Rediscovered & Newly Discovered Music
In the vein of this blogpost of mine, I thought I would share some more rediscovered music. The other week I was browsing the recent releases section of iTunes and happened upon an album by a guy called Ben Ottewell called Shapes & Shadows. After playing a few of the song previews I was getting a distinct sense of deja vu about his distinctive sounding voice. Here is a video of him performing a track off the aforementioned album called Lightbulbs.
To anyone into the indie scene at the tail end of Britpop this should sound very familiar indeed. The voice reminder of just how much, back in the late nineties, I played (and played and played) the first two albums of Ottewell’s former band, Gomez. There was a time shortly after the release of their debut album that the single Whippin’ Picadilly seemed to be on one of the music channels every five minutes. So it was, after downloading and playing Ottewell’s album – brilliant by the way – that I found myself finding my copies of the Gomez albums and importing them into iTunes for some nostalgic playback. Whilst I think Bring It On is the better album, my favourite Gomez track is actually off their second album Liquid Skin. Here’s the video for We Haven’t Turned Around Yet.