What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017

2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.

Last year's thread can be found here;

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...e-interested-vol-xii

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Iconoclast

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Bert Schurink

Before and then I moved into a Siesta...

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Bert Schurink

Now took another one a single...

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Florestan

Impromptu: Shai Wosner (piano)

I didn't plan on listening to this now and I'm not even sure what I should say. I guess I should improvise? I think I would rather just listen to Impromptu again :-)

I typically don't like compilation albums (due to filing issues in my library) but I will make an exception here for this fine album. It is the poor man's version of having streaming audio set on random for me as I don't have to get up and change the disc between Chopin & Schubert etc.

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Stevee_S

A + 3 | WAV

(2004)

I've always like this early EP from Engineers, time to give it another play. Easy going shoegazing material with some substance.

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Stevee_S

A + 3 | WAV

(2005)

This was their next (enjoyable) release, eponymous and LP length.

"... Rather than the short, sharp shocks employed by many of their contemporaries, Engineers are content to let a song build slowly, adding layers of sound while keeping their slow, dreamy pace. It's a beautiful and symphonic album, owing a debt to their two self-confessed influences: Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue. Meanwhile, songs like Home and Forgiveness slot comfortably alongside the likes of the Doves, Elbow or Spiritualised. Occasionally, as on Thrasher or One in Seven, they even sneak in a bit of My Bloody Valentine shoe-gazing, using fuzzed-up electric guitars instead of the strings and keyboards that threaten to engulf the entire album. And if this album has one flaw, that's it: it's relentlessly laid-back and blissed-out pace means that the songs too often blend into one another, or fade into the background altogether. But at least they only ever sound like themselves. -- Robert Burrow"

Posted on: 27 June 2017 by Bert Schurink