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Music/Poems
26.07.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Are haikus getting old? Is there another form of poetry you would like to see music reviews in? Comment away.

Live At The Aragon – Mastodon
Crack The Skye in its
entirety, plus other
concert favourites

Fomo – Liam Finn
Displaying usual
consistent quality with
added “spaciness”

Ukulele Songs – Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam front man jumps
on bandwagon. What have you
wrought, uke orchestra?!?

The Dark Side Of The Moon – The Flaming Lips & Stardeath And White Dwarfs
Pink Floyd opus by
way of Wayne Coyne’s musical
circus plus Peaches

Smoking In Heaven – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
As a child of the
nineties, musical siblings
recall Hanson bros

Habits – Neon Trees
American alt-
rock band from Provo, Utah.
Good ole wiki, eh?
Music, New, Vic Ferrari
Rock Fight!
20.07.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Two noteworthy music videos were released yesterday and they will battle it out on your computer screens in our new feature, Rock Fight! How exactly do pieces of film set to music battle you ask? By being watched sequentially and then voted on in the comments. Easy.

Our first combatants in the ring are The Beastie Boys featuring Santigold with Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win off their album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.

Good stuff, Beasties! (FYI; Santigold’s album is here)

Taking them on in this titanic struggle is Rebecca Black with her new song, My Moment. She doesn’t have an album yet because she is such a fresh new artist, but I understand an ep is in the works, look for it coming to the library soon!

Nice one, Rebecca!

Now that you’ve sized up both contenders, vote for your favourite in the comments. Who will win the Rock Fight!?!
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
Some New Things To Hear
07.07.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Suck It And See – The Arctic Monkeys
You shouldn’t take the
title literally, tastes like
plastic and cardboard

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
How they resisted
temptation to include Pink
Floyd is beyond me

The End Of The World Party – I See Stars
Someone’s primary
instrument is listed as
“screams” in liner notes

Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? – Paloma Faith
But, Paloma, you’re
beautiful. Does this mean you
don’t exist? #confused

Need You Now – Lady Antebellum
“Antebellum” is
an architectural style.
The more you know, huh?

Fight Or Flight – Emily Osment
Hannah Montana
franchise spawns another
teen pop sensation
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
New Music: International Edition
14.06.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Blood Pressure – The Kills
Boy/Girl duo’s brand
new adventures in lo-fi
minimalism.

Blood Mountain – Mastodon
Mammoth species
lived from the Oligocene
through to Pleistocene.

Born This Way – Lady Gaga
Temporarily
banned in Lebanon due to
controversial themes.

BTR – Big Time Rush
Manufactured band
with a TV show. Is there
any other way?

Vices & Virtues – Panic! At The Disco
Two members exit
and the punctuation mid
band name reappears.

Glee, The Music: Volume Six
Placeholding series
of syllables, no further
insight to offer.

Where Did The Night Fall – Unkle
Unkle can always
be relied upon to make
great videos, see.

Moment Bends – Architecture In Helsinki
Neoclassical
features adorn buildings of
Finland’s capital.

Coming soon, New Music: New Zealand Edition
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
Hot New Jams
02.06.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Glee Presents: The Warblers
A cappella glee
club from a fictional school
down in Ohio

Sparks Fly – Miranda Cosgrove
iCarly starlet
follows Hannah Montana
blueprint to success

Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
The follow up to
an eponymous debut,
released to acclaim

James Blake – James Blake
Dubstep goes Chillwave.
Electro goes Minimal.
Trip-hop, I suppose.

This Modern Glitch - The Wombats
Marsupial-themed
cynics’ sophomore effort
adds some bpm

Love? – Jennifer Lopez
American Idol
judge capitalizes on
re-found relevance

Greatest Hits – Bon Jovi
Those old dudes that were
at the stadium last year
re-package, add four.

Major Flavours 2011 – DJ Sir-Vere
Hiatus over,
Sir-Vere again mixes, cuts
up and destroys tracks
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
The Music That Has Most Recently Arrived
19.04.11 | Permalink | Comment?

The Best Of – Nelly Furtado
Has she now – like a
bird – flown away? Or is this
a stop-gap album?

Queen – Queen
How many dudes do
you know that rocked a mic stand
like this? Not many.

Awesome As F**k – Green Day
Apparently their
live shows are more awesome than
most everything.

London Sessions – LCD Soundsystem
I will miss you James
Murphy. Like, a whole lot. Is
this really goodbye?

Angles – The Strokes
Former coolest band
in world returns from lengthy
hiatus to rock

Femme Fatale – Britney Spears
Nico reference
excepting, it’s not really
that avant at all.

The King Of Limbs - Radiohead
All summaries pale
compared to animated
.gifs, see example.

Wonders Of The Younger – Plain White Ts
Essential wardrobe
items release another
album. Their sixth.

Seasons Of The Soul – Rumer
“I’d have these moods in
my soul that would come around
like seasons” – Rumer

No More Idols – Chase & Status
Polished dubstep from
United Kingdom duo, plus
many, many guests.

Build A Rocket Boys! – Elbow
Well received alt-rock
featuring nostalgia as
the major motif.

