Soundslikecafe Winter

September 10, 2014

The Second in the new Seasonal Format, Stay tuned for Spring, coming very soon

1- Fiona Bevan – Rebel Without a Cause – Indie Pop

2- Diana May Clark – Batacuda Bonde – indie Pop

3- Brian Setzer – Lets Shale – Rockabilly

4- Roy Mackonkey – Great Divide – Rock

5- Slipsta – Temptation – Rock

6- Bob Pigott – Slap-Blues

7- Fiona Joy Hawkins – The Journey – Instrumental

8-Tim Walker – Newcastle Ships – Folk

9- Super 7 – Superseven a Go Go – Soundtrack

10- Halfway Homebuoy – No Word – Rock

11- ZAC – Revelation – Dance

Counting Crows-Somewhere Under Wonderland

September 10, 2014

For more than two decades, Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Now, on Somewhere Under Wonderland —their seventh studio album, the Bay Area-bred alt-rock band push into new terrain with a revamped songwriting approach that’s adventurous and visionary but still rooted in raw emotion.

Propelled by the same earthy passion that’s instilled their songs since 1993’s multiplatinum August and Everything After, Counting Crows (vocalist Adam Duritz; guitarists David Bryson, David Immergluck, and Dan Vickrey; bassist Millard Powers; keyboardist Charlie Gillingham; and drummer Jim Bogios) build each of Somewhere Under Wonderland’s sprawling songs around rich sonic tapestries and a storytelling-esque lyricism that yields some of their most grandiose yet intimate songs so far.

Official Site – http://countingcrows.com/

Official buy – https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/somewhere-under-wonderland/id893448765 .

The Kooks – Listen

September 10, 2014

“It’s a word that looks and sounds beautiful,” says Luke Pritchard. “I love the roundness of it, the simplicity of it.” The word the Kooks singer is extolling is “Listen” – which also happens to be the title of the band’s new album. Luke’s reasons for choosing that title become clear the moment you dive into the new record – as they do when he starts to describe its genesis, and the personal and emotional transformation he experienced while making it. “To me,” Luke continues, “this album is about pure expression. Even the way we made the album felt fresh. Rather than us just being a band in a room, playing our guitars with the vocal over the top, which is what we’d always done before, we were really listening to what was going on around us, picking up ideas. The whole thing was much more natural.”

Official Site – http://thekooks.com/

Official buy – https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/listen/id860944640 .

Kelis – Food (Expresso Service)

April 15, 2014

Just in time for Easter our lucky cafe’s are about to receive this great album, courtesy of inertia distribution.

Kelis (yes, of ‘Milkshake’ fame) describes her sixth album as “a kind of unspoken lovefest,” produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio. It mints a sound that’s rootsy without ever being self-consciously retro, that pitches live horns and gospel-y organ against electronics, that for all its classic soul and funk influences, couldn’t have been made any time but now. The Cordon Bleu trained chef has a deep passion for food and cooking — as you may have gathered from the title,and indeed the tracks Jerk Ribs, Friday Fish Fry, Biscuits N’ Gravy and Cobbler.