Re: Recent soundtrack?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Gwyn Ryan <gwynhefar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ooh, old school jazz.  I have to be in the right mood for it, but when
> I am, I love it.  Never heard of the Mekons or M. Ward though.

M. Ward is sort of warm folky stuff. He was part of Monsters of Folk
(with Jim James from My Morning Jacket, and Conor Oberst and Mike
Mogis from Bright Eyes) a couple years ago, but I like his solo stuff
much better.
The Mekons formed in 1977 in Leeds and recorded a song called "Never
Been in a Riot," which was a very noisy rebuttal to the Clash's "White
Riot." Then they went off and learned how to play their instruments,
added fiddle to their line-up, and started coming out with something
gloriously bizarre, noisy, and catchy about every two years since
1985, which is a pretty impressive output. I'm not quite sure how to
describe their sound, since every album has a slightly different vibe
-- they tend to be rather jangly and discordant, but with strong
melodic lines throughout.

Kirsten