Monday, February 14, 2011

The Crystal Ball of 2011

There are going to be mighty records released in 2011. Here's to hoping none of them are listed below, a surprise sure would be nice.

TV on The Radio - Nine Types of Light
Radiohead - The King of Limbs

There are going to be better than good albums also.
Thrice - As yet unnamed
British India - As yet unnamed
Enter Shikari - As yet unnamed

Artists I hope might bother me in 2011
The Jealous Sound
Pvt
Air
Periphery
Derek Webb
Pilot to Gunner
Brave Saint Saturn

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Ollie Browne

Where is Ollie Browne?

There's an anecdote of one of the lads from the likeable Melbourne outfit The Small Knives where he tells of noise coming from his shower one morning and wondering what it was.

It was just Ollie singing in the shower.

The angelic voice of Browne last appeared through the debut LP from Parallel Lions in late 2009. You are correct in pointing out it was not Art of Fighting and it had been some time since anything from the darlings of what clowns call slow-core but what is just as easily described as beautiful.

It would be easy to suggest Browne's main post with Art of Fighting has come to and given the lack of movement at camp AOF. But it's best to retain hope and believe it when Browne declares "none of this means aof is no longer, we promise".

Certainly the music of Art of Fighting is delicate and would take time to craft. How long do we wait? Tool fans routinely wait five years or thereabouts. It will be that since Runways next year. That's if you're not counting the score for the film Ten Empty, released in 2008.

It looks like I'm arguing myself out of the initial question. But still I wonder where is Ollie Browne?