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29 Aug 13 - 07:05 PM (#3554251) Subject: Tune Add: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,Gary, London Not totally familiar with this forum, but wanted to introduce you guys to a new folk/indie band in north London - Straw Bear. Really good... a fusion of folk with newer sounds. Anyway, here is one of their latest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz9af2zSqHs |
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29 Aug 13 - 07:10 PM (#3554253) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe For a moment I thought this might be Dom Cooper's excellent Straw Bear Band. |
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29 Aug 13 - 07:22 PM (#3554256) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST Afraid not! Still good though.. |
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29 Aug 13 - 08:50 PM (#3554268) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: Leadfingers Click |
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30 Aug 13 - 03:18 AM (#3554304) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST No videos? The blue clicky does not work..... |
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30 Aug 13 - 05:07 AM (#3554317) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: George Papavgeris It works for me |
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30 Aug 13 - 05:55 AM (#3554330) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,Hootenanny It's not really important but can someone explain to me what makes this a "folk band" and not just another group of musicians hoping for pop stardom. If the music is that good it should be able to stand on it's own audio ability. Why do we need the attraction/distraction of watching old film clips. Hoot |
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30 Aug 13 - 06:26 AM (#3554341) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: johncharles Mumford effect? |
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30 Aug 13 - 11:52 AM (#3554440) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,Auldtimer I thought I was just to old. I can remember when Folk was..... |
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30 Aug 13 - 12:45 PM (#3554456) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker folk band...... ???? hmmm..... maybe, drippy polite pleasant retro soft rock.. but that's not necessarily always a bad thing. I've played this track 3 or 4 times since late last night without bothering to watch the video.. .. so that at least must say something positive... |
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31 Aug 13 - 05:40 AM (#3554673) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,Guest X Factor Folk, strings and background vocals none of which seem to played by the band members. Lighweight, insipid sounding, nothing really going for it at all. |
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31 Aug 13 - 06:06 AM (#3554679) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,CS Surprised to find myself saying this (it must be the old git effect rubbing off on me - or the fact that I'm rapidly heading toward old-githood myself!) but they don't sound even marginally 'folkish' to me; pleasant bit of indie-pop yes, folk no. |
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31 Aug 13 - 06:13 AM (#3554681) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,CS Been wracking me noodle to figure out who they remind me of, now I've sussed it; like an acoustic Badly Drawn Boy! |
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31 Aug 13 - 07:26 AM (#3554699) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: Dave Hanson Guest Gary who started this thread is probably one of them, they just sound like a pop band to me. Dave H |
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31 Aug 13 - 07:56 AM (#3554703) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: George Papavgeris OK, just trying to examine all angles here... FOR it being "folky": 1) I could (just) imagine this song being written/sung by Lindisfarne back in the 70s 2) The singer's voice/style is somewhat folky, natural and not exhibitionist 3) It has a bit of a folksy fiddle to it But in every other way, I can't see it as a folk number, or indeed folk group: 1) Having an acoustic guitar among the electric instruments (and drums) does not make in fact it folk (the Mumford effect mentioned above) 2) The subject matter (relationships!) while it does also appear in folk, tends to be more the domain of pop-rock. It certainly does not help identify it as "folk" 3) The chord progressions are decidedly non-folky - more like the ones used by Crash Test Dummies; indeed the whole song seemed to owe more to Crash Test Dummies than anything else. And CTD, while I love them (a lot), are not "folk"; more like soft progressive rock. Overall, I thought the song very decent, actually quite good. And the video enhances the experience, tongue-in-cheek like, so no problem with that. It will do well - it should - if marketed decently. I could imagine it on some of the Cambridge FF stages, and at Glastonbury. But not in any folk club I have been to. So: Good song, wishing you and them all the best, Gary, but I wouldn't call it "folk" except for one reason: In order to differentiate from the X-Factor pop and the metal-end of the rock scene, and to attract the more laid-back younger listeners. It would work, but it would be dishonest. |
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31 Aug 13 - 11:35 AM (#3554745) Subject: RE: Great new (UK) folk band From: GUEST,Boxosponge 10 seconds was enough for me |