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Roy Moller- My Week Beats Your Year (MC)

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Capital City 01:45
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Hello Lou 02:43
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Fault 01:36
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Reality 03:02
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Nico Is Here 01:30
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Captivity 03:11
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Perfect D 02:32
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Lou Hear Us 01:37
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Electrify Me 02:09
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For Downloads, please visit Roy Moller´s personal Bandcamp Page:
roymoller.bandcamp.com

Written, played, sung and recorded by Roy Møller at Singalong Junk, 2013-2014.


My Week Beats Your Year blends meditations on Lou Reed’s life and music and Roy’s hometown of Edinburgh. Mainly recorded over Christmas 2013 shortly after Reed’s passing, , the album takes its cue from Reed & John Cale’s Songs for Drella, a eulogy for Andy Warhol.

On a spring Sunday evening, in 1979, David Bowie guested as a DJ on Radio One. On the show he played Sweet Jane by the Velvet Underground.
A 15-year-old Roy Moller’s universe was forever changed.

My Week Beats Your Year celebrates this and the way the music of Lou and the Velvets soundtracked Roy’s formative years in Leith and Edinburgh.

The gritty "Don’t Understand" and the terse "Captivity" are direct and engaging New York rockers. "Capital City" relocates Songs For Drella’s Small Town, to Edinburgh, while "Names Out The Hat" recalls Moller’s period as a Christmas postman listening to the Velvet Underground while he delivered the early morning mail.

The ruminative, jazz-inflected "Reality" takes its cue from Roy witnessing the historic pair of Velvet Underground reunion concerts at the Playhouse, Edinburgh, just a mile from the house where he grew up and heard the Velvets for the first time.

"Under The Radar" takes a bittersweet look at Moller’s underground years as an unknown performer while "Your Week Beats My Year" delivers a forthright glimpse into its narrator’s adolescent awkwardness.

Much more than a treatise on fandom or the career of a rock star, My Week Beats Your Year is shot through with warm humour and a frank exploration of its creator’s personal history.

Roy Moller has released seven solo albums and been described by BBC 6Music as “Scotland’s best-kept secret.” His many collaborations include the Fire Engines’ Davy Henderson (in Jesus!
Baby) and Goodbye Mr Mackenzie’s Martin Metcalfe (with The Vibrating Ecstatic Now).

He also collaborated on numerous occasions with Belle & Sebastian guitarist Stevie Jackson

My Week Beats Your Year was originally released in 2014 on Edinburgh-based label Stereogram.. (Digital only).


My Week Beats Your Year’ is a vital, important work that keeps alight the flickering flame of Reed’s intelligent vision. Profoundly moving and inspirational. 10/10 Gus Ironside, Louder Than War, March 2015.

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released January 1, 2022

Videos:

Hello Lou:
youtu.be/20Rev238qAU

Don´t undertstand:
youtu.be/R-VlwJcraCg

Captivity:
youtu.be/b6J5aGzZtBU

Reality:
youtu.be/1k5Gn_Nyphk

Your Week beats my Year:
youtu.be/IjxwA_-ROGo

Capital City:
youtu.be/0RVQKV3McFc

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