Playlist: Swear Forever

Okay guys - this will be my last proper post for a few weeks as I'm going on holiday! It is the playlist I listen to whilst writing my latest feature, Swear Forever, a haunting, psychological horror about...

"Love that refuses to die, like a dream that long since became a nightmare."

1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - The Shirelles
2. Without You - Lana Del Rey
3. Magic Summertime - Eleni Mandell
4. With or Without You - Keane
5. If You Want Love - K.S. Rhoads
6. My Love Won't Wait - Two Gallants
7. Woke Up Dead - Kyla La Grange
8. Tokyo Transfigured (from X The Movie)
9. Run Boy Run - Woodkid
10. Coming Undone - Korn
11. Sea to Sky - Dream Boat
12. Cradel (Cradle) of Forest - Akira Yamaoka featuring Joe Romersa
13. Catalyst - Kyla La Grange
14. No Rest - Dry the River
15. Run - Blonds
16. Snake Eyes - The Milk Carton Kids
17. Here Be Monsters - Ed Harcourt
18. Mein Herz Brennt (Piano Version) - Rammstein
19. Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? - Paloma Faith
20. Flowers in December - Mazzy Star
21. I'll See You in My Dreams - Joe Brown

Friday Feature - Dry the River

This week's Friday Feature is Dry the River a folk rock band from Stratford (London), UK. You'll know the sound - it's the Mumford and Son's sound - yet though Dry the River weren't the band to make the sound big they still own it. Peter Liddle's lead vocals are beautiful - pure, gliding and lilting - delivering often deep and complex lyrics soulfully. He is supported by tight backing vocal harmonies and almost completely acoustic instrumentals. And what a variety of instruments they are! Songs include everything from the obvious guitar to the mandolin and tenor horn! This combination of acoustic / orchestral instruments and almost angelic vocals results in one track being a playful take on traditional folk to the next being a ballad absolutely throbbing with heartfelt passion.

 

 

Where will I have heard them before?

After the release of their first single, the absolutely beautiful No Rest, in 2011 Dry the River have appeared at every big UK festival possible! In 2012 they continued touring, this time doing the world wide festivals. Throughout 2011 and 2012 they appeared on all the British 'best of new talent' lists.

Featured Song: The Chambers and the Valves (cutest idea for a video I have seen in ages!)

Where can I hear more?

No free songs at the moment. Their first album is called Shallow Bed and is available to buy as a hard copy and download. If you find you love Shallow Bed you can then buy the acoustic version of it but as download only. A second album should be coming very soon!

What is their website?

http://www.drytheriver.net/

Next week: Let's continue the folk sound with The Avett Brothers.

No Rest - Dry the River - All Saints Basement Session

I used to be a king alone
Like Solomon or Rehoboam
And in this, corvée day
Did jealous keep my picture frames
And everything did oxidate in place

But then it came a single sound
With astral nights and calcite
And algebra and symmetry
And none of this was lost on me
And I could see how still I'd been before

If I don't eat, I don't sleep at all.
Like limbs in procession,
Like so many birds,
Stampeding like oxen,
Our hearts are a herd,

I loved you in the best,
I loved you in the best way possible,
I loved you in the best,

Did you see the light in my heart?
Did you see the sweat on my brow?
Did you see the fear in my heart?
Did you see me bleeding out?

I loved you in the best,
I loved you in the best way possible,
I loved you in the best way possible,
I loved you in the best way possible,
I loved you in the best way possible,
I loved you in the best.
 

 

All Saints Basement Sessions are the best! I hope they make a CD of them!

 

P.S. as long as nothing mad happens I'm putting a D.I.Y online tomorrow - so get your scissors sharpened!