Time for a round up of 2008 with the New Music Blog Top 10 Albums of 2008. You know, give a hand to the music zeitgeist on Hype Machine . Here goes.. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream The Rosebuds - Life Like Bloc Party - Another Weekend In The City Sun Kil Moon - April [...]
Wooo look at us we worked in the music industry. Dilligas. However, this odd looking bunch of chaps is making some prettttty sweet music at the minute so ignore their anti music sharing policies and enjoy. Warning: synths are involved. Don't say I didn't warn you. Well it is Friday after all, embrace the casio sounds!
Wooo look at us we worked in the music industry. Dilligas. However, this odd looking bunch of chaps is making some prettttty sweet music at the minute so ignore their anti music sharing policies and enjoy. Warning: synths are involved. Don't say I didn't warn you. Well it is Friday after all, embrace the casio sounds!
Hello. Been a while. Onwards - why isn't every Thursday a Garage Punk Thursday? Enter Jay Reatard who's SO hot right now, probably even hotter than Hansel. Anyway - so yeah, the most fun I've had since jumping around to the Holloways downstairs in Rough Trade, Jay has brought a little more old school back into our newfound world of synths. Hang on a second, is that a guitar? I remember those..
I actually don't want to listen to anything else by Paper Route just in case it isn't as good as Empty House. That said, I obviously will. This tune has basically wheedled its way into my itunes new music playlist and somehow the play count is way up on anything else. Not sure how, not really sure why, but good work nonetheless. This post was supposed to be Postal Service, but they can, in 2 words, do one.
I am, of course, scared of gospel music. But take God out of the equation, add Surfjan Stevens on the production console and an old Danielson Famile tune and this is what you get. That's right kids it's cheer up Wednesday! There's even a banjo , and so much jingly jangly goodness you'll forget all about bleak Tuesday in a second. Hurrah!
Ignore this if you don't like Jeff Buckley. I never used to, so I wouldn't blame you. For everyone else, hi! Sorry I said I didn't used to like Jeff. Hugs? Anyway, old David Michael continues our bleak Tuesday with some crescendoing folk here, violins and all. I've been pondering this for a couple of weeks, and to be honest I'm not even trying to write this - it's just happening. It'll creep up on you and then be gone again. No really.
I know, I know, it's a bit dark for a Tuesday. However, it is sunny in London so maybe you have to listen to this somewhere outside of a darkened padded room for it not to push you over the edge. If you can, enjoy some deep synths and more (yes more!) echoey vocals. I'm telling you, echoes are the future. All together now, she's a...
I'm all for anything echoey. And these guys have definitely taken a pleated approach, albeit to the Beatles. Does it help having a hungover? Not sure, I'll let you know later. All I know right now is echoes are good.
I love this song perhaps more than anything else we've seen on New Music Blog so far - simply for the fact that it shows that there are still people out there just making music for the hell of it. It's not going to be number 1, it's not going to inspire a generation, but at 5.05pm on a Wednesday just before I head off to see Fleet Foxes at Shepherd's Bush, I'm thinking - yeah, sure. Why not?
Well if Bloody Beetroots were the high then these guys are the comedown. It's a whole new magical musical world from where I'm standing - close your eyes and you're standing in some exhibit in the Tate Modern surrounded by clocks. Scandinavia's really going up in my estimation at the moment, and Fredrik fly the Swedish flag nice and high - save this badboy for the morning after, trust me you'll feel much better about the whole thing.
Ever wanted to feel like you're in a taiwanese nightclub in the middle of a forest, surrounded by pillheads swaying gently to the sound of psychadelic trance during the middle of the day? Yeah me too, kinda, and now you can join me in the experience. The Bloody Beetroots, Italians of all things, have stepped electro up a notch and I'm moist (in the ethereal sense you understand) at the Horrorist style clavs and big beats dragging me on through to lunchtime. Mmm lasagne.
Metronomy always had potential, getting involved with Wireless in Hyde Park a couple of years ago bringing a bit of a less self-obsessed angle to the whole new rave scene kicking off at the time, where their decorations effort was strapping one of those push on lights your gran keeps in her shed onto their T-Shirts. Awesome stuff, and the music wasn't bad neither. Back this September with a step up in their game - new album Nights Out , this little puppy slots in beautifully half way through The Twelves recent mix Episode II. All together now, she's [...]
As a child of the 80s, I often wonder how my tender ears made it through to 1990 with all the horrific music that decade brought us. A couple of tracks from Walking On A Dream, the new, and particularly difficult to get hold of, album from Empire of the sun make me think that the 80s monster has come back from the dead to ruin our day again - but only for a moment, and then all is well as 2008 puts him back in his box and lets us enjoy synths without reaching for a bucket/earmuffs/razor blade. Excuse [...]
Finally there's more, in a word, or three - 'I Want It To Get Out' has been floating around for a while and, a bit like the whole 'We'll give you a little bit but WAIT for the next installment' attitude going on with Empire Of The Sun, Jordan Geiger or his label Graveface have been cutting off Hospital Ships musical osmosis pretty tightly. Finally the drought is over, and, basically, be excited about October 21 and the release of Oh, Ramona. And buy it obviously.
Despite the fact these two sound like pornstars, Back In Your Head is one of the best pop tunes I've heard floating round the magic web for a long time. The hook is pretty basic, but you know, simple things for simple people, I put this on and I think yeah, I could do with a cup of tea and a chocolate hobnob.
I'd have to admit that I went along with all the hype over Bon Iver - For Emma whatever ago or whatever is a great album. But NOT THIS TIME, oh no, he's piped up again with a remix of Get Up Get Out, not the greatest fan of it to start with, and now with his dulcet tones draped over it I'm still not massively enamoured. Enter Life Like, the opening and title track off the new album and now we're talking. It's quite scary so if you haven't had [...]
Good times, basically. New Black Moth Super Rainbow = new getting out of bed and confusing the hell out of yourself by turning on the old iPod and going straight to Artists>BMSR>New Stuff. Happy Melted City is, in a word, awesome. Takes me back to a simpler time, when Sparklehorse were involved and Johnny Borrell was still at school, keeping out of trouble (or at least out of my face) in physics lessons.
So I'm hungover today and this track is making me feel a little bit sick, but also soothing my aching brow at the same time. Basically it's all about the synths and the bassline. It really is that simple.
The Golden Ratio. Wasn't it Da Vinci who went on about all that? Well, whoever it was, they were right - a few simple chords that fit together in that secret magic way makes those old hairs on the back of your neck stand up - try it for yourself and if it doesn't work then you must be dead inside. Or outside. All you Norf London types make sure you're at 93 Feet East Tuesday 10th October to watch these guys play guitars in return for some money you won't be disappointed. And if you are.. etc [...]
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