Photo of Baby & I while picnicing yesterday. Allo & allo everyone! It's the middle of june and well, as you can see from looking around the joint, something has changed. Something is....... amiss. Where do I begin? A wise man once said to me on the radio, "you got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run." But that turned out to be a stretched out piece of turkey jerky [...]
Photo of Saydi by me... Hello again & a happy friday to ya! For today's mixtape, we are going to do something a wee-bit different. Instead of bring you something new, I wanted to bring back something from last year. You see, in a few short tiny little days, my oldest bird is turning 18, a genuine, pasteurized, and certified adult. Nuts. I know it's a cliche to "awww, they grow up so fast!", but let me tell ya, my friends, they do. Seems like just yesterday she was that tiny little [...]
Justin Stivers has been super busy working on the Brain-Cave Festival (this Saturday @ Shea Stadium ), so Justin Gonzales of Pet Ghost Project sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? a: The first line of Facet Squared by Fugazi is always in my head. I love that album In On The Kill Taker . [...]
GT favs Magnetic Island have a new demo. This get us all excited for a new release maybe later this year?? If you want to hear this track live, come to Union Hall tomorrow night, but for now the mp3 below will just have to do. Listen. Downloadable: The Space (Demo) (mp3) Check out a recent improvised noise jam from Magnetic Island over @ magneticisland.bandcamp.com . You can also purchase their last EP, Out At Sea @ magneticisland.bandcamp.com [...]
Le he estado dando vueltas a cual sería el motivo para que Roni Size hubiera elegido a esta chica de Jackson, Teneesse, para volver a ponerse detrás de la mesa de mezclas tres años después de su último trabajo editado, pero no ha habido manera. Me quedo con que le habrá gustado lo folkie que es el "Painkillers" de Lauren Pritchard y que habrá decidido a darle un toque de drum & bass a un tema realmente soso ya de origen. Lauren debuta con este Ep, al que precedirá su primer álbum previsto para octubre de este [...]
Photography by Me ... Okay... before we begin, check this out, originally tumbled by drowse , of the dad from Everybody Hates Chris doing a collection of the most random Old Spice body wash commercials. They are back-to-back-to-etc-etc without a pause, giving them an even greater sense of randomness and WTFness! Awesomeness? Yes.... yes it is. Alright, the reason for the season, today's mixtape. This one's been brewing in my head ever since I first heard [...]
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Taken from her EP of the same name, London by-way-of Tennessee singer/songwriter/chanteuse Lauren Pritchard's "Painkillers" is full of honey-voiced witticisms, soft and sullen emoting and the beguiling nature and intricacies of her voice. The EP, which is really just a single backed with a B-side and two remixes of the title track (dig on the [...]
Drake - A Jew! I told you all at the beginning of the year that Drake was someone to watch … that he'd be blowing up, big time… that his star was rising. But I had no idea that an explosion fit for a Gaza relief flotilla was about to occur, despite Drake's bling of choice on the (above) recent Vibe cover. As a Jew myself, I can tell you this is fantastic and finally lends us all some street cred - other than possessing nukes that is. Kudos again to [...]
Often, as a music reviewer, I have the onerous task of trying to compare a band with other bands in order to give readers an idea of just what an album might sound like. If you like X then you will probably like Y. The problem with this is that sometimes what I hear as Radiohead you might hear as Muse so I hate making comparisons no matter how necessary it might be. Every now and then a band comes along and makes this job easier, they either sound like a clone of another popular band (in [...]
10 March, 2010 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Who: Glass Ghost , Jason Anthony Harris, Flotilla Where: Cake Shop Show Info: 21+, 8:00pm, $tba Listen: Glass Ghost - "Ending"
This is a new feature that will pop up on the weekends. It's a combination of (a) follow-ups on prior posts, (b) links to cool stuff I've recently found on other music blogs, (c) quick write-ups on submissions that have been sent my way lately, and (d) whatever-the-hell else I feel like rambling about. This week's edition is being typed while listening to Lambchop's Live At Merge XX , which - holy shit! - is awesome. - Just a couple days after I wrote about [...]
Montreal's Flotilla specializes in ethereal pop, mixing tinkling harp with chiming, reverb-y guitars and jazzy rhythms. Frontwoman Veronica Charnley sounds near-identical to St. Vincent 's Annie Clark, a similarity that's accentuated by choral harmonies and fairytale melodies. "Prélude and Epilogue" is a gorgeously dreamy offering from the group's second album, One Hundred Words for Water . Purring horns set a soothing backdrop for a laid back electric piano groove, although the rhythm occasionally slows down for a measure, meaning that you can't ever get too comfortable. The first half of [...]
Flotilla - One Hundred Words For Water (November 2, 2009) (Indie Pop/Classical/Chillout) Canada, as a music scene, is definitely doing something right; the sheer volume of incredible female vocalists coming out of there in recent years (particularly its major cities, Montreal and Quebec) might be quite shocking, but remains warmly welcomed by people such as myself. As you may have guessed, I'm [...]
Dec 20, 2009, 7:24am
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Well overdue but I'm finally back from the depths of studying to share a track by ' Flotilla ' from their recently released 'One Hundred Words For Water' album. Sounds like Deerhoof, Kings of Convenience, Joanna Newsom. This ones got an amazing harp solo accompanied by a delightfully subtle electronic bass melody. The perfect song for a calm cold Sunday. Flotilla - Clouds
Here is part four of my best of Canadian albums of 2009. Silver Starling - Silver Starling Saw them at Bands Undone and they were amazing. Best tracks are Something Over Nothing, Ghosts and This Is Not A Dream Outside Love - Pink Mountaintops Love the description of the album which says: " "Outside Love" is ten songs of love and hate that read [...]
It's always difficult getting back into the swing of blogging after a long vacation. Fortunately today's reentry into civilization was made a little easier after queuing up the new release One Hundred Words for Water by Montreal-based Flotilla. The...
Flotilla was the loveliest thing to arrive in my inbox last week, and they couldn't have come at a more perfect time. I spent Thanksgiving day listening to this album (didn't think Mom would be as into the Lupe mixtape), and was rewarded with a sense of calm, nostalgia and overall love. They remind me a little bit of a subdued Land of Talk (also from Montréal!), and the beginning of "Court and Sparks" sounds just like this Death Cab song I can't place. In reality they are doing [...]
Montreal's Flotilla sounds rich. Not rich in a mo-money-mo-problems way. But rich in the way people speak about Belgium Chocolates or leather armchairs or engineered hardwood flooring. This is a whole new level of sophistication. Wine-swirling, candle-lighting, cheese-eating sophistication. You might as well invite some architects, archeologists, artists, writers and Frasier Crane over for a soiree and use this as your playlist. I'm not saying that it's music for snobs. Far from it. It's definitely polished. It's also got distinctively pretty sound with elements of jazz, cabaret, folk, electronica and rock, held together with [...]
Unusual Canadian quartet mixes progrock, classical and more One spin of this Montreal band's second full-length made me belatedly realize that my infatuation with Stereolab and Portishead traces a straight line back to an earlier infatuation with Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, and many other '70s prog-rock giants. It's not that these bands share the same exact melodic, rhythmic or instrumental sensibilities, but they each temper rock elements with something progressive, such as jazz, classical, and world music. Flotilla augments their keyboards, electronics, bass, and drums, with ethereal, delicate touches of fingertip plucked [...]
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