One of the biggest black holes in "RILY" type blogging is the almost unavoidable trio of The Beatles, Jon Brion, and Elliott Smith. There are too many, waayyyy too many singer/songwriters and bands that sound like a concoction of one or two of those musical forces (Sean Lennon comes to mind). So here I am trying to avoid mentioning how freaking much this Ferraby Lionheart dude sounds like Elliott Smith and Jon Brion and The Beatles, maybe trying to say something original about his music...but Jesus Christ the likenesses are impossible to ignore.
Unlike many musicians who think layered vocals will make them sound better and who cop basic structures of Beatles conventions while ignoring the experimentation, Ferraby seems to have a bit more personality to overlay on the hints of pop/rock akin to Lennon and Smith and Brion. His voice is spectacular (and most likely would be still if he didn't use vocal layers...which he does). The music is beautifully light and emotional and could make it's way onto any Summer "indie darling" box office hit easily. If that's not enough to make you doubt this guy's talent, how about the fact that Stereogum recently labeled him an "Artist To Watch." You must be entirely turned off by this point, so I'll let you listen and make up your own damn minds:
[MP3] Ferraby Lionheart - Tickets To Crickets
[MP3] Ferraby Lionheart - Won't Be Long
Both of these come from Ferraby's self-titled EP, which came out this year. Check out the links below for more info, MP3s, and to buy the EP:
Official Site | MySpace Site | More MP3s | Buy EP
Also...looks like it's official: our tumultuous relationship with the shitty, shitty file hosting service EZArchive is over.... we've abandoned ship. Hell, I'm not even sure if the old links work! With EZ 3.0 it looks as if they've disable MP3 streaming AND downloading...so all song files have to be played through an EZ audio player...which smells like shit to me. So-- until we find a new host, half of our files will be streamable (those posted by Nathaniel) and the other half won't (those posted by me...like the 2 above). If anyone has any cheap file hosting options like EZ, let me know in the comments. Shalom!
11 comments:
Tickets To Crickets is such an awesome song.
Am I crazy or does he sound like the guy from Phantom Planet?
Speaking of Beatles sounding artists, one not to be missed is the amazing Bryan Scary. (http://www.myspace.com/bryanscary)
Hey guys, please let me know where you end up, we can all go somewhere, anywhere else together.
You can't link mp3s on the new EZ Archive!? I can't even get ours to work right now. When you find new hosting, we'd love to hear where you choose. Thanks for all the awesomeness.
I'm going with a hybrid MediaMax and Box.net solution. Both of them are a LOT easier to use than the new crap at (notso)EZArchive
none of the ferraby links will work for me
*cries*
Both mp3s are for the "Won't Be Long" song!!
Give us "Tickets To Crickets" now!!!
i love ferraby lionheart ever since he first messaged me on myspace.
he's amazing.<3
connor,
try www.mihd.net
it's "World's most generous filehosting service"
We recently recorded a live session in our Chicago studio. Ferraby sounds great: http://www.hearya.com/2007/10/03/hearya-session-7-ferraby-lionheart/
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