

With songs and lyrical styles inspired by old English folklore (especially Northumbrian folklore) and mixed with eclectic modern touches and instruments (kalimba, dulcitone, ukulele…), it’s a stunningly haunting, wistful, sublime sound that will always be timeless. While Here’s The Tender Coming from 2009’s album gets a lot of replay in our test rooms, it’s follow-up album Last that best displays the English folk group’s enchanting and unique talent. All intertwine in a medley of musical perfection, with high production values ensuring they endure both as a whole album and as trusty test tracks.Īmbient 1: Music For Airports by Brian Eno (1978) So much care was taken to record the beautiful songs – from the lush vocal harmonies to the piano on Songbird – along with rich layers of acoustic and electronic instruments. The result is one of the greatest albums of all time, with the cheery rock-pop hits masking the bittersweet, sarcastic and pointed lyrics about separations, new relationships, drug use and, eventually, love. But a look at the very personal lyrics shows just how cathartic (and equally emotionally chaotic) recording the album must’ve been, once the band put all aside to make the music. You'll hear Pat French, Jay Green, John Patrick Lowrie…and a whole bunch of killer cases.Considering the amount of interpersonal relationship issues that plagued the band (one divorced couple who wouldn’t speak to each other, one ongoing on/off relationship, the fifth’s marriage on the rocks), it’s a miracle that Rumours even got made.


This collection includes four more installments of the "War Comes To Harry Nile" storyline, a Christmas episode, two 2-part adventures, and more.

Here are nineteen state-of-the-art radio noir dramas, produced by West Coast legend Jim French, and starring Larry Albert as the hard-boiled, straight-shooting Harry! From out of the rain-swept postwar night comes Harry Nile - a man who's seen it all, because he just can't look away.
