I Fall Over

There's a weird place in the music industry for DJs who obviously make their money from performing live, they enjoy what they are doing, make enough money to live and are constantly putting new stuff out on the internet. Great life. These remixes of popular tracks go up the 'hype' charts and get played in massive clubs around the world, with various 'mash up' names attached. Then they DJs in question will release a studio album, kinda pointless don't you think. Mostly yeah, they've already got their stuff out, why the hell bore an audience with the attention span of a minute and a half?!

Aeroplane is one such act, known mostly for their remixes tearing up various online charts, Vito DeLuca released what can only be described as a poke at the 60s/70s/80s/90s. Who knows. Who cares. It's good is all, listen to it.

I just sighed. I just sighed, just so you know.

I'm currently attempting to redesign my blog, it's proving harder then ever imagined. My friend drew me an awesome wolf (I'mma call it Santiago, the king of wolves) to go in the background but it seems to be too large to add on. I'm fucking useless at computers. Probably because I'm a jock, computer skills are for nerds.

Anyway, today was an OK day. Except the fact that I kept on sighing. To the point where it was weirding me out. I mean seriously a lot. I did't even feel fed up, apparently I was.

Found out about this amazing hip hop group called Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All the other day, actually been listening to the first of their many mixtapes, check them out if you like hip hop, they're a little bit like.... nothing you've probably heard. Put them in the same ship as Eminem, Das Racist, Wu Tang and anything else that your parents didn't want you to listen to when you were 11.

Peace out, Bitch (Sorry)

Drawing conclusions from paranoia

January is a fucking depressing month, the aftermath of the festive period bringing out the very worst in people. Some things are only meant to last over Christmas, apparently optimism is one of those things. Negative thought adding to negative thought adding to negative thought, resulting in shear despair. I'm bumming myself out.

Track of the day - This not only makes me think of my post uni high, three holidays in one summer, hanging out with the Ford family, getting pretty pisssshed but it makes me realise I probably shouldn't let buzzkills get to me. Because The Pigeon Detectives can't think of that many words but still make the all time best selling alternative albums on iTunes. It's all about making an effort to be blissfully ignorant...

Afterthought. That's it, I'm buying a KIGU.

Track of the Day

OK, so I have decided to make this blog a little more than a showcase of whatever I'm listening to at any given moment. I figure if I can put a track up on here every now, maybe some thoughts and then I can make it a little more personal, also my memory is bloody awful at the moment, a record of what I was up to could come in handy in the future!

At the moment I have the horrible feeling of attack from all sides, work, home, friends and relationships all going wrong. Lets all move to London and form a band. Please

Little Comets

There are quite a few albums I'm looking forward to this year, mostly follow ups to great debuts, such as Does It Offend You, Yeah? or new stuff from old old (OLD) favourites, see Beastie Boys long awaited Hot Sauce Committee part II (part 1 pending). It's quite nice to look forward to some debut albums from some new bands.

Step up Little Comets. Album out at the end of the month.

...and for those that like an acoustic version. Here's one involving the whole band, all playing on one instrument. These boys are talented, or have a lot of time on their hands. Same thing (I hope)

I love a bit of Indie, I'ma go see this fugly group of Geordies on the album tour. Nice Jumper ^

Oh yeah, I've been told to make this blog more personal... So here's the personal bit, I'm watching Waynes World right. now.

Albums of 2010: Romance is Boring

Indie punk pop is a weird little genre. Not quite respected in the Indie genre, a little too sweary for radio play and it tends to bitch too much about punk letting everyone down for the hardcore crowd. Kinda shoots itself in the foot actually. And I guess that ties in with the whole punk pop attitude, so everyone's happy, or not happy, or whatever. Fuck it. Los Campesinos! are pretty chuffed

I know I said I wasn't going to pick favourites but this one takes the trophy for me this year, brilliant get up and dance sounds, blissful sit down and think songs. They made me remember the good times and inspired me to relive them.

This album plays like a soundtrack to a middle class suburban upbringing, the songs full of trauma, overblown drama and small town (I guess this is where the indie comes into play!) house party gimics.

A poke or too at certain modern lifestyles attached to the pretentious post rock the started out on, a rather bleak outlook on love and a complete lack of respect for whatever friendship means any more helps paint a very lifelike picture of a lot of twenty-somethings I know.

I'm a massive fan of every track on this album, once again the title track and the singles released are worth starting out on if these guys are new to you. This is a Flag. There is no Wind. A great single with a somewhat confusing story of a kid faking being deaf because he doesn't care what anyone's saying, you have to listen to it

I'd love to say there's a set story to every song, there isn't. It's kind of hidden in the chorus if anywhere, the rest is full of confessions of acts of passion or childhood memory's. Drinking stories are a staple too. The songs are thrashed out with a sense of urgency, pausing only to give us a catchy chorus.

The eight(?)-piece sound fantastic, even after multiple band member changes, people becoming permanent and leaving every other month over the past year. I wish i could put up every song on this blog... but it would look messy, and take agesss. So buy the cd, or steal it if you like the punk part of it.

Go on then, I'll stick an old favourite in too... just a taster. IN A BEER ADVERT

Long live Los Campesinos!

Albums of 2010: The Drums

Next up, it's another band who I will have the pleasure of seeing live in the next few days. It's probably looking like I'm having quite a good winter of music so far! I promise you, my life isn't always this exciting.

The Drums self titled album comes off the back of last years 'Summertime! E.P'. One of my favourite collection of songs from 2009, with Summertime! being an adequate description of their SoCo sunshine style. They were compared a lot to the Beach Boys when they started making waves, with a similar style of writing. Summer love, heartbreak, old American cars and the fact their most popular song is titled 'Let's go surfing' help give them that old California romantic meets The Cure feel.

They've endured enough of these things this year, one of the members leaving the band halfway through the north american tour only to rejoin a month later. Fucking drama... Let's hope they write a bloody song about it.

But seriously, I love this band, and it's a great album. Simple adorable music. Fingers crossed they stay together long enough to put a few more out there.

They also seems to have a pretty heavy affect on the recently dumped. If there's one thing i've learnt about The Drums, it's never put them on whilst in a car with a couple on the rocks, it doesn't create the best of atmospheres...