What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

I’ve been listening to the radio more than anything else over the past little while, getting things organised – remind me never to move house again! Boxes are the bane of my life. Poor cat is traumatised by being confined to barracks and went on a hunger strike for days. Very stressful. Anyway - heard a song today that made me look up this local band – Watershed - I have one or two of their CD’s. No pretensions, just plain uncomplicated unapologetic rock. Quite satisfyingly unassuming - they have a formula and plenty of experience and there are probably loads of bands out there with a similar sound but the lead singer has a nice tone to his voice and knows his way around a key change or two, and their songs have a certain stickability IMHO. I hadn’t realised they’d released a new album this year. As a 'sounds like' - Craig Hinds (lead) sometimes reminds me of Colin Meloy of the Decemberists. 

This is what they say about the album cover - “We are puppets being controlled and guided through life in such a way that we don’t even realise it. Something feels wrong but we don’t know how to change it. The elephant is in the room but no one is talking about it...”

The song I heard earlier …. “The River Song” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLNWG78DRU

The title track from Elephant in the Room … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-uV4-mciM

And the sort of reggae informed “Love Song” …