KEEP ON KEEPING ON
hello one-dimensionals!
we have a band for both november and december, but locations have yet to be confirmed. until then we'd like to keep it to ourselves, if that's okay with you. pulling something off around the end of september or early october is, alas, proving to be a more difficult task. but hey, as soon as we know you'll know.
for the time being i'm going to leave you with some recommendations i find worth mentioning.
primo, i got earnestly carried away with the two latest grizzly bear songs. 'while you wait for the others' and 'two weeks'.
two weeks:
looking forward to their sophomore album. it seems to turn out a bit poppier than 2006's 'yellow house' and that's fine. i don't necessarily agree with the beach boys influence, i think we could rather speak of a slight motown injection. doesn't matter, i'm sure it'll be grand.
at the electronic and trashy level i'm still enjoying pictureplane a whole lot. and i can't understand a sunny day in glasgow isn't more popular. it's like a modern shoegaze version of new order. and in the same vein, fight bite is certainly worth lending your ears. 'swissex lover' is my current fave. never mind they sound very similar to beach house and that the drumcomputer's pattern comes right out of yo la tengo's saturday, they should've just dropped it. it's sort of obsolete anyway. it reminds me, i recently saw twin peaks again and i could not contain my watery eyes.
isn't this heartcrushing?
the stale machinery grants it a human quality that resonates deep within my being and brings me to tears. if you've never heard of or seen twin peaks, it's one of the best series of the 90's and by extension of all time. written and directed by david lynch, this is some of his most accessible work, but of no lesser value because of it. the second season is maybe not as brilliant as the first, but still and unlike the -by the producing organ's request- clarifying movie 'fire walk with me' certainly of a remarkable quality.
i'm drifting off here. returning to brooklyn, western culture's mecca, and remaining in the ethereal, i'd like to present chairlift to you. formerly just an okay band, 'evident utensil' is good, but not that good, their latest unleashing is from a whole other league.
a G-rated version of caligula, hah:
the singer, caroline polacheck, apparently directed. well, kudos to you, ma'am.
i'll finish with two bands whose names are just sooooooooo tomorrow.
titus andronicus is besides a wonderful and early shakespeare play (a brilliant adaptation into film was made in 1999 with anthony hopkins as titus, portraying him as a perfectly lovable lunatic) the name of a band whom loathe to be compared to bright eyes. but how can we not?! it factually bears a resemblance. i like them better than bright eyes, though.
and the pains of being pure at heart. who are very -watch out, comparison coming!- ride. and lots of other british shoegaze pop from the late 80's or early 90's. anyway, don't you just love that name? it's so twee.
luv luv
xo xo
post scriptum: too bad starlight doesn't like esau mwamwaya!
we have a band for both november and december, but locations have yet to be confirmed. until then we'd like to keep it to ourselves, if that's okay with you. pulling something off around the end of september or early october is, alas, proving to be a more difficult task. but hey, as soon as we know you'll know.
for the time being i'm going to leave you with some recommendations i find worth mentioning.
primo, i got earnestly carried away with the two latest grizzly bear songs. 'while you wait for the others' and 'two weeks'.
two weeks:
looking forward to their sophomore album. it seems to turn out a bit poppier than 2006's 'yellow house' and that's fine. i don't necessarily agree with the beach boys influence, i think we could rather speak of a slight motown injection. doesn't matter, i'm sure it'll be grand.
at the electronic and trashy level i'm still enjoying pictureplane a whole lot. and i can't understand a sunny day in glasgow isn't more popular. it's like a modern shoegaze version of new order. and in the same vein, fight bite is certainly worth lending your ears. 'swissex lover' is my current fave. never mind they sound very similar to beach house and that the drumcomputer's pattern comes right out of yo la tengo's saturday, they should've just dropped it. it's sort of obsolete anyway. it reminds me, i recently saw twin peaks again and i could not contain my watery eyes.
isn't this heartcrushing?
the stale machinery grants it a human quality that resonates deep within my being and brings me to tears. if you've never heard of or seen twin peaks, it's one of the best series of the 90's and by extension of all time. written and directed by david lynch, this is some of his most accessible work, but of no lesser value because of it. the second season is maybe not as brilliant as the first, but still and unlike the -by the producing organ's request- clarifying movie 'fire walk with me' certainly of a remarkable quality.
i'm drifting off here. returning to brooklyn, western culture's mecca, and remaining in the ethereal, i'd like to present chairlift to you. formerly just an okay band, 'evident utensil' is good, but not that good, their latest unleashing is from a whole other league.
a G-rated version of caligula, hah:
the singer, caroline polacheck, apparently directed. well, kudos to you, ma'am.
i'll finish with two bands whose names are just sooooooooo tomorrow.
titus andronicus is besides a wonderful and early shakespeare play (a brilliant adaptation into film was made in 1999 with anthony hopkins as titus, portraying him as a perfectly lovable lunatic) the name of a band whom loathe to be compared to bright eyes. but how can we not?! it factually bears a resemblance. i like them better than bright eyes, though.
and the pains of being pure at heart. who are very -watch out, comparison coming!- ride. and lots of other british shoegaze pop from the late 80's or early 90's. anyway, don't you just love that name? it's so twee.
luv luv
xo xo
post scriptum: too bad starlight doesn't like esau mwamwaya!
