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The Song of the Week (37): Pilgrim's Plight + The Exhilarating rise (Michael Beach)

Michael Beach for me is what kind miraculous discoveries, in the middle of the night, by chance, while I was surfing the internet to view, seeking a rare gem, the kind of music that stops you net and captures your attention. I first came across this two titles to be released on Feb. 8 on the Twin Lake Records label and this piece, "the exhilarating rise": a kind of tube velvetien as hell, rough, nervous, enjoyable! Afterwards, I went to listen his first album in 2008, Blood races: a crude folk played on electric guitar, with just the instrument and singing was sometimes a bit like Elliott Smith. This time, the song "Pilgrim's plight" that hooked me, and since I'm at least my, pfffou, thirtieth listening, maybe more. What can I say? It's a beautiful song, the kind of song for which we stop everything we were doing just to listen in silence, with the acute awareness that something is going really strong. Since I have this chorus at all times in the head: " take me down to the river tonight ... . In short, you will understand, a real nice discovery! Since these disks are on a small American label, almost no chance of finding them in France (including on the Internet, I suspect). For cons, the good news is that it has a page Bandcamp and that from the link on the two players below you can go listen to all of these discs and download free price: