This is such a great record. If you are a fan of One Year by Colin Blunstone, PSR&T by Simon and Garfunkel, Ask Me No Questions by Bridget St John or Circus Maximus by Momus, add Has It Been A While by Trust Fund to that list. youtube.com/playlist?lis... - ThreadSky

iammilliam.bsky.social • 13 days ago

This is such a great record. If you are a fan of One Year by Colin Blunstone, PSR&T by Simon and Garfunkel, Ask Me No Questions by Bridget St John or Circus Maximus by Momus, add Has It Been A While by Trust Fund to that list.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kZmf8vK7vp-aSkJiBFBTnExBDsWpCkbdc&si=ylSH2KkySiJbtjS-

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fern-nesme.bsky.social•12 days ago

Fantastic, thank you!

jorisstereo.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes!! Was a big fan of his earlier, noisier stuff and this acoustic approach took some getting used to but it is a lovely lovely record. They played the Lexington earlier this year and they were,well, very lovely.

mrjoewoolley.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is wonderful, thanks for the recommend.

iammilliam.bsky.social•12 days ago

Really glad to spread the word.

andyzax.bsky.social•13 days ago

Bought it after you recommended it a few days ago. Although I’m not ready to agree, after just two spins, that it’s as great as the four records you cited—Circus Maximus is a pantheon LP for me—I will happily aver that it’s better than every Belle & Sebastian album since Fold Your Hands Child.

iammilliam.bsky.social•13 days ago

I'll take it! I mean, I don't know yet that I'll be playing it in 40 years time - and clearly we agree that Circus Maximus is not so much underrated as ignored completely when such matters are discussed - but I'm just overjoyed someone made a record like this in 2024.

andyzax.bsky.social•13 days ago

Another slightly-out-of-time 2024 album you might also enjoy is Communicant’s “Harbor Song”: very 1971-ish; very bummed-out Emitt Rhodes and/or depressed Rick Wright. (The auteur is a friend, but I’d like it just as much if he wasn’t.)

iammilliam.bsky.social•13 days ago

Thanks Andy, very much my wheelhouse. (I have been enjoying Van Duren who we now call Glammit Rhodes.)

markmsmith.bsky.social•13 days ago

Ah, coincidentally I just picked up the first Van Duren LP and one by Tommy Hoehn last week. For the VD, an imaginary late 70s Emitt Rhodes LP was also what came to mind.

andyzax.bsky.social•13 days ago

If you’re digging VD and you want to up the glam quotient a bit, investigate the 1977-80 Nick Gilder discography—it can be obtained for pennies (in North America, at least) and will surprise you if all you’ve ever heard is “Hot Child In The City.”

louisebrown.bsky.social•13 days ago

You had me at Colin Blunstone.

iammilliam.bsky.social•13 days ago

Great. It is rare I hear a contemporary record and think: wow, that's as good as one of the classics, just in terms of the precision of the writing, playing and arrangements. (Other more obvious comparisons are Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Gorkys etc.)

louisebrown.bsky.social•13 days ago

I really can't wait to hear it now, just got to go and run 5k in the cold first :-(

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