Dec 14, 2012, 9:44am
SGTMT
Tweet Another year down. Another year of this love affair with music, almost ready to be packed up and filed in the archive. We swear they're going quicker. Is it just us? Somebody slow the world down! As the nights draw in and with Christmas fast approaching, Team SGTMT like to take the opportunity to huddle together in the SGTMT Listening Room and rifle through the year's albums we've left piled around the stereo. We argue over which ones we liked most, get [...]
Dec 13, 2012, 5:18pm SGTMT
Tweet Yesterday there was a bit of a mix-up. In another classic SGTMT lack-of-a-research-department- episode our favourite video of the year turned out to be from 2011 . *Sigh*. A researcher recruitment drive is underway and applicants for the role in as our research department are currently being put through their paces. If they can cook, tidy and clean SGTMT Headquarters and have their own access to Wikipedia they're basically in. Still, the mix-up was a stroke of luck as it happens, [...]
Dec 13, 2012, 7:57am SGTMT
Tweet Frightened Rabbit Frightened Rabbit are why we love music. Frightened Rabbit are why we love Scotland. So music and Scotland, be thankful for Frightened Rabbit otherwise we wouldn't like you. FR are now soaring above and beyond the UK indie scene as this clever New York shot music video shows. MTV eat your heart out (does MTV still exist?). As soon as your music videos no longer look like they were recorded by your little brother [...]
Dec 12, 2012, 2:36pm SGTMT
Tweet 2012 is drawing to a close and End Of Year lists are coming thick and fast. We're sure we'll do one of those (we love lists) but here's an award we'll simply hand straight out without the need for a list; our favourite video of the year, absolutely owned by Of Monsters And Men 's Little Talks triumph: That's a great tune, too, fantastic brass work guys. We can't get enough of it. Of Monsters And [...]
Dec 10, 2012, 5:38pm SGTMT
Tweet I want to introduce you to a simple equation, don't worry if you despise mathematics, I readily concur. This equation is one in the face to Trigothagrus. Everything Everything + Com Truise = Electronic Genius Soup. This remix is basically what would happen if you took Beverley Hills Cop and turned it into an Electronica beat classic. Seriously, close your eyes and you'll soon be haphazardly two and a half stepping with Eddie Murphy. It's messy, [...]
Dec 8, 2012, 3:57pm SGTMT
Tweet #thebeastfromtheeast. Yep, it's coming. You know a weather system is the real deal when it gets it's own hashtag. At SGTMT HQ we're preparing in the appropriate fashion; Tom's wearing two Christmas jumpers (simultaneously), Tim's insulated his body by coating himself in a light layer of warmed lard and Luke is nowhere to be seen, we fear the storm got him... No matter how bad the weather, we'll keep the tunes spinning on our office jukebox and today we've got this [...]
Dec 6, 2012, 3:23pm SGTMT
Tweet I used to play drums. I didn't get good quick so I quit. Yep, a heartwarming and motivational tale of the fruits of perseverance this is not. However, my brief soiree into the sweaty, grunt ridden, intellectually challenged, metronomic world of the drum stool has left me with a lasting appreciation of a nicely arranged beat. This tune from Lazyeyes begins with exactly that, an inventive rippling beat. Like. Work it together with soaring guitars and record it in what sounds [...]
Dec 5, 2012, 4:48pm SGTMT
Tweet Which night was Banger Night at SGTMT again? It's Wednesdays now, starting this week. How To Dress Well 's & It Was U began life as a slow soulful 4/4 breaks number on his Total Loss LP released in September, and previously as a single come to think of it. Here, once label mate Doss has had his mits on it, it's an anthemic hands-in-the-air drum n bass tinged bass monster. We freaking love it: [...]
Dec 5, 2012, 8:14am SGTMT
Tweet If I get another email from a 'Dream-Pop' band I will myself go Pop. My wrath can be contained only a little longer. Why has this become the default genre of choice for aspiring musicians? What does Dream Pop even mean? Why do the vast majority of Dream Pop exponents sound so soul suckingly sad? And not sad in a 'nice melancholic, close your eyes and dream of ponies' sort of way, they sound sad in a 'dull as a decomposed corpse [...]
Dec 3, 2012, 6:35am SGTMT
Tweet Every January the beeb publishes their BBC Sound Of (insert year) list. The fact that they don't ask our help in compiling this list isn't a problem, it's really not. I mean, we are the world's most respected authority of new music criticism AND we are, like, the best and all but, we don't take it personally that they didn't ask us (chumps). To sorta complement the BBC's list (but not in a 'why didn't you ask us?' way, seriously we're OVER [...]
