Pale - Two Wrongs There's so much going on in this song and it's delivered so well in the vocals and lyrics that you can't help but visualise it. To open a song with such an incredibly well built intro and then the line " Sit round till something get's started " is gold for me. In fact in that first line or 2 Pale lay out the entire song. Getting lost, [...]
Evening all. Thanks to Maddie for getting this Latitude-shaped ball rolling. The regular reader will know that Latitude Festival is where some of the earliest conversations about this blog happened (years before APFOS ever came to be). It's where I saw some truly seminal performances form the likes of The National , Andrew bird , Arcade Fire , Sigur Ros , Jarvis Cocker , Thom Yorke, Wild Beasts, Bat For Lashes and countless others. It's where I first heard the lyric " A pocket full of seeds ", [...]
It has been more than 10 months since I last sat and wrote a straight up blog post here. In that time plenty has happened. Certainly enough to make me thing that this blog was something for me to run but not power. As ever girlfriends have come and gone, cities have surrounded and departed, I even got a job. I want to put this all down in one master blog post but I fear that shall never happen. Hella [...]
Na última vez que os Irmãos Coen miraram em um tema de forte tom musical, em E Aí, Irmão, Cadê você?, o cd da trilha sonora original do filme venceu um Grammy de Álbum do Ano. Então, em uma empreitada que busca homenagear a fértil cena folk de Nova York nos anos 60 como Inside Llewyn Davis , Joel e Ethan tem sobre seus ombros a responsabilidade de trazer mais um grande pacote musical para os fãs. A construção dessa coletânea já começou bem, e Justin Timberlake , ator no filme, também [...]
El hombre que desencadenó una de las revoluciones culturales más importantes del siglo XX - el movimiento psicodélico-, no imaginó las consecuencias que ocasionaría un descubrimiento accidental al que llegó como químico mientras trabajaba con el cornezuelo del centeno, buscando una sustancia que actuara activamente sobre la matriz de las mujeres. El nombre de ese químico es Albert Hofmann , su descubrimiento, el LSD . En El Dios de los ácidos, conversaciones con Albert Hofmann , Antonio Gnoli y Franco Volpi se encuentran con un Hoffmann [...]
Marcus Haughton (Far Left) Theme Park vocals and guitar man Marcus Haughton takes the Best Fit Q&A and tells us about his nightmares of giant spiders, why he'd like to be able to hover and who he'd most like to apologies to. 1. Who would play you in the movie of your life? Sean Bean! 2. What would your superpower be and why? [...]
It is with great delight we and 48 other UK music blogs present to you the Blog Sound of 2013 Poll as organised by Robin and Andy from Breaking More Waves and The Von Pip Musical Express respectively. This poll was designed as a complimentary alternative to the BBC's Sound Of Poll, Robin and Andy set out in 2011 to ask the UK music blogosphere for their top 5 emerging artists. This is what they came up with . It's cool to see acts like Alt-J, Daughter and Lucy Rose on [...]
Tony Levin , Pat Mastelotto , Marcus Reuter presentano dal vivo un progetto nato nel 2008; Stick Men saranno in concerto a Chieti il prossimo 24 novembre presso il Teatro Auditorium Supercinema per una data organizzata dall’Associazione Culturale Radici Musicali . Il repertorio è vastissimo e spazia dalla Firebird Suite di Stravinsky fino a Red e Lark’s Tongues in Aspic dei King Crimson, per concludere con brani del loro repertorio originale e improvvisazioni. Gli Stick Men nascono appunto nel 2008, [...]
Here's a short bit of ambient/field recording music by sonic explorer Marcus Fischer. Starting in 2009, he endeavoured to complete one creative project every day. I can respect that sort of dedication. As you can deduce, this is his work from 31st May 2010. What you couldn't deduce is that 100531m is the sound of windchimes and distant conversation, all processed with a profound sense of space. Find this and more like it on his website, dust breeding . Marcus Fischer - 100531m [...]
Behold the closing installment of the Green Man Festival 2012, courtesy of Festival Editor: Kathleen. After watching a little bit of Will and the People in Chai Wallahs, on Sunday afternoon we pack into Far Out with the rest of the youth of Green Man to see Alt-J . Since we saw them at Latitude, they’ve gathered even more critical acclaim as Mercury Prize favourites, and their enormous turnout is down to this and perhaps the dubstep rhythms that set their brand of folk off against the [...]
