https://www.obscuresound.com/2006/06/luke-haines/ Indie Music Reviews, New Tracks & Albums Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:38:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.obscuresound.com/2006/06/luke-haines/#comment-8490 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:38:06 +0000 http://obscuresound.com/?p=154#comment-8490 […] Personally, I find any project that Luke Haines is involved with to be very memorable. His new solo album, Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop was released this week and I was filled with excitement, as it is his first EP in over three years. Though he has released several compilations (including Das Capital, which are orchestral versions of his own songs) with various forms of content, Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop marks his second actual solo album (excluding Baader Meinhof, a separate solo project in 1996). Haines is known best as the frontman for the consistent The Auteurs, who released four outstanding albums during the 90s. The Auteurs are one of my favorite bands from the 90s, in stiff competition with Blur and Pulp. Haines’ work as Black Box Recorder (with Sarah Nixey and John Moore) produced some great songs as well, with Haines’ usually eerie but catchy melodies and Nixey’s light and enjoyably innocent vocals. Nixey and Moore actually got married in 2001 but divorced this year, leaving the band’s status inactive (and likely to stay that way). Regardless, Haines has been very active with shows, compilations, and solo albums. I posted about his first solo album, The Oliver Twist Manifesto, a few months ago (no, Haines doesn’t rap on the new album). Though Haines has dabbled in expressing his influences, from the glam of the Auteurs to Black Box Recorder’s form of trip-hop and synth-pop, his newest album uses a slice of everything. […]

]]> https://www.obscuresound.com/2006/06/luke-haines/#comment-465 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:42:46 +0000 http://obscuresound.com/?p=154#comment-465 Thanks for these tracks,I’m off now to buy this CD.

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