Another BRMC single

I'm quite geeked about the new album (out March 8). I like the rawer, more bluesy sound they've got going for this track. Like their third album, Howl with a bit more rock 'n roll injected. Maybe because they'll have a real drummer for this one.

Gonna make for great live stuff, and the band have said that it's really an album that's meant to be played live. Makes sense from the sound of it.

Those lyrics guys

Who are those guys who take it upon themselves to be the first to massacre a lyric on the internet? You know the stuff I'm talking about. You look up a lyric because you're unsure of a word or two, and, BAM, you run into a lyric that looks like it was transcribed at the International Convention for Beekeeping and Chainsaw Enthusiasts.
It also doesn't help matters that, no matter how terrible the version of the lyric is, every other site out there deems it fit to steal the adolescent interpretation of the wording. Single-letter second-person pronouns included.

Call me picky. Maybe I should just use the lyrics wiki?

New Audio Bullys

Big tune, this. Makes me want to dance and it isn't even noon yet. Check for this disc towards the end of March if you're feeling the tune like I am.
I've been getting into more disco-inspired stuff recently, it seems. Hopefully it's not a permanent deviation from mad licks. Which I really should post.

Pass Out DC remix, Stylo

Not that some of the remixes of this track aren't key, but the original beat is TOO decent.

Speaking of Tinie, he features on this solid remix of Stylo from the upcoming Gorillaz record.



Am I a sucker for the 16-bit sound effects in a remix? I offer an unequivocal affirmative.
I'm excited for the new Gorillaz album from that single. They make a type of music where, in my opinion, it'd be easy to get into a rut. One notices a certain lack of freshness in a lot of the D-Sides material.
But I'm liking the more layered sound they have going on with Stylo. When you think about it, their debut record was fairly sparse, and the reason Demon Days was able to remain captivating was because they tweaked their sound to make it noisier and richer. Hopefully the same thing happens here.

Another remix:



I still prefer the original, I think.

Yeasayer- One

I'm feeling these disco sounds from Yeasayer. Always a fan of a band that's willing to be flexible with its sounds.



On an unrelated note, I heard that Theophilus London is the guy's real name. Amazing. Named after his grandfather. So I take back my Theophilus Brooklyn take from earlier. The authenticity makes it several times more banging.

The Courteeners

I had honestly forgotten about these guys. If I listened to every "next biggest thing coming out of Manchester" I'd have to play 17 trillion hours of music a week.

I hear, in a very positive way, the Stone Roses influence, but you can't go wrong with that John Squire-esque guitar.

I'm excited for the album, February 22nd. I'll be sure to go back and give their first one more than the dismissive 1.4 listens that I did when it dropped.

EDIT: Re-downloading St. Jude, but I was overcome by the urge to throw on 'The Stone Roses'. Simply one of the best albums ever.

It's Wild

They finally put a video out for this track. Whatever to the video, but I've been loving the track for a while now.

I'm sill having feeling the rest of the album, but I've heard they're great in concert. Maybe I'll be singing a different tune if I manage to see them play it live.

Super Genius

Sometimes, staring down a sheet of paper determined to forestall my best attempts at defacing its eburnine immaculateness, I need a creative exercise. When I come across a new one, I'll post it here, hopefully for the collective benefit.

Good ideas seem simple to catch; they peer at you with glossy eyes from the lofty perch of award annuals, cawing in derision at the ease with which you believe you could be the artificer of its perfection.

In a way, they're a lot like the Roadrunner. You believe there are hundreds of fool-proof ways to catch it, yet each only renders you more foolish than the last. You're a Genius. It even says so on your card!



So, what I propose is this. When you need a quick break, design a Roadrunner trap using whatever it is you're supposed to be generating creative for, be it an Acme Pen or Acme Doctors Without Borders. Just try to use the main features or benefits.

Decide how the trap works. Then, of course, you have to decide how the trap will fail and how the Roadrunner will go bolting past, or leave you holding up a comically-undersized umbrella in a vain attempt to deflect whatever fate you've set in store for yourself.

This isn't a good example, but this is how I'd do it. When I do it for real, I'll keep it and scan it if it's any good. (Though I would leap at the chance to advertise land mines)

LC!

Apparently Los Campesinos! have finally broken onto the Billboard charts with their new album Romance is Boring.
I've had a soft spot for them since their first album, and I'm still not sure I like their (relatively) more mature and less-tongue-in-cheek sound. To be fair, I'm liking what I hear, but it takes a while with them. Anyways, here's the title track.



