On the Shelf 073: Piano Magic
Jun. 12th, 2012 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I was skipping the internet fantastic and happened to catch Piano Magic released their 11th album today Life has not Finished us Yet.
You can find it on amazon here, or from their record company, should you prefer that (I have no idea if Amazon is much better or much worse for an artist).
It is their first album since 2009's Ovations. Ovations made by "Best-Of" list that year and I consider it an absolute must-have album.
Interestingly enough, Glen from Piano Magic was a frequent visitor to my Livejournal for a few months back in the day. I embarrassingly wasn't familiar with his band and uncomfortably suggest that Brendan Perry had a better voice than his (Fair warning: Brendan Perry has a better voice than everyone).
Glen eventually (as far as I know) posted less and less on LJ until he finally stopped posting at all about a year ago (That's no slight on him, as it seems only a handful of LJ'ers still bother with the damned thing).
I would have probably posted this whether it was any good or not just based on those brief interactions, but his music is good. Even more, it's not that his music is good, it's amazing. His brand of dark, ambient 4AD-ish style pop is everything you could want- evocative, intimate and inspiring.
I am off to get the album, but in the meantime, listen to the single.
You can find it on amazon here, or from their record company, should you prefer that (I have no idea if Amazon is much better or much worse for an artist).
It is their first album since 2009's Ovations. Ovations made by "Best-Of" list that year and I consider it an absolute must-have album.
Interestingly enough, Glen from Piano Magic was a frequent visitor to my Livejournal for a few months back in the day. I embarrassingly wasn't familiar with his band and uncomfortably suggest that Brendan Perry had a better voice than his (Fair warning: Brendan Perry has a better voice than everyone).
Glen eventually (as far as I know) posted less and less on LJ until he finally stopped posting at all about a year ago (That's no slight on him, as it seems only a handful of LJ'ers still bother with the damned thing).
I would have probably posted this whether it was any good or not just based on those brief interactions, but his music is good. Even more, it's not that his music is good, it's amazing. His brand of dark, ambient 4AD-ish style pop is everything you could want- evocative, intimate and inspiring.
I am off to get the album, but in the meantime, listen to the single.
