Hallam Foe Original Soundtrack (Domino).
Orange Juice starts off this more than slightly Scottish tinged soundtrack of the recently released, critically acclaimed film, Hallam Foe. Their contribution is Blue Boy, an upbeat pleasure with Edwyn Collins on top form (good to hear that he is fighting his way back to fitness). The guitar is all over the place, as it normally is, and there are punk influences and a great chorus. UNPOC, from The Fence Collective whose highest profile member is currently King Creosote, gives us Here On My Own. This acoustic offering with its shouted chorus is deceptively catchy. King Creosote makes a short appearance as well and he confirms his status as a newly found major label act on The Somewhere Else. He has grown as a performer and this will enhance his standing with the harmonium giving a seafaring feel. Sons And Daughters are another band that are making a name for themselves and their brand of Indie rock on Broken Bones will fit in well with the target audience for the film. Junior Boys contribute the uninspiring electronica of Double Shadow and Clinic lift the album again with their rousing rocker If I Could Read Your Mind. Future Pilot AKA send in the heavy dub on Battle At The Gates Of Dub – highly addictive but very short.
Hood gives us the relaxing Lines Low To Frozen Ground and the headline band, Franz Ferdinand contributes Hallam Foe Dandelion Blow. This has a flighty and acoustic introduction and is a bit of a surprise – I’ll say no more. Psapp gives us Tricycle, which takes us back to the gentler side but it sounds like someone pulling a zip up and down at one point though – don’t ask!! Surf Song from James Yorkston & The Athletes remains on the gentle side. It’s just guitar and voice with a little accordion in the background. Great alt. folk from the Fence Collective stalwarts. The Bill Wells Trio chips in with Also In White, the great slogan from the back of many a transit van. This has electric piano and harmonica for most of the piece and harks back to the days of Larry Adler. Salvese Quien Pueda from Juana Molina is tender, almost child like and is a surprising favourite and Cinema’s They Nicknamed Me Evil is very ethereal, very Tubular Bells. The sedate feel continues with I Hope That You Get What You Want from Woodbine but it’s difficult without seeing the film to see how well the songs fit in. The album closes with Movietone’s Ocean Song, another slow one although it does build up towards the end.
As I say, it would probably be best to see the film first but there are a number of tracks here that stand up in their own rite.
http://www.dominorecordco.com/
David Blue.
Orange Juice starts off this more than slightly Scottish tinged soundtrack of the recently released, critically acclaimed film, Hallam Foe. Their contribution is Blue Boy, an upbeat pleasure with Edwyn Collins on top form (good to hear that he is fighting his way back to fitness). The guitar is all over the place, as it normally is, and there are punk influences and a great chorus. UNPOC, from The Fence Collective whose highest profile member is currently King Creosote, gives us Here On My Own. This acoustic offering with its shouted chorus is deceptively catchy. King Creosote makes a short appearance as well and he confirms his status as a newly found major label act on The Somewhere Else. He has grown as a performer and this will enhance his standing with the harmonium giving a seafaring feel. Sons And Daughters are another band that are making a name for themselves and their brand of Indie rock on Broken Bones will fit in well with the target audience for the film. Junior Boys contribute the uninspiring electronica of Double Shadow and Clinic lift the album again with their rousing rocker If I Could Read Your Mind. Future Pilot AKA send in the heavy dub on Battle At The Gates Of Dub – highly addictive but very short.
Hood gives us the relaxing Lines Low To Frozen Ground and the headline band, Franz Ferdinand contributes Hallam Foe Dandelion Blow. This has a flighty and acoustic introduction and is a bit of a surprise – I’ll say no more. Psapp gives us Tricycle, which takes us back to the gentler side but it sounds like someone pulling a zip up and down at one point though – don’t ask!! Surf Song from James Yorkston & The Athletes remains on the gentle side. It’s just guitar and voice with a little accordion in the background. Great alt. folk from the Fence Collective stalwarts. The Bill Wells Trio chips in with Also In White, the great slogan from the back of many a transit van. This has electric piano and harmonica for most of the piece and harks back to the days of Larry Adler. Salvese Quien Pueda from Juana Molina is tender, almost child like and is a surprising favourite and Cinema’s They Nicknamed Me Evil is very ethereal, very Tubular Bells. The sedate feel continues with I Hope That You Get What You Want from Woodbine but it’s difficult without seeing the film to see how well the songs fit in. The album closes with Movietone’s Ocean Song, another slow one although it does build up towards the end.
As I say, it would probably be best to see the film first but there are a number of tracks here that stand up in their own rite.
http://www.dominorecordco.com/
David Blue.
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