Currently listening to … The Audreys
Having managed to get a reliable digital TV signal, I’ve been looking at the additional content that’s now available to me. One show that’s available on the ABC’s digital only channel, ABC2, is music program Dig TV. A segment that I caught was an interview with South Australian band “The Audreysâ€?. This band is described, on their web site, as being “alt-country popâ€?. It’s not a genre that I could say that I’m intimately familiar with, but after listening to them performing a single piece, “Banjo & violinâ€?, I’m hooked.
A couple of days later I nipped into the ABC Centre in town at lunchtime and purchased the only copy of The Audrey’s CD that was there (to be honest I was surprised to find that they had a copy at all - given that there’s not a huge selection of music available in that particular bookshop in the first place).
As inadequate as my music vocabulary and reviewer experience is, that’s not going to stop me having a go at writing a mini-rewiew.
Now, having had the opportunity to listen to all the tracks several times, I’d class this CD as having a higher than average number of tracks that I rate highly (compared the other CDs in my collection).
Taasha Coates’s voice is described as being “smokyâ€?. Personally, I think “smokyâ€? has connotations of roughness and stinging - I’d suggest that “mellowâ€? and “sultryâ€? would be better adjectives (albeit not on every track). Perhaps the banjo of Tristan Goodall has swung the sound towards alt-country (and/or bluegrassy?) - I’m not one for rigorously classifying music into genres, though, I just like what I like. My musical taste is quite eclectic as a result.
The CD is called “Between Last Night and Us�, and my favourite tracks, thus far, would have to be “You & Steve McQueen�, and “Banjo and violin�. The former and a few other tracks can be sampled on their web sites. Why are they my favourite tracks? No idea. I enjoy music based on the total sound rather than, say, what the lyrics are saying to me.
The Audreys are currently on a European tour, then they’re off to Canada. They tour Australia during July/August/September 2006.
The booklet that accompanies the CD has some very nice, quirky, faux-1960’s(?)-Australia photography accompanying it (I’d suggest that may not have been photographer Wend Lear’s goal though, just how I interpret the style).
Resources:
- ABC2
- Dig TV
- The Audreys
- Banjo and violin (Real player, broadband only, perhaps only for 7 days after broadcast)
- The Audreys infoblog (low signal to noise ratio)
- The CD “Between Last Night and Us� at the ABC Shop, and at Amazon
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