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Oct 11
Skytone : Shining Over You (Beauty 18)
A nice ten track collection, this is a solid collection of pop-rock tunes, with nods to turn of the eighties punk and powerpop, The Beatles and Weller. All good then. Skytone consists of two brothers, with great natural harmonies. It’s down to the songs though and the pair nail it time and time again. Skytone …
Oct 11
Roy Moller : Playing Songs, No One’s Listening To (Beauty 017)
Comprising ten tracks recorded by Moller at his Singalong Junk home studio, Playing Songs, No One’s Listening To Roy Moller deftly demonstrates why Belle & Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson, a regular Moller collaborator, describes the Edinburgh-born songwriter as “amazing – blessed with great talent, enthusiasm and concentration: most of all he’s a lot of fun to …
Oct 07
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome to the Beautiful Music Online – “Collectors and Distributors of Fine Music” Music that is created for the sheer LOVE of it. Music that celebrates the melody and the harmony, the magnificent and the eccentric. The Beautiful Music is dedicated to distributing Music that soars above the musical landscape in the Jet Stream of …
Oct 07
Dot Dash : Spark>Flame>Ember>Ash (Beauty 019)
Dot Dash is a post punk pop band from Washington D.C. spark>flame>ember>ash is their long-playing debut. It contains 14 songs and was recorded in three afternoons. If this bio had one of those “RIYL/Recommended If You Like” sections, it might drop names like The Jam, Joy Division and The Byrds… … Or perhaps it would …
Jul 16
The Empiricals Never Cease To Impress
After missing countless opportunities to see The Empiricals live, and hearing friends rave about their live shows, and even going to shows where they were the opening act and arriving too late, I finally got to see them live at the opening night of the Ottawa Bluesfest, on Tuesday July 6th, and they were simply unbelievably amazing. Paul …