Moseley Shoals

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I got into this band via a list generated of 1999 brit pop and This band really suited to lift the wondering wondering in a more open breezy way than the heavy built Verve Sound albums like A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns, and this is without mistake a very copious sound that Verve where able to pull of at the time because they were a well built unified super act that always leave you with a deep impression no matter what if you are aware that they released many few albums as a full group when they were active. This included a concert in Moseley, the Birmingham suburb upon which the album gets its name and where three of the band members were born. Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee. History has been unkind to the "second wave" of Britpop- that group of young bands who rode the coattails of Oasis and Blur to the top of the British charts in 1996-97.

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You see Moseley Shoals’ rifftastic opener “The Riverboat Song” was co-opted as the opening theme to ego-driven Chris Evan’s vehicle TFI Friday, the televisual bastille of hideously entitled 90s lad-culture.

This my friends is a clear proof to work when you are feel mellow and feel that you are seeking peace of mind in a wholesome structure and deeply rooted pathos together with multi fascetted realities in songs that last longer than all the smashing tunes in the beginning of this album. B-Sides, Seasides and Freerides (1997) is a mellow, acoustic thing in places and offers a sterling summary of the Moseley Shoals flip sides. The guitarist and bass player were also in wellers band so it's no surprise that this record shares a bit of his sound circa 'wild wood' and 'stanley road'. There’s depth, too: beyond encore favourite The Day We Caught the Train there’s the sorrowing One for the Road, the sweetly complex It’s My Shadow and the drifting, dreamlike The Downstream. The album title as a whole is a punning nod to the city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the location of several famous 1960s soul recording studios.

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At 55-minutes in length, Moseley Shoals probably would've benefited by trimming at least one of the tracks.With their no-nonsense pop-rock swagger allied to a keenly felt Mod sensibility they were rather unfairly bracketed in with both the then pervasive Madchester movement and the Britpop saga, though the band never paid lip-service to either movement, preferring to accentuate their own strengths rather than ride on the coattails of a spurious and short-lived diversion from their actual music – bluesy, alternative, psychedelic and well-informed. but as you see One From The Modern came out a few years later and can be seen as the better than the other two OCS realeses that has gone through less of a process that they moved into at the time of One From The Modern, I can recommend this one two but as I see it the band became better with the aformentioned album because priorty to give a richer well bit sound that is effective in many levels ´rhat is open to everyone there, and they sound more comfortable there as a band. Luckily, Moseley Shoals features fewer meandering ballads than most of the band's subsequent catalogue. Arguably the band’s quintessential title, it was originally released in 1996, at the height of Britpop when it reached No. It might be the band's most famous album, but it was actually their second studio release and the follow-up to their eponymous 1992 debut.

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It sounded so different from the other unexceptional, run of the mill, popular music doing the rounds on the British Top 40.Retro-obsessed as the Britpop scene was, few acts were as obsessed with the 60s as this band, even to the point where they were one of the few bands from the scene to assimilate soul music influences into their sound. Like a king who stalks the wings and shoots a dove and frees an eagle instead,” he sings on Riverboat.

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Lead singles "The Riverboat" and "The Day We Caught the Train" are marginally the best of the bunch, and nicely epitomize the rockier side of the band.Most of these (all except "You've Got It Bad (demo)", "Men of Such Opinion", "I Need a Love Song" and "Justine") appeared on the B-side compilation album B-sides, Seasides and Freerides. The album was produced by Brendan Lynch, and was recorded and mixed at the band's studio in Birmingham (Moseley Shoals). My dad is reminiscing about the mid 90s, and how he was baffled by so much of the music that me and my sister brought in the house, but he was glad that we did, as it expanded his horizons so much at the time, and gave him hope that not all new music would leave him feeling isolated. Big sellers during the mid-1990s, these legend-enshrining albums were also spawned a succession of highly-acclaimed UK Top 10 hits.