BBC 6 Music Recommends…
Steve Lamacq gave Route 1 a spin on Thursday night - fair play a dhuit!
Album of the week…
Massive thanks to Paris-based Le Village Pop who this week voted Travalog their album of the week. Nice one!
In their own words, it is “an album of incredible coherence…this music is a real balm to our mistreated souls, by the lucidity and the humanity it carries, and lets us hope for clearer horizons…”
Merci beaucoup! X
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Another amazing review…
Many thanks to our friends at Monolith Cocktail for their glowing review of Travalog!
“A real achievement; a triumph of great melody, feel, and above all songwriting. It would be a travesty if it didn’t make the best albums of the year”
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Nice one lads.
We’re scarlet! ;-)
Brilliant album review…
“Travalog is a bit of a cracker…an album full of alternative vibes and alt-country grooves. It errs on the side of the mid-paced and the gentle, the odd and the beguiling, but that is exactly how I describe myself on my CV, so it is hardly surprising that I love what they are doing here so much…“
Chuffed to have received such a positive review for Travalog from our friends at Dancing About Architecture. They’ve even added us to their latest playlist! Links to both below. Go on ya good ting! X
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Why Travalog?
Without planning it, the songs that came (and the videos that accompanied them) were broadly united by a theme of travel - car journeys through the scorched hills of Andalucia (Rezo), the Atlantic ocean pounding the Karst rocks of the Aran Islands off the West coast of Ireland (Sing), an Indian boatman sailing his houseboat through the backwaters of Kerala (Loner). A musical travel diary - a travel log. All the more poignant and ironic given the travel restrictions that came with the pandemic. And while we recorded it remotely - Rory in Spain and Colm in Dublin - and digitally in that we were relying on computers and virtual instruments/loops as much as real instruments - we were very clear that there had to be an analogue feel to it. It sounds old-fashioned but we wanted it to sound like a band playing the songs. Cool and contemporary yes but somehow credible too. Real singing. Real harmonies. Real guitar. Buzzy strings. Fingers squeaking across the fret board. So an analogue travel log. Travelogue. Travalogue. Travalog if we Americanise it to acknowledge that connection with our folky American cousins. From CSN&Y and the Everly Brothers to Sufjan Stevens and everything in between.
It’s a new dawn…
Well our new band now has a name. Rezo. And a fancy new website. It’s all terribly exciting. Looking forward to adding the finishing touches to our first record and getting it out to the world at large. We’re aiming for a May 2021 release so watch this space. In the meantime you can check out progress so far on the Music tab…X