The Tailors: “Animal Humour” from ILL FIT RECORDINGS & PROMOTION on Vimeo.
here’s the first video from the tailors’ most excellent sophmore record, come dig me up, which is out today on trash aesthetics. you can download the track by right click saving as this link, or if youre on a mac, ctrl and the mouse.
adam and his advising uncle
its been a bit, and i really need to try and get more artists for this “feature” but, not surprisingly, i am really bad at following up with folks. this edition of “tell me something…” features london’s the tailors and their front man, adam killip. their upcoming release for trash aesthetics is due out 11.30 and they have decided to call it, come dig me up. i have spent the better part of a couple months with said record, and its probably the growiest record of the year. i absolutely understand growiest is not a word, but will still use it. im not saying its record of the year, but its a damn fine record that really doesnt get into your brains until about the tenth listen. of course, your results may vary from mine, but this is a record that is worth spending some time with and getting to know. if you dig teenage fanclub, the shins, big star definitely give em a listen, and even if ya dont, still do….
you can purchase come dig me up via trash aesthetics
adam’s tell me something sounds like something i may have been through a couple times in my life…..
Tell Me Something – Dumped In ‘98
When I was 17 I went out with a girl called Emily for about six weeks who lived in a village nearby. She had a car, liked smoking and wore black roll-necks. It was the 90s and I felt this was the wardrobe of a sophisticated older woman (she was nearly 19). We went to college after the summer in different cities, and a letter came to my halls. It should have been no surprise to read the words “let’s face it things aren’t really working out”, but my young ego was traumatised and I set about wallowing.
My advisor on stuff like this – and my guide in the creation of a rulebook on “how to not be a dick” – was my mother’s baby brother, Uncle Harry. I called him most days over the next few weeks. I can’t really remember what we talked about, but I think mostly we laughed about our shortcomings with girls. He told me about cool stuff he and his friends were doing, and about his cat. He kept saying he was going to send me something to cheer me up, but a few months passed, I stopped thinking about Emily and started seeing a girl who lived upstairs.
One day, a package arrived – Inside was a D90 cassette with “Dumped In ‘98″ written on the spine. There was no tracklisting, and no note with the tape, but I knew who’d sent it and I had a feeling it was going to be good.
A
Cracklin Water – OP8
Out On The Weekend – Neil Young
Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon
Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma – Melanie Safka
Jesus Is On The Mainline – Ry Cooder
Birds & Ships – Natalie Merchant
Someone Else’s Song – Wilco
I’m Important In Your life – Jonathan Richman
Love Hurts – Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
B
Darkness On The Edge Of Town – Bruce Springsteen
Lady-Oh – Neil Diamond
Bring It On Home To Me (Live) – Ted Hawkins
I’m Your Toy – Elvis Costello
Shiver – Giant Sand
Soldier and the Queen – Suzanne Vega
Waltzing Matilda – Tom Waits
Watermelon In Easter Hay – Frank Zappa
This was all news to me. I put 36 Chambers and Illmatic to one side and soaked it up. The mixtape conjured characters and scenes that made me feel more euphoric and ecstatically blue than I ever had before.
Apart from maybe when I heard Puff The Magic Dragon or Old Brown Dog by Ralph McTell as a kid.
It lead me to most of the music I love now, and with my own songs, I think I’m often trying to translate some of the sensations I got hearing this stuff for the first time – to go to the same places. When I next spoke to Harry he wouldn’t tell me who the songs were by – this was for me to fathom – but he asked what I thought of it. I told him I loved it, and l played it endlessly.
“What does your new lady friend make of it”, he asked me.
“Well…she likes the songs, but she thinks they’re about that other girl”
Harry laughed.
“Well tell her not to worry – there’s another one on the way – a double album this time”
“What’s it called?”
“Humped in ‘99″
