Fifteen Years Of Fortuna POP: Allo Darlin’s pick of the roster
As the Fortuna POP! label celebrates its 15th birthday, we're asking its artists to select their pick of the roster. Today, Elizabeth from Allo Darlin' selects her highlights...
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at 14.49pm on 10 November 11
There are a lot of songs I could have chosen as my favourite Fortuna Pop song. The most obvious, I suppose, would be 'T-Shirt Weather' by my Australian contemporaries The Lucksmiths.
I didn’t really know The Lucksmiths music back home – they didn’t get played on the radio and I wasn’t smart enough then to know to dig a little deeper.
In retrospect it’s the things I would have found embarrassing about them then that I love now – Tali’s super broad accent, their willingness to make themselves vulnerable. They sound a bit like boys your mum would like – but that’s ok. Mums like Joni Mitchell too.
Other great bands like the Aislers Set and Sodastream (more Aussies) rate highly for me as well. But I guess those bands belong to a slightly different era to mine, so perhaps they’re not appropriate.
Last night, while watching Darren Hayman play an out of tune piano to a crowd of fifty Londoners, I realised 'Winter Makes You Want Me More' was my favourite.
04 Winter Makes You Want Me More by Fortuna POP!
It’s from Darren’s Essex Arms record, the only record Sean has ever put forward for a Mercury Prize. (It costs 400 quid to do that, for the curious minds).
I suppose it’s indicative of Darren’s consistently high standard these days that I could have chosen any song from Essex Arms; an album I believe in time will rank as highly as Fidelity Wars or We Love the City, if not higher.
It’s a love song. It’s simple. It’s sung from the heart. It has pedal steel and a piano and choir of blokes. It describes a landscape and a world that I know so well these days. Most people will never have heard it, but that doesn’t matter. It makes me so happy to hear him sing it.
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