Earlier this week, I wrote about the albums I'm most looking forward to hearing in 2016. However, I realise now that I made one glaring omission: the 2nd volume of Songs About Albums!
You may remember that I unveiled one song from Volume 2 - Laurence Made Me Cry's tribute to Moloko - back in November. The full compilation will be made available for free download in the springtime, but don't worry if you can't wait that long because I've got another track to share with you today.
Painting is a song about Joni Mitchell's Clouds. It was written and recorded by Richard Jackson of Albatross Archive; the track can be found below, along with Richard's explanation of why he chose Clouds as his subject.
You may remember that I unveiled one song from Volume 2 - Laurence Made Me Cry's tribute to Moloko - back in November. The full compilation will be made available for free download in the springtime, but don't worry if you can't wait that long because I've got another track to share with you today.
Painting is a song about Joni Mitchell's Clouds. It was written and recorded by Richard Jackson of Albatross Archive; the track can be found below, along with Richard's explanation of why he chose Clouds as his subject.
With the brief as wonderfully open as it was ("Write a song about one of your favourite albums"), there was a lot of scope in the initial direction. Though we'd initially wanted to choose an album which both myself and my bandmate Kit had mutual attachment to (Polar Bear's Peepers was a strong contender; Joanna Newsom's Ys felt impossible to comment on in any suitable way), time/deadlines led to this becoming a more focused solo effort on my part than normal.
For some reason, whenever I think of important/favourite albums, Joni Mitchell's Clouds always sticks out to me, despite the fact that I couldn't, off the top of my head, give you a track listing for it. It's an album I associate with growing up, hearing it played around the house before I could even walk...it's just an album I've always known, and which has always just 'been there'. A friend of mine once told me that her favourite album wasn't necessarily the best album, not necessarily even a good album, it was just one that meant something that no other album ever could, and that is what this record is to me.
