PopTodd

Advance copy? How is it?

DRINKS - HERMITS ON HOLIDAY Collaboration between Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White Fences) that I'll be reviewing for a NZ blog called The Active Listener. Street date is 8/28.

This playlist, minus the solo Sheila stuff, plus 2 more songs. 10/10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY29MmNUswE&list=PLb08ciwBT2AYdKBH3nXLE-iTZfk7dyVKo

That's the one that I was talking about—Last Night On Earth. Love it.

Never heard of them, but your description intrigues me. Could go either way, though.

I love his solo album from a couple of years ago.

DRINKS - HERMITS ON HOLIDAY My first listen to the debut album from this Cate Le Bon/Tim Presley (White Fence) collaboration. Got an advance stream of it for the review that I'll be writing. I love pretty much everything Cate, but have only just listened to White Fence for the first time yesterday. Should be an interesting album. And it's one that I am really looking forward to.

Technical prowess is merely a means to an end, that end being the ability to make the listener feel something. So, that said, it is obviously not the end-all-be-all. So I guess that what matters most is whether or not that musician can make you feel something. Make you feel what it is that they want you to feel. And that you like feeling that way. Period.

Putting together a new album -- one song at a time. It's just easier on my time and budget to do it this way. Just recording one song and putting it up on the Bandcamp page for this new album. And then, later on when I can afford to record another tune, I get the guys together to rehearse and record that one, which I also put up on the same Bandcamp page. Gonna keep doing it this way for this record, until I reach 10 songs, or 35 minutes. Making the songs available for free DL until the album is full. At that point, I'm gonna get the whole thing mastered and slap a price tag on it. Call it an

Portland/Seattle/Vancouver New Zealand Australia -- Melbourne British Isles Scandinavia Prague/Eastern Europe, in general--that is where my family is from. Porgugal Spain Japan -- Oaska (not Tokyo. I don't need to see another giant metropolis) New York City (well, I probably should see at least this one at least one time)

I'm thinking that I should probably post an example of Duane's playing since nobody else here probably knows who the hell he is. Pure taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50k-dCwV6SU And he's like that all over the couple of Roky albums that he plays on.