Conlan Day

Good Morning Mother

Unique. Piano-pop. Brash, intelligent indie-pop. The truth is, it’s pretty hard to place Stars and Sons. It’s an odd form of alternative-pop, and at first listen you might just find yourself wondering if Alphabeat, Same Difference and Mika have got together, and then called in Andrew Lloyd Webber for musical...
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Posted Mar. 12, 2010

Losing Sleep

Parachute: coming to a radio-station near you. Or at least, they should be. Losing Sleep is Parachute’s debut album, and it’s an album that pretty much ticks all the boxes. It’s an album that wouldn’t find itself out of place on a One Tree Hill soundtrack, but this isn’t necessarily...
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Posted Feb. 23, 2010

Hold Me Down

Upon first hearing You Me At Six a few years back, two things immediately occurred to me. The emotion-packed lyrics about ruined relationships, bitterness and jealousy, the blocky power-chords complete with pentatonic counter melodies dancing on top, the simple drum patterns complete with excessive crash cymbals – it all found...
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Posted Feb. 12, 2010