Tag: pagan wanderer lu
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Built In Obsolescence
Pagan Wanderer Lu's released a cover album of his own music, where the cover artist is... AI. Some of the songs have come out quite well, and it gives me cognitive dissonance to enjoy art while disliking what its process represents.
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The Signal and the Noise is still excellent
13 years ago I reviewed The Signal and the Noise by Pagan Wanderer Lu. Despite being knocked down at least one peg, it still stands among my top ten concept albums ever, and it's now available for free so you should go and listen to it.
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Power's out yet again at my house (though not for the last reason nor because of our weird wiring: this time it's for tree trimming), so here I am in my favourite coworking-friendly local cafe with The Signal And The Noise (which I've talked about before) in my ears and a whole lot of sprint planning at my fingertips.
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Dan sits at his laptop in a cafe; his phone is playing music to his earbuds.
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Tension in the Wires
Received my physical copy of Planets In The Wires today, and I must say it was really cool of Pagan Wanderer Lu to include one of Fred "Thickie" Holden's famous Tension Sheets as a freebie.
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The Frosted Pane
Pagan Wanderer Lu's new album Planets In The Wires dropped today, and I just cried my eyes out at track 5 (The Frosted Pane).
It opens almost apologetically, like an explanation for the gap in new releases for most of the twenty-teens. But it quickly becomes a poetic exploration of a detached depression of a man trapped under the weight of the world. It's sad, and beautiful, and relatable. -
The Signal and the Noise
Dan says nice things about Andy's new album, The Signal and the Noise, and offers to post his "spare" copy to you. Want it?
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Pagan Wanderer Lu In HMV
It's been a long time coming, but it had to happen sooner or later.
Here's the announcement on the Pagan Wanderer Lu blog.
In other news, I have so much blogging to catch up on, and a couple of posts half-written, but no free time. Sooo... par for the course then.
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The Independent Scrutineer
Today I have mostly been listening to The Independent Scrutineer, Pagan Wanderer Lu's new EP. It's very highly recommendable, and well worth the fiver I paid for it.
Unlike his previous releases, The Independent Scrutineer comes on a properly pressed CD (rather than a CD-R) and in a shiny jewel case with full-colour printing, … -
Build Library Here (Or Else!)
This last few days, Claire and I have been listening to a hell of a lot of the new Pagan Wanderer Lu album, Build Library Here (Or Else!). And it's such an impressive album that I've decided to write a little about it here, in the hope that some of you who've never heard of …
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Pagan Wanderer Lu
What a great gig last night. Amazing. Will say more in the morning, but suffice to say that Mr. Wanderer Lu was well on-form (apart from a slight lyrics hiccup in a new song I particularly liked): drew a great crowd too. Now... time for bed.
Pagan Wander Lu reports that this was his … -
Weekend
I seem to spend most of my time on this blog posting retrospectively about what I did on any given weekend. Will try to spice things up with a little more thought and debateworthy stuff in the future - I've got some ideas. In any case:
Friday was Andy's gig - not as good as the … -
Halloween In Aber
I'm a big bad wolf, it seems. And last night I, along with Little Red Riding Hood (Claire), Death (Bryn), Paul (Andy!), Judge Doom [barely] (JTA), Pinocchio (Matt), and Matt (not in costume... grr), went out to the Coopers Arms to see Pagan Wanderer Lu. And he was good - some songs I knew, some …
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Surprisingly Good Unsigned Artist
I'm actually impressed. My friend Andy's finally put some songs online, and he's really good (for one reason or another, I'd never heard anything of his before, and I'm much impressed - for some reason I'd come to the assumption that he'd be shit). Anyway - so long as you're willing to put up with …