Saigon Kick - Space Oddity

With all the Bowie stuff that has come up and thought about over the past 24 hours of course, this is another one that crossed my mind.

I've always loved Saigon Kick, In fact it's kind of a travesty how little if any content I've ever included about them, as I own more or less everything they did.

And I have strong nostalgia for them in the mid-late 90's, and even through the 2000's.

Time is limited of course for me as I need to head to work; but this song I can honestly say, increased my inteerst in David Bowie's music a lot., While the arrangement isn't dramatically different from the original, there's enough of their stamp on it, to give it distinction.

And it inspired me to see what they said on Social Media yesterday here

Getting a message that David Bowie thought a cover you did “was really good” was a massive career highlight, even if he was just being kind.

And it seems Bowie enjoyed their cover.

As for SK, I really should try and include some content about them and their impressive catalog as they've been a band I've enjoyed for a long time and they are sort of forgotten by the prog/prog-metal scene among others.

Mother Falcon - Good Luck Have Fun (2014-2015)

7/9/15 10:21PM
Paste Magazine Link to "Water" stream

dig this 2nd track. I'm starting to feel a little optimistic about this album, although the style of music doesn't seem too different for Mother Falcon, but I just wonder if the songwriting could be even better.

Another possible sleeper? (see Everything Everything's new album which I've become addicted to in recent week).

6/16/15 10:42PM
Official Music video for Kid. Weird imagery and what might be locusts? crawling on that woman's body.


6/11/15 10:36PM

New single for "Kid"..like the crescendo in the outro especially.


5/19/15 6:49AM
Story



This album is being released on August 14th per that story link above.

Details beyond that? not a ton, although I suppose reading through their social media more may reveal more of them. But when a track list, etc comes, I'll bump this entry again.

I enjoy both of their previous albums quite a bit, probably their debut Alhambra more so. They are one of a handful of bands who make these great chamber folk/pop/rock, almost wall-of-sound compositions that I totally go for.

This new track I like, although it sounds a little more stripped down, almost like Miracles of Modern Science in a way (the mandolin?), although I recall there were some parts of You Knew, their last record that was like that.