The Album Review Club - Week #145 - (page 1923) - Tellin' Stories - The Charlatans

RobMCFC said:
Don't worry about that, I quite often sign my work e-mails "Ron" by mistake! Easy to do as b and n are next to each other on the keyboard.

Sometimes I wonder how I managed to write 3 whole novels (but I credit my youngest daughter's excellent editing skills).
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Wow you’ve written 3 novels
What’s the subject matter ?
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Doll by Doll
Gypsy Blood
I reckon the frequent contributors to these threads can guess how I enjoyed this one ;-)

Great write up @journolud and I like your introduction to the band based on the 10p investment :-)

Yet again I find myself breaking new ground.

That being said, I didn't really get it at all.

Is it yet another album that's partly written from a mythological fantasy POV (so is it inspired by Prog rock?)?

As we like to do across these threads I was trying to pigeon hole it into a genre but I was slightly nonplussed.

According to our good friends at Google;

Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Experimental, Acoustic

That's sorted that then ;-)

There's a couple of ok riffs (I'm predominantly thinking of strip show and the start of another that now eludes me) but there isn't anything that grips me or pulls me in - I'm listening to it at arms length with very little investment.

A lot of the sound is almost too polite somehow almost kind of American school dance somehow (and I thought I had wondered into a born again Christian convention whilst listening to Human Face).

Disappointingly I don't really warm to the vocals at any point - just doesn't really grip or intrigue somehow.

So unfortunately this one falls a fair way down the richter scale for me - I'm going a 3/10. It's had 4 spins and hasn't won me over (although to be fair it's not been the easiest week for new music so it may have been on a hiding to nothing).

Happy Christmas Mooners - I am currently housebound as twatty over here managed to return a positive PCR on Christmas fucking eve (completely screwing everyone's plans).

What a life.......... :-)
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Get your head phones on. Strap yourself in and get well soon.
 
Mancitydoogle said:
Wow you’ve written 3 novels
What’s the subject matter ?
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They are YA novels - the vibe I was going for was Stranger Things meets Stand By Me meets The Goonies. It’s called Monkey Arkwright and It’s about a couple of teenagers who find something in the local woods and they start to discover that sinister forces are at work.

A few people on here have read it, including @OB1.

Anyway, it never made me any money so I’m stuck being a software engineer until I retire!
 
RobMCFC said:
They are YA novels - the vibe I was going for was Stranger Things meets Stand By Me meets The Goonies. It’s called Monkey Arkwright and It’s about a couple of teenagers who find something in the local woods and they start to discover that sinister forces are at work.

A few people on here have read it, including @OB1.

Anyway, it never made me any money so I’m stuck being a software engineer until I retire!
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RobMCFC said:
They are YA novels - the vibe I was going for was Stranger Things meets Stand By Me meets The Goonies. It’s called Monkey Arkwright and It’s about a couple of teenagers who find something in the local woods and they start to discover that sinister forces are at work.

A few people on here have read it, including @OB1.

Anyway, it never made me any money so I’m stuck being a software engineer until I retire!
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Good for you , I liked Stranger things ,Stand by me and the Goonies so I’ll have a read when I’ve I got time.

That explains the professional look of your threads
 
RobMCFC said:
They are YA novels - the vibe I was going for was Stranger Things meets Stand By Me meets The Goonies. It’s called Monkey Arkwright and It’s about a couple of teenagers who find something in the local woods and they start to discover that sinister forces are at work.

A few people on here have read it, including @OB1.

Anyway, it never made me any money so I’m stuck being a software engineer until I retire!
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mancity2012_eamo said:
Not Jessie Buckley?
I saw Wild Rose but have no idea if she had any album out years ago.
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No it’s a male artist
 
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