MP3: The Last Dinosaur - The First, Last Dinosaur Song (Near Cambridge, Unsigned 4:03 mins, 160 kbps, 4.7MB) "No computers were used in the making of this music! Multitrack recorders are our friends!" "We want to release beautiful recordings with beautiful artwork for the people who recognise honesty and just love music." the dinosaurs told NBGL. A droning and jazzy march towards the dusk, thousands of people stomping, and receiving a hearty round of applause [...]
Flick : 23:10 : What Radiohead songs did people listen to last week while they waited? Here is the top 10 tracks according to Last.fm : 1. Karma Police 2. Paranoid Android 3. Creep 4. No Surprises 5. Airbag 6. Let Down 7. Fake Plastic Trees 8. Idioteque 9. Everything In Its Right Place 10. Exit Music (for a Film) Flick : 22:34 : Radiohead fans are posting frantically at Last.fm . The general consensus is: "How can we speed up time?" [...]
But a day late. Another regular "Monday" feature now. It's the second "Monday" of the month, which it's time for a Great British Tune-Up and a releases round up. ********** The Great British Tune : What the music blogs across the world are saying about British music. We get the low down on Bloc Party's Flux @ Nialler 9 . Los Campesinos are discussed at Music For Kids... "This song showcases all the eccentric qualities of the band.. their size allows them to create a huge wall [...]
MP3: Napoleon IIIrd - This Is My Call To Arms (Wakefield, BrainLove Records, 3:07 mins, 192 kbps, 4.3MB) "Brace for disaster" ... "Don't live your life through the T.V" Experimental pop music and grand instrumentalism from one man and his reel to reel tape player. Its analogue flourishes and bouncing brings to mind the Flaming Lips with a melodic twitch, and a quest to find a brand new colour among way too much greyness. But this isn't nearly as mystical as the Lips, [...]
MP3: Economy Wolf - Awards and Medals Awards and Medals is very pushy. And it's a rock and roll song from one of my favourite new bands who caught my attention with "It's all behind you" and then got even better with "Theme for Yellow Kudra", released in June, in the middle of what would turn out to be a very wet Summer. Versatility is a word used when bands slide down the dangerous and slippery generic slopes with ease, and in complete control: they [...]
Nothing But Green Lights continues to expand, and in the regular Monday night feature you can enjoy and perhaps revisit the hits of September. In October you can expect much more new music. ********** MP3: Jonquil - Lions Back then I said "Grandiose in a run down country house kind of way ... like folk music recovering from the revolution". You said "Go and see them live" ... "Amazing track". Now I say: It hasn't lost any of [...]
MP3: Cats in Paris - Terrapins ( Manchester, Unsigned, 3:34 mins, 128 kbps, 3.3MB ) Cats In Paris excite me. ' Terrapins ' is an instant and infinite mystery to unravel. The cats have a satisfying vagueness, a simplicity and they are enthralling. Footnotes would useful. It seems to stumble around and randomness builds, consistently, but the foundations remain solid, balanced, and effective. It is a simple construction viewed from afar, through the trees of the deep forest. But get closer to the city and it's possible [...]
Nancy Elizabeth - Hey Son A folk song that cares, caresses and stumbles to reach you as you fall. Cold, and surrounded by fallen leaves, Nancy Elizabeth emerges with a misty 300 yard stare, warbling. And it starts to rain; the folk-tinged drizzle gradually becoming a post rock downfall. Nancy is touring in November and her album came out this week on The Leaf Label .
OK so here's the plan. New music is good and all, and it will continue with 2-3 news bands a week, but in addition: 1st Monday of the month : A recap of the best music featured here in the previous month. 2nd Monday : The Great British Tune Up (British music on other blogs) and a round-up of all the best releases from British artists. 3rd Monday : The Hotness Chart . A rather arbitrary chart-attack that might just indicate where the buzz is at, and what exciting things new [...]
MP3: Emma Pollock - Acid Test A rare outing for self-consciously populist indie music on Nothing But Green Lights . Emma Pollock is first of the ex- Delgados blocks releasing solo material before the rest have a chance to summon up the strength. This isn't the lost, and ropey lamenting that I unwisely anticipated, but a focused, eyes wide open and then tightly closed kind of inner confidence. There is little hidden in the depths of Acid Test , but it still sounds like an [...]
