suicide - surrender

ace song, first heard it in that film attenberg. cool fil m+  good soundtrack e.g that scene with francoise hardy - tous les garcons and an unamplified bass guitar

10:05 pm  •  24 May 2012

nice to see joie de vivre have dropped even more of the rad loud/soft dynamics, minimal interwoven guitars and strained vox that made summer months the best emo record in about 15 years in favour of plodding forgettable songs with tiresomely over literal lyrics, bro’d out gang vocals, way too much horn in the mix. such a shame. did they just stop listening to mineral or something?

8:36 pm  •  24 May 2012  •  4 notes

Cool Revision Tips for Teens: try pouring lukewarm coffee into your lap and then sheepishly looking around to see if anyone saw you. if they didn’t, you win! now you get to trudge back up to your room for a well earned revision break! Cool!

2:07 am  •  24 May 2012

can’t believe i was following The Needle Drops

7:39 pm  •  23 May 2012

i’ve never done this before, but here goes.

my first impressions: Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Ocean

v. disillusioned by the latest magnetic fields album. i’ve struggled to listen to songs with lyrics for 3 or 4 days now. i’m not ruling out going back to it, swallowing my pride and changing my mind but right now i’m still feeling fairly raw about the whole ordeal. i feel like stephen merritt fucked me outright on this…the third in a string of disappointing efforts from, in my eyes, one of the best artists going. although i can’t really justify claiming to feel like a battered wife who, while curled up in the tear stained corner of a dingy living room escapes to hazy recollections of washed out half forgotten warm and sunny days with a younger, kinder him…long before the drinking and the gambling and the lying took hold, but it illustrates how melodramatic i’m willing to get about a disappointing magnetic fields album.

aside from the uncontested gem that is ‘andrew in drag’, the passable ‘quick’ and the admittedly pretty damn good ‘all she cares about is mariachi’ the album is comprised of largely forgettable hookless shadows of the fantastic, intelligent lo fi electronic pop we’d come to expect after ‘Holiday’ and ‘The House of Tomorrow’. songs like ‘infatuation (with your gyration)’ are almost unlistenably wank by Magnetic Fields’ admittedly lofty standards, and you’ve pretty much forgotten about ‘the machine in your hand’ half way through the song.

after massively anticipating their return to electronic instrumentation after 2010’s dull ‘Realism’ i was pained to discover that the melodies and synths, rather than the expected charming and melodic bleeps and bloops that Merritt always excelled at interweaving with his stunning lyricism are now hyperactive and grating in their execution. instead of engrossed, i found myself mildly irritated and longing for the end for the majority of these tracks. and they scarcely pass the two minute mark! ridiculous.

of course if this album was made by anyone else it’d be different. but it’s not. so it isn’t.

make yr own mind up: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/26/147195131/first-listen-the-magnetic-fields-love-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea

what i wanted more of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzsrEpM082M

5:41 pm  •  5 March 2012

1. wu tang vs the beatles (7)
2. Grouper (6)
3. My Little Airport (4)
4. The Long Blondes (4)
5. My Bloody Valentine (4)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

7:03 am  •  27 December 2011  •  1 note

1. The Long Blondes (29)
2. Blouse (17)
3. Oneohtrix Point Never (11)
4. Grouper (11)
5. Pavement (10)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

8:42 am  •  22 December 2011

1. Wild Nothing (33)
2. The Fire Engines (21)
3. The Sound (20)
4. Wire (18)
5. McCarthy (16)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

6:26 pm  •  15 December 2011

the sound - counting the days

2:23 am  •  6 December 2011  •  3 notes

hearinggold:

MEMORY CASSETTE

Manchester’s InkShips appears to be a relative newcomer to the blogosphere of music, with only a Soundcloud account and a Tumblr blog to start with (and just added a Facebook page). Matt McMahon is the man behind the moniker, making light, catchy and playful electronic pop numbers with a certain warm analog aesthetic running throughout them. We’re glad he decided to hit us up with his new track “Cassettes” because it’s simply incredible. 

Definitely keep your eyes on InkShips as there’s no doubting that greater things are soon to come from him and you can take our word for it. In fact, we’re thinking of throwing it in the gold status collection…yep, just did. You can grab his debut track “Cassettes” down below; we’ve only played it 57 times already since its upload a day ago.

MP3: InkShips - Cassettes

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this rules, the synths reminds me of ‘evenings’. i also live across the hall from this guy

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12:24 am  •  15 November 2011  •  12 notes