The second installment of our time at Green Man Festival. Withered Hand , Linton Kwessi Johnson , Van Morrison , Yann Tierson, Tallest Man On Earth , Metronomy. Breakfast is a delicious apricot and almond slice from a Devonian tea-tent near to Far Out, where we’re going to see Withered Hand . The tent is becoming a bog by this point, and the Edinburgh band’s small and devoted following stand atop a small island in front [...]
Our resident festival guru, Kathleen has her take on Green Man this year (with the odd interpolation from Marcus) Green Man marked my first visit to Wales since I was about seven, and even back then we sped past the bilingual signs to go straight to Swansea, in order to catch the ferry to Cork in Ireland. Wales lived up to its rainy reputation on this particular weekend, but the odd burst of sunshine, good food and a tempting line up made it worth the schlep. Day 1 after the jump [...]
Latitude is a special festival for me. Since first going in 2007 I've seen some of my favourite acts play some of the most memorable live sets I have ever seen, (Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, The National etc.) . In 2009 I had a day ticket for the Sunday having returned from 6 months away on the Saturday. It was here that I managed to catch the last of Slow Club 's set and it was almost exactly then that this blog was born. Now 3 years later the blog is where it is [...]
Magic Man came to me from a mixtape put together by the fantastically talented Matt Keightley from IntoTheNorthSea . The timing was such that I stuck the album on my phone for future listening alongside a few gb of comfort zone track. Maybe a month later it has percolated through my bright green headphones and it's on repeat. Since we last spoke I have left Exeter and settled into a new routine of commutes, office space and commutes. Of [...]
For anyone is here because of this: http://blog.shuffler.fm/post/2 3667704512/check-out-the-blog- of-the-day-a-pocket-full-of This track is for you. marcus
A couple of things have made me smile today. Cycling to give my girlfriend a Gus The Fox badge before her train leaves and sitting in this strange departure lounge style new addition to our university campus watching a girl enjoy a particularly animated hands free phone call are just 2. The third is the discover of GoldFlakePaint , a Bristol based music blog/zine. A welcome FB post from Sparrow And the Workshop about a compilation containing some unreleased stuff of theirs led me to what [...]
Wading through the traffic of people and sidestepping the taxi cabs, not thinking about anything apart from not being late and how in 40 minutes things will have changed. Changed for good. Hours have been spent over the last few days researching, choosing outfits, double checking train times now feels as distant a past as the years spent doing things you loved and wanted to find an audience for. The glorified past and the frenziedly over-thought future makes the present unbearable. 17 minutes to kill when you have nothing left to do is far worse than 30 [...]
About 4 weeks ago I wrote a piece for this blog which I was genuinely proud of. Every so often the songs that feature on this blog conjure up some strong images and ideas for me and my favourite part of blogging is when these ideas translate into writing which, even if only for me, opens up another door into the same room as the song. The song was the latest single by Monument Valley , Your Cover Blown , and a few days a go i got a chance to meet the man AKA Ned [...]
A Pocket Full Of Seeds // Latitude Festival 2012. from APocketFullOfSeeds on 8tracks . And so, as promised, with the start of a new week, we have the first in a lot of pretty cool features coming your way via A Pocket Full Of Seeds. Aged 17, as pictured above, I bought my first weekend festival ticket to Latitude Festival 2007, and it was one of the [...]
Yeah we have been more than a little quiet on here this week, but rather huge things are coming you way as of tomorrow. Coming up we have are hosting the Official Latitude 2012 mixtape for the UK festival goers who know where they should be spending their festival sterling this Summer. We also have an exclusive blog post coming your way written by Belleruche who are currently sitting on our favourite album of the year so far. As well as that we are promoting a gig in Exeter which is being headlined by JUNO award winners [...]
A Pocket Full Of Seeds
Rock 'n' Beats
noiselab
The Line Of Best Fit
Indie-eye // re-censore (k.o.c.)
Doklands
Boards of Canada
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Washed Out - Paracosm (Official Album Trailer)
Julia Holter - World (Official Video)
She & Him- I Could've Been Your Girl
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
Daft Punk: When anonymity goes wrong
Maribou State feat. Holly Walker - Tongue (Official Video)
Ears Wide Open: Ocha la Rocha
