'Why Won't You Talk About It?' - The Radio Dept.
Cozen sent me this. It's a fuzzy storm of an end of a tape song. I've been playing it a lot.
'Run Into Flowers' - M83
(not very new I know)
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) | The Arcade Fire
I know they seem to be so buzzy in America that you might have heard of them even if you're not into that scene, but in the UK, I don't even think they've had a release yet. Heard an American play this at an INDIE DISCO and had to go and ask him what it was. Clearly there were lots of people dancing madly to it despite not knowing what it was, which is rare at an indie disco. High voltage.
Other things I'm thinking of putting on a CD for an indieish friend who's living in Nice and feels a bit out of touch. Plus DFA stuff, but I dont't really need to mention that here.
Fight | Sons & DaughtersEverything Is Everyone's Fault | MultipliesI Lost My Dog | The Fiery FurnacesHappiness | Gorky's Zygotic MynciAcid In My Heart | The Sleepy JacksonTales Of Ordinary Sadness | ElectrocuteModern Girls And Old Fashioned Men (feat. Regina Spektor) | The StrokesGay Boy | FutonElevator Love Letter | StarsMy Favorite Kiss | Frank Black & The CatholicsYour Cover's Blown | Belle & SebastianBetween Us And Them | Moving Units
What else recent would you say really stands out?
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)
http://www.labrador.se/sounds.php3
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago)
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago)
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)
I would recommend the fiery furnaces' song about running. 'next I'm gonna run' or some such, that's my favourite.
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)
I'm not sure if Archer Prewitt comes under ther banner of this thread, but his new album is very good
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)
― Bidfurd, Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)
― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)
fifthed on the radio dept and seconded on the kaisers' 'i predict a riot'.
― emsk, Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)
Watch the video here in Windows Media format
http://tinyurl.com/5kxbz
― john-paul (john-paul), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)
― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)
speaking of NMH, Lovers is an amazing and unsung band. haven't heard their new one yet, but i never seem to tire of Star Lit Sunken Ship.
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)
― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago)
I like things which are not new like
On The Sly - MetricMegafist - Multiplies
also I quite like the Brunettes song which was on Fluxblog recently even though I know it's kind of rubbish.
― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago)
The Departures - 'Be My Enemy'
Yeach! This is exactly the kind of thing I have never liked about indie-rock. I just don't get anything out of it at all and I especially hate his voice. Generic is a lazy word to use, but it is the one that comes to mind
Kaiser Chiefs - 'I Predict A Riot'
This is very slightly veering closer to a sound I prefer. I suppose it sounds a bit Clash or something. But it's still very average. No!
The search goes on...
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)
M83 -> what little i heard of it, meh, didn't like it.
― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)
I got two tracks - 'Killing Armies', which isn't bad, and 'Secret Knives', which is just great. A somersaulting dirty groove that I think I'll have to put on the CD for my friend.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago)
― willem (willem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago)
they had the sense to release the latest alec bathgate cd too.
― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 25 November 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago)
This track is... fascinating.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago)
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago)
www.levytheband.com
― cdwill, Friday, 26 November 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago)
― willem (willem), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:20 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:14 (twenty years ago)
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 26 November 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 26 November 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago)
Nice to see Sons & Daughters videos on there though.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)
Fairly typical in feeling and mood, but the way they've built the track is a further development for them. I've *loved* watching them develop from being quite a lo-fi guitar based thing, through a fantastic period of making some quite sombre and lovely Talk Talk-esque music, then morphing into this more sample-based approach. All the while staying absolutely true to themselves, but never being caught standing still. Last album had collabs with some of the Anticon lot, waiting somewhat impatiently to see what the new one brings in the spring.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)
― The Grain of Sand in Lambeth That Satan Cannot Find (kate), Friday, 26 November 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago)
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)
Ooh - thank you.
I have The Knife album, but didn't really think it counted, being all electro-y and cool.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)
The Books, are good cut'n'paste banjo (?) stuff, but that came out last year...
Eve and the Last Waltz, from Sweden, I think this came out last year too, but they are pretty good - kinda NMH/Bob Dylan/folky esque Eve has a distinctive voice.
I bought that Sons and Daughters ep, it's not my thing, where are the tunes?
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)
http://www.eskimolabs.com/hp/
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)
The new Hood album is shockingly gorgeous, but it does take the usual getting-used-to-his-voice bit before you can really listen to it.
― cis (cis), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)
; )
x-post
thirded on the electrelane record, here.
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago)
― babyalive (babyalive), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)
Zombina & The Skeletones: Saw them the other weekend, fifties-horror-themed punk-pop from Scouseland. They do what they do and they do it very well.
And The Futureheads, but that's not particularly out of touch.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago)
― bence inkei, Friday, 26 November 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago)
BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!
LAUREN, I'M SHOCKED!!!
You will never live this down, you understand.
(Just don't tell anyone that I'm still carolanning on "What Katie Did" and your secret is safe with me.)
― The Grain of Sand in Lambeth That Satan Cannot Find (kate), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
But the kind of straightforward indiepop of 'Seasons', (not on their website anymore, so I've yousendedit there) has been kind of getting under my skin lately. I just like the spare, tired tone.
But they've moved on since then, it seems. 'Thorn Bird' from the new EP is great, spooky artrock for two minutes, then stops and pisses around for three more.
Anyone tell me more about the EP?
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)
― mike a, Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)
Yay Bellafea!
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)
http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=08S9H3W0OSNLQ0H5ZNNVPW8G9A
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 4 March 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 May 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)
http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2RMRPC5YLHQL90W041SHJVSIVI
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 8 May 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)
― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Sunday, 8 May 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 8 May 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)
― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 8 May 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago)
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago)
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago)