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THIS SHIT IS REALLY GOOD. LO-FI PUNK on NIGHTPEOPLE <---RAD LABEL GET THIS SHIT HOLY CRAPPP IM JIZZING OVER THIS

WILD SAFARI

DREAMY LO-FI TAPEY GOODNESS

NO SONG IS OVER 3 MINUTES -----

DRONE 4 PUNX

GET THIS SHIT

8 days no update

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first off, how are you?

second: i've made new songs:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du3TnaOgB8Y AND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGDdLYvKJ4

third: i suck at checkers-challenge me for an easy win

third and 1/2: i ripped shit at uno today

fourth: dear blog readers-listen to the slits. post punk is amazing get into it. Also check out WEAVE!

fifth: this isn't a traditional blog post, rather a list that should be long enough to take care of 8 days of negligent posting. (i'm sorry san diego)

sixth: MOVIE DAYS WITH KELLY ARE AMAZING IN COLLEGE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE LIKE "WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER AND I'M GOING TO SAY SAY "WATCHED LIKE OVER 100 MOVIES"

7th: no download links in this post-mysterious change hard to understand

8th:

Teen Fuqq

darkwave///synth heavy give you nightmares industrial sound to rock yr brain (Featured on a witch house compilation!)

http://www.last.fm/music/Teen+Fuqq

Fluker Love

taken from last.fm bio:

Fluker Love is Hertfordshire’s Andrew Goldspink. It’s a project that attempts to capture the faded, elemental harmonies of Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, using minimalist drum samples, “icy” synths and saturated guitars.

myspace.com/flukerlove

Releases include:

‘Fluker Love’ - the eponymous debut LP (self-release)

‘Soaked EP’ (self-release)

link to ^^^^^ here

Experimental TV and/or Radio

The term 'Experimental Rock' is thrown around a fair amount nowadays. Anything that throws abstract, leftfield sounds together can be considered Experimental. A lot of the time I think that this label is unjust. For example, Autolux carry the Experimental tag, yet their sound, to me at least, is closer to a modern, tightly produced Noise Rock band. Or hell, maybe they're Alternative.

TV on the Radio, however, are the epitome of Experimental. Everything about them screams unconventional. They have songs laden with sitars ('Wash the Day'; 'I Was a Lover'), they dash between rap and soul, funk and rock, and they seem to stuff enough ideas to carry several albums into one disc. They are an inspired band, and just because it's also relatively unheard of in the music industry today, the fact that they're a mostly all-black group serves them well in the unique stakes. It's criminal that one band should be allowed two fantastic vocalists (Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone) and not be burdened by such expertise. Yet TV pull it off. What other band could have whistles reminiscent of the 'Hi-ho' song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as an outro to their most gorgeous song? (That would be 'Tonight', by the way)

It's unfortunate that TV currently seem to be on something of a hiatus with recording. Kyp's alone under a rock somewhere with a guitar under his Rain Machine guise, whilst Sitek is producing various albums by other often Brooklyn-based bands. If TV on the Radio never released another album there would be a lot of disappointed fans; although these lucky listeners could also take some solace in the fact that TVotR never released a dud record. Better to cut things short when at their absolute best than after they have lost some of their spark, as sad as the truth may be.

Reunited better than before

A lot of the time when bands break up for whatever reason, they return to their recording lives years later less than the sum of their parts. It doesn't take a genius to see a steady decline in a bands output after extended periods away from recording. Look at The Verve and their 2008 album, Forth. It was a messy album, full of Richard Ashcroft-worthy solo material (that's not a compliment) and nothing to rival their early stuff. You can mark 1997's Urban Hymns as their benchmark, but I personally think that their strongest record was their debut, A Storm in Heaven. It was enchanting; the sound of a band that took all of their creative juices from the ethereal Verve EP and turned it into an impressive dream-world for 40+ magical minutes. This was before their first break-up, and it was when their chemistry worked best.

But come on. Dinosaur Jr. must defy all known musical laws by being just as incredible now as they once were; in fact, perhaps even moreso. Their big (early) albums are always seen to be You're Living all Over Me and Bug, and you can definitely hear the three core artists (Mascis; Barlow; Murph) working their kinetic socks off. Green Mind? Groovy in some parts, but lacking this serious connection between band-mates.

Which is why Beyond and Farm are fantastic records. You have the three core members of Dinosaur Jr. returning ready for action. Mascis' guitar solos are grander than ever before; Barlow's rich bass compliments him wonderfully; and Murph carries perfect percussion to gel it all together. It's the sound of a band reforming as something greater than it ever was, as if all three of the artists involved have learnt from their outside projects (The Fog; Sebadoh) and gone back into the Dinosaur Jr. name with gusto. You can argue that Dinosaur Jr. never left (Mascis continued releasing albums under the name), but by the strength of Farm especially, it's proof that a band truly works best when it pools it's efforts, rather than stumbling in blind and hoping for the best. An extended break from recording, then, can be a wonderful thing.

