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Projected Twin – Earth To World
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Projected Twin – Earth To World 2010
Shaun Holton isn’t your traditional artist.
Essentially a one man band, the 24-year-old from Adelaide (South Australia) formed PROJECTED TWIN in late-2006. After spending his earlier years in bands, it became apparent his frustration in having to please the other members in the band stemmed his growth creatively as an artist.
“I had got to a point where I felt like I wasn’t really given a proper opportunity to create music without having to worry about 3-4 other people’s opinions or artistic flare being trampled on,” said Shaun. So was the birth of Projected Twin that allows Holton to create ‘band’ orientated music as a solo artist.
“I’ve always known what I wanted to hear. And beat boxing the drum part you hear in your head to your drummer doesn’t often get the results you were aiming for. So I just hit sticks together and plucked strings until I started hearing the sounds I wanted to hear”.
Which sounds like a brilliant formula to use.
After spending the most part of 2007 and 2008 performing full time all over the world including Oman, Thailand, Iraq, Indonesia and USA including a six-month residency at Dubai’s Hard Rock Café, Shaun returned to Australia with a renewed focus to cement his own blend of rock in what is to be his debut album.
This was to be; Earth To World.
We begin what seems like an epic journey with a ten minute fiasco, spanning from lounge esque music to a brand of heavy metal that chunks throughout the rest of the song that is “Post Secret”. Our first taste of “Earth to World”. The song begins extremely faintly; almost tip toeing on the album, quietly lulling you into the album and basically bringing the album to its grand beginning. “I walk across the dotted line”.
“I’ll Fall For Anything” is a perfect example of how many influences shaun used to create this album. With an essence of “Panic! At The Disco” Rhythm, this song cannot help but being very catchy and with a very prominent solo staying faithful to the base of the song; this is probably my favourite song on the album. “We Know its True” was the first single from the album, which I disagree with because its not the most ambiguous song on the album, however its still not at fault and still stays true to the album. The slow down however re-invents this song and is brilliant;”Tripping over each other”.
“Shark water” shows of Shaun’s Acoustic skills. However he said “I will probably not play this song [Shark Water] during live shows as its to difficult to re-create” which disappoints me slightly, as this song is a brilliant calm before the storm that is the rest of the album. As with “Redemption Away” another song that feels like the calm before the storm, also showing “Twins” brilliant picking qualities.
“Oh. The Drama” is a refreshing wake up. With a furious drum beat, a bass line to die for and of course not forgetting the ominous glow of synth sounds throughout.
“Try” and “Deny” are both the atypical songs of the album, “Try” is just the introduction to “Deny”. However I can see why he has done this, honing and showing his skills in the introduction not to ruin it with the main part of the song, I applaud him on this as few to many bands have done this.
The title track “Earth To World” starts of with a slow ambience for the best part of two minutes. Another song that produces Shaun’s skills to the world however with another acoustic driven song, which also begins with a saxaphone accompaniment. This song in its essence is brilliant, bringing out and proving the full potential of Shaun Holton.
The final song “Circle of Two” starts of with female vocals, clearly a duo. However this song is not done to its full potential, the female vocalist as brilliant as she is just doesn’t go with Shaun’s voice. However ignoring that, this song is a brilliant adjournment to the album.
On a complete whole. “Earth To World” suprises me, as this sounds like a fully fledged master piece. Which is not something you can expect from an unsigned or even underground band. An extremely impressive debut. Without any doubts.
9/10
Songs to Download:
“Post Secret”, “I’ll Fall For Anything”, “Shark Water”.
For Fans Of: Petroleum Falcon
Audio Tragedi 10 Tracks To Hear This Month (Oct)
So if you read my update (october update) you would realise that I haven’t had any time to put anything into my blog last month. So next month, begins alot of hard work to get audio tragedi back up and running!
1. Closer – Anberlin
With myself reviewing anberlin’s new album, i cant help but bring my favourite track into this months 10 (20) tracks. With a mellow beginning that crescendo’s into the build up of the verse to the brilliant chorus.
2. Forget You – Cee Lo Green
Brilliantly produced soul song with a kick. With the voice of Gnarls Barkley venturing solo, this is one funky soul song, that everyone needs to hear at least once. trust me.
3. Off That – Jay-Z ft. Drake
“Welcome, To The, Future.” This should be the future of rap, forget everything you thought you knew about Jay-Z, and remember this song.
4. Feel Good Drag – Anberlin
The return of anberlin is imminent. So lets venture back to what made them great. No nonesence Alternative rock, with an incredible bass line towards the ends of the verse and a catchy as anything chorus, this is a gem from the back catalogue of the underated ego of anberlin. “I feel in love with your sin, Your littlest sin.”
5. My Circuitboard City – The Wombats
Another Classic, this time from Liverpool’s own the wombats. A very catchy song with typical indie rawness.
6. Down – Anberlin
Another anberlin song from their new album, this shows light from their previous albumwith “The Unwinding Cable Car”. An excellent reminder that they can make soft sounded and incredibly talented acoustic songs.
7. Saving Abel – Mississippi Moonshine
In Saving Abel’s new album, There’s alot of country essence. With their acoustical country feel to alot of them. I picked “Mississippi Moonshine” for simple reason. It has attitude, pure and simply. “Miss up to no good”
8. Projected Twin – I’ll Fall For Anything
It’s difficult to pick a great song to single out on Projected Twin’s debut album. So there will probably be alot more To follow next month. But “Fall For Everything” stands out as probably the only track with a punk feeling to it. This is a truly amazing debut. Review to come soon!
Download The Whole Album Here! http://earthtoworldtoyou.com/
9. One Night Only – Say You Don’t Want It
Typical slice of indie gone pop here. which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. This song is brilliantly portrayed through the new york streets. With a hook to die for, this song definitely deserves to be on my 10 tracks this month.
