Onward Chariots was formed by Ben Morss, a multi-instrumentalist. He’s recruited a number of other musicians to join him, and the result is an indie-pop album with a whole load of other influences thrown into the mix. The sound is made more varied by the range of instruments used which incluude electronics, Strings, Oboe, Clarinet, Mandolin and Trumpet.<\/p>\n
Brief comments on a few tracks…<\/p>\n
The album starts with ”Opening”, a short (a minute and a half) track that is atmospheric music with some soft high pitched vocals. It’s an interesting start to the album.<\/p>\n
The first real song is ”This is my confession I”. It’s got a real indie-pop feel to it with the guitars.<\/p>\n
In contrast the falsetto vocals in the chorus of ”Sisters and brothers” makes it sound more like the Beegees. The verses use a less high-pitched vocal which helps give contrast and make it a good song<\/p>\n
Mama uses a sample in the background that is taken from ”On the run” – a track on Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the moon album. It’s quite a distinctive bit – in fact a bit too distinctive as I found it distracted away from the song while I focussed on remembering which song the sample came from. Apart from that it’s a good song.<\/p>\n
It’s a very good album and the range of instruments used really helps the album to have a distinctive sound that standa apart from other indie-pop albums. Well worth a listen.<\/p>\n
”This is my confession” is out on 13th February on Skipping Stones Records.<\/p>\n
Track listing:<\/p>\n
1. Opening
\n2. This is my confession I
\n3. Mel Gibson
\n4. Sisters and brothers
\n5. I just met a girl
\n6. When you’re smiling
\n7. Mama
\n8. This is my confession II
\n9. Forever never ends
\n10. You don’t have to be unhappy
\n11. I want to be with you
\n12. I want everything
\n13. How could I
\n14. Get me out of this party
\n15. Stay
\n16. Confession III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Onward Chariots was formed by Ben Morss, a multi-instrumentalist. He’s recruited a number of other musicians to join him, and the result is an indie-pop album with a whole load of other influences thrown into the mix. The sound is made more varied by the range of instruments used which incluude electronics, Strings, Oboe, Clarinet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}