The other week Soopsworld (after a tip off from Mitch of guest-blogging and singer-songwriter fame) recommended the trio of Pretty Lights eps released this year. Well, we still have them on repeat so here they all are merged into one playlist for your listening pleasure.
I first heard this in January when Spoon – Transference came out. It was quite possibly the worst song I could have heard at the time, to the point I actually laughed out loud at the absurdity, it cut so close to the bone. Time heals, etc and it remains a beautiful song, powerful with it’s simplicity.
Okay so the surfer 60s garage rock thing clearly aint gonna quit anytime soon so sod it, let’s just embrace it and hope the sunshine on our stereos/ipods/computers makes up for the cold, rainy greyness outside.
First up, Harlem – who’s album was out in the summer (as was this video but it’s genre we’re going by today, not super-newness)
Listen to their album on Spotify: Harlem – Hippies
Then, tipped off by Rollo & Grady we have a suitably bitchin’ video from Sex Beet
And then the video for ‘Hey Cool Kid’ by Cloud Nothings because I’ve been ever so slightly obsessed with it for the past week or so.
Listen to their album on Spotify: Cloud Nothings – Turning On
See you Friday
Soops x
Posted in Cooooooool
Tagged Albums You Might Like, Cloud Nothings, Harlem, music videos, Sex Beet, Spotify, surfer-rock
Right, after the weekend’s X Factor ‘interactive’ trash-fest (well, watching X-Factor while engaging in either Twitter banter or scoffing crisps or both, which is trickier than it sounds), back to mooching around recent(ish) albums for aural pleasure if you will.
So, take Yeasayer’s ‘Odd Blood’, add Glasser’s ‘Ring’, Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms’ and one of my favourite albums of the year so far, Four Tet’s ‘There Is Love In You’, whack all 4 into one mighty playlist and set your Spotify to shuffle = electro-psychedelic-existential-bliss for your Monday afternoon GlasserNeon IndianYeasayerFourtet
(NB: you can listen to it another time if you want)
Posted in Amazingness, Cooooooool
Tagged Four Tet, Glasser, Neon Indian, playlists, Spotify, Yeasayer
To say the floodgates of aceness opened this week would be an apt way of explaining the not one but TWO link clouds this week – one music and one that’s everything else. And that was after editing it down. Ridic.
Most people would save some of it for next week but the blog’s kind of like my attention span = high turnover but most probably like you, I keep coming back to the stuff I love. Cue gratuitous opportunity to link to Ty Segall – Girlfriend which I’ve already included before but I’ve been rinsing the Hype Machine link so much, it’s being included again.
I was lucky enough to get into A Night With The Artisans on Wednesday at The Luminaire in Kilburn. Yep, total result landing that one – I couldn’t quite believe my luck! After weeks of playing The Kinbeats stuff on their MySpace, I really wanted to see them play live (I flew solo and sober – THAT’S how much I wanted to see them) – they didn’t disappoint by any means but it was the openers, Onlookers that had the biggest impact on me that night. Now, it’s no secret on this site that I love 60s-ness and also am partial to VERY LOUD GUITARS – with Onlookers, they wore their influences with pride and their set was so tight it was ridiculous, I’ve been playing the 3 tracks on their MySpace ever since. See them if you get the chance. Last on was Frankie & The Heartstrings who, I’ll confess, I was a bit wary of until recently because there has been so much hype about them by ‘types’, I wanted to run a mile. After seeing the Tender video, I warmed – you can’t knock moves like those – but live, they’re a different league. Frankie Francis is a born front-man, charisma, attitude, shimmying, the lot – I can’t wait to see him working the inevitable bigger crowds in a few months time but I feel lucky I got to see them on their ascent.
Before we get to the music links cloud, David (of previous recommending albums on this blog fame) reckons James Yuill – Movement In A Storm for this week but also is chucking White Ring in for good measure.
Those Darlins – Night Jogger Air Castles – Broken Watches Warpaint – Billie Holiday Lazertag – Strange Glow Claire Maguire – Ain’t Nobody (Memory Tapes Remix) Onlookers – Soft Hinged Brother The Kinbeats – New Morning Jukebox The Ghost – Empire Frankie & The Heartstrings – Ungrateful
So after last weeks Hipster piss-taking, I did a little light YouTubing and stumbled upon Spike Jonze’s take on the genre (it’s now a genre right?) and also, following on from that surreal IKEA herding cats thing last week – the inevitable parody has surfaced in response.
Before we get to the link cloud of awesome stuff – may I bring to your attention a video that came to my attention early in the week that I predict to either go super-viral and/or inspire a wave of YouTube CVs. Graeme Anthony posted his interactive CV on YouTube and it’s going off – keep an eye on him.
Go Record Shopping With Les Savy Fav Cache Rules Everything Around Me By Evan Roth IKEA Herding Cats Parody Vote for The Boot Sale in this year’s Virgin Media Shorts We Are Scientists Give Good Video Derek & Clive are Muppets
Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko
Around The World – by Nick R
Dammit! – by Rob
Dammit! is a club night of pop punk, nu metal and general heavy, riff laden, swear ridden, emo posing, shout along and pump your fist AWESOME!
Tonight @Camden Head, Camden High Street, NW1 0LU
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One thing guaranteed to put a big Cheshire Cat grin on my face is witnessing a packed, sticky indie dancefloor in the early hours of the morning roaring ‘Juicebox’ like their lives depended on it. You can imagine how sick with jealousy I was of the charmed few that managed to get into the Strokes gig at Dingwalls in Camden on Wednesday. Quite possibly one of the worst kept secret ever, news that ‘Venison’ were playing went viral Tuesday late Tuesday morning and all hope of getting a ticket unless you knew someone that knew the band evaporated swiftly. I’m not bitter, I saw them at Ally Pally on the Reptilia tour (an aircraft carrier of a venue that appears to be an acoustic vortex but hey, I still saw The Strokes) and mere mention of them has had me adding them to Spotify playlists and soundtracking journeys to and from work all over again. Say what you will about them but there are only a few bands that can have that effect on people. Without The Strokes I wouldn’t have gotten into Television or The Velvet Underground nearly as much, without The Strokes I probably wouldn’t have become so obsessed with the New York music scene that preceded and followed them, without The Strokes – indie dancefloors wouldn’t be nearly as well dressed.
Oh and Big Brother & The World Cup have started as well – I might write about those next week. No link cloud this week cos have had my nose stuck in Malcom Gladwell books all week and meant to be giving my poorly eyes a rest from computer screens for a bit. Here’s a link to The Shins covering Squeeze’s Goodbye Girl (via @PMA) and the link to the new Sky Ferreira single ‘One’ though.
Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko
Two playlists this week, one from my friend Devi and the set-list from the other night’s Strokes gig (I’m not bitter – REALLY I’M NOT)
Chilled – by Devi
Strokes ‘Secret’ Gig Set List (no I didn’t get in either) – by Soops
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Tagged Disco Al Desko, Sky Ferreira, Spotify, The Shins, The Strokes
