holiday Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/holiday/ New and independent music Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:18:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 holiday Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/holiday/ 32 32 88787050 Wake The Deaf’s Advent Calendar 2013 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2013/11/30/wake-the-deafs-advent-calendar-2013/ Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:04:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=335 What better way to count down to Christmas than with good music? With no festive theme in particular, we’ll be sharing a song a day in the lead up to the 25th. We hope to feature a variety of genres so there is something for everyone. Check back each day in December to find a song we think you will enjoy. 1st – Ages and Ages 2nd – Ricky Eat Acid 3rd – Nate Connelly 4th – Jess Williamson 5th […]

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]]> What better way to count down to Christmas than with good music? With no festive theme in particular, we’ll be sharing a song a day in the lead up to the 25th. We hope to feature a variety of genres so there is something for everyone.

Check back each day in December to find a song we think you will enjoy.

1st – Ages and Ages
2nd – Ricky Eat Acid
3rd – Nate Connelly
4th – Jess Williamson
5th – River Tiber
6th – Damien Jurado
7th – Palehound
8th – Whirr
9th – Glass Vaults
10th – House By The Lake
11th – Lyndsie Alguire
12th – Fyfe
13th – Princess Reason
14th – Water Liars
15th – Frog Eyes
16th – Sirs
17th – The Pollyanna Band
18th – Kalle Mattson
19th – Netherfriends
20th – Wake Owl
21st – Beat Radio
22nd – Emily Reo
23rd – Donovan Woods
Christmas Eve – Polyvinyl Compilation

Merry Christmas!

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]]> 335 Port St. Willow – Holiday https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/05/16/port-st-willow-holiday/ Wed, 16 May 2012 10:16:49 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=609 Nick Principe, AKA Port St. Willow, caught my attention a while back with his EP ’Even // Wasteland’. A multi-intrusmentalist, Principe creates vivid soundscapes complete with a beautiful falsetto. I really don’t want to over-do this but growing up he spent a lot of time playing and recording with Peter Silberman (of The Antlers) and I think the parallels between their work is somethign special. I really like the idea that two men worked together from a young age (although […]

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]]> Nick Principe, AKA Port St. Willow, caught my attention a while back with his EP ’Even // Wasteland’. A multi-intrusmentalist, Principe creates vivid soundscapes complete with a beautiful falsetto. I really don’t want to over-do this but growing up he spent a lot of time playing and recording with Peter Silberman (of The Antlers) and I think the parallels between their work is somethign special. I really like the idea that two men worked together from a young age (although I confess I have no idea how young, I’m going by the PR blurb) and developed style that they have since mastered. Obviously both have different methods (and therefore sounds) and each is very much his own artist which makes it all the more noteworthy. I in no way intend to pigeon-hole Principe, in fact quite the opposite. The way in which he has stayed true to what is obviously the type of music he excels at is admirable and the link to Silberman is an interesting (and heartwarming, in a way) tale of two talented friends who are now receiving acclaim.

’Holiday’ is the new LP from Port St. Willow and continues everything that was so so good about his previous work. Each tracks blends into the next conveying an almost loop-like sense of continuity, the feeling that you could put the album on repeat and let it cycle around and around. Again his vocals are earnest against the electronic sounds and has no problem raising to the occassion when the drums kick in and the tempo is lifted. As he suggests himself, I’d say this would sound even better looking out of a train window or half asleep on an overnight flight. The sort of record which takes you to a different place or brings some sense of meaning to the place in which you are in. The very same effect that I got from Silberman’s Hospice. I would love to see how the songs take shape when performed live since there was a very real difference between Hospice on record and in a show. I wonder if he sticks to the ambient style or leans towards rock songs a bit more? Either way I bet it would be a real spectacle in the right environment.

Holiday is out now. It can be streamed from his Bandcamp page or downloaded for a meagre $7. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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