F.A.M.E. – Chris Brown
Forgiveness rhythm
and blues record? Fans are my
(his) everything.
Trailers, Vic Ferrari
Trailer Tuesday
22.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

More trailers! Because it is Tuesday!

Jane Eyre will be in cinemas on March 11, but perhaps you want to read the book first? Reserve it here.

Radiohead’s new album King Of Limbs is available for download here, but physical copies won’t be out until May, thus we don’t have it yet. If you are undecided whether to buy it or not, consider this video of first single Lotus Flower the trailer…

Fin.
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
Reviews As Haikus
28.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Kele – The Boxer

Bloc Party frontman
releases solo debut,
the indie kids dance.

Moby – Go, the best of Moby

Outspoken vegan
makes enough singles to just-
-ify a best of.

Various Artists – Stroke: songs for Chris Knox

Tributes for legends
should all be as good as this.
Get well soon, Chris Knox.

Marina and the Diamonds – The Family Jewels

“I’m from Ancient Greece”
- Marina Diamandis
That’s a weird claim, huh?

Groove Armada – Black Light

It’s the “dark album”
hi-NRG synth-pop tunes
abound on their sixth

Alicia Keys – As I am : the super edition

What makes it super?
The DVD probably.
Soulful as usual.

Basement Jaxx – Singles

Another dance group
collects songs and puts them on
a disc. Repackage.

Sia – We are born

Sunshine pop from a
blonde-haired, blue-eyed lady from
the antipodes.

Nesian Mystik – 99AD

The Nesian Mystiks
return, Scribe shows up, so does
a guy called Wise. Chur.
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
Five New CDs
29.06.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Rap veterans De La Soul took a look back upon their careers in 2003 and realised they had accumulated enough “hits” to seperate out the “greatest” ones onto a CD and make a nice sounding compilation out of it. Timeless was the aptly named result. Includes the fantastic; Me, Myself and I, Ring Ring Ring (Hey Hey Hey) and the fantastically named; Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa.

Progression Vol. 2 promises on the cover to be “A journey through the big room club sounds of 2009″. A quick google search sheds no light on what exactly big room clubs sound like, but as it’s a Ministry Of Sound compilation, big trance records are a good guess. Features remixes of tracks by Oliver Twizt, Juan Kidd, Cunnie Williams, MDX and other artists.

After looking through the liner notes of Bi-On-Ic, Christina Aguilera’s new album, I can inform you that she’s taken a leaf out of the Lady Gaga book of fashion. Has she been similarly influenced music-wise? Probably. The cover is pretty exciting, it’s a hologram that when tilted at the correct angle, makes her look like a robot. +1 for robots.

Local dubsters, Fat Freddy’s Drop have been to the UK recently. They played some shows and whatnot and now we have live documentation, Live at Roundhouse London. It only has six songs on it, but they are all well over 10 minutes long. So don’t be fooled looking at the tracklisting and thinking you’re getting “shortchanged” somehow.

Hey, remember Pluto? Their rhythm section formed a side project called Nightchoir, which has now turned into a middle project (that’s the opposite of side project, right?). Anyway, 24 Hours Of Night is what they’ve come up with and early reviews call it “staggeringly beautiful” a “focused vision” and “alt-country”. Pretty much sums it up for me.
Music, New, Synthesiser Patel
Things For Listening
17.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Owl City is a one man electro band, conjured up on sleepless nights by Adam Young in his parents’ basement. It includes a chart topping single (Fireflies) and a viral hit (Hello Seattle) and launched a successful world tour on the back of debut effort, Ocean Eyes. Maybe the next time you can’t sleep you should make an album instead of a midnight snack, clearly it pays dividends.

Oh man, Britney Spears’ singles are sooooo bangin’. I wish someone would have the foresight to compile them on a single disc that the library would buy and put in it’s YA collection so the hit parade could just keep on rollin’ from 1999 all the way to 2009. Oh wait, it looks as though The singles collection completely fits that bill. Well then.

Pixie Lott is a rising, young R&B/Pop star who gained label attention from the songs posted on her myspace, ala Lily Allen, which is a good example as she is not too disimilar in style. Turn It Up is an enthusiastic, infectious first effort that has all the teen pop fans talking.

Vampire Weekend were already indie-famous on the strength of their first album, but now that Twilight fever has truly gripped the globe, they could be set for proper-famous given that they’ve aligned their personal brand so closely with the now ubiquitous, undead coffin-dwellers. If they were called RPattz Weekend they could be bigger than U2. Based on my sound (?) reasoning Contra should be massive, the sunshiney indie-pop songs within help though.

The Temper Trap are a Melbourne band with grand ambition. The songs on Conditions, their debut, are almost all big ballady melodramas designed for stadiums. If Muse, Coldplay, Keane, Snow Patrol and the like are the sorts of cats in your bag, pop these young upstarts in beside them. Ok?

And lastly, Katy Perry’s MTV Unplugged is here. It includes live, acoustic performances of seven of songs on the CD, on the DVD are the same seven songs, but with added visuals and an interview. A reminder to all of us who’ve forgotten that the “M” in MTV stands for music.

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