SteveW
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An excellent interview, and more thoughts about Shiny Toy Guns 19-Nov-2012 03:13:22
| CorrsClub Time: 10-Jun-2026 08:50:46 |
Thanks for the additional recommendations, Rick. It's fun being in the 'discovery phase' with a new band, knowing that there are so many new songs to hear.
I found a terrific interview with Carah and Jeremy. I'm always complaining that Corrs interviews tend to focus too much on gossip rather than music. Well, this interview focuses squarely on the music -- their songwriting process, how they work in the studio, how they decide who sings lead, etc. They don't even ask the obvious question of why Carah left the band and why she came back.
I've listened to III several more times since my last post, and I continue to be impressed with the album. I think what I like most is the sense of epic grandeur in many of their songs (e.g., E V A Y, Mercy, Waiting Alone). In this respect, the full-length '#loverunner' video for Waiting Alone, with its shots of Carah running through vast landscapes of the American West, fits the song perfectly.
I think STG is the only American band that I've become a fan of in the past few years. The other bands/artists I've gotten into lately -- the Corrs, the Blue Nile, Nolwenn Leroy, Katie Melua, etc. -- tend to be European. I think this is because American commercial music nowadays is dominated by hip hop, dance, and teen-oriented music -- which is fine, but none of those are genres I am particularly interested in. It seems like as a broad generalization, American music tends to be more rhythm-oriented, and to find more melody/harmony-oriented bands, you have to look towards European artists.
I find it amusing that STG is commonly described as having a 'retro' sound. I guess that shows how old I am, because they don't sound retro at all to me. I grew up listening to the music of the 80's, so that period just seems like normal music to me. I suppose I do hear some 80's influences in their music -- If I Lost You has a bit of an Erasure vibe, E V A Y a Peter Gabriel vibe, and we've already discussed Fading Listening and Fleetwood Mac.
There seems to be a recurring theme about waiting in the song titles -- Waiting Alone, Wait for Me, [Wait for] The Sun. I wonder if that was intentional, or just a coincidence?
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