various artists
label::
A Touch Of Class Recordings
A Touch Of Class are New York based DJs Oliver Stumm and Dominique Clausen.
This compilation has a disco feel throughout, and reminds me a little of the 'Young Sound Of New York' comp
title:: Country on the Click
label::
Action Records
The Fall have been on a roll lately, releasing album after album at a pace almost equal to Billy Childish a few years ago.
The high quality of these records is responsible for the new fans, not any new attention through the press or fashion, though The Fall's music fits in well with contemporary downtown dissonance.
title:: Scissor Sisters
label::
Polydor UK
The debut record of New York's Scissor Sisters will surprise people. The band sound a whole lot like vintage Elton John on some songs, and have the Bee Gees styled falsetto duel vocals on others.
The songs themselves are strong, and there are are musical nods to many quality bands of the past, including 10cc and Jobriath.
various artists
label:: RPM
This time around, RPM Records takes a look at the Beatles' publishing company Apple Music Publishing, a company the fab four started in the 1967-1968 time period when they realized the potential in the music publishing business. Many but not all of the Apple Music Publishing groups would release their music on the Beatles' record label Apple Records.
94 Baker Street is a fascinating look into the late 1960s music publishing world with many demos, released and unreleased songs by Focal Point, Grapefruit, Ways and Means, Iveys (pre-Badfinger), Paintbox, and John Fitch and Associates. These tracks gives us an ear-opening view into some of what the Beatles were involved with in those heady days of Apple Records.
