I was pretty sceptical when Radiohead released their free album "In Rainbows" this fall. But I decided, months after everybody else, to give it a shot, and I'm glad I did. It contains a bunch of good, mellow songs which, at times, reminds me of Sigur Rós but you can clearly hear that it's Radiohead we're dealing with. You won't find a hit single on this record, the songs will sneak up on you and before you know it you're enjoying "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" even though you thought it was a bore the first time you heard it. Not the greatest album in the history of music, but if you give it a listen you might end up appreciating it. I sure did. Below a YouTube-clip with the previously mentioned "Jigsaw Falling Into Place". Read more about the group here.
Opeth has revealed how the cover to their new album "Watershed" is going to look. The regular cover looks like this:
And the Limited Edition looks like this:
I can easily say that I prefer the regular on who has a classic Opeth-cover style. The Limited Edition feels almost as if Mikael Åkerfeldt's pulling a prank on us. But I guess not. Anywhay, it's the music that matters and for that we'll have to wait until June 2nd.
Today, exactly 33 years ago, Genesis played a show at Empire Pool, Wembley, London and someone recorded it and called it "The Light Goes Down On Empire". This ought to be Peter Gabriel's last tour before leaving the band, but I'm not 100 % sure of that. The quality of the recording is excellent for a bootleg and since it's the "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"-tour the majority of the songs are from that album. The songs are pretty similar to the original but a few changes has been done to them. You can listen to the entire recording here.
One of Steven Wilson's side project's called No-Man and of some reason I've totally missed this one even though Steven's in the group. Anyway... the band's due to release a new album, "Schoolyard Ghosts", May 12th and from that the song "Truenorth" is the first (and only?) single to be released. Tim Bownes is the other half of the band and he does the singing while Steven does everything else. Allmusic states that the band shows interest in many styles of music but the single "Truenorth" reminds me of Blackfield or Porcupine Tree on morphine. Not a bad thing at all, it shall be interesting to hear the full album.
More info about the forthcoming album can be found on this mini-site.
