james blake! out of left field! this kid is being pegged as the best thing since sliced bread. creating his own genre of selfproduced partial dubstep acoustic? its all a bit patrick wolfy. but this feist cover is pretty cute with some added intrigue. Limit To Your Love - James Blake. when i first heard this track, i thought i'd finally worked my head around yeasayer. unfortunately, yeasayer hype is still a bit unwarranted and instead i love hooray for earth! snappy drums and that urban jungle beat, paired with the [...]
led in by drums and ferocious guitar, wolf gang returns with a slamdunk track. didn't think he could top lions in cages, but he's clearly repaving the pop rock road. he's got the formula down pat with the accented angel vocals and mika chimes. Dancing With the Devil - Wolf Gang. a bit of a radio dept. & middle east crossover, but high highs hold their ground with horns, cymbals and luscious gravelly notes. calling back to a lofty late night on the seaside, [...]
what a terrible summer hiatus. back in action, with box jelly scars and horn rims. first cab off the rank, super obsessed with this russian gem from pompeya. seriously good chow. lowly strum with soviet space synth, smooth groove. Cheenese - Pompeya. steady sunshine on this 90s ballad. tuning killers on the backbeat but oh so catchy, set to rattle some cages. Anna Sun - Walk the Moon. [...]
may have missed the boat with halloween, but in my defence, was mildly distracted watching nightmare before christmas and fruitlessly trying to think of a costume. do they know it's hallowe'en? - north american hallowe'en prevention inc. 2005 saw this ultimate indie halloween collaboration, with members of Arcade Fire, Islands, Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, Sonic Youth, Wolf Parade and Beck, Feist, Peaches & Karen O, just to name a few. it's super catchy and rather spooky. shout out to mick for passing this one on. [...]
some days, the wanting comes in waves. the storm - boy & bear. caught these guys last tuesday alongside passenger and the chemist, and no joke, they were amazing. unbelievably likable dudes and had such a smashing time. they even threw in a cover of bon iver's flume, much to my delight. if you like fleet foxes, local natives or other lovely lively folk indie, you will enjoy this. see here for more. all night, all night, all [...]
lately, sheer brilliance has been pumping out of australia's musical orifice. on the world stage, we've got temper trap, miami horror, bag raiders etc. ridiculously good, no? see examples below for other such magic. eyes wide open - gotye. he left everyone else in the dust with 'heart's a mess', and this track isn't far behind. sampling bits and pieces & then whipping them into glory, umm sorry belgium, we've claimed him. trans ending - the seabellies. [...]
just ignore that month long delay. first on the agenda, matt corby. may i point out how utterly stunning this boy is? helllloooooo. same age as i, and while i'm forging my way through a halfass uni degree, he's making sweet love to a geeetar and pumping out jeff buckley spawn. the fuck is this? THE MAGIC. let us forget the idol business. don't get me started on the cover of transatlanticism, i cried alright. made of stone - matt corby. [...]
everything smells so freaking amazing on my street at the moment. two weeks into spring (a deceiving term, otherwise known as melbourne winter) and today was blue skies & peachy. let's not get carried away. sunshine! long ago, in the 90s glory days, kylie was my absolute idol. mainly because we have the same birthday, so she was obviously my spirit animal. menace absolutely picks apart her most recent track, and it is marvellous. all cheery blissed out goodness. get outta my way (kris menace remix) - kylie minogue. [...]
can't we all just get drunk and fuck jeffrey dean morgan in bolivia? never really had a liking for the kills before, they're like a dirty british johnny&june/the white stripes. but this is just far out badass. i can't even. u.r.a fever - the kills. canadian postpunk. hmm. same response when i fell in love with 'in a cave', and i kind of get the inkling i shouldn't like this either? but there is something in that chorus that gets me everytime. angsty bam! [...]
excuse the neverending space puns, but there's nothing like a bit of mooncrooning to launch you into a cosmic evening. a countdown of stellar tracks promise to take you intergalactic. one small step for blog, one giant leap for musickind. ahh i could go on, for lightyears perhaps? sample a few below, or download the whole lot. prepacked in zip but still 110mb, so watch for meteors (dreaded download limits gahhhh). 1. right here right now (trumpdisco remix) - fatboy slim. 2. slow peels - com truise. 3. space around the feel [...]
