In the past year I’ve started buying MOJO<\/i> on a regular basis. I used to read it, then got out of the habit, and then I’d pick up an issue here and there. But about a year ago, I began to pick it up regularly; if not every month, then certainly three out of four.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, it’s top-notch music coverage that puts Rolling Stone<\/i> to shame. On the other hand, it comes with a music CD. On the gripping hand, I enjoy reading it. In the past year, MOJO<\/i> has had the Beatles, The Who, and Nick Drake on the cover. Like this isn’t<\/i> going to appeal to me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
This month’s issue has the Beatles on the cover, with articles on The Beatles: Rock Band<\/i>, the remastered CDs, and the making of Abbey Road<\/i>. And the music CD is another in their series that covers the entirety of a Beatles album — Abbey Road Now!<\/i> it’s called.<\/p>\n
To be honest, I’ve been iffy on their previous Beatles cover CDs. But Abbey Road Now!<\/i> is a keeper, at least for me. The reason? The Leisure Society covers “Something.”<\/p>\n
I discovered the Leisure Society quite by accident at the end of March<\/a>. One of their songs, “The Last of the Melting Snow,” was up for an Ivor Novello Award<\/a>, though it lost to Elbow’s “One Day Like This<\/a>.” I had their their debut album, The Sleeper<\/i>, imported from the UK, and I’ve listened to it a fair few times in the past six months.<\/p>\n It’s just one of those albums. You hear it. You don’t want to forget it. It’s magic.<\/p>\n And now, with their cover of George Harrison’s “Something,” I have a new Leisure Society recording to listen to. There’s a ukulele. There are strings. There’s a trilling flute. There are sounds I can’t even begin<\/i> to identify. I don’t think I’d want to. It sounds fantastic<\/i>.<\/p>\n The little things. They make me happy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Also on the disc, Broken Records<\/a>, a band MOJO<\/i> called a “Scottish Arcade Fire” a few months ago, covers “Oh! Darling” as a dark, dirge-like thing. They do a very good job with it.<\/p>\n This month’s MOJO<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the past year I’ve started buying MOJO on a regular basis. I used to read it, then got out of the habit, and then I’d pick up an issue here and there. But about a year ago, I began to pick it up regularly; if not every month, then certainly three out of four.Continue reading “On Music Musings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[60,681,713,98],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-george-harrison","tag-leisure-society","tag-mojo","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}