Blog: Misspeak Music

It was only a matter of time; the biggest release of 2008 has leaked and is 'out there'. I've only listened to a few tracks so a more comprehensive review will have to wait until I've escaped the drugery of exams. Initial listens however suggest somthing far more fresh and interesting than the car crash than was X&Y there's some new sounds and influences in there, and whilst it isn't, as Chris Martin emphatically declared at last years Brits the " end of Coldplay as you know them ". They are definately 'rejuvenated'. Just to [...]

Another video, but this time it's also some new music. I guess its the logical 'evolution' of grime as it tries to worm its way into the mainstream, another electro-dance-grime fusion in the same vein as 'Wearing My Rolex' by Wiley and most of Lethal Bizzle's latest stuff. Although like those other examples it doesn't sound anything like grime, so maybe it's nothing like what I just said. I dunno, it's a good track nonetheless, lyrics are a bit corny but I guess its not gonna matter in the clubs when the chorus is as strong as it [...]

Just to continue this blogs continued slump into a irrevalent, lazy video blog rather than my stated aim of it being a mp3 blog. Here's another video! This time it's good old Mr. 'Fair and Balanced' losing it if you haven't seen it before - enjoy. And like all great this significant peice begs to be remixed, or rather reinterpreted and transformed. Here's my pick of the bunch. [...]

As if this wasn't amazing enough. Weezer have done another tribute of the 'Youtube spirit', this time it's a duet with Tay Zonday of CHAWKLIT REEEEEEIIIIIIGGGGGN-erm...fame .

I watched this celebration of Liverpudlian music on Sunday which inevitably centred around the last surviving talented Beatle playing some of their biggest hits alongside the same usual cuts from his less successful post beatles work. I had no idea it was such a significant performance. The first time it's ever been played live by a Beatle, it's a near perfect performance of one of their best songs, apart from Paul managing to fluff the part of the song that he wrote.

Ok, so I was only alive for 6 days of the 80's but the influences, sounds and look the decade streches out far beyond 1989. And that logo instantly throws up memories of cartoons such as Thundercats and He-Man. Simiarlly the music sounds like the era, this track Mirando off this summers forthcoming 'LP32 mixes up more organic 'world music' sounds with the sounds of a 8-bit soundtrack that feels like its taken straight off a SNES videogame. MP3: Ratatat - Mirando [...]

Not sure I like this one, not really sure I've liked any of them. This one's got a murder mystery feel to it, like the second video there's still some slightly arty and suggestive afterlife shots. Think Cluedo meets whatever psychological horror you want. I don't know what it's all about, I guess it's all just self indulgent rubbish. Well produced self indulgent rubbish though.

I was browsing the BBC News website as I normally do first thing of a morning, just to make sure a nuclear war hasn't broken out whilst I've been lying in to the early afternoon, and I was greeted with this well intentioned article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/mag azine/7425450.stm So I wrote this in response for the comments page at the bottom, the BBC didn't publish it but I like to get these things off my chest. Can the media stop [...]

It seems that everyone is giving away free music these days, Radiohead, Coldplay and now Sigur Ros. With their fith album album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust ("With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly") annouced for a June 24th release the band have made the lead single 'Gobbledigook' available for free on their site www.sigurros.com Despite the songs title it's quite a straightforward affair for the idiosyncratic group, It's a lot more acoustic and well, human sounding than I'm accustomed to Iceland's second most famous exports sounding like, there's no post rock, [...]

And with that I didn't post yesterday! Browsing through my Last.fm the other day I was suddenly struck by the lack of female artists in my Top 50. I don't really strive for a 50/50 parity in the music I listen to, it's never really occured to me, I sort of assumed that women would be a bit better represented in my music taste. But from my top 50 artists Bjork Candida Doyle of Pulp Meg White of The White Stripes Sarah Neufeld and Regine Cassagne of Arcade Fire Juanita Stein of [...]

Yea I know, Hillary Clinton again, well...less Hillary Clinton and more the 2008 Democratic primary which I have found capitivating. Admittedly this is a rather lazy post done on the 11th hour just to keep up my post a day mantra. I'm not out of ideas or new music to share, just rather tired and busy with exams starting next week. I'll try and keep posting daily, but I'll probably be looking for new music to share a lot less actively, but the site seems to be ticking over nicely anyway, im getting a nice trickle of views which is [...]

Kanye West has done a second video for one of the highlights of Graduation , Flashing Lights. Featuring some nice use of stop motion to go with those struttering staccato keys and Kanye West looking typically enigmatic/moody again after being bound and gagged in the previous video. It makes about as much sense as the first one but to compensate it features approximately the same amount of gratuitous shots of models in their underwear.

Common isn't messing around, capitalising on the relative commercial success of last year's Finding Forever he's coming back with Time Travellin ' an album we're told that will mark a significant departure away from his established 'socially conscious' style of rap and jazzy musical style. If this first snippet, Universal Mind Control, is anything to go by it'll be brilliant, it's a proper flashback to a bygone style of HipHop, its a very Bambaataaish in sound, Common lets loose and abandons his usually serious style as he flows over a brilliant Neptunes' beat even the cheap sounding [...]

Beck has released a tasty snippet of his forthcoming album ' Modern Guilt ' for all us lucky people. As you would expect it doesn't really sound like anything on 2006's 'The Information' . There's a definate 60's psychaldeic vibe to it, very dark and errie and the hushed moany vocals are quite evocative of some of Pink Floyd 's early stuff which goes down well in my book. The false ending and instrumental reprise reminds me of Helter Skelter by T he Beatles a lot too in theme with the whole 60's feel. [...]

Not particuarlly fond of their music, but this is a fun video. Lots of Cameos from various Internet memes, shame they couldn't get Rick Astley.

According to the BBC's ' Sound Index ' it's Coldplay. The site is the BBC's response to music blog aggregators such as The Hypemachine and Elbows , although as you would expect from the BBC it's considerably less cutting edge or original in its content as it aggregates information from sites such as iTunes, Last.fm and Youtube rather than independant music blogs. It's an interesting snapshot of the nation's taste in music and is undoubtedly more indicative of the musical tastes of the UK, but beyond that [...]