Comments on: Mariee Sioux – Faces in the Rocks http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/ Independent music from Edinburgh, Scotland - with added gin and swearing. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2419 Dylan Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:04:00 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2419 <i>...the fellow who plays flute is named “Gentle Thunder.” </i> You see, life just doesn't contain enough fabulous sentences like that. DC, glad to hear the panpipe clones and their ghetto blaster are still keeping Cardiff erm.. whistley. …the fellow who plays flute is named “Gentle Thunder.”

You see, life just doesn’t contain enough fabulous sentences like that.

DC, glad to hear the panpipe clones and their ghetto blaster are still keeping Cardiff erm.. whistley.

]]> By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2421 Drunk Country Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:58:49 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2421 I've had a looooooooooooooooooooooong fucking week & I was actually listening to <i>Alela Diane</i> when I was writing my comment. So, to confirm, I really like: <i>Buried In Teeth</i> & <i>Friendboats</i>. Fuck, do <b>I,/b> need a fucking beer. I get what you're all saying about the wood nymphearie flirtation of this kind of musical endeavour (we're dangerously close to that soppy, clothsack + sunrise folk of the mid 70's, folks) & both Alela + Marie fall into the habit of the almost too worms+root-like ethereality. There are others, too, but I concur with Mr. T. & Muruch, MS just keps her pixie nose above the magic dust long & confidently enough to miss the classification as weedy warbling. &, oh, Dylan, those four gents are <i>still</i> lpying their tape-backed trade - indeed, it would appear most major cities have them now (or, at least, an identikit four/threepiece avec wares to ply); last time I was in Ediburgh for the Festival, there they were, a-tooting & a-thrumming away on Princes Street, smack dab in the middle of Tourist salmon. Now, where's that fecking bourbon... DC I’ve had a looooooooooooooooooooooong fucking week & I was actually listening to Alela Diane when I was writing my comment. So, to confirm, I really like: Buried In Teeth & Friendboats.

Fuck, do I,/b> need a fucking beer.

I get what you’re all saying about the wood nymphearie flirtation of this kind of musical endeavour (we’re dangerously close to that soppy, clothsack + sunrise folk of the mid 70′s, folks) & both Alela + Marie fall into the habit of the almost too worms+root-like ethereality. There are others, too, but I concur with Mr. T. & Muruch, MS just keps her pixie nose above the magic dust long & confidently enough to miss the classification as weedy warbling.

&, oh, Dylan, those four gents are still lpying their tape-backed trade – indeed, it would appear most major cities have them now (or, at least, an identikit four/threepiece avec wares to ply); last time I was in Ediburgh for the Festival, there they were, a-tooting & a-thrumming away on Princes Street, smack dab in the middle of Tourist salmon.

Now, where’s that fecking bourbon…

DC

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2425 Matthew Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:06:54 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2425 Well I get to the point where <i>too</i> lovely and other-worldly gets a bit on my nerves but this, for all it flirts with this kind of territory, never quite gets there. I'm not sure why though - the rhythms are a little slower perhaps. C&B you utter pervert. Yes, is the answer. Terry Woods of The Pogues is Mr. Mandolin as far as I’m concerned. Well I get to the point where too lovely and other-worldly gets a bit on my nerves but this, for all it flirts with this kind of territory, never quite gets there. I’m not sure why though – the rhythms are a little slower perhaps.

C&B you utter pervert. Yes, is the answer.
Terry Woods of The Pogues is Mr. Mandolin as far as I’m concerned.

]]> By: Campfires & Battlefields http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2423 Campfires & Battlefields Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:04:55 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2423 Glad you like this. It's beautiful innit? Just thought I'd mention that the fellow who plays flute is named "Gentle Thunder." Yes, you heard me right. And Mariee's Dad is Gary Sabonya (Yes! THE Gary Sabonya), mandolin God if one can conceive of such a thing. Is it just me, or is there something slightly, well, "labial" about the cover art? Good, but labial. Here's hoping that your beer in Leith quickly becomes beer in Lethe. Glad you like this. It’s beautiful innit? Just thought I’d mention that the fellow who plays flute is named “Gentle Thunder.” Yes, you heard me right. And Mariee’s Dad is Gary Sabonya (Yes! THE Gary Sabonya), mandolin God if one can conceive of such a thing. Is it just me, or is there something slightly, well, “labial” about the cover art? Good, but labial.

Here’s hoping that your beer in Leith quickly becomes beer in Lethe.

]]> By: muruch http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2422 muruch Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:59:34 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2422 I'm surprised more bloggers aren't praising this wonderful album. I know Moka posted a review around the time that I did, but haven't noticed any others. Like you, I've become jaded by the magic faerie indie gimmick but this one rises far above it. I’m surprised more bloggers aren’t praising this wonderful album. I know Moka posted a review around the time that I did, but haven’t noticed any others. Like you, I’ve become jaded by the magic faerie indie gimmick but this one rises far above it.

]]> By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2424 Dylan Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:34:31 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2424 I bet the owner of this site will be well pissed off with people making social arrangements when they should be having weighty discussions about music or something.. I bet the owner of this site will be well pissed off with people making social arrangements when they should be having weighty discussions about music or something..

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2420 Matthew Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:26:19 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2420 Top. I'll give you a buzz. Top. I’ll give you a buzz.

]]> By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2429 Dylan Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:25:14 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2429 YES! (Or even: delightful suggestion, old chap.) YES!

(Or even: delightful suggestion, old chap.)

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2430 Matthew Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:14:14 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2430 OH THANK FUCK FOR THAT! (Beer in Leith this evening old chap?) OH THANK FUCK FOR THAT!

(Beer in Leith this evening old chap?)

]]> By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2426 Dylan Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:10:06 +0000 http://songbytoad.com/2008/01/10/mariee-sioux-faces-in-the-rocks/#comment-2426 I just gave these two songs their first listen, and I must have stopped paying attention to the music. My thoughts had drifted to memories of the four South American gentleman who used to stand on Queen Street in Cardiff, wearing ponchos and playing panpipes. I think I may have even checked if there was any work I was supposed to be doing, being as a certain international corporation are currently paying me to sit here and gaze into the middle distance. I got through the first track thinking so-far-so-Ipod-advert, clicked into <i>Buried in Teeth</i>, and settled back into my pleasant torpor. Then at just around 02:39 I was snapped back to attention. The moment that insistent rhythm guitar returns, emerging from under the swirling mists of the bridge section really is rather special, isn't it? They pull the same trick later in the track, with a bit of added hand-drum for good measure. Quite beguiling. Even if the few lyrics I can decipher do seem to have been written by Tolkien during his magic mushroom phase. I think that, overall, I approve. I just gave these two songs their first listen, and I must have stopped paying attention to the music. My thoughts had drifted to memories of the four South American gentleman who used to stand on Queen Street in Cardiff, wearing ponchos and playing panpipes. I think I may have even checked if there was any work I was supposed to be doing, being as a certain international corporation are currently paying me to sit here and gaze into the middle distance.

I got through the first track thinking so-far-so-Ipod-advert, clicked into Buried in Teeth, and settled back into my pleasant torpor. Then at just around 02:39 I was snapped back to attention. The moment that insistent rhythm guitar returns, emerging from under the swirling mists of the bridge section really is rather special, isn’t it?

They pull the same trick later in the track, with a bit of added hand-drum for good measure.

Quite beguiling. Even if the few lyrics I can decipher do seem to have been written by Tolkien during his magic mushroom phase.

I think that, overall, I approve.

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