Anders Hanson

I haven’t posted for a while about the songs I am listening to a the moment, but here’s a quick run down of the main ones as I’ve been listening to music a lot recently:

Overkill by Kosheen: this is their new single that came out on Monday, although I have been listening to it on YouTube for the last couple of weeks. A brilliant track and more in the style of Resist than Kokopelli. I now can’t wait for their new album Damage and their gig at Plug in Sheffield, which I have already booked my ticket for. I love Kosheen because they really stand out as dance tracks with a good strong tune, but are also fairly simple songs. In fact, I recently found the following quote from Sian Evans of Kosheen where she actually says something that is very similar in sentiment:

“I love songs!” Sian states simply. “Songs that start, have a middle, and end. People were expecting little loops and quirky vocals and they got full songs. You can put too much in a track. You can have a busy vocal, or you can have a busy track, but if you put two together it’s just noise to me.”

This Is The Life by Amy MacDonald: I’m still obsessed with this album and have been listening to it almost continually. A brilliant singer with some interesting and catchy tunes.

Suburban Knights by Hard-Fi: another new single from a band that I already like. With their last album I kept buying song after song as each new single came out. In the end I wished I’d bought their whole album in the first place - indy but with a Streets style message. I hope their new album also turns out to be as good as their last.

The Freest Man by Tilly and the Wall: which I heard on Mark Radcliffe’s show from last week and downloaded instantly. Quite a light song but with another catchy little tune.

Sleepy Maggie by Ashley MacIsaac: which is completely random and like nothing else on this list. I heard this track by accident and loved the mix of traditional fiddle playing, the beautiful voice of Mary Jane Lamond singing in Gaelic and the modern beat in the background. A sort of odd mix of The Corrs, Vanessa-Mae and your traditional Gaelic folk band. Yes I know, I do sometimes have a weird taste in music.