Since moving up here I have been meaning to drop by Electric Fetus and today I finally did just that. I went in not only to just check things out but also to see if they had a CD that I'm having a hard time tracking down.
While walking around, I happened to see a collection of CDs along the wall that resembled something similar to a list I would put together full of my favorite albums and artists in the past year or so. Within this collection, a title card behind one of the discs read: Tyler Ramsey (Plays with Band of Horses). Being a fan of BOH, I decided that if he's good enough for them, who was I to not give him a shot!?
I'm glad I did. I've pretty much been playing it non-stop since popping it in to rip it to iTunes. If you get a chance, jump to his MySpace or Last.fm and give him a listen. Definitely love to know what you think too, if you care to leave a comment.
Related Item: Band of Horses playing "Is There A Ghost" on Letterman w/Tyler playing to Ben Bridwell's left.
Reviews:
Stereogum | Obscure Sound | NPR Music | KEXP Blog | Herohill
Tyler Ramsey on the interwebs:
Tylerramsey.com | MySpace | Last.fm | iTunes | Amazon
First off, I am struck by the title of the Tyler Ramsey album. My brain loves it! Seas are (always?) vast, so it would take a very long time to swim across. But in dreams we can fall forever or swim forever and never arrive anywhere. Just like we often don't bother to travel at all and just appear in a different place, on the back of a firing synapse.
I like my more realistic dreams the best, but I am rather captured with the idea of dreaming about swimming across the sea (that sort of thing never happens - I'm always surrounded by other people, evading danger or getting into trouble. No idea what this says about me).
I like the album itself too. I'll have to run out and get it before my trip.
Posted by: Sarah | 16 March 2008 at 01:52 PM