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Amazon.com - "This Is"
If you have stumbled across this CD accidentally, hold on just a moment. Don't touch that mouse. I am here to tell you that this is some of the most sublime music to come out of Dublin since the 1980s, when that city seemed to crank out a brilliant band or solo artist every other week. And Tychonaut aren't anything like any of those people (thank goodness, eh; these aren't the 80s). As a trio, their sound manages to be both stripped-down and lush at the same time, and their judgement is spot on: when to have fun with the music software, when to let a cello provide the atmosphere. You'll see fourteen tracks listed, but what you will hear are six songs that are perfect jewels and one that is silly but worth it, interspersed with little sonic interludes that come across as the sort of soundtrack we all wish we had following us around in our everyday lives. Of the songs, standouts are "Half Mast," "Your House from Mine" (surely the best obsessive-love-creep-out song since "Every Breath You Take" - really!), and "Tycho Brahe" with its bell-like tones that close out the album, best listened to after midnight. Well, it is about an astronomer after all. Finally, if you like your female vocalists, you cannot miss out on discovering Tychonaut's Carol Keogh. She can be as ethereal as Elizabeth Fraser or as earthy as Kirsty MacColl, often within the same song! My hat is off to her and to the guys. Please let them come take the US by storm, because they deserve to.
Incidentally, Tychonaut have a second album (a double CD, bliss!) that isn't listed on Amazon, but they've got a website. Go check it out.
Road Records - "Road Relish Single #13" 12.07.2004
Unlucky 13 will be the long-mooted split between The Tycho Brahe and Dinah Brand. We're really excited to have this one ready to go and it will be winding its merry way over to the Czech republic for pressing within the next few days (though not by means of An Post). You all know all about The Tycho Brahe don't you? Recent Meteor award nominees (whatever that means), creators of Ireland first studio double-album, studio-whizzes that also get rave reviews for their live gigs. The track they have given us is called "Before and After Seance" and I think its one of the best (certainly the spookiest) things they have done yet. There's a bit of a spiritual/religious theme continued on the flip with Dinah Brand's track "Perfect and Whole". While the Tychos are probably Ireland's most prolific band, Dinah Brand are anything but. Over a year ago they finally released their amazing debut album "Pale Monkey Blues" and we've spent the last year kicking main-man Dylan's ass to get into a studio and record a new track. Which he has, and its just as good as we had hoped. On the face of it these two bands have more or less nothing in common but they're both brilliant and both completely unique. And they were both formed form the remnants of much-admired Irish bands of the 1990's whose names began with P. Hows that for a spooky coincidence?
We don't have a launch gig booked for this yet but you'll hear all about it as soon as we do. Hot on the heels of the Tychos/Brand split we'll be releasing a Waiting Room/giveamanakick record. That'll be number 14 and we'll tell you all about it soon.
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