The Unrecorded

So, it is with great pleasure that I kick off this new phase of boywithacoin with a new musical venture.
Despite having completed a degree in Music Industry Management, artist management is something that hasn't ever really crossed my mind. From experience, it seems that many artists, once they have begun playing live and really promoting themselves, seem set in their musical direction and their hierarchy with little willingness to change.

Artists are told to get a myspace, play as many shows as possible and that fame will eventually, probably come their way. Those pesky Sheffield based Monkeys are the modern proprietors of this not quite total-truth for example. It is vitally important to recognise that not only did Arctic Monkeys have a myspace and play a load of shows, they also had a collection of truly brilliant and innovative songs. As is the case with all seminal albums, they captured a moment in time and place in a record, encapsulating all that was relevant and reflecting their lives in crafty lyrics and new and invigorating sounds. It could easily be argued that since The Strokes genre-defining album "This Is It" way back in 2001 that truly launched the new wave of guitar based music, the market was waiting for another guitar band to grab hold of people's attention and continue to wrestle it forwards.


Now, I'm not trying to say that I have discovered the next Arctic Monkeys, nor am I saying that guitar music is about to be thrown on an entirely new trajectory. However, the art of writing a great song is again disappearing, the return of guitar music has meant the blossoming of bands with a punk DIY attitude but little appreciation on how to really write something that is interesting and challenging.

The Unrecorded display a range of influences on their debut album, Other People's Music.
Each song is carefully distilled, the varying instruments are carefully separated and introduced gradually to enhance the appreciation of the end product. The album's influences range from Bonobo to Portishead with a mix of theme based songs and slower, trip-hop numbers carried By Jess' unique voice.

Live, The Unrecorded are an almost entirely different venture, building samples up on keyboards and vocals with a dampened drum kit and a heavy bass rumbling underneath. A lot of the album tracks are reworked for their live performance due to the sample based nature of their album but this allows for new interpretations and an interesting revelation of how adept The Unrecorded are as musicians.


If you wish to hear more, you can download their album and ep, for free, from www.unrecorded.org and I hope you enjoy