SuggestiON-AIR: Best Comfort Records
With the release of the ever reliable Elbow and Noah and the Whale's new albums, this week we're thinking comfort and reassurance. Whether it's an album you put on when you need to make everything right in your world once again or a specific track you occasionally wallow in, we want to know!
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Rigsy - ATL Presenter
Simply because I've been flat out listening to it all weekend (not sure why). 'Screamadelica' could soundtrack my 'happy place' but this one track is the comfy sofa in a cosy log-cabin of an album. Warm, epic, squelchy, fuzzy, reassuring and very comforting indeed.
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Amy McGarrigle - ATL Content Assistant
This is my perfect 'comfort' album. It's a somber yet uplifting folky electro album, with a cinematic landscape throughout. Switching between instrumental songs and some with Jimmy LaValles (who's solo project it is) raw vocal, the balance allows you to add your own thoughts and feelings to the record. 'Always For You'' is a beautiful song of love and longing, while instrumentals like 'The Light' and 'See In You' are reflective, midnight, cosy snippets of wonder. (or something...)
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Steven Rainey - Radio Ulster Presenter/ATL Buddy
As a lifelong music fan, I occasionally find myself surprised that - when push comes to shove - my favourite album is a "best of". But when it's an expertly chosen selection of some of Satchmo's finest moments, who's complaining?
There's something about the music of Louis Armstrong that takes me to a very special place. Perhaps it's the fact that almost everything he ever recorded was imbued with a sense of pure joy, a glowing, effervescent happiness that flows through every note. From early, scratchy recordings of songs like 'Potato Head Blues', right through to golden classics like 'What a Wonderful World', this album makes me feel warm, regardless of how cold it is outside.
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Philip Taggart - ATL Content Assistant
This song is the aural equivalent of being cradled by a loved one and told, ‘its going to be ok’. It’s typical Elbow - candid, beautiful and inspirational. Sure it has been played to death and has at one point trailed every single programme on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã schedule. However that doesn’t make it a bad song, it just mean’s everyone is aware of its brilliance. Guy Garvey is one of the most believable and endearing men in the music industry today. I wish he was my da. Boy that would be sweet.
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Comment number 1.
At 6th Oct 2011, Alex wrote:Nice Records for best comfort.
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