Nov 30, 2012, 5:57pm SGTMT
Tweet Tom Odell. He's from Chichester and has that blonde floppy haired thing going on ala Chesney Hawkes. Don't hold it against him. Actually do, why would anyone model themselves on Chesney? There is only one Chesney after all. I petition you all to go to Tom's gigs and chant relentlessly for 'The One and Only', then when he caves in and attempts the cover then, at that moment and none sooner, turn about on your heels and leave. Maybe heckle 'you'd have never got the [...]
Nov 29, 2012, 4:01pm SGTMT
Tweet The New Division are influenced (by their own admission) by Depeche Mode, New Order and Joy Division. Hence the name, though personally I'd have plugged for Order Joy Mode. Oh well. They are based in LA, Yankland and were founded in 2005. That's, like, super old in the 'hip new band' stakes, they barely classify but presently everyone (by everyone I mean a few excited spotty, pre-adult Pitchfork wannabees) is getting all Tomorrow's World about them. I could [...]
Nov 28, 2012, 3:04pm SGTMT
Tweet Benjamin Francis Leftwich bears a passing resemblance to a Gnome. The picture above doesn't quite do the comparison justice, but trust me, I've seen him live and with his well-worn beanie in place he's a spit for Big Ears from the Noddy cartoons. Granted he lacks the white beard and red pointy hat synonymous with Gnomes the world over, but let's not spoil our tale. I find it quite easy to imagine that at night all [...]
Nov 27, 2012, 3:32pm SGTMT
Tweet SGTMT are big fans of Tourist aka Brighton's Will Phillips . We *loved* his remix of Sharon Van Etten 's We Are Fine and his Placid Acid EP , and tonight he's let us have a freebie. A wonderful freebie. This is Your Girl : We love that irreverent lead melody, chopped vocals and 8-bit bass. It's like it's not bloody freezing and wet [...]
Nov 26, 2012, 12:40pm SGTMT
Tweet One of my favourite punk gigs of the last decade was The Bronxxx at tiny little venue in Birmingham. Why was it good? Simple, I was scared. Punk gigs should have the vague sense of threat. At no point did I think a member of the audience would harm me, as a rule audiences at punk gigs tend to be very well mannered and community minded. The sense of danger came from the band themselves. It's hard to say why, they just had an air of menace [...]
Nov 24, 2012, 7:34am SGTMT
Tweet Up until Teradactol Big Deal were pretty much your uniform dream pop band. An English lady and an American chap based in London and sounding like they're from Stockholm/Brooklyn. Their tunes weren't bad at all, actually they're the good side of alright. This is Chair from a year ago: Then, they discovered drums and everything changed. All of a sudden Big Deal put to the grave dream pop and re-birthed as a [...]
Nov 23, 2012, 10:14am SGTMT
Tweet School was not cool for me. I was bussed out to a strange place where we were forced to wear yellow and green. The school consisted of kids who lived in villages and were MAD AS FISH. Not all of them, but one guy ran over a squirrel with a lawnmower. He wasn't drunk, he was just bored. The curriculum was messed up too. One class taught you how to castrate sheep. Sheep. Castrated. Damn. That was my school. So whenever [...]
Nov 22, 2012, 9:33am SGTMT
Tweet There’s a unique magic about hearing great new music on the radio, isn’t there? Of course you can come to sites like this and find unknown gems (please keep doing that), but when you’re just going about your day with the radio on in the background and then something new and wonderful grabs your attention, it’s a special feeling. I can still remember where I was sitting when I first heard Bullet With Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins; my homework was instantly [...]
Nov 21, 2012, 8:43am SGTMT
Tweet ON AN ON are all about drama. Their previous release Ghosts was a slow burner, subtly masquerading as haunting but actually strangely uplifting. New release The Hunter turns the formula on it's head, the drama is all in the drive but it retains the perfectly pieced lyrics. Though, strangely, they seemed to have recruited a possessed robot to sing the vocals, seriously, it sounds like the lead singer has contracted a Trojan house virus [...]
Nov 19, 2012, 6:29pm SGTMT
Tweet Ten years ago, Interpol released their debut Turn On The Bright Lights LP, an album that hasn't left our stereos since, and that most agree they haven't yet bettered. To celebrate the anniversary the band are re-issuing it, fully re-mastered and with a huge amount of extra material thrown in. To say that this is a real treat is an understatement: Turn On The Bright Lights remains one of our favourite records. Now SGTMT was created [...]
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