worth of time-lapsed sunrises over mountains in a couple of minutes. Vox Mod ended his set in a wall of bass that made our eyeballs vibrate.

Filled with epic soundscapery and singalongability, Eyes Open is one of those albums that was bound to be on 11 when I was trapped at a stoplight singing at the top of my lungs and looking like a fool. Plus, Snow Patrol manages to namecheck Sufjan Stevens along the way.

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An epic list of epic songs. I'm not sure I can handle this much epicitude.

Filled with epic soundscapery and singalongability

the urge to punch my monitor was almost overwhelming

The TLS June 30, 1995

A biodegradable art

Germaine Greer

It is not easy to imagine a male poet objecting to appearing in an
anthology of men's poems, as most anthologies have been, though the
fact is not highlighted in their titles. The Amis Anthology, to cite
the most doggedly laddish, does not separate work by gender, but
women would have been better served if it had; out of 242 poems,
eight are by women. One, by Elizabeth Jennings, is included because
Amis published it when he was at Oxford in 1949; another, by Felicia
Hemans, because his class translated it into Latin hexameters when he
was at school; one by Christina Rossetti is accompanied by a sneer,
and another by the unknown Teresa Dooley is used to caricature all
poetessery.

The FTB attack on Ophelia Benson's Alleged TERFery Continues

William Terfery - 1901 England Census - Ancestry.co.uk

seems a bit unfair including the Greer but w/e

she deserves it for her transphobia tbh

Good As You points out the latest bit of transphobery from the Tradition Values Coalition.

Misogyneer by Barba Moreno - from the 2007 album "Weights and Measures"

Her parents must be oh, so very proud of their little bigotette.

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Taking this real life approach and applying it to his style of music, Jeff ’s music is authentic and descriptive. He uses his words not only to incite the masses but to paint a better picture for his own life, “I’m talking about life in general. I’ve gone out and done all that crazy shit but I’m working on making my life better. Right now being Superdope is all about progression in life.” For Fox, the “songer/singwriter,” as he says, being dope is about fulfilling your mission from God.

TO FOLLOW” is a collection of songs unlike anything out in the Christian Industry today. This original, authentic, thinker/songwriter brings God/Faith in a whole new way to music. By crossing musical genres and blending personal resonance with talented, intricate progressions and orchestrations, this musical mastery brings spiritual and faith based music to a whole new level.
This compilation is passionate, upbeat and charismatic with reflective with insightful lyrics. The music is Contemporary, Acoustic, Pop, and Soulful; it's a blend of flavors, genres, and styles beyond Contemporary Alternative. The class of music appeals to people of all ages. This music inspires and defines a genre all of its own.

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(via https://twitter.com/feelssick/status/841030168550481924)

http://thequietus.com/articles/14949-klara-lewis-ett-review

Klara Lewis may be a newcomer to Editions Mego's much-vaunted stable of electronic craftspeople, but Ett is the work of a gifted and thoughtful sound sculptress, who combines found sounds, field recordings and electronic textures to create beguiling and resonant works that operate on all manner of levels, and in which individual sounds are dissolved of context to create a fresh subliminal narrative.

On first hearing, the first comparison that sweeps to mind is with London-based sonic construction artist Luke Younger, aka Helm, [...]

One of the album's standout creations (the word 'tracks' seems somehow unsatisfying), 'Shine' encapsulates the nebulous reality of Ett.

The latest Tweets from Rob Cottingham (@RobCottingham1). Song-scribbler; keys-twiddler and warblist.

Also cuntisan

Local analogue buzzer Diamond Dagger deals in both ‘boogie’ and ‘electro boogie’ genres (as per the bandcamp page) as well as propagating what sounds like soundtracks to forgotten or possibly non-existent, made-up movies and computer games on Estate Crudele. On Apollo’s Creed for example,layers of vintage synthistry build sweetly over a krauty beat that feels like it could build infinitely. Only complaint: there’s not more of the likes of last year’s What’s Your Friend’s Name, the DD collaboration with Meljoann.

The backstory:

One of our jeansmiths started a batch of our Surry Raw jeans with blue stitching — and they’re sort of gorgeous, so we finished the run (total pairs, 68).

just bumping this thread because I feel a little down and it cheers me up

omg "topical gagsmith," somehow missed that one until now

Milo, the Philosoraptor. Rap Game Kwame Appiah. Elrond Hubbard, your idiot vagabond brother. He’s not a rapper, he’s a rapsmith. If you can’t discern the difference, you’re thinking too hard.

― soref, donderdag 21 november 2013 10:57 bookmarkflaglink

when it comes to rapsmithery, I don't think there's any debate: it's Will Smith or nothing, and #fuckthehaters

(stay tuned for my Sam Smith pun, working on it as we speak)

(give me just a little more time)

It’s back to the Imperial Theatre for more countrified twangsmithery, and the oddly-named Musée Mécanique, who are actually from Portland, Oregon and deeply traditional.

Tunesmithery - the playlist:

https://youtu.be/0FWHavH6IQw?t=17

https://youtu.be/tMG3Hz7pOHY?t=79

featuring minimal unlistenability!

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(not gonna lie: I'm sometimes guilty of this type of writeuppery myself - my most recent “a *** slice of...” was um... last night, and I also don't mind making some words up, it's fun!)