Sacred Paws - Run Around The SunSacred Paws have a natural inclination not to take things too seriously. You can hear it all the way through a conversation with it's two members, guitarist Rachel Aggs and drummer Eilidh Rodgers, punctuated by rolls of giggles and thoughtful pauses, and you can hear it in the light touch they bring to their music, a jangly blend of indie pop full of fizzing world rhythms and bright horns. Run Around the Sun brims with upbeat reflections on growing up

Recorded in Miami and produced by the legendary Arif Mardin

but at least he's a farmer

and this had to be clarified in writing

the prelude for strings opening Act 3

might trombones and string instruments have in common

fighting at the side of his father and brother

In this boxed set

to growing up in the East End of London

beauty with violence and disturbing art with lush harmonies

from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea

and not least the music itself with all it's allusions are in the oeuvre of the Fahrbachs just as much »history in music« as they are in the compositions by the Strauss family

What Joe plays is unbelievable