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manchester is actually kind of pretty in the summer

Mon, 28 May 2012 11:59:28 +0100

manchester is actually kind of pretty in the summer

“the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under...

Mon, 28 May 2012 11:40:43 +0100

“the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread” - Anatole France

pooch problems

Mon, 28 May 2012 11:35:00 +0100

need help, i was listening to the new jam city lp ‘classical curves’ and it’s attracted many fraught pups. i was only three or four songs in when local dogs set upon me and began pouring through my doors and windows at an unbelievable rate. i’ve locked myself in the bathroom for the time being until the album finishes and these mutts disperse. in conclusion, cool album

suicide - surrender ace song, first heard it in that film...

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:05:00 +0100

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

BITTER FIRST IMPRESSIONS #2: half way through the new jdv album

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:36:53 +0100

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?

Cool Revision Tips for Teens: try pouring lukewarm coffee into your lap and then sheepishly looking...

Thu, 24 May 2012 02:07:52 +0100

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!

first time back on here in a long time

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:39:38 +0100

can’t believe i was following The Needle Drops

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

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:41:00 +0000

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

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25)

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:03:36 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:42:41 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:26:03 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11):

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the sound - counting the days

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:23:22 +0000

the sound - counting the days

hearinggold: MEMORY CASSETTE Manchester’s InkShips appears to...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:24:12 +0000

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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