..is really not that far. But it’s far from what’s mainstream these days. Pop, rock, hip hop, folk and now also new wave are genres that dominate the charts right now. But some of the artists in this article are artists that most likely will be more exposed than they already are in the near future, so we’re getting there!
The Divine Comedy is the creation of Neil Hannon, one of today’s pioneers of chamber pop. His musical career as The Divine Comedy started when he released his debut EP “Fanfare for the Comic Muse” for exactly twenty years ago. His tenth album Bang Goes the Knighthood was released on May 31 2010.
Neil Hannon (describes as today’s Scott Walker) started The Divine Comedy in 1989, and various members have joined and left the band since the formation. The Divine Comedy’s style has been described as chamber pop, baroque pop, alternative pop, with some elegantly quirky lyrics about everything from misunderstood pasients on a mental hospital, to be a bad ambassador and to have the ability to hold a note for a stupidity long time. Just to give a short brief – that man’s a genius.
Neil Hannon are also one part of the duo of The Duckworth Lewis Method, a project he run with Thomas Walsh – designed to celebrate the joy of cricket. Something they do through their (self-titled) album, released last year. They hate Shane Warne, and the one and only Matt Berry do a guest performance on Mason On The Boundary. So with a musical style inspired from The Beatles, The Rutles, Lemon Jelly, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Electric Light Orchestra and some good-old fashioned rock/pop, makes this just too good!
Fyfe Dangerfield are best known for being the founding member of the Avant-garde pop band Guillemots. He released his debut album Fly Yellow Moon in January 2010, and are already on a good way to be one of the UK’s no. 1 male singer/songwriter of 2010.
Fly Yellow Moon are an album with sparkly pop, electric pop and some of the same style as Guillemots – only a whole lot better!
Erland and the Carnival are a British Folk rock band, formed in London, England by multi instrumentalist Simon Tong (formerly of the the Verve / Blur / The Good, the Bad & the Queen), Orcadian folk guitarist and singer Gawain Erland Cooper and Drummer / Engineer David Nock (who recently worked with Paul McCartney on his Firemen project). Or in other words; the best of the best of pop/rock bands that dominated in the 90’s.
A self-titled album was released in January 2010. Their sound is a brilliant mixture of innovative synth (just as much as keyboard and the guitar), psychedelic rock, and psych folk.
The Miserable Rich are a modern baroque pop band build out of the greatest musicians of Willkommen Collective, a group of bands based in Brighton.
They use classical instruments combined with modern and nostalgic songwriting to create their own unique pop; a mixture of acoustic pop, chamber pop, classical pop and dream pop.
The Miserable Rich’s second album Of Flight and Fury is a delicate and easy listening kind of album you can listen to in your garden, on almost full volume, without really bother anyone. The music is almost floating through your speakers and leaves you an irresistible feeling of peace, while you think about how wonderful life actually is.
Read full review of The Miserable Rich’s album “Of Flight and Fury” @The405
The Climbers are another band of Willkommen Collective, centered around founders Tim West and Christian Hardy (The Leisure Society).
They started up originally back in 2005, and the work of the debut album (The Good Ship) took six years to complete and was released on May 31 2010.
This music is classy, poppy and has a brilliant blend of chamber pop, jazz, pop, folk pop. And the most outstanding lyrics and rhythm to make this music so remarkable as it is.
Absent Elk create intelligent pop, heartfelt, and lovable music with well crafted lyrics and an irresistible and memorable anthem. This is like level two of indie pop, and it still strikes me, after having Caught in the Headlights on heavy rotation the last couple of months how these guys can be so unknown.
They are four old school friends from England’s south coast and a singer-songwriter from the southern coast of Norway. Released Caught in the Headlights, followed by a tour with The Hoosiers.
Brasstronaut is like a genius mixture of soul pop, chamber pop, piano driven rock, electro pop, ska pop with the most chill out and epic anthem. It’s lovable and perfect music to just sit down and listen to.
They have a unique mixture of classical instruments and ska influenced instruments.
They were formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2007 and have so far released two records; Old World Lies EP (2007) and Mt. Chimaera (2009).
It’s not often I fall in love with the soundtrack of a movie I haven’t seen, or a movie that haven’t been filmed yet. God Help The Girl is a work a progress, due to a release in 2011. And if the movie is as good as the soundtrack, I’m already enchanted.
The soundtrack is written by Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, and was already released last year.
This is twee pop, soul, funky pop and a bit a chamber pop and classical pop. And feature a guest performance of The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon.
The Mummers are simply enchanting, innovative and highly enjoyable. They’re a chamber pop, experimental circus pop, dream pop, playful fairytale pop/folk and baroque pop band from Brighton. Centered around singer and songwriter Raissa Khan-Panni.
The music have jumble of influences; a mix of Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Englishnes orchestral pop.
They released “Tale to Tell” last year, which is a hauntingly beautiful and most innovative work of this kind of music.
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Other artists to take notice of in the genres of chamber pop, folklore, orchestral pop/rock, etc are;
My Luminaries, Paloma Faith, Patrick Wolf, Chris Garneau, The Irrepressibles, Antony and the Johnsons, and Eliza Doolittle.
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