Turin Brakes‘ Gale Paridjanian curates this month’s Fantasy Album. The band released Mercury Prize shortlisted the ‘Optimist LP‘ in March 2001 (achieving gold status in the UK), followed up by 2003’s ‘Ether Song‘ which featured the top 5 hit single ‘Pain Killer (Summer Rain)’. The band has since moved on to rack up seven top 40 singles, seven top 40 albums and over a million record sales worldwide. 2022 sees Turin Brakes release their ninth studio album, ‘Wide-Eyed Nowhere‘. The band will play a handful of festivals over the summer, followed by an extensive UK concert tour starting in September.
“A great opener , straight into the clean funk to wake you up and know you’re listening , before going into a heady groove at the end to help you daydream.”
“Now you’re listening Nick Drake has to tell you it’s not going to be funk all the way , there’s going to be bigger themes , bigger depth , bigger acoustics .”
“Track 3 of Doolittle from 1989 the album that says ‘ I do not think in straight lines , it’s more like multicoloured spaghetti ‘ louder than any other.”
“Nasal rock out still in the 90s , golden age of guitar.“
“Big grunge funk from my dobro wielding hero . This was in his heavy stage , we used to listen to it a lot when we were teens , the album was so discordant though , we realised we’d end up fighting if we were drinking.”
“This is from his second album , produced again by Ethan Johns. A groovy mid album track , All Blues style groove but not jazz.“
“Classic authentic Blues from the man who probably got more famous after Nirvana covered his song “ Where did you sleep Last Night.”
“The best track 8 ever from Ethan John’s produced Dark On Fire – the album takes another twist here with the Top Gun anthem that never was.“
“From ‘Berry is on top ‘ 1959 , I know you think you know this song but listen to it again , check the lyrics and the energy. Chuck wrote it and did the best version.”
“After all that musical breakthrough on the rest of Kind Of Blue , this ultimate closer is to remind you that the sun will go down and all the animals in the universe can just relax now .”
A great mix of songs and genres , and Gale even sneaked in one of his own tunes.
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Check out their video for their excellent new track ‘World Like That‘ below: