rescuing musical virtue in distress.
In the crowded world of pop, indie-pop, singer-songwriters and chart bound music, you have to make your songs stand out. You don't have to go as far as hopping genres, going off on tangents or leaping small buildings…sonically speaking, but you have to make sure that your song offers the audience something that it isn't... Continue Reading →
A busy old week here at Dancing Towers and here are just a few of the musical highlights and sublime sounds that we have been lucky enough to work with. As always, check it out, explore some of the artists back catalogues and if you have some spare pennies perhaps buy something from their virtual... Continue Reading →
If Charlotte Grayson's wonderfully reflective and drifting cover of The Pretenders' 2000 Miles was the perfect song to round last year off, Coffee is the perfect high and perky note with which to start the new one. A return to her trademark, upbeat acoustic pop, its infectious groove and positive vibe belies the message that... Continue Reading →
This final playlist of the year is an overview of the things I have been writing about here at DAA. Partly compiled from the highest visited reviews, partly from personal whim it is a reminder of the eclectic and awesome music I get to work with. If you are not on the list don't worry,... Continue Reading →
Here we are heading into the final stretch of what has been a long and arduous year. But music has helped. Music always helps. Perhaps as a thank you, you might want to play, explore and perhaps buy the music of some of these fine people.... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4mmr0iq4eEnbqeB8cYHntY
It is an odd irony that considering just how many songs have been written with a specifically Christmas theme, there are so few which are actually, how can I put this….so few that are actually any good! Astro-Physics has Fermi’s Paradox to explain the lack of life found in the universe, music has MacGowan’s Irony…which... Continue Reading →
I don’t really listen to a lot of pop music these days, not the type of thing found huddled under the style over substance umbrella of today’s market. It probably isn’t really aimed at me anyway and I always feel that is exactly what is wrong with the situation. By assuming that pop should only... Continue Reading →
I think it would be very easy for Charlotte Grayson, given her age and the pressure to fit into the young pop kid mould - as dictated by those in the ivory towers of the music industry - to have taken a different route. Perhaps a brasher, more obvious, shallower one. No-one would judge her... Continue Reading →
I sometimes cast my ears around the current pop scene and do that cliched, grumpy old man thing…"it was all better back in my day". It wasn't but with the onslaught of TV talent show wannabes and the synchronised dance routine driven videos which pour out of the ivory towers of the “music industry,” it’s... Continue Reading →
The idea of just another young female artist folk-popping her way to chart success with an acoustic guitar and a chilled and minimalist tune might have collective eyes rolling and audible sighs of “here we go again". Maybe it is a style that has been overdone of late, perhaps but rarely has it been done... Continue Reading →
