This is the background music as I try to sleep after a long long day at work and then 90 minutes of watching Brighton and Hove Albion make hard work of a draw against Cardiff. It's a chillout mix by LeFtO who lives in Montreal and it is aural nectar indeed. Good night.
07 March 2012
hey jane
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Spiritualized have uploaded to Soundcloud the first track to be released from their upcoming new album and if this 8 minute monster is anything to go by it will be a big player in the best album of 2012 compilations. It's a rocky number that's reminiscent of Primal Scream at their most majestic. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album.
rhye - 'open'
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Who is Rhye? I have my suspicions but I'll let you, dear reader, make your own mind up without me putting ideas into your head. Whoever it is has landed an absolute joy with this track. I've had it on loop all morning.
explosions in my mind
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I rarely get hangovers especially on school nights where you will more likely than not find me at home with a cup of tea. Last night was different. I caught up with an old friend I hadn't seen in yonks and we saw the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. I love their sound, their kick-arse attitude and the main man interspersing the music with a Southern Baptist preacher's fervour. The gig was great, the poor venue notwithstanding but I am paying for it this morning. I think some reflective music is in order and somehow we can get through this day together.
Stina Nordenstam - 'Circus'
Sigur Ros - 'Untitled VII'
Conquering Animal Sounds - 'Bear'
The Low Anthem - 'To Ohio (Reprise)'
06 March 2012
the hard cell
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This little film is part of the extras that comes with Bjork's recent Biophilia album and is an exploration of the human body at a cellular level. Bjork provides the background music to a beautiful yet slightly dark animation by biochemist Dave Berry.
still got the blues
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Damien Jurado - 'With Lightning In Your Hands'
Zero 7 - Warm Sound
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - I Feel You Happen
I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning. I seem to be alright once I get out but it's that initial point of pulling back the covers and rising from the duvet cocoon. Here's a few tunes to help you through the morning.
Damien Jurado - 'With Lightning In Your Hands'
Zero 7 - Warm Sound
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - I Feel You Happen
05 March 2012
xtermination - 'the pope of pop'
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Can I leave you with this before I head to bed. It's a brilliantly bubbly retro album (actually it's a demo but it sounds pretty near finished to me) of tracks that wouldn't look out of place on a Wiseguys album. Xtermination is Piotr Warzawski who hails from Krakow and is entirely home written, arranged and produced. Taking all this into account it sounds amazing. and the album gets better and better as you get into it. In parts it has a Depeche Mode or Blancmange feel to it and in other places perhaps Unkle or Apollo 440. It's a shame the first two tracks are where they are as I think there are stronger opening tracks from this he could have chosen. I think this is my only criticism and I feel a bit bad for saying this as he really doesn't deserve anything but praise for creating such a strong album.
monday mix part deux
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These popped up on my iPod on the way home and I thought to myself that these tunes really ought to go on my blog.
The first by Ambulance Ltd sounds post-Brit Pop with a heavy guitar and leads very nicely into the banshee wails and crunching shoegazing of U.S. Christmas. The last is quite some departure as I lead out with moody bass and electronica overload. It is of course Senking.
Ambulance Ltd - 'Yoga Means Union'
U.S. Christmas - 'Maran'
Senking - V8
monday mix
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Peaking Lights - 'Key Sparrow'
Gruff Rhys - Epynt
Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Storm'
The Eels - 'Climbing to the Moon'
Peaking Lights - 'Key Sparrow'
Gruff Rhys - Epynt
04 March 2012
saint saviour - midnight city
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I think this might even have smashed into second place the original by M83. Saint Saviour sings. We should listen.
ane brun - worship (ft josé gonzález)
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Lifted from her new album It All Starts With One, Ane Brun released recently the fourth and final part of the video series 'One' based on songs from said album. The first two parts have yet to be released yet and hopefully when they do, the video will make more sense but at the moment I am just enjoying the bizarre visualisation of a trippy little number with one hell of a guest singer.
alabama shakes
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I think you'll like this, especially if you are a blues fan. In fact I'll stake my inconsequential reputation on it.
go to sleep
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GO TO SLEEP mixed by Nite Jewel
It's the title that Nite Jewel has given this little mix of hers ahead of her new album to be released shortly. I guess a Sunday morning chill out is the next best thing to going back to bed so it seems apt to post here. It's well worth persevering with if the first track seems too maudlin for your ears as it goes off on all sorts of quiet tangents. I've added the tracklisting below also.
GO TO SLEEP mixed by Nite Jewel
1. Go To Sleep - Gothic Hut
2. Take Me To Your Heart (Live) - Eurythmics
3. Do I - Baby Buddha
4. Faking Jazz Together - Connan Mockasin
5. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
6. Suicide Notes (From Jolee) - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
7. North Star - Daryl Hall
8. Psychic Returns - Paradise
9. The Two Of Us - Earth & FIre
10. Angela - Vitamin Z
11. Annunciation - Bill Nelson
12. White Car In Germany - The Associates
nora batty
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Ok, it's a terrible pun and almost certainly lost on any non-British blog readers of at least a certain age. I apologise because the music deserves your attention. The ever-excellent Leon Somov and Jazzu have released a new song on Soundcloud and I like it. It's quite radio-friendly, a little simpler in its construction and content than the music I've heard them make previously but I'm a great believer in the process of minimialising music to allow the musicians to make more complex statements. I know this sounds a contradiction in terms but it can be difficult sometimes to appreciate the individual nuances of a song in something like a Spector 'Wall of Sound' production. Am I making sense? Probably not and once again time for me to stop rambling.
olafur arnalds and nils frahm live improvisation
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Sometimes I make a discovery that is just so life-affirming that I begin to wax lyrical about it. I've re-written this intro about a dozen times because it seems to over-egg the description of what is essentially a simple project. To hell with the words, let's just listen to the music because this is incredible.
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