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http://www.rivulets.net/
http://www.myspace.com/rivulets
Minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson began recording as Rivulets in 1999 in Minneapo...
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http://www.rivulets.net/
http://www.myspace.com/rivulets
Minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson began recording as Rivulets in 1999 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
In 2002, Rivulets' self-titled debut was issued by Chair Kickers' Union, the Duluth, MN, label run by the veteran slowcore outfit Low. Rivulets' second album Debridement was released on Chairkickers in 2003.
Rivulets' third album You Are My Home was recorded by Bob Weston (Shellac, Mission of Burma) and released in North America by Important Records in 2006 and in Europe and Asia by O Rosa Records in 2008.
Swans float above my lake
You were more than I could take
Swans float above my lake
You were more than I could take
Have you ever fell
Have you ever fell
Have you ever fell
Into an armageddon of love?
Into an armageddon of love?
Swans float above my lake
You were more than I could take
Swans float above my lake
You were more than I could take
Have you ever
Have you ever fell
Have you ever fell
Into an armageddon of love?
Into an armageddon of love?
'Cause everybody knows
You've been gone away
Ever since the time
That you refused to stay
And everybody knows
You've been gone for days
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Lucky Jim - Lesbia (Our Troubles End Tonight LP, Skint Records 2004)
BBC Review:
We should be glad that our commercial overlords gave Lucky Jim anoth...
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Lucky Jim - Lesbia (Our Troubles End Tonight LP, Skint Records 2004)
BBC Review:
We should be glad that our commercial overlords gave Lucky Jim another chance to sing...
Nickie Latham 2007-05-10
Whats the most regrettable fate that can befall a band? Selling out or selling nowt? Picture the scene - a group of fatcat suits fling coins at the nations revered troubadours, shouting 'Dance monkeys dance! That we may sell more reconstituted meat products/hairnets/toilet brushes!' This is not good. However, now picture another scene - your very favourite album lies alone and unloved in an abandoned store-room, the tracks of its tears creating furrows in its accumulated surface dust as it awaits deletion.
A sobering thought, I know youll agree, and the fate that appeared to have been marked out for Lucky Jims 2004 release Our Troubles End Tonight - despite widespread critical acclaim - before the single Youre Lovely To Me was picked up and dusted off by a certain chain of breadmakers, leading to the re-packaging of the album.
For those who missed it first time round, Our Troubles... arguably makes even more sense in the current musical climate than it did on first release. Most bizarre of all, is that the single thats revived it is, in fact, one of the weakest songs on the album. Its a pleasant enough, Dylanesque saunter through a sentiment that James Blunt has built a career on, which barely hints at what Gordon Grahame is capable of.
The albums real strength is found in the arrangements which create an otherworldly quality that is particularly obvious in the title track. Here, soft, sombre synths create a rich psychedelic backdrop to Grahames breathy vocal. Elsewhere, on Leah, a swirling organ waltz vibrates warmly with a touch of the Scott Walkers as Grahame laments, Children are wishes that never come true. Even the least of them come to leave you.
This is an album which doesnt try to hide its influences and, though mannered in places, it offers enough invention to avoid pastiche. In The Honeymooners, a moody duet with Heather Banks, the ghost of Lee Hazelwood lingers behind the lines, but doesnt undermine it. For this song alone, we should be glad that our commercial overlords gave Lucky Jim another chance to sing in our ears and make some real bread.
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