Filed under: album, review, video | Tags: 2008, martyn clayton, music, the ditty bops
The Ditty Bops
Summer Rains ••••
Green Witch Society
The track record of romantically attached couples in music is a mixed one. Either the relationship or the musical project suffers as the creative and logistical tensions of a life of recording and touring inevitably surface. You would maybe expect even more of the latter if you’d chosen to tour across the USA by pedal power alone, in line with your environmental principles. The fact that The Ditty Bops’ relationship survived their 2006 bicycle tour to see the release of their third album Summer Rains probably tells you all you need to know.
Filed under: news, trouser press | Tags: all girl summer fun band, emiliana torrini, HK119, holly throsby, ida, inara george, jennifer o'connor, juliana hatfield, land of talk, lily allen, lindsay lohan, music, news, rose kemp, the bird and the bee, van dyke parks
- listen to the new Emiliana Torrini single
- Inara George teams up with Van Dyke Parks for new album
- Juliana Hatfield preps ninth solo album and autobiography
- Holly Throsby coming to the UK, new album
- HK119, Rose Kemp and Land Of Talk feature on free album
- new Ida EP details
- new Jennifer O’Connor album details
- All Girl Summer Fun Band return after four-year absence
- Lily Allen rumoured to be working with Lindsay Lohan
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Wears The Trousers favourite Emiliana Torrini releases her third international album, Me & Armini, on September 8th. Produced by long-time collaborator Dan Carey, the album is said to be “a hugely ambitious and aspirational pop record” (so presumably miles away from 2005’s hushed and intimate Fisherman’s Woman).
The album’s first single, the summery title track, will be released on August 18th, followed shortly after by ‘Jungle Drum’, a “surging, breathless” beast of a song, on September 29th. That’s all we know so far, but you can listen to ‘Me & Armini’ on Emiliana’s Myspace RIGHT NOW.
