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The core of Sydney outfit Rand and Holland is Brett Thompson (a fellow Sydney Swans tragic, it should be noted!) and Stu Olsen who combine their experimental and noise backgrounds with a more focused pop framework to come up with top tunes that veer regularly into more esoteric, drone-heavy moodiness. Their last album Caravans, in particular sequenced this juxtaposition to maximum effect with an opening track that had them at their poppiest best and ending on the ghostly, haunting Beanstalk. An album by the way, that has been one of my favourite Australian releases of the last couple of years - it never fails to warm the heart and engage the senses when I need it to.
Anyway it is this opening track from Caravans, 'The Light' that is the song featured in this first video. One of my favourites and you can see why - its simple melody and sweet sentiment gets you tapping all the way, and I really like the live interpretation of the song, as it replaces the trumpets in the recording with the slide guitar that is stunning. It was recorded at a warehouse show (Workhop Showroom in St Peters which is usually an artist space that had this one-off show) on the 27th of July. The other bands on the night were the always beautiful Seaworthy and the charming Desks.
The second track is 'It's Alright', also from the Caravans album. A totally rockin affair, which the band themselves look like they're having a great time playing also, and obviously not even the absence of a live drummer is going to prevent from pounding on those cymbals.
More Rand and Holland can be found here myspace.com/randandholland.
As I'm still trialling the Dailymotion website for hosting of videos (because you can get bigger sizes!), you can also still watch the clips via youtube.com/trafficsounds and I'd love to find get some feedback on which is better looking and sounding and overall thoughts on dailymotion vs youtube.
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