10. Air Traffic – Fractured Life
09. Frightened Rabbit – Midnight Organ Fight
08. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
07. Marillion – Essence (Happiness Is the Road)
06. Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses
05. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
04. The Subways – All or Nothing
03. Kate Rusby – Awkward Annie
02. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
01. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
It is difficult to express the many reasons why this album is the album of the year, because there are simply too many of them.
Many fans who embraced the cool electronica of Goldfrapp's previous album, Supernature, were surprised when Goldfrapp returned in their fourth album to the acoustical roots of their debut Felt Mountain -— except this new album is truly unique, the culmination of a journey that has taken place over four albums.
Seventh Tree is full of acoustically-based songs that are at times stridently Beatlesesque and at others wondrously fragile; a wonderful blend of emotional outpouring and endearing mischievous whimsy. It’s the kind of album you always hoped would be made some day, an album unafraid of beauty and melody, delicate yet bravely resilient in its emotions.
Listening to this album is rather like opening a music box full of clowns and diamonded jesters, with the joyous colors of the harlequin infusing the music and lyrics with a fragrance of childish imagination.
It’s an album of pastels and pastorals, of “bright blue Saturdays” and pavements that “smell after rain.” Yet it’s also an album of sorrow. Behind the jester’s mask is a true disconnectedness, and even pain. Alison Goldfrapp sings in “Monster Love” how “everything comes around bringing us back again, here is where we start, and where we end.”
In “A & E” the swirling anthemic finish rises from the picture of a woman in a backless dress on a hospital ward, having taken pills so “the pain started to slip away.”
You cannot fail to be moved by listening to this album. Such an album is a huge risk, but Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory have created a staggering achievement and it is deservedly the 2008 Britsound Album of the Year.
-- Rob Quicke, host BritSound Radio
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Season 3 Episode 8: Kyle's first day back at training looks doubtful when he arrives home bruised after a night of bare-knuckle boxing. Shannon has just had her lips done and Harley starts to despair. Tanya is furious as Amber appears to be winning her way back into Conrad's life - then she discovers that Noah is also a player for Conrad's affections.
Rob Quicke Founder and Host, BritSound Radio:
"I grew up in Cambridge, England, listening to my Dad's stories of his school classmates' Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. As a teenager I lived on the same street as Syd and I used to hope that eventually I would walk round a street corner and bump into him..."
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"The Britsound Radio Show, the only radio show of its kind in America, broadcasts British music on commercial radio and Internet Radio Stations throughout the world."
-- Rob Quicke
Britsound Radio is the only U.S. radio show that plays strictly British music and is looking for NEW, unsigned British bands to play on the show to its audience.
SonicJive is therefore teaming up with Britsound to offer your band a unique and wonderful opportunity.
Britsound may select music submitted by British bands and musicians for possible inclusion on the Britsound Radio Show feature BRITS RISING which will showcase the hottest unsigned and indie bands from the U.K., thereby generating considerable exposure for those artists that are featured.
The Britsound Radio Show focuses on national and international up-and-coming independent acts, both signed and unsigned, from the UK.
Britsound mainly features rock and alternative artists but SonicJive accepts all genres for consideration.
There is no compensation if you are selected for airplay. However, this is a tremendous opportunity for exposure. Britsound reaches an estimated 200,000 listeners weekly.
*Please note:* Since we are looking for the highest audio quality possible for airplay, if you are selected, you will be required to send in a hard copy CD.
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On-Air Date: February 11, 2009
RADIO RUN DATES: FEBRUARY 11 - FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Exclusive interview with Brian Ray (Part 1)
Part 1: Remodel - Cognoscenti (NEW)
Red Light Company - Meccano (NEW)
Coldplay - Rainy Day (NEW)
Butcher Boy - Carve A Pattern (NEW)
Part 2: David Gray - Babylon (live)
Gillian Lomax interviews Brian Ray (Part 1)
Paul McCartney - Hello Goodbye (live)
Part 3: The Farm - Groovy Train
The Cure - Close To Me
The La's - There She Goes
Lily Allen - 22 (acoustic) (NEW) Song of the Week
(Note: Britsound is broadcast live on WPSC 88.7 FM, on the campus of William Paterson University. WPSC pays performance royalties to BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, Sound Exchange etc.)
Hey Bro thanx for the comment and visit! Glad ya like! Yeah I am from Australia.Have been in the states for about eighteen months, heading back to Oz in July.How bout you! Peace on ya Brent
From:
09 May 2007, 10:24 am
Thats okay because now my wxav boy looks sexy haha
From:
09 May 2007, 10:06 am
Len? i believe i've seen ya in the studio before.. how do i center it?
From:
09 May 2007, 9:54 am
Thanks for the add! i'm not sure if this is rob but if it is check out my WXAV boy by my recent visitors lol Cheers!
We love Sophia! More pics. more pics. MORE PICS!!!!
From:
28 Mar 2007, 6:56 am
Hi- I'd love to post my music- havent worked out how yet though!! Just getting to grips with the site. In the mean time some of my stuff is on myspace which is www.myspace.com/mikerolland1 and of course any airplay is great. Thanks!
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