165 - Trivium, Brandi Carlile, blanket and Efterklang
It\u2019s another eclectic (egg-leg-tic?) week on Riot Act with modern heavy metal, alt-country Americana, shoegaze-y alt-rock and a post-rock-pop album all getting a look in but Remfry\u2019s most excited to talk about the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical for some unfathomable reason, which leads Steve to recall a (slightly in-accurate) fact about Lord Webber and Timmy Mallet (it was Webber\u2019s wife who challenged him, not Simon Cowell). Still \u2026 Steve has never let the truth get in the way of him bringing up Bombalurina\u2019s classic Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini before and he\u2019s not about to start now (Patreons, expect a Classic Album on Bombalurina\u2019s seminal masterpiece Huggin\u2019 An\u2019a Kissin\u2019 imminently).\nWe also discuss the brief internet shitstorm that\u2019s surrounded Jacob Bannon\u2019s iconic Jane Doe artwork for the utterly sublime Converge album of the same name but rather than simply pretend we\u2019re experts in the field of copyright and trademark like seemingly every other twazzock on the internet, we\u2019ve consulted a real IP lawyer who actually knows what they\u2019re talking about. In a shocking turn of events, it turns out that most people commenting on said story don\u2019t have a clue what they\u2019re talking about. \nSpeaking of people on the internet who don't have a clue what they're talking about, Pitchfork have 're-appraised' some records they reviewed in the past ... except they haven't. They've simply got other people to appraise them who think different things to the people who initially appraised them, which feels like a colossal waste of everybody's time. \nAlbums reviewed this week are In the Court of the Dragon by Trivium (43:38) In These Silent Days by Brandi Carlile (1:27:55) Modern Escapism by blanket (1:40:48) and Windflowers by Efterklang (1:50:28) \n\n\nThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: \n\nChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy