It was a tiring week (we're staying 30 minutes outside Barcelona and the daily back and forth was something of a challenge) but well worth it. We ate Pakistani food, visited our beloved Wok to Walk, saw a lot of the city and uhm, obviously a bunch of great bands! -Best venue: Sala Apolo (located in a beautiful 1940s dance-hall) -Best performance: Beach House (Steven), Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard (Eliza) - I'm sure the fact that [...]
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photographs via Esther K. My most played albums in 2009, according to Last.fm *: 1. Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light 2. Metric: Fantasies 3. Slow Club: Yeah So 4. The Thermals: Now We Can [...]
If you were expecting more playful showgaze from Asobi Seksu, you might be disappointed because this is an album of softly sung words, acoustic guitars and toy pianos. If you were expecting new tunes, again you'll be out of luck, because this is all about remastered stripped down versions of their old songs. If you were only expecting some beautiful music though, then you'll probably find that this will do. Thursday (Live at Olympia Studios) Suzanne (Live at Olympia Studios) [...]
art by Jose Manuel Hortelano Yes indeed, Primavera Club 2009 is upon us, kicking off with The Pastels, The Black Heart Procession and HEALTH tonight. It'll also be my very first concert in Barcelona (and Eliza's second), so we're pretty excited. The festival will continue until Sunday night, and we hope to see these [...]
Burning Hearts - The Galloping Horse Burning Hearts - Aboa Sleeping Close the door Go down the stairs This is goodbye.
"It could rain for a thousand days Or something i don't know Look to the sun and we're having fun Beside the river flow You're doing this and you're doing that Workin' all the time Tonight you'll call me on the phone You've got a worried mind" Ween - I'll miss you [...]
It's a wonder I've never felt the need to post about these songs before, given that All About Lily Chou-Chou may well be one of my favourite movies. Iwai's unique vision (there are some truly stunning, heartbreaking shots), the haunting music and childlike innocence combine to create a film that will always have a special place in my heart. It is even more surprising that I've neglected to mention this album if you take into consideration the fact that this is a film that would not really work without its soundtrack. And that is not a hyperbole because, [...]
I leave Athens at 16:00. Slight delay. Long lines at security. Please remove your laptop. Place your phone in the basket. Enjoy your flight. Touch down at 18:05. Rubber spinning on the cold black ground. It's dark outside. Thursday evening. GMT +1. Barcelona. Brand new airport terminal - white, bright, with floors so shiny they make you dizzy. My mom and brother are waiting for me behind the sliding doors - 'hi Steven' is written in the dirt on the back of the car. Follow the arrows and leave [...]
Wendy & Bonnie - By the Sea ( Genesis , 1969) (known by most of the world as "that song playing in the beginning of Super Furry Animals' Hello Sunshine ")
This is what we long for: building weak walls in creaky floors And going to leave while they become debris and windows and doors are left crumbling This is what we long for: awkward waltzes on kitchen floors And going to sleep on sands of the beach, just the waves to wipe our sleepy eyes No Lemon No Melon [...]
Action Biker - Frosty Snow Winter Lois Casino - All I Want for Christmas is You (Mariah Carey Cover) The Smittens - Magpies and Eccles Cakes Pajaro Sunrise - Salt and Spoon The Airfields - Icing Sugar Piney Gir - Of All the Wonderful Things + [...]
When candles light themselves and the air turns creamy Why not take a photograph? You look so dreamy Then stand in the blackness, smile at the tinkling Blinded by lovedust; what did I see? A million, a billion, a trillion stars. Otouto - Sushi Luna - Lovedust Back [...]
I can honestly say I'm a fan of pretty much everything Emily Haines has done so far, musically. There is Metric of course, and there is her solo stuff, but there's also - let's not forget - her many wonderful collaborations. Some, like " Anthems for a 17-year Old Girl ", seem to be universally loved while others, like " Stopwatch Hearts " or " Uptown Girl ", are less well known. From her songs with Stars and The Stills, to her involvement in Crystal Method and even Tiesto projects - it seems that this is one musician who cannot [...]
Marine Girls: Honey Sunny Summer Day: Something in Your Eyes The Subways: No Goodbyes The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun, each day the last day. A red salamander so cold and so easy to catch, dreamily moves his delicate feet and long tail. I hold my hand [...]
W ith Primavera Club (aka Primavera Sound 's little winter brother) less than a month away, I for one am getting mightily excited. I'm flying to Barcelona in a little under two weeks, (Eliza will follow a little later) and we'll be spending the holiday season there (at my mom's house), only returning home in early January. I've collected ten tracks that I'd like to see played over the five days of the festival.. 1. So Cow [...]
Okay, so I'll be the first to admit that I rarely listen to whole albums nowadays. These past weeks however, I found myself obsessively doing exactly that. It started innocently enough, when I played the first track on the brilliant Where the Wild Things Are OST . Then I let the next track play as well. And the next one. And the next one. Before I knew it, I was loving it so much I truly could not skip a song. Not even parts of the song, like skipping the end when you feel it's getting too long! [...]
As regular readers of Letters have no Arms will surely already be (perhaps excessively) aware of, we here are rather big fans of The Magnetic Fields. You can imagine therefore our unbridled glee (and yes, glee ) (yes unbridled ) upon reading today's news: The Magnetic Fields are set to release a new album, titled, Realism , on January 26th! Tracklist: 01 You Must Be Out of Your Mind 02 Interlude [...]
Download: Iamundernodisguise Download: For Kalaja Mari (Drum Outtake Mix) Letters Have No Arms: First of all, tell us about your band name. Why "School of Seven Bells"? Alejandra Deheza: I heard the name on a doc I was watching about these movie heist like shoplifting rings that plagued the east coast in the 90's. These invisible thieves allegedly were trained at the school of seven bells in the 80's in South America. Now, this was [...]
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Avicii – Two Million
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Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
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