Slow Animal

4 songs on this EP from lo-fi garage rockers Slow Animal...really catchy real lo-fi GET IT!

Woodsist Remixed

Saw this posted by theneedledrop (great guy) had to show the world this fantastic remix track. 30 minutes of giving woodsist (one of my favorite labels) a hip hop twist..get down....really funky and dance-able. It's very interesting to hear bands like Wavves, Real Estate, and Woods shown in an entirely different light. My favorite tracks are the first track by the Fresh & Onlys +++ Vermin by Wavves.

here

someone needs to rap over this omah gahhhh

Sealings///Wu-Lyf

Two amazing bands I've been into lately

Sealings (prounounced ceilings?) are a hard to describe drum machine heavy dark brooding rock act that frankly I don't know too much about. I have one EP thats been on constant play for a while

here.

Wu Lyf: an enigmatic band that plays "HEAVY POP" hailing from Manchester...amazing vocals think of a tom waits-ish animal collective-ish gravelly voice that is guaranteed to keep you listening. Has almost a soul sound, very catchy. very strange. Download tracks here

Nick Drake's Family Tree

Nick Drake is a posthumously famous English musician from the 1960s who died tragically before he became well-known. Although there's a fair bit of ambiguity surrounding his death, suicide seems to be the general consensus. Nick's music touches on themes of death and melancholy, so perhaps it comes as no great surprise that such a talented young artist would one day be consumed by his own cynical view towards life. You only have to look at the names of some of his more famous tracks ('Parasite' being a atypical of Nick's voyeurism) to see the sheltered individual within.

Sheltered, yes, but also immensely talented. Albums Five Leaves Left and Pink Moon are incredibly robust, beautiful albums that seem synonymous with waking up in the morning with the sun shining on your face. In comparison, Bryter Layter is a little more heavily produced, which in my personal opinion detracts a little from Drake's individual flare. It's far more intimate to see Drake starting out in Leaves, or alone with a guitar and a piano in Pink Moon than it is to imagine him in a proper recording studio, which Bryter seems to do.

Nevertheless, of all of Drake's recordings, the most compassionate and, dare I say it, interesting, is Family Tree, a 2007 compilation of home recordings taped before Drake's stunning debut. There are a few reasons why Family Tree is a fantastic album from start to finish. Fans of lo-fidelity music will be in their element with Drake's sound here; the album is scratchy and raspy, spinning like an old vinyl. This is naturally due to the quality of the recording systems that Drake had at the time. However, today, lo-fi has become something that a lot of artists deliberately attempt in order to make their sound seem more rustic. Family Tree is there relevant today, failing to sound turgid or aged in any respect.

Drake covers famous songs on Family Tree; he duets with his sister; there are little piano-led ditties by Drake's mother. It's all very quaint and twee, but it truly is fascinating to see Drake's influences as well as original material from this early period in one compilation. Family Tree is the sound of an artist finding himself; but after a couple of listens, it soon becomes apparent that Drake always knew what he was doing.

Canada plans

9 days-house to myself-chillwave song in the works w/ unknown guest. Mysterious project hard to understand-

prepare your headphones for ⊆Hi††\/\/▲\/≤

Win's Technicolour Dreamcoat

No need to frown, Win. The future is coming on.


So the news has been around for a few days now, but it's been revealed that The Suburbs, the third Arcade Fire LP, will be released in several different colour variants. I think the number stands at eight, now. This is all well and good, but I can't imagine that even die-hard fans will be prepared to go out there and purchase all the different copies. I'll take a dull grey cover, if it's available. It'll go with the overrated sound of Arcade Fire's music. Or maybe I could go for blue. It'd match my eyes.

I kid about Arcade Fire being overrated, by the way. Well, sort of. Funeral was a good album, but I'm not sure that it's deserving of the myriad accolades that have been thrown in its direction. Neon Bible, on the other hand, was far too operatic and menacing for my liking. There was always a sense of optimism in Funeral, despite the subject matter of the album focusing on death, and Neon Bible took a complete turn into moody territory that I didn't appreciate.

That said, a few leaked songs like 'Month of May' and the titular 'The Suburbs' have been quite promising, so hopefully they'll discard that sophomore slump when the new album comes out sometime around August.

Interestingly, sixteen tracks are apparently going to be on the LP. This is far more than the previous albums, suggesting that this will be their longest release yet. Quantity is there, clearly. We'll have to cross our fingers for the quality.

Semen stains the Mountain Tops

Wasn't that the name of a Captain Pugwash character? Something tells me that it wasn't, although there was that whole fiasco about how they were sneaking subliminal names into the children's TV show. I think, in the end, only Master Bates was in the cartoon, although Roger the Cabin Boy may have shown his delicate head once in a while.

The name of the blog conjures up a few images for me. One is that of the aforementioned salty pirate with a disgusting, degraded name. The other is the film Brokeback Mountain. Probably because a lot of semen was splattered on those lofty peaks.

'Eh. Go and listen to Cymbals Eat Guitars. They explain why there are mountains in the first place. Maybe then we can work out where semen comes into the equation.