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She’s definitely figured out that she sounds best when...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:21:00 +0000

She’s definitely figured out that she sounds best when she’s only partially preaching.

MIA - Bad Girls

The 2 Bears - Bear Hug

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:01:15 +0000

The 2 Bears - Bear Hug

Got really into this while listening to the new NPR - All Songs...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:12:54 +0000

Got really into this while listening to the new NPR - All Songs Considered. Love the upbeat sampling and rhythms. There’s some clever lyrical content, alongside some that makes me go ngnggggh.

iNDEED - Black Tears

RM Hubbert, Errors, and Django Django all released albums on...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:25:35 +0000

RM Hubbert, Errors, and Django Django all released albums on Monday. This makes Monday a good day.

RM Hubbert - Sunbeam Melts The Hour

Slow to the punch, but I’m finally there, and I think The...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Slow to the punch, but I’m finally there, and I think The War On Drug’s Slave Ambient has snuggled its way comfortably into my top 5 of last year (this is, of course, a completely arbitrary list, I couldn’t tell you what the other albums on it are). This album is complete. It’s well produced, intricate, and soulful. Granduciel’s slow bellow permeates the album and creates a very classic rock feel.

Imagine you stuffed Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and the occasional U2 riff into a bag. How good would that album be?

Slave Ambient is how good that album would be.

The War On Drugs - I Was There

So it turns out that Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and Nirvana...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:46 +0000

So it turns out that Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and Nirvana toured Europe together.

That’s a little bit insane.

Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene

Here’s a song from Kithkin’s debut EP. The band is...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:24:11 +0000

Here’s a song from Kithkin’s debut EP. The band is from Seattle, and sound like a more turned up, less math rock version of Maps & Atlases.

Kithkin - Ampersand

Levels of creepy mixed with a great song. Mitchmatic - Why...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:55:40 +0000

Levels of creepy mixed with a great song.

Mitchmatic - Why Don’t You Know

There’s only a couple of Django Django songs on Spotify,...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:07:31 +0000

There’s only a couple of Django Django songs on Spotify, but they’re probably on my most played to list of the past few months.

Default is their newest single, and now it has a video. Their album will be out January 30th on Because.

Also, this. I’m very excited about this. I could probably...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:15:12 +0000

Also, this. I’m very excited about this. I could probably also do some talking about some documentaries I have seen recently.

Shut Up And Play The Hits

Dear Tumblog what am I going to do with you? Being Head of...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:13:02 +0000

Dear Tumblog what am I going to do with you?

Being Head of Music for freshair.org.uk - even just for six months - was completely exhausting. I learned a lot about the music industry, but mainly I learned that forced listening to music means you don’t find things that you enjoy.

Have some Son Volt - probably the best folk/country band that I can think of at the moment.

Son Volt - Dynamite

It took me a while to finally kick myself into gear about...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:07:52 +0000

It took me a while to finally kick myself into gear about listening to Kurt Vile, after missing a series of concerts he was playing at festivals, but I finally have, and am now wondering why I didn’t earlier.

Jesus Fever was nominated by Pitchfork as a top song of 2011, for good reason. Mr. Vile’s croning layered over the intricate yet easy going guitar play is an absolute pleasure to listen to.

Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever

Here’s Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) covering...

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:44:13 +0000

Here’s Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) covering Caribou’s Odessa. It’s incredibly well done.

Was just linked to this album, and felt like I haven’t...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:35:56 +0000

Was just linked to this album, and felt like I haven’t done enough for this blog in a long long time.

Saw these guys two nights ago, they were phenomenal.

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:55:39 +0000

Saw these guys two nights ago, they were phenomenal.

Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:10:33 +0000

Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers

The trailer for the documentary about Phoenix.

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:55:00 +0100

The trailer for the documentary about Phoenix.

Here’s the first single from a Firefly themed mixtape. ...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:38:00 +0100

Here’s the first single from a Firefly themed mixtape.

Adam WarRock & Mikal kHill “Mal” - The Browncoat Mixtape

I didn’t actually really know about this band until in one...

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:32:16 +0100

I didn’t actually really know about this band until in one day a friend heartily recommended the new album and made me listen to a song off it, and I saw that The Skinny gave it a five star rating. That type of enthusiasm doesn’t come often, and I went ahead and checked them out.

Everyone I Know - Moth & The Mirror

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:37:00 +0100

Girls’ second full length album, and third release that I’ve listened to - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - is, as an album, a pop masterpiece.

It starts off with the remarkably upbeat “Honey Bunny”, the first song of the album that came with a video shortly after the album’s release, a song about love which quickly turns, well, awkward when suddenly the song slows down Christopher Owens seems to start talking about his mother.

It’s this kind of lyricism and song writing that have made Girls stand out to me. Owens’ Costelloesque writing style captured my attention on The Broken Dreams Club EP, and their acoustic-style songs backed up by ephemeral haze that can burst into a power chorus at any moment is something that isn’t missing from Father, Son, Holy Ghost.

Whilst The Broken Dreams Club EP did lend itself to more of that sonic experimentation, Father, Son, Holy Ghost sticks closer to what Album delivered - better defined, catchy, pop songs that seem incredibly familiar (Girls do this so well that the first time I listened to The Broken Dreams Club EP I was convinced the first song - “Thee Oh So Protective One” - was a Costello cover). Like any of the other Girls albums though, it did take a couple of spins before I was completely won over.

But what Girls do they do extremely well. A tendency to break up songs into segments that will have you anticipating that change in future listens is what makes listening to this album so worth-wile. A definite contender for album of the year.