Thing of the Day
Spring Offensive new acoustic EP, and the Knitorious M.E.G strikes again for Valentine's Day...
February 14th 2011
Knitorious M.E.G,
wearer of many hats over therein Richmond, Virginia, in the USA, has
struck again with her yarn-bombing. This time for Valentine’s Day. In
her world today, every lane is Lovers Lane. More knitted street art for
a sunny Monday morning…Wonton Power is the website for The Knitorious M.E.G, - www.wontonpower.com
And an interview with The Knitorious M.E.G here: yarnbombing.com
SPRING OFFENSIVE - Between Me & You
(self release) – The Oxford band have a rather intimate five track
acoustic EP out today (as a download-only thing with a pay what you
want or indeed have it for free kind of arrangement – just for this
week mind so be quick, something to do with a Valentine’s day preposal
). They’re a rather emotional band, an inward looking band, all
relationships gone wrong and uneasy and it is all my fault and isn’t
life tough, you suspect middle class English life and you suspect it
really isn’t that tough, and despite all that its kind of hard not to
like the inward looking emotion of Spring Offensive…Why? Because it's
beautifully crafted music, alive with simple details. Lyrically and
vocally the songs and delivery are kind of Frank Turner in nature,
touching on I Like Trains if
it wasn’t quite so personal and inward looking and they didn’t sing in
that very English boy look at me emotional kind of way.
Hearts on sleeves honesty, angsty, wordy, personal songs, the
acoustic format brings out all their colour, don’t know if we need this
much despair though, they don’t sound old enough to be this
world-weary, especially when the music they craft is so beautifully
uplifting. All this competing and who’s fault is it...
bedroom-gloomists who’d make the early Smiths days of Morrissey sound
like the Laughing Gnome in comparison. Is it really that bad that they
need to start a song by declaring they feel so young and pointless when
they had so so much ambition? And you know they can’t control it, well
they say we know – it is rather delicious melancholy though, glorious
textures, can’t help but like their crafted sound in this quiet
considered full-bodied string-detailed acoustic format. Rather
beautifully produced and if you don’t let those lyrics drag you down
too much, something rather glowing – Explore more here - www.springoffensive.co.uk
Let's have some more Knitorious M.E.G before we go:
