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Having A Bit Of A Clear-Out
Kev’s already made his apology and so here’s mine, in the form of a light-on-words 40 song clear-out of everything I’ve been going to post but just haven’t been able to come up with a suitable tenuous sexually ambiguous rant and pun post title for. And even with a 40 song post I still can’t [...]
When David Met Matthew (A Bowie/Dear Love-In)
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Matthew Dear – Sound & Vision (MP3)
As you’re no doubt aware, I love David Bowie. I even threw a party for his 60th birthday (the ignorant so-and-so didn’t turn up, but what the hey, maybe next time). So when I heard about a covers album about to drop, with a stellar roster that’s sure to [...]
I Won’t Flick The Switches, I Won’t Pull The Plugs; I Know It’s Just Glitches, Glitches N Bugs
Shortwave Set – Glitches ‘n’ Bugs (MP3)
When life really drops you in the shit some like to help get it all out to loud angry music, whilst others need the quiet contemplation of listening to sad music. Me, I turn to pseudo-Elephant 6 boy/girl scuzzle-gum Indie pop courtesy of a bunch of South East Londoners [...]
So Where Will You Be On Saturday Morning?
M83 – Kim & Jessie (MP3)
Whilst the John Hughes film soundtrack reference made in every review of M83’s new album ‘Saturdays = Youth’ might not be the product of the most insightful journalism (the press release does a good job of making it more than clear that that was what Anthony Gonzalez was going for), [...]
No Lives Were Saved…
Magic Wands – Black Magic (MP3)
Rubies – I Feel Electric (MP3)
… but despite not getting a chance to put our disco first aid skills to use, giving Kev a hand with last night’s Best Foot Forward was fun anyway, and it also brings my adventures in DJing dangerously close to double figures (but don’t worry, [...]
As Recommended By You …
Le Loup – We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! (MP3)
So I wouldn’t call Beef 2.0 a resounding success, but it was an interesting and enjoyable experiment, and worth doing just to bring you this – a request that came in over a text at about 1.30am, for a band I’d never heard of playing [...]
When Your Body’s Telling You You’re Too Old To Party
Bon Iver – Re: Stacks (MP3)
Sam Amidon – Saro (MP3)
As I sit here in my jim-jams at half four in the afternoon I’m certainly feeling the consequences of the first proper night out dancing I’ve had in literally years (Best Foot Forward doesn’t count). It was a fine evening though and the only-just-realised-he’s-getting-old Kev and [...]
Me Listen, Me Looky, Me Lykke Li
Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (MP3)
Spent an enjoyable evening being enchanted by Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li as her tour hit the Republic of Mancunia last night, with ‘Breaking It Up’ being a particular highlight, delivering the strange vocals through a shiny megaphone. If someone would have told me a while ago that there was [...]
From Heart To Hate And Back Again
Letroset – Arcade Hater (MP3)
More house music, this time from Letroset’s Herz Aus Glas EP released in January on Glasgow’s Point. One label. Less fey indie-disco camp and more staccato synth stab techno than my last post, but just as good for getting your groove on to (or however you like to put it).
Don’t hate: [...]
Sugar
Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me (MP3) (Track removed by request – or more like track removed by threatening letter to hosting company from IFPI who obviously don’t like their artists being spoken about on the internet)
Something of a brief interlude to my protracted and unfashionably late review of 2007 by way of the song [...]
