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SIC
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skream, black keys and the Inception soundtrack

back to bed
or more coffee?

Minaj
LCD
No Age
Janelle
concretes
mgmt
puritans
liars
chemical brothers
phantom band

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....Good Evening and Crack In The Paint. Really? You sure about that? Those are two crackingly peerlessly elegant concoctions and any album that those as the least memorable tunes is...well, it's got nothing much to worry about.

fri 15 Koko Club NME
sat 16 The Corner
wed 29 Luminaire

Fol Chen: Part 1. John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made (Asthmatic Kitty)

Yacht: See Mystery Lights (DFA)

Jessica Lea Mayfield: With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (munich)

Miniature Tigers: Tell It To The Volcano (Modern Art)

Mos Def: The Ecstatic (Downtown)

Doves: Kingdom Of Rust (EMI)

Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (EMI)

Freelance Whales: Weathervanes (s/r)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz (Interscope)

White Denim: Fits (Full Time Hobby)

a track he did for Halloween just now. 17 mins of John Carpenter (thru the disco rainbow natch) esque joy.

Believe me I have little or no patience for tracks of that length as a rule but it do KICK. Oh, it DO.

the thing looks and feels rather sexy too, packaging fans

BRILLIANT

better pop music
for all

funny cool fun pop music

LCD meets Tom Tom Club

lighten up suckers

the cribs have never written a song that isnt massively catchy

thanks for listening

cept this record is awesome
and is not in anyway short of catchy songs

well, you are entitled to your opinion
sorry they don't fit in your pigeonholey world.

the album rocks
and wtf is this Emo again?

They really do not sound like any Emo band I ever heard, or has the emo term just been expanded to cover everything from Brigh Eyes to White Stripes, Fall Out Boy to S Pumpkins.
Oh it has?
well, they they are emo, I guess.
As are we all

white denim. air france. the gay blades. akira the don. oh my

go see him
it is special

sean <3 FOB

hmmmmmmm

but didnt i put this record down thrice earlier and now my posts are gone and my fence is flapping in the wind, and Icouldnt sit on it, even if I wanted to. Which i dont.

so, to recap

worst record ever

and why TVOTR so low?

that Brustreet is completley aweseom

TVOTR Golden Age
Fleet Foxes White Winter Humnal
Deerhunter Agarophobia
MGMT Time To Pretend
Gentlemen Auction House ABCDEFGraveyard
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Buriedfed
Air France Collapsing At Your Doorstep

1. TVOTR Dear Science
2. Black Mountain In The Future
3. Santogold Santogold
4. David Holmes Holy Pictures
5. Beck Modern Guilt

6. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
7. Fuck Buttons Street Horssing
8. Crystal Castles s/t

just out of shot:
Portishead Third
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Nick Cave Dig Lazarus Dig
Bon Iver For Emma

Black Angels

d-d-d-d-dancin

x5

20th October
FREE PARTY
LEFT WITH PICTURES live
FIREWORKS NIGHT live
LEISURE SOCIETY live
AIR FRANCE DJ set

free stuff
free CDs
free shots
free entry
free nelson mandela*
free love*

*subject to availabililty

dill crisps

awesome idea

if you find out , let me know, and I'll buy you a packet

i went to sweden once
they have dill for breakfast lunch and dinner

god I love dill

do any other readers have a favourite herb?

i am quite liking tarragon too at the mo

Golden Age = Wanna Be Startin Something

which is odd

unlike all his others

and
if you like Beck'd latest effort then
this walks a similar path
sonically

it just sounds sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

won't happen again

the Roses and the Pistols made tow of the greatest debut albums EVER

their timing was stupendous and lucky

both shoulda stopped there

PiL had their moments,

but they are fucking peas in a pod
Imagine that
Peaking at 20
How would you end up?
Defensive and humourless and paranoid.
Probably.
Me too.

You also.

But damn those two records.

For shit.
If you dont like them, you are deaf or just making a stance. Good for you.

next week

kanye reveals both Timba and Jay-Z might be on his record

in other news

what happened to Eminem? did he die?

in other other news

Dre reveals his album sounds a bit old fashioned now. gonna leave it 3 more years until it ripens and becomes old skool. album to feature kanye and snoop.

in yet more news

snoop's new album to feature kanye, timba, dre, jay z and 2pac

meanwhile
special tupac's latest record
"best thing happened my career" is to be a quadruple album and will only feature female musicians. janis, left eye, aalyiah, and oh I dunno, nina simone

stop press:
nina simone declares "I am not dead, white boy". adding, think I might have that Kanye make me a record.

start press up again

kanye and timba both confess to employing ex members of Michael Jackson to make all ther beats.

