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The White Album – Conquistador

October 6, 2012

The White Album are firm favourites of SGTMT. Partly because they have amazing beards but mostly because they’re purveyors of some of the finest progressive folk known to folk kind. Back last month we stated the following:

Their sound boasts the rare quality of being warmly intimate and affectionate and yet within a framework of cavernous, wintry melancholy; like hot chocolate round a forest campfire on a cold winters evening.

I’m proud of that quote. Every now and again the I ink the pen and words flow like crystallized drips of honey soaked genius onto the pages of SGTMT. Let’s talk more about me. Let’s spend some time reflecting on my superior blogmanship. Wait, what’s that you say? You’re hear to listen to the music and you don’t give a small selection of Tesco value assorted toffees for my inane self aggrandising drivel? Oh. Ok.

The White Album’s mini album (confused? Me too) is called Conquistador and is mightily fine. We’ve already introduced you to Counting Treasures but the pleasures don’t end there. Seventeen captures the optimistic teenage longings of future satisfaction. The short track Trenches is a sad, harmonic number; think the Beach Boys after a bottle of Absinth and an evening touring French war cemeteries.

The albums joys continue unabated from there. The gear doesn’t change, there is no ‘kick on’ or climactic moment but that really makes no difference. It’s splendid, just splendid. And thanks to the wonders of the new age of digital delights, you can enjoy a full streaming version of the album here:

Buy the Conquistador by The White Album on CD from Amazon or on MP3 from iTunes

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5 Comments

  1. Ephraim Zimbalist says:
    October 8, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    ” … and an evening touring French war cemeteries.” I laughed, as I always do, but then I reflected, and I played ‘Trecnhes’ to my other half after quoting the line and she said; “Yes, that’s exactly what it sounds like.” She is not a lightweight when it comes to musical analysis.

    Incidentally, you may feel like you’re shouting in a bucket, but I note that plays for the Coves’ tracks have shown a marked upturn. And I liked them, too.

    • Matt Simmonds says:
      October 8, 2012 at 9:30 pm

      Dearest Ephraim, one day we’ll meet and you’ll turn out to be a Billionaire Russian Oligarch and suddenly all this music blogging will be worth it.

      • Ephraim Zimbalist says:
        October 9, 2012 at 7:21 am

        боже мой! You haff sussed me out, as we say in Omsk. I will send round the stretch Zil later today, and whisk you away to my dacha in the Urals. Do not bother to pack, or to bid farewell to your weeping colleagues. Your life changes from this moment. Bring Marmite.

      • Rain says:
        October 9, 2012 at 11:52 am

        You’re on a good way with your own groupie.