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embeddable media player for a new band we think you will like. They are: Augie March from
Melbourne Australia.
It's never easy to pinpoint exactly where Augie
March are coming
from, but it's abundantly clear where they're not. They're a band
apart from the nowhere music that's everywhere and maybe a century
or two removed from the desperate bang and chatter of the vapid pop/
rock zeitgeist.
Moo, You Bloody Choir is the album in question. "One Crowded
Hour", the song that sets the scene quoted above, is a typically
loaded invitation into Augie March's world. It spins from a gentle
finger-picked waltz into an epic melodrama piled high with layers
of fleeting joy and dashed hope, all gathering spin under some drunken
mirror ball.
"Thin Captain Crackers"? "The Baron of Sentiment"? Are they Dickensian caricatures, dry biscuits or some half-imagined
pub in Carlton? "Bolte and Dunstan" are covered in ancient
pigeon poop, but they're still talking in murmurs to suited commuters
rushing the streets of Melbourne.
"I wrote quite a lot of these songs when I was living in East
Melbourne, that old money area," says Glenn, the singer/songwriter
frontman. "Thin Captain Crackers" was literally looking
from the window of my bedsit onto the main street, then imagining
Ned Kelly riding up the street. |