Fans will probably be divided. On the one hand, the more cohesive sound shows that they're developing musically while holding on to their strengths such as Gareth's hilarious lyrics and tempered cacophony.
Then again, I thought the almost ironic immaturity of their first two albums was what lent them their charm. Here's a great early track of theirs, and the first I heard.

oohoohooh I gotta rocket

Rocket(Grum Remix): Goldfrapp

A few excellent remixes of this track are floating around right now. It seems the single will include this tune. Perhaps a bit on the simple side, but it works for the dance vibe. I'm still feeling it, as you should be.

Who put the 'W' in WASP?

I mean, are there Anglo-Saxon Protestants of any other variety?

How Swede it is

Lindstrom and Christabelle: Lovesick

When Lindstrom's 'Where You Go I Go Too' dropped in 2008 to heaps of critical acclaim, I wasn't as sold as everyone else seemed to be. Intricate soundscapes to be sure, and a compelling listen, but I didn't feel the staying power. I have nothing at all against the fact that the three tracks on the album lasted 45 minutes.

Here, however, is something I'm liking. Perhaps not as vibrant all the way through, but it's sure got a lot more punch to it. He really benefits from Christabelle's purring here.

I don't envision this being in my rotation for long, but likely longer than Lindstrom's solo effort. Maybe I'm just a plebeian.

Oh yeah, I can embed video

Goes to show what I know. Who wants to change windows anyways?



Theophilus London: 'Humdrum Town'.

Catchy stuff, winning hook. I think I recently used the word 'soulful' but it applies here too. Though it does make me want to dance, as it should with you.

Also, despite his name, he hails from New York. I guess Theophilus Brooklyn doesn't sound as good. Though, really, it does.

If you liked that, check this tune out:



Theophilus London: 'Ultraviolet'

I'm loving the beat, but he sings lyrics you actually want to listen to, which is more points. Too bad the beat kinda overpowers him on this track. This is from an older mixtape, and that's probably why.

Audience

Audience-Cold War Kids


From their solid EP 'Behave Yourself', which I have admittedly been bombarded with of late
It's soulful and more authentic than their last showing, and certainly a more complete package sonically speaking, though that's not saying much when the whole thing is 14 minutes long. One can hear a bit of gospel even in some of it, and I'm always up for the old gospel influence.

Pass Out

Tinie Tempah - Pass Out

Since this track is making rounds over in England and I understandably have it stuck in my head from last night, I'll pass it along. Anyone who likes M.I.A. might remember she featured on the track I'm Hot with him last year.

I'm feeling that beat is the sound of 2010. Looking for big things from Tinie this year.

Advil

I like how this 10 Pack of Advil I have expires in August 2012. I want to meet the guy who ends up going "Snap, these Advil are expired! Good thing I only need one every 3 months!"

Is it just me, or could a 10 pack expire every six weeks without anyone being the wiser?

But Seriously Folks

It seemed I was nearly obliged to open this blog with the highfalutin escapades of myself as an Edwardian dandy. Perhaps I can elaborate on my historical counterpart in future posts. There really isn't much writing that is more fun than that kind. Try it and see.

Unfortunately, I lack the vivacity to run a blog for each individual subject that I should. I imagine what enables blogs to really take off is their focus, but hopefully the staggering content of mine will compensate for that dearth.

I did have another blog at one point. Of course, I won't link to it, because that would basically be defaming myself.

Yes, no more will my blog be about immature topics such as alcohol bottles warning one about beer goggles, or 101 products you won't believe are made in Hong Kong.

Maybe not. But I'll do my best to keep it fresh and, above all, entertaining. If I do subject you to the odd pedantic rant or 'creative' ebullience, I'll try to offer abundant recompense in the way of snide observations, good tunes, and anything else that will make you want to peer into this dusty little corner of the interwebs.

The Introduction

"Why one might visit the blog of a confirmed rake and dandy of most odious repute" Lady Lethbridge scorned, "far escapes my sensibilities, and, I should imagine, those of any member of respectable society.

"Just so." seconded Mrs Witherspoon. "If Lord Blake pursued virtue as he hunts stags and dowries I dare venture we should be awaiting the entrance of archbishop."

As these ladies of quality were endeavoring to arouse sympathy for their vexation in their less-worldy wards, the subject of their discourse appeared.

Blake offered a sweep of his finely-regaled knee, brave enough to show that the greater part of his reminiscences was calculated to bring a blush to maiden cheeks.

The matriarchs, being long deaf to the cadences of amorous palpitations, glared with not unexaggerated disapproval at the haste with which scarlet penetrated the alabaster countenances of the assembled inamoratas.

Meanwhile, even the most aloof of gallants present could not but right his posture as Blake readied to opine.