since the downfall of voxtrot and the disappearance of belle & sebastian, the door to that little niche was blown wide open. but this short and sweet ditty comes to the rescue. cue the 802s organ and drum machine. young at love and life - dominant legs. sugary and darling to start off with, but then you get the bass and the kicks and the scratchy beats. and all you can do is appreciate how simple but super effective this is. passion pitty, but [...]
photo cred: owl vs. dove a bit late on the take up, but i'm back from the most marvelous weekend ever encountered. insanely incredible music was heard, too much satay chicken was eaten & not enough vanilla vodka was imbibed. splendour recap! standouts - without a doubt, foals, two door cinema club and passion pit smashed it up. and yet, men of the hour = mumford & sons, the strokes and temper trap. *flo and the mach would have probably been up there, but i was conveniently too busy stampeding [...]
alrightaaaaai. running on thrills at present. heading off to splendour in the grass tomorrow, escaping winter in the brisbane hinterlands. pretty much the festival of dreams. featuring, not in order of preference, gypsy & the cat. jinja safari. yeasayer. FOALS. tame impala. mumford & sons. midnight juggernauts. frightened rabbit. boy & bear. tim & jean. washington. MIIIKKKKEEEE SNOWWWW. last dinosaurs. the magic numbers. jonathan boulet. BAG RAIDERS. the joy formidable. broken social scene. miami horror. yolanda be cool & dcup. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB. art vs science. THE STROKES. florence & the machine. PASSION PIT. [...]
literally, sounds like crystal castles & ratatat's badass baby. raging instrumental smash. less unless - civil civic. ahhhhh. cannot resist chucking this in here. two door cinema club's 'what you know' is uncontrollably catchy, no matter what form. white panda chops it up with some chicano rap by down aka kilo, aptly named lean like a cholo. prior warning, regardless of your music taste, this will get stuck in your head. totally unresolvable, even after punch dancing out your rage. [...]
semester dos. oh glorious consumer science. alright, so in my travels, i did happen to see eclipse. which was better than expected *dodges arrows*. although the artists on the soundtrack are amazing, the songs themselves feel very boxed in. unkle's contribution made the whole movie for me though. hauntingly catchy and super well suited to jasperino. pity its only available as part of the official soundtrack on itunes, and no one else has posted an mp3. my apologies in advance if this gets pulled. with you in my head - unkle. [...]
chop change; unphased. island trip to complete july. jack pinata made this a pretty epic listening, but winston puts it in the twinkling little lisa mitchell box. pull my heart away (jack penate cover) - alex winston. sensing a common theme, fabulous reggaetron, preferably dancefloor friendly. these two smash it out of the park. dull life (the dirty tees remix) - yeah yeah yeahs. diplomat's son - vampire weekend. [...]
let the recovery commence. one saturday night filled with an insane lebanese banquet, our tiny apartment overflowing with vodka, stumbling down chapel st & huddling out of the rain in the smokers' boutique. like, snow patrol was transported to the summer of '64 and set sail on the high seas. in the morning - the coral. eerie in a magical way. a bit postal servicey, but far more generic lyric wise. the boy grew up with blind parents, so i guess this is what [...]
nothing but utter respect for local natives. they've been on top of my list since the start of last year, and even when they're covering the inventors of new wave (television 1978), they can do no wrong. careful - local natives. ze french. 1. reknowned for being far too electroforward and 2. giving rise to phoenix. so upon hearing this tune (singing in english, mind you), it was hard not to box it in. its just not francais. starts out a tad harsh (vocally cringeworthy, [...]
a bit of chaos never went astray. still, nothing will detract from the magic of the next few weeks. apart from having a very enviable name, this guy (known as orlando dinosaur) has only got some mediocre remixes under his belt. but garden is all singy songy house, a truly deluxe track. sounds like a hot chip/metronomy/feist mash up. garden - totally enourmous extinct dinosaurs. a miniature offering from the morning benders. oh so happy, pretty sure there [...]
blessed sunshine & cloudless sky, a prediction i'm likely to sleep through. if only alarm clocks sounded this lovely. past the preschool samples, this sleepy instrumental makes you smile under the sheets. for lovers of four tet & explosions in the sky. bible school - blithe field. previously, i was under the impression that the national was terribly dull indie. pardon me. their new album is quite an earopener. the tempered piano starts it, the lazy vocals build it, and the unexpected [...]
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