Usually the most rewarding installments of the crabby-boomer music industry newsletter the Lefsetz Letter are the ones that list proprietor Bob Lefsetz devotes to reader mail; yesterday he sent out a really, really long edition of his mailbag, and reading it all the way through was pretty rewarding if only because of the missive from the producer James Sanger, who produced and co-wrote Siobhan Donaghy’s incredible album Ghosts. (The Inland Empire-inspired video for Donaghy’s “So You Say” is above.) Sanger’s e-mail was quite informative, if only because I learned that artists who put out albums that I like aren’t as immune from UK label dumbassery as I thought they might be:
Siobhan Donaghy’s Ghosts–which has been out on the other side of the Atlantic for a few months, but not available here because the record industry is apparently only interested in my dollars when they come via Amazon’s UK site–is making a serious run for my best-of-’07 list; it’s 12 tracks of the… More »
Welcome to another edition of “Please Release Me,” in which your Idolators request–nay beg–that an out-of-print, delayed or held-up-in-customs album be issued Stateside: Artist: Siobhan DonaghyHometown: United KingdomAlbums: Ghosts, out June 2007What is it?: The second solo album from this… More »
It’s not every day we hear a pop song that ends with the narrator shoeless and in an overseas prison, but that’s how “12 Bar Acid Blues,” the latest single from former Sugababe Siobhan Donaghy, closes; along the way, she picks an unseasonably cold destination, gets food poisoning, loses her money,… More »
