Auld Lang Syne – Where My Fortune Lies
I never know what to do with singles. This song is utterly brilliant, and I really really want to make it available for you all to hear, but it seems obviously silly to make available for free that which someone is attempting to exchange for sheckles. I’m not sure it would be a big deal though; I get the impression that vinyl buyers are collectors and that downloading Where My Fortune Lies from here would have little to no impact on their decision to buy the single, beyond the obvious opportunity to really see if they like the song or not.
And like it I believe they would. A lot of the rest of the Auld Lang Syne material, at least as far as I can tell from their MySpace page, is verging on the morose, and often the funereal. On Where My Fortune Lies, however, they fire up to a more rousing gospel holler, evoking a style more familiar to readers of Toad from the likes of Mumford & Sons.
This one of the things I love about seven inch vinyl: two perfect songs and that’s all you need, and here we have it. The songs I have naughtily ripped from their MySpace have numbers on them which imply an approaching album, and an album perhaps slightly lacking in this kind of rising glee, but when a single is this perfect then you don’t waste your time arguing about things like that. I have ordered a copy and I will be taking it with copious amounts of gin and an irrepressible urge to twirl around the room with my eyes closed looking like a total imbecile.
As is often the case on this blog, I owe massive thanks to Campfires & Battlefields for the tip off.
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Auld Lang Syne – For the Love of Mrs. Thomasen and the Four Rivers
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Wasn’t this on one of the recent Toadcasts? I remember it as being very pleasent indeed.
It was indeed, and a cracking song it is too. The rest is a little less euphoric, but still definitely a band I will be keeping an eye on.
Too fucking right, that Timothy Dick knows how to craft a song. I posted a great live performance of that video a while back, it’s well worth watching. They’re very nice people too, two of them did a guest post some time back.
Let’s get a session going Matthew! You can afford to fly them over, right?
Soon I will have a US office and a teleportation device and such things will be trivially simple. This week, however…
This is excellent stuff.
Cheers mate. We’ve C&B to thank for this one.
He does unearth some little gems that man.
This lot, Felice Brothers, Samamidon, Fleet Foxes…
Erm, yeah, I should just hand him the keys full time.
I blush.
We were talking about you mate, not to you.
hey – where did that picture of Oscar come from??
Oy! My avatar! Bastard.
Just for that I’m going back to the man cans.
I like mine. I just don’t know how to do anything about it if I didn’t!
Yours is great, Euan.