Who's Recording Seventies Soft Rock Now?

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The Seventies Soft Rock thread brought back a lot of memories. But I was thinking, who's recording and releasing this style of music now? The question is not so much for my edification as much as it is to compile a list of albums I need to get. Here's my first suggestion:

The Autumn Defense -- Circles

Any others?

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

here in new york, there's such lesser-known but by no means lesser devotees of the style as:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f898/f89830ra4ma.jpg

and

http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/d/a/davenports2.jpg

(that second one is the davenports' album hi tech lowlife

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice! I like the cover art on the Bacino album.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a shitty band here in Chicago called Baby Teeth that dumb hipsters seem to like that sounds like that.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Not sure if she'd fit into the classification as easily, but the Feist album is kind of soft-rockish.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Aluminum Group?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Phoenix

― hector (hector), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha! I'll be sure to stay away from Baby Teeth. The style is fraught with peril and does not lend itself too well to ironic, 109 lb. hipsters.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

tons of bad indie bands. and that guy who had that album called 1972. Josh Rouse.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ron Sexsmith leans this way at times, too.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

The BEST '70s soft rock now is classified as "country music," usually. (As is much of the best '70s hard rock now, oddly enough.)

― chuck, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Pernice Brothers, at least on "Overcome by Happiness."

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

'Redneck Women' et al. = "The Best of 70's Soft Rock Today"?

Really?

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The Eagles coulda done it if Schmitt was singing.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Pernice Brothers, at least on "Overcome by Happiness."
-- Derek Krissoff (dkrissof...), August 6th, 2004

Oh yeah. Duh. I only own that and every other Pernice Brothers album there is.

Derek OTM.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Some songs by Maximilan Hecker (not the ones with fancy electronics, mind you) would definitely qualify. Search Infinite Love Songs.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Call and Response and Tahiti 80 come to mind.

― darin, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Athlete's Vehicles and Animals qualifies.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

The old Call and Response, Darin. The new stuff I don't think so. Then again, I dont even know about the old stuff.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

not soft rock, but the new Azita record is pure Steely Dan piano drama.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought this thread was going to be about Daltrey and Townshend making an album of Bread covers

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

My brother loves Baby Teeth! I liked 'em too (they opened up for Fiery Furnaces) but not as much as Mark.

Azita, check. Aluminum Group, check. Phoenix, check. Love 'em all.

Phoenix is who I thought of first, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(Although I'm not sure that Aluminum Group is really soft-rock anymore, if they ever were. Maybe on the O'Rourke-produced album, Pedals. But I think they're too electro now.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a band called Koufax that sounds like an indie version of Billy Joel

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and what about the Sea & Cake?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Sea & Cake not so much.

To paraphrase Justice Stevens (is that right?), Seventies-style soft rock is like obscenity: You know it when you hear it.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 6 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Jim Stärk, Euroboys

― F8, Friday, 6 August 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Mountain Goats

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 6 August 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

fleetwood mac

― Bumfluff, Friday, 6 August 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Comets On Fire

― vinnie bobereeno (vinnie bobereeno), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

bart davenport

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 7 August 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Sloan, to an extent, Kyle Vincent...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 8 August 2004 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link

F8, has Jim Stärk done much good stuff? I really like one track off the Morning Songs EP - it is VERY 70s indeed.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 8 August 2004 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link

high llamas

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 August 2004 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

bart davenport
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, August 7, 2004

this guy -- who i've never heard of before tonight -- has a new disc out. sounds kind of intriguing.

he's performing at the 2011 noise pop festival. maybe i'm wrong but a lot of the acts on this bill don't strike me as especially . . . noisy?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uipvovf1GNE

― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link

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