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Stylist Magazine is distributed every week at my destination train station but when I arrive there I am often out of luck and they're all gone...I miss out on the must see Style List, the wonderful world news, the fabulous fashion pages, amazing articles and brilliant beauty pages. So you see when I don't manage to get a copy of Stylist I am pretty disappointed but sigh no more...
Floral Themed Style List
Stylist magazine has joined forces with the Google Currents App (for IPad & IPhone) and Google Play (for Android) so If I don't grab a hard copy of Stylist at the busy train station it's no sweat...I can just view it on my phone.
I'll still be holding out for the real thing to flick through at break time with friends, discussing what we'd love to wear/read/watch but it's nice to know it's all there on my phone just in case...Thank you Stylist.
I've been listening to a lot of music recently since I acquired Spotify and I have a new favourite band whose songs have just been replaying in my head over and over.
They are Alabama Shakes and according to their website http://www.alabamashakes.com/ their union sounds organic and such a refreshing change from all these TV talent shows. These guys met each other, jammed and played to their souls content and they have born something thrilling in their debut album Boys & Girls.
Brittany Howard is the singer and she rips up the vocal on their debut album Boys & Girls like some kind of illegitimate love child of mick jagger and nina simone, the crazy concoction is a roaring, scratching, heavy soul/rock orgy and just when you think you've got her pinned she pulls her voice back inside and all of a sudden it's as smooth as melted chocolate and those hairs on your neck will be upstanding.
The first two songs on the album are Hold On and I Found You and with their relaxed, lazy guitar pattern and bluesy verses they settle you into a laidback atmosphere and theres no question you'll want to hear more. Their soulful vibe seems effortless and harks back to when the band started out playing Otis Redding and James Brown covers and writing their own stuff on Brittanys floor.
You Ain't Alone takes you by surprise, starting along the same lines as the previous tracks bringing Al Green right back to life but then there is this defiant punk rock undertone teasing it's way through. As the song progresses it almost sounds like an anthem penned by David Bowie, the percussion from Steve Johnson crashes all over the mesmerising guitar and bass lines from Heath Fogg and Zac Cockrell and it all comes together in a gritty, down and dirty, wild blowout.
Don't take my word for it though, get the album...turn it up loud and drink it slowly like an expensive whisky...Alabama Shakes will dig in their profoundly emotional hands and pull out your soul.
Bastille played in Mojo Liverpool in October and they were a wondrous thing to behold. In the audience with my sisters I knew we were all thinking the same thing, we were glad we came. It seemed like bar Mojo was made for giggs just like theirs with it's laid-back, intimate atmosphere. With its chunky wooden bar stretching along the back wall, perching yourself on a bar stool you might be forgiven for thinking you're holed up in some Texan joint...all you need are some cowboys.
It was a short set but they gave it their all and the crowd lapped up their sensitive lyrics, harrowing vocals from lead singer Dan Smith and exhilarating electronica. Here is a link to their blog where you can check out their music...
In my opinion the must listen to tracks are Flaws, The Things We Lost in the Fire and their cover of R'n'B group City Highs 'What Would You Do' is a stroke of genius.
