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Heavy Soil
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Providing a slimline diet of the internet's best music. Strictly one interesting/great song per day, with a concise, lunchbreak-friendly writeup. Not trying to be cool or trendsetting - just helping you pick out good songs without spending hours scouring the back alleys of the www.
Recent Posts
Review: The Life Of The World To Come by The Mountain Goats
Of BeginningsA bassy, palm-muted, minimalist acoustic guitar. Dabbings of bass drum and an occasional hissing, rattling hi-hat. The Life Of The World To Come by The Mountain Goats starts brilliantly. Lyrically, the opening is similarly strong:I becam...
Self-promotion: new Cogwheel Dogs EP out today
Dear blogreaders, may I open with an apology: this blog has been a bit quiet, lately. The desertification is, however, soon to be reversed – with a verdant influx of music: I've a review or two on the boil (amuse-bouche: the new Mountain Goats albu...
Chromatic crunches and mathematical modernism from Thelonius Monk via Hisae Nakajima
I picked up the video below thanks to Mr Craig of Flickering Too Long. It's a cover of Thelonious Monk's Ruby, My Dear by Hisae Nakajima.I like a lot of things about this. The way the cycle-of-fifths-type chord sequence is so mussed up and clouded wi...
Record Companies Are Fuckwits
I know – you're still reeling from the headline, aren't you? You're thinking, 'Whoa, hold on there, Heavy Soil! Hold on ONE MINUTE! I love record companies. They've done nothing but good in this world, and I personally owe them a great debt of grat...
The Ben Folds Bastard Effect
1 solemn face.After a week of having my ears assailed by monstrous amounts of compression (and not for the first time), I thought a sonic palate-cleanser would be in order.You see, when I review a record for Heavy Soil, I listen to it a lot. I listen...
Review: Far by Regina Spektor
I always worry when I'm writing a review of an album and I find myself saying 'tracks' instead of 'songs'.Regina Spektor's new album, Far, has – I'm sorry to say – tracks.So, this is how this is going to go.First, I'm going to rant for a while ab...
