Hello!
'Gargoyle' now has a page on Goodreads!
Also I now have 144 votes on JukePop, so thanks everyone!
Mollx
Friday, 22 February 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Chapter Seven
Hope nobody minds me mentioning this here, but I posted Chapter Seven of my novel The Gargoyle Of St John's on Monday.
Please read! Please vote!
Mollx
Please read! Please vote!
Mollx
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Some News, I Suppose
Right. Well. Yeah.
This isn't a I'm-back-from-hiatus-post. This is a 'I've had tons of visits and I want to thank you all' post.
Because I do. You're all brilliant. And I am sorry I stopped doing this blog, but I was too busy. I still am, to be honest.
But I thought, since this blog is still getting loads of hits (!!!) I'd check in anyway and let you know what I've been doing.
Studying, and THIS. I've been writing bits and pieces of various things since I went on hiatus, but this is the first thing that's progressed past the honeymoon stage - it's a magical realist mystery/crime novel, and I'm really proud of it. So please-please-please, give it a read. You have to register to read Chapter 2 +, but it's free to do so. And I'd really appreciate it if you could vote for me. And maybe send it to your friends?
I update on Fridays between 7 and 10 GMT, and if I'm late I'll post on my writing blog beforehand. I shouldn't be late, though.
And! There's more! As an extra, I've had a few emails from people about their music - so I'll be posting about that soon.
Thank you so much,
Moll x
This isn't a I'm-back-from-hiatus-post. This is a 'I've had tons of visits and I want to thank you all' post.
Because I do. You're all brilliant. And I am sorry I stopped doing this blog, but I was too busy. I still am, to be honest.
But I thought, since this blog is still getting loads of hits (!!!) I'd check in anyway and let you know what I've been doing.
Studying, and THIS. I've been writing bits and pieces of various things since I went on hiatus, but this is the first thing that's progressed past the honeymoon stage - it's a magical realist mystery/crime novel, and I'm really proud of it. So please-please-please, give it a read. You have to register to read Chapter 2 +, but it's free to do so. And I'd really appreciate it if you could vote for me. And maybe send it to your friends?
I update on Fridays between 7 and 10 GMT, and if I'm late I'll post on my writing blog beforehand. I shouldn't be late, though.
And! There's more! As an extra, I've had a few emails from people about their music - so I'll be posting about that soon.
Thank you so much,
Moll x
Sunday, 3 June 2012
AOTS: The Hale and Hearty, Heyward Howkins
Where to begin?
1. I'm sorry it's taken me this long to start back up again. I had a fair bit on the metaphorical plate what with exams and novels clamouring for my attention, but I'm back now, so all's well, I suppose.
2. I promised a while back that I'd review this, and I got the email that this was coming out about two months ago. It got lost in the wilds of my inbox, and just got dug back out again.
3. THANK YOU for not abandoning me! YOU'RE ALL EPIC *virtual hug*
4. I've been writing a lot recently, but my reviewing is very rusty. Forgive me? You will? Here, have a cookie.
AOTS: The Hale and Hearty, Heyward Howkins (late of more bands than you can shake a guitar at, including The Trouble With Sweeney.)
It seems this sound has been growing of late, the ocean-crossing mash of Nick Drake and Devendra Banhart. British melancholia basking in the American sun. Waist High Or Dry has the gentle glassiness of coastal shimmer-folk, The Raucous Calls of Morning the bass-y shadows of "traditional" British indie covered in rainclouds. It has echoes of a Bon Iver channelling Mumford and Sons - or possibly the reverse. The Live Oak slows down, more Nick Drake than anything else on the album. The thudding notes ground the otherwise ethereal nature of the track, giving the listener a careful foothold. Plume and Orange kicks the speed and instrumentation up again - it seems the slower, softer stuff isn't really at home - horns, keyboards, a computerised veil that doesn't fit as well as it could. There's a touch more country in Cocaine Bill than might be expected, and it flows beautifully. It has a warmth that some of the songs lack, a buoyancy that's strangely Josh Pyke-ish. The horns and keyboards are back, the former rich, the latter as cold as rain. It's a very good album, if a little unsure of itself.
7/10
Moll
1. I'm sorry it's taken me this long to start back up again. I had a fair bit on the metaphorical plate what with exams and novels clamouring for my attention, but I'm back now, so all's well, I suppose.
2. I promised a while back that I'd review this, and I got the email that this was coming out about two months ago. It got lost in the wilds of my inbox, and just got dug back out again.
3. THANK YOU for not abandoning me! YOU'RE ALL EPIC *virtual hug*
4. I've been writing a lot recently, but my reviewing is very rusty. Forgive me? You will? Here, have a cookie.
AOTS: The Hale and Hearty, Heyward Howkins (late of more bands than you can shake a guitar at, including The Trouble With Sweeney.)