Jackson, 74, looking tired announced his retirement, saying "I love those boys and I am proud to have made each and every one of the 563 Kanye joints that have cluttered up the charts since 2003. But enough is enough. I am going back to what I do best. Yaawyy-uh!"

Kanye revealed to be blind and retarded and the product of a bet between timba and Dre in 2002 about who is dumbest

and several of their records

Back In Black
For Thise About To Rock

to name two

are PURRRFECT

once yu get to having four albums they do tend to blend a tad

but there is more rock genius scattered throughout their worst album

than
say
all of Biffy Clyro's records

alrighty is right

and any couple of their songs is fine

but they all sound exactly the same

you can sing any one of their songs over any one of their backing tracks

d
u l

l

YAY

I knew Nick.
Good man. If a bit mad.
One time, me and him walked into famed Rock'n'roll hotel, TheColumbia, looking for a late night drink.
Normally you will find Mogwai or sundry bands staying there and mild to severe partying and good times.
Cept
this time
it was block booked by abut 300 St Helen's Rugby League fans, with tatts and rugby shirts and moustaches and sensible haircuts and it was about 1am or so and they were not sober.
A real Slaughtered Lamb moment when we rolled in shouting and hammered.
Nick clocks the scene.
Everyone is looking at us.
He asks them who they are and what they are all here for?
One says it's for a big game that day, which by the looks of things, they had lost.
Nick looks the sky and says in a very loud and clear voice
"I have always thought that Rugby...................................................... is a fucking poofs game"
A little piece of me shrivelled up and other parts of me braced for the inevitable.
My life flashed before me, incoherently.
But, the bunch nearest us, started laughing and soonthey all did.
And then they bought us some beers.

Says Nick,
"I knew we'd be alright here"

Says me
"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,well at least we aren't dead"

Says NIck
"Exactly"

if he need tea bags
he be all
sho nuff, I'll remix your song....for 100,000 tea bags

or
I'll play thunderscreaming kaleido-armageddoguitar in your band on tour if you deposit £5K credit with British Gas

or
sure, I'll soundtrack your hopelessly dull film.................for a walk-in freezer stuffed with steak

or
sure I'll reform my legendary band for
ten years credit with Addison Lee

or yeah I'll write a new album
for...............a massive advance. shouldnt take more than 17 years....ho ho ho ho.....oh.

he like the queen
but better dressed

God Save Our Shields (not his real name by the way but the result of a lifetime sponsorship by a soap company)

NOT THE SPZ

fleet foxes
portishead
subtle
crystal castles
bon iver
neon neon
modest mouse (was that this year?)
wolf parade
miles benjamin anthony robinson
mgmt
hot chip
mae shi
my morning jacket

not heard wild beasts, fuckbuttons, no age or why? yet so mebbe them

nick cave, elbow, breeders
are OK but mainly getting props for not being awful

I'll tell you what is awful tho
foals
vampire weekend
lup fiasco
lil wayne
coldplay
los camps

you recall

that one with Fucked Up, and who could forget Peter & The Test Tube Babies Xmas 03 campaign

i bought my nuts exclusively from them all thru 2004.

word.

and I like her album

a lot

mogwai most obviously
sigur ros for the quieter bits

others from slowdive, ride and chapterhouse on for the swirly guitars and detuned (!) voices low in ther mix
but
alas
they all sucked
cos
it is just a bit more complicated than that.
Mr Shields IS a geniyuss (props also obv to colm, deb and bilinda) and he clearly feels the music and bends it the way he knows it must go and from only shallow to soon to you made me realise, that is in some very different directions, and he was striving for a particular target each time.
all the copyists' targets were to make it sound as good as MBV;
so they failed.

word

there are two thinga MBV and MV have in common and that is the letters M and V

end of

dammit

three things

1. this album is amaaaazing. tune after tune. it utterly cuts loose and allows the genres that nudged their way in on Z to go to their logical conclusions. i know serious bands arent allowed to be fun and kerrazy guys are not allowed to be po faced, but yknow, fuck that.

2. i like at dawn too. and BoH and FF. but if they kept makng 'at dawn' that would just be a bit lame wouldn't it. y'all'd be "do we'all need another MMJ record, they are cool and all but all sound the same". see also fleet foxes 6th album.

3. loosen up people

*................goes misty*

except the hype that was not true about The Rising is actually true about Magic, but in an inverted Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario, no-one, myself included believed it.

Funny old world