10. Santana ft. Chad Kroeger – Into The Night
This song has crept back into my favourites the past two months. an absolute classic. that in itself is enough said.
The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
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The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang (2010)
Label: Side One Dummy
With the highs still set afoot from “The ’59 Sound”; American Blues Rock ‘N’ Roll band The Gaslight Anthem needed something to up the ante. In a recent interview singer and guitarist Brandon Fallow told how “59′ Sound” was basically the sound of their influences. Now, 2010; “American Slang” needs to prove that this band isn’t just a “influence Oriented” band and that they can stand on their own with their own unique sound. This is my review of The Gaslight Anthem’s American Slang.
Nothing will stop me from enjoying this album again and again. The title track speaks to me as a classic chunk of American soul. “I got your name tattooed in the side of my arm”. Stay lucky has the attitude about it which doesn’t come easily for Gaslight. To compare it to any other gaslight album would be senseless; as this album stands alone perfectly. No album I’ve heard yet is as diverse as “American Slang”; “Stay Lucky” has the punk edge to it. Whereas “The Diamond Church Street Choir” as an unmistakeable soul feel; “Who sings it better than the blues”. You can’t help but click your fingers to it, believe me, I’ve tried. “Boxer” unbelievably has a slight hip-hop feel to it, in the beginning at least. And let’s not forget the epic rock anthem “We Did It When We Were Young”.
“The Queen Of Lower Chelsea” is a working anthem, perfect little bit of the album, a healthy middle.
Old Haunts has to be my favourite. The thing about The gaslight that I don’t understand. Is how they can make an incredible album “The 59′ Sound” and still have more, blues, more hook catching choruses and more epically brilliants songs.
To wrap this up swiftly, The Gaslight Anthem have once again astounded me. They’ve done something that not many bands can say of late…
They’ve made an album that’s better than its predecessor “The 59′ Sound”
8/10
Tracks To Download:
We Did It When We Were Young
Old Haunts
The Spirit Of Jazz
For Fans Of: This Charming Man, Against Me!, The Riot Before
Thanks For Reading!
How I Became A Cyber Stalker…On Foursquare…
Louise has straight, auburn hair and, judging by the only photograph I have of her, she’s in her 30s.
She works in recruitment.
I also know which train station she uses regularly, what supermarket she shopped at last night and where she met her friends for a meal in her home town last week.
At this moment, she is somewhere inside the pub in front of me meeting with colleagues after work.
Louise is a complete stranger.
Until 10 minutes ago when I discovered she was located within a mile of me, I didn’t even know of her existence.
But equipped only with a smartphone and an increasingly popular social networking application called Foursquare, I have located her to within just a few square metres, accessed her Twitter account and conducted multiple cross-referenced Google searches using the personal details I have already managed to accrue about her from her online presence.
In the short time it has taken me to walk to this pub in central London, I probably know more about her than if I’d spent an hour talking to her face-to-face.
She doesn’t know it yet, but Louise is about to meet her new digital stalker.
– taken from last weeks “Guardian” written by Leo Hickman.
If you think facebook is riddled with the dangers of bullying and identity theft, take a look at Foursquare.
The fast-growing social network site, combines gameplay with information about where you are located at any one time.
As facebook celebrated its 500millionth user this week, Forsquare boasted 100million “check-ins”.
Foursquare is a web app in which members build a list of friends in the same way as facebook – but the difference is they can share their location as well.
In Foursquare, you get points and rewards for being the most “social.” You can become the “mayor” of an area by being the person who has checked in the most.
If you combine this information with the service Glympse, you can even see on a map, in real time, what time your friend will arrive based on their current location.
Real-time stalking without even being able to physically see the person.
You don’t even need to tail someone anymore in a car…
These kids have it so easy these days!
You can also post your locations on Twitter and Facebook. In some ways this type of information can be very useful.
Parents can see where their kids are, and mates can all meet up for some real-life face time with each other at a venue.
But it doesn’t take a genius to work out that, in the hands of bullies and stalkers; this information can be potentially dangerous to users.
A user could be tricked into being a friend and have their location exposed when they “check in” at a venue, club or even coffee shop.
Last month coding expert, Jesper Andersen, exploited a security glitch in San Francisco.
He was able to access over 875,000 check-ins over a 3 week period.
He had access to the locations and personal information of all those users. He verified the information with some friends who used Foursquare and immediately freaked them all out. Wonderful!
We all know that people put way to much information online. Foursquare’s default settings aren’t helping that either;
The default privacy options are that you have to opt out of things instead of approving them.
There is always a way to hack data even if you are careful about what you share.
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But what about Louise?
Isn’t all of this her fault because she put all of this information online?
Well, she was just surprised as we were. She didn’t even want to use Foursquare but in her field she needs to use the latest technology and using Foursquare was encouraged by her company.
Here is what she had to say about the precautions she took.
“I thought I was being very careful with what I was posting. I never thought I was revealing personal information. I only use my maiden name when using social networking apps. And I never check in when at my kids’ school or at home. But, as you’ve shown, I can’t see who’s following me on Twitter. If I was going out for an evening with my girlfriends again, I don’t think I would now share it with the world via Foursquare.” (Louise’s setting on Foursquare automatically tweets her location whenever she checks into a location, which was how I could tell via her Twitter feed, without being her Foursquare “friend”, where she had been in recent days in such detail.).
So, if your considering joining Foursquare even after you read this post.
Think twice before you “check-in” anywhere.
Only make friends with people you know.
Don’t you use identifiable pictures of yourself and never check in at personal places, instead use public areas.
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