Radio and Richard Swift

Radio Kickabout Part Two-Tracklisting

Heres the tracklisting as promised for the latest instalment of Radio Kickabout. See if you can guess the theme…………………………

Opening Jingle
Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
Mexican Radio – Wall Of Voodoo
Radio Head – Talking Heads
Radio Radio – Elvis Costello
Ad Break
This Is Radio Clash – The Clash
Radio – Ludes
Riot Radio – The Dead 60’s
On My Radio – The Selecter
Radio – T.O.K
Static On The Radio – Jim White
Radio – Horse Stories
Radio – Teenage Fanclub
Spirit Of The Radio – Rush
Our Radio Rocks – PJ And Duncan
Video Killed The Radio Star – Buggles
Guerilla Radio – Richard Cheese
Closing Jingle

Radio Kickabout Zip File 80.35MB


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Rough Trade Albums Of The Year


So it’s that time of the year when all the hipsters start to put together their end of year lists and they are starting to come thick and fast. Gorilla Vs Bear and My Old Kentucky blog have posted theirs and I’m sure there will be a rush of these lists in the coming days.
Other than music websites and blogs, its record shops who like to put lists up(Nick Hornby was so right!!), Rough Trade and Insound have also posted their top 100’s and also let the staff choose theirs. This sort of showboating is particularly peculiar to indie record stores, your local supermarket doesn’t tell you what Steve the shelf stackers favourite groceries of the year have been does it??????
Still, these lists do provide a good way of catching up on what’s been good over the last 12 months, the usual suspects are near the top on every list(Sufjan Stevens, Wolf Parade, Spoon etc) but its these names that keep cropping up but you’ve not heard that are interesting.

One such artist is Richard Swift, number 9 in Rough Trades Top 100 and featuring in most of the staff lists I thought I’d check him out.
His collection The Novelist/Walking Without Effort is two short albums put together to make one excellent, yet still too short package-the tracks from The Novelist more sonically adventurous yet overall it makes an arresting listen. The sound is reminiscent of the sort of stuff Rufus Wainwright does but with so much more thrown in. The atmosphere on The Novelist is of a man thrown back in time to the early days of recording, the attention to detail of the analogue hisses and crackles being in no way detrimental to the songs. On Walking Without Effort there is more of a clean sound and lush arrangements that sound familiar yet like nothing you are used to hearing these days. Make no mistake when this finally gets properly found Swift will be a huge star, and that will surely come sooner rather than later-a new record is apparently ready to go, by then a lot more hipsters will know the name.

You have to have this album NOW!!!!!!!!



Richard Swift – The Novelist/Walking Without Effort Rar File