MP3: Jonquil - Lions Grandiose in a run down country house kind of way. Perhaps a lament to the old hedges carved to take the form of a pride of lions, but now, sadly but a shadow of their former sense. A metaphor that strikes me so much more the when Aslan died in The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. I never really got that. Jonquil are, despite above literating, a band from Oxford who released an album way back last year. They sound distant, the accordian is [...]
MP3: Misophone - The Sea has Spoken They've recorded hundreds of songs. A label from Sweden is due to release to the public one of their ten albums of material in November. The Sea Has Spoken a capital E "Epic" of Eastern-European styled folk. A real tale, more than observations of bad poets lost, blind, feeling their way around in urban jungles. It quivers, and forces me to turn the pages quickly. But nothing is given away until the story tells it, the moment that you start to hear and [...]
MP3: Misophone - The Sea has Spoken They've recorded hundreds of songs. A label from Sweden is due to release to the public one of their ten albums of material in November. The Sea Has Spoken a capital E "Epic" of Eastern-European styled folk. A real tale, more than observations of bad poets lost, blind, feeling their way around in urban jungles. It quivers, and forces me to turn the pages quickly. But nothing is given away until the story tells it, the moment that you start to hear and [...]
Great writing about British music showcased across a variety of mp3 blogs much like this one. They don't solely write about British music like I do, but they do do it very well. *********** Music For Robots: Dirty Alice : ...A lot of life is just in between shit - just chilling at work, or sitting at home on your couch or driving to places. This is a song for those times... strings soothe and guitars crash all while a bass bubbles up underneath... [ more + [...]
MP3: Puzzle - Weekend I bet Puzzle have a lot of friends. I imagine they sit having fun with their friends, then get up and play some fantastic indie-pop songs and then continue and making new friends. I am told this is but a minutiae of their potential, with properly recorded material still to come but this live recorded track has ticks in all the right boxes, and influences tucked away in all the good places "Belle and Sebastian, Animal Collective, Sleater kinney". More to come... [...]
This will forthwith be a best of the month feature. But today I present the best music of one of the wettest Summers on record here in the UK. Click the dates to read the original post and to download or stream the music . You may notice a lot of music from the last few weeks - I've been trying hard to up the quality of the music, of the writing, and to post every couple of days, which I hope is paying off in the amount of music you enjoy from NBGL. [...]
MP3: Genod Droog - Breuddwyd Oer (feat. Gwyneth Glyn) Can you for a moment imagine cowboy-era John Wayne riding the long road home on an old, gnarled, but dependable rainbow unicorn? Genod Droog debut welsh-language music on Nothing But Green Lights today. It brings with it a fanfare, lush whispered vocals washing down a river of electronic rapids and churned up Massive-Attack like whitewater. Genod Droog maintain the Spaghetti Westerns spirit by being pioneers in a field that has hardly been explored, leaving the safety and comfort of conventionalism [...]
MP3: Genod Droog - Breuddwyd Oer (feat. Gwyneth Glyn) Can you for a moment imagine cowboy-era John Wayne riding the long road home on an old, gnarled, but dependable rainbow unicorn? Genod Droog debut welsh-language music on Nothing But Green Lights today. It brings with it a fanfare, lush whispered vocals washing down a river of electronic rapids and churned up Massive-Attack like whitewater. Genod Droog maintain the Spaghetti Westerns spirit by being pioneers in a field that has hardly been explored, leaving the safety and comfort of conventionalism [...]
MP3: Blue States - The Electric Complement This sounds pretty grand to me. Blue States, the longest serving Memphis Industries representatives might as well have thrown their keyboards, devices and extension cords out of the window because he has created something that sounds magical, crafted and stitched together by hand, something out of this world in the "Huh..." rather than the "wow." sort of sense. A brief moment of grand progressive instrumental electronica. It sounds momental, lost, and creative. Like a fleeting story of disrupted equilibrium, eventual [...]
MP3: Tunng - Take Frail but determined guitar gets reinforced, found sounds and electronic flourishes become distant echoes, and you'd expect them to become lost again before you have the time to appreciate them. Every time a problem confronts them, I imagine Tunng to forming a huddle and rallying to the sounds "oh woah oh". Voices overlap, maintaining melody through sparse desert plains filled with sounds of who knows what. It's progressive and in the summer time, even if the rain is ceaseless, this is just the [...]
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