It seems this sound has been growing of late, the ocean-crossing mash of Nick Drake and Devendra Banhart. British melancholia basking in the American sun. Waist High Or Dry has the gentle glassiness of coastal shimmer-folk, The Raucous Calls of Morning the bass-y shadows of "traditional" British indie covered in rainclouds. It has echoes of a Bon Iver channelling Mumford and Sons - or possibly the reverse. The Live Oak slows down, more Nick Drake than anything else on the album. The thudding notes ground the otherwise ethereal nature of the track, giving the listener a careful foothold. Plume and Orange kicks the speed and instrumentation up again - it seems the slower, softer stuff isn't really at home - horns, keyboards, a computerised veil that doesn't fit as well as it could. There's a touch more country in Cocaine Bill than might be expected, and it flows beautifully. It has a warmth that some of the songs lack, a buoyancy that's strangely Josh Pyke-ish. The horns and keyboards are back, the former rich, the latter as cold as rain. It's a very good album, if a little unsure of itself.
7/10
Moll
Sunday, 22 April 2012
A Bit Late, But Never Mind.
It was Record Store Day yesterday, and it completely passed me by. Well, I don't get NME anymore and I haven't listened to the radio in months, so it's hardly surprising. So, what did I miss?
Unreleased Yeasayer! I can't remember who this reminds me of, but may I call it discofolk? Well, maybe not disco, but certainly electro. Ok, ok, you win, electrofolk. Yeasayer, Swallowing the Decibels
I couldn't exactly ignore this could I? From Regina Spektor's Four From Far LP, Riot Gear
It's the oddest thing. In the list of RSD releases, there are loads from last year. Perhaps they have some left over. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this wasn't available last year. Esben And The Witch, Chorea
Must dash, the original St Trinian's is on.
Moll x
Unreleased Yeasayer! I can't remember who this reminds me of, but may I call it discofolk? Well, maybe not disco, but certainly electro. Ok, ok, you win, electrofolk. Yeasayer, Swallowing the Decibels
I couldn't exactly ignore this could I? From Regina Spektor's Four From Far LP, Riot Gear
It's the oddest thing. In the list of RSD releases, there are loads from last year. Perhaps they have some left over. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this wasn't available last year. Esben And The Witch, Chorea
Must dash, the original St Trinian's is on.
Moll x
Sunday, 15 April 2012
AOTS: Sunset Rubdown, Dragonslayer.
Or, I Am Really, Really Stupid. I got this album from Amazon a few weeks ago, and despite my well-established love of SR, I didn't listen to it for fear of being disappointed. Need have I been worried? Nah. Opener Silver Moons is rather understated, but there are still some wonderful lyrical gems: "And I believe in growing old with grace / I believe she only loved my face / I believe I acted like a child / Making faces at acquired tastes". You Go On Ahead is back to 'normal', all gritty glitter and smoggy feedback, surreal lyrics and cute-but-psycho keyboards. Apollo And The Buffalo... is positively dripping with Greek mythos, nostalgia, and quiet lost beauty. It seems, at first, that their wonderful eccentricity has decided to take a back seat - but Nightingale / December Song makes it clear that it has just taken a bit of a chill pill. It still has oh-so-many different rhythms and sounds, but they don't fight like they they used to. It's good to see madness hasn't been forgotten, but it would be nice if the reins were loosened a little more frequently. Oh, what's that you say? Black Swan? A return to the mania of old, only with a healthy dose of The Strokes? Oh yes. It's a gamble that pays off incredibly well, making it the best track on the album after Idiot Heart. Off the wall lyricism and mad cap rhythms and even the often annoying backing vocals can't make a dent in its brilliance. It might only be eight tracks long, but I'll take those eight tracks over twenty tracks full of fluff any day. It might not have the recklessness of its predecessor Shut Up I Am Dreaming, but it's just as superb and a hell of a lot darker.
9/10
Moll x
9/10
Moll x
Saturday, 7 April 2012
SOTW: Regina Spektor, December
"Rumours have started that you are in love again, rumours that are completely unsubstantiated..." From the delicate but invincible piano, to the quirks of her voice, December is a beautiful song. A bittersweet love-letter full of sharp lines and gentle melodies. On a cursory listen it is easy to disregard - a soft, barely two minutes long, average song. But it isn't average. Not when you bury yourself in it, like the song is buried in snow. Her voice rises and falls - sometimes with the music, sometimes against it, sometimes dropping aitches sluggishly, sometimes lifting in to notes that almost break the windows. It is sweet enough to flow gorgeously, and sharp enough to hold you enthralled. It is, quite simply, superb.
10/10
Moll x
10/10
Moll x
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