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You better LISTEN NOW! |
The world you thought you knew getting you down? There’s
nothing like stellar pop music to galvanise the soul and a collaboration between
two of the greatest forces for rock n’ roll good on this sorry orb is surely a
reason to bring cheer for at least the 16 minute duration of the event.
The Nomads and The Dahlmanns? Together?? Used to be that would be referred to as a
supergroup. There’s a flavour of the
loud folk direction that they were taking on “The Last Time” and comprising six
songs, “American Heartbeat” (not a Survivor cover) is a wee bit of a departure
from the sound you might be used to hearing from a Dahlmanns record but it’s
still distinctly them.
Line’s vocal will always take care of that and she just
gets better and better. If you reckon you’ve heard anything better than “I Know
You Want Me Back” in recent living memory then I need to hear it. Like a high
end Roxette hit, this one deserves to be all over everywhere that quality tunes
can be heard.
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Where it all began in... Oslo |
“Tomorrow Came Today” resonates like it might have followed
one of those Brickfield nights and well, if you ever wondered what Tony James
might have sounded like if he’s started off in Mud instead of Gen X then you
need to be getting a load of “Get It Right”.
This mini album runs at 45rpm so it’s going to be loud and
it’ll be out on August 31st, a co-release between the Ghost Highway
and Beluga imprints. The first 100 on white vinyl with silver and black patch
combo are reportedly all gone. You can get your mitts on the trad black version
(and let’s face it – that’s the only colour a record needs to be - in my
opinion) though but you’d be wise to score a safety copy because I don’t reckon
this will stay in print for too long once the word is out. All over town and
further afield.
This practice will also help to offset the dreaded postage sting.
The content will be available digitally too if you only do the
‘device’ thing. The only way it’ll be available on cassette for now is if you
put the gear on one of those things yourself. However this might get to the ears,
my hope is that this one will infiltrate outside of the power pop stockade and put them Dahlmann kids on the radar of a broader church that could really do with
having something to believe in. Like the lady says on the title song “you
better listen now”.
A CD version will be available from Pop Detective in the US, mid-September.