A Beautiful Eulogy of Loss, Hope and Pain: A Review of For Those I Love’s ‘For Those I Love’
via September Recordings Ltd A Beautiful Eulogy of Loss, Hope and Pain: A Review of For Those I Love’s ‘For Those I Love’ By Connie Seamer on 80%
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For Those I Love s debut album is a magnificently constructed mix of dance and spoken word that deals with the depths of grief, love, and friendship.
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TW: Mentions of su cide
Dublin-based artist For Those I Love, real name David Balfe, is no stranger to grief. After the suicide of his best friend and fellow artistic collaborator Paul Curran in 2018, Balfe retreated into his parent’s shed where he and his friends used to hang out and recorded over 76 songs as a tribute to the memory of his friend. These songs were cut down to the nine which appear on
Albums of the week: Djourou, Symphony No 10, For Those I Love
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New Music Reviews (4/5) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Abbie) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
serpentwithfeet,
DEACON (Secretly Canadian)
The excellent second album from this Baltimore-bred, LA-based artist (aka Josiah Wise) brings a more optimistic perspective to his expansive R&B/gospel-influenced sound, forsaking the dark, sometimes stormy textures and tortured lyrics of his debut album Soil in favor of an airy, atmospheric sound combining celestial synths, piano, acoustic guitar, often-spacious beats and sun-kissed melodies with his silky lead vocals, layered vocal harmonies and personal lyrics of love, sex, friendship and connection. DY
Ben Howard leads UK Record Store Chart with Collections From The Whiteout
Ben Howard leads UK Record Store Chart with Collections From The Whiteout
Ben Howard is leading a UK Record Store Chart dominated by new entries this week.
Collections From The Whiteout is part of a Top 5 also made up of debuts from Floating Points, Joe Strummer, Hannah Peel and First Aid Kit, whilst David Balfe is one further place back with his quite extraordinary first For Those I Love LP.
It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
Album Of The Week: For Those I Love – For Those I Love 3 April, 2021
The self-titled debut record from For Those I Love is comfortably our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.
“Every night on their last UK tour, The Murder Capital arrived onstage to the most striking of warm-up tunes.”
“Barely heard outside of Ireland, Dear James by the multimedia collective Burnt Out dealt with the suicide of a young man from north Dublin, its shards of noise the stark bones of a naked requiem.”
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