Another week, another slew of good music that has zoomed through our hands here at The Futurist. Here are our respective choices for the week of April 13th.

Mike Taylor - Joan As Police Woman - “Real Life”, from the CD Real Life

Joan Wasser is a talented multi-instrumentalist who used to be with 90’s alt-rockers the Dambuilders prior to becoming an in-demand musician, playing with the likes of Joseph Arthur, among others. In fact, she played with him during one of our earliest Lounge Act sessions in November 2004, signing our autograph wall JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, giving us an indication that she wasn’t planning to stay in the background for long.

Released last year to rapturous reviews overseas, Real Life is the Maine native’s debut full-length, an intimate and candidly personal record that highlights her smoky voice with lyrics that lay it all out there. On the title cut, she implores her desired to match her intentions:

It’s true what they say about me
That I’m out of my mind but I think that you like it
So take the chance
Be reckless with me

Guests include Arthur and recent Mercury prize winner Antony Hegarty (of the Johnsons). Real Life will be released in the US on June 12th.

Joan As Police Woman - Real Life

Matt Shiv - The Dead Bodies - “In Heaven, We All Are”, from the CD Mr. Spookhouses Pink House.

Groups like Canada, The High Strung and Mason Proper have been representing the Michigan indie rock scene here on the WOXY airwaves for awhile. I want to introduce you to another great band from the Great Lakes State called The Dead Bodies that we’ve recently started playing. Their new disc is called Mr. Spookhouse’s Pink House and it is one of the most original albums to cross my desk in some time. This song would fit in on the soundtrack to a David Lynch movie. I don’t know if the guys in the band are fans of his flicks, but something tells me that this track has a little “Eraserhead”
inspiration in it.

The Dead Bodies - In Heaven, We All Are

Joe Long - The Twilight Sad - “That Summer, At Home, I Had Become The Invisible Boy”, from the CD Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters.

There is just something about the way a Scottish accent rolls over top of a song. Especially when that song has a pounding percussion heartbeat, haunting accordian and moving lyrics. This is what you get from the tune with a very long name from The Twilight Sad. “That Summer” begins innocently enough, with soft and reflective lyrics, only to explode in a wave of instrumentation and emotion that begs for repeated listens. The entire album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters has a very Mogwai like feel due to the heavy wall of sound and of course, the similar country of origin. But overall, this track stands above the rest for me. The full album will be in stores stateside next week on April 17th.

The Twilight Sad - That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy

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