New Tess Wiley

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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you probably already know who Tess Wiley is. She's a mid-90s indie rocker turned singer-songwriter who, after being in a number of bands in the 90s (Phantasmic, Sixpence None the Richer, etc), started releasing strong, pop-oriented solo efforts. 2004's Not Quite Me is currently not available in the states, but if you're in Europe you can probably still get your hands on it. It looks like we'll see a new album from Tess this year. The new album is called Super Fast Rock'n'Roll Played Slow and is expected to be out this April on Tapete Records.

Three songs from the new album are currently available to download (and a few other songs have been "leaked" legally through various promotions): "Halfway Thru", "Messed Up Everywhere Blues", "Raise Your Hand". Also, you can see the cover art over at Turn Off the Radio, and you can see the full tracklist on this German page.


So far, it looks like this will be good but not as good as Not Quite Me, which was really quite excellent for the amount of recognition it received. Seriously, if we could re-write our best of 2004 list, it'd be right behind Funeral. This is the part where we tell you to buy Tess's music, but since Not Quite Me isn't on Amazon and we can't vouch for Rainy Day Assembly, we'll just have to tell you where to buy Super Fast Rock 'N' Roll Played Slow when it becomes available. If you want to buy me a copy of Rainy Day Assembly though, the link's to the right.

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(Old) Arcade Fire

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Yeah, I know, everybody's talking about The Arcade Fire right now. We have something, however, that the other sites don't: a few early tracks only available through The Internet Archive. Some digging we did while we were not posting anything here turned up this link, which was listed on an older version of The Arcade Fire's website to promote their self-titled EP in 2003. Three tracks are available - one from the EP (Woodlands National Anthem), one interview clip, and an early version of Funeral's "In the Backseat". Enjoy! That ought to be enough to tide you over until Neon Bible comes out during the first week of March, or at least until the Arcade Fire appears on Saturday Night Live this weekend. We know you're too good to listen to the leaked version illegally, right?


...and for you cave dwellers who haven't bought Funeral yet...

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Internet archive

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Although the site remains in disarray, I was happy to find that most (if not all) of our articles are still available online. You can view a cached older version of our reviews page (with links to most of the other pages) here. I'd like to thank Archive.org again for all of the wonderful things they do. If we were able to get anyone writing regularly here, we'd be raving on and on about their Live Music Archive, their "Wayback Machine", and their many other amazing features.

Poke around a bit there. Feel free to let people know that articles, interviews, reviews and such that used to be at Unfound Bloom can now be found there.

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