Joker's Daughter - a recommendation
I've found a handful of records so far this year that I've really wanted to turn people onto, but I guess I've just been too lazy or caught up in this Facebook thing I finally caved into. So I decided after I got ahold of this record that it's interesting and unknown enough to write about.
artist: Joker's Daughter
record: "The Last Laugh"
Joker's Daughter is a project between psychedelic-folk artist Helena Costas and Danger Mouse, a producer whose preference for doing entire albums with artists over just singles I have always admired in a time where the single is everything. Their record "The Last Laugh" was released last week.
After first hearing about the project and attempting to find out more about them, I stumbled across the video for the album's first track and current single, "Worm's Head"... and it was this track that wet the appetite and made me pick the whole package up. Lasting only two minutes, it starts out as a strange folk rhythm and quickly blossoms into a rather pretty, epic piece of folk. The video itself is pretty interesting in itself, you can view it here:
The rest of the album that follows "Worm's Head" can be rather hit or miss depending on how the album's psychedelic taste sits in your gullet. Other stand-out tracks include "Go Walking", which is a dreamy little tale; "Nothing is Ever What it Seems", which sounds like it would fit perfectly behind a sad scene in a medieval movie; and "The Bull Bites Back", a rather quirky tale of a bull fight with a not-so-ordinary bull.
You can preview these tracks and even download "Worm's Head" for free here at AmazonMP3:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Laugh/dp/B0021QZFVA/ref=sr_f3_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1239412244&sr=103-2
Thoughts?
artist: Joker's Daughter
record: "The Last Laugh"
Joker's Daughter is a project between psychedelic-folk artist Helena Costas and Danger Mouse, a producer whose preference for doing entire albums with artists over just singles I have always admired in a time where the single is everything. Their record "The Last Laugh" was released last week.
After first hearing about the project and attempting to find out more about them, I stumbled across the video for the album's first track and current single, "Worm's Head"... and it was this track that wet the appetite and made me pick the whole package up. Lasting only two minutes, it starts out as a strange folk rhythm and quickly blossoms into a rather pretty, epic piece of folk. The video itself is pretty interesting in itself, you can view it here:
Click to viewThe rest of the album that follows "Worm's Head" can be rather hit or miss depending on how the album's psychedelic taste sits in your gullet. Other stand-out tracks include "Go Walking", which is a dreamy little tale; "Nothing is Ever What it Seems", which sounds like it would fit perfectly behind a sad scene in a medieval movie; and "The Bull Bites Back", a rather quirky tale of a bull fight with a not-so-ordinary bull.
You can preview these tracks and even download "Worm's Head" for free here at AmazonMP3:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Laugh/dp/B0021QZFVA/ref=sr_f3_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1239412244&sr=103-2
Thoughts?