Posts Tagged ‘Rock’

Magical Numbers

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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Their first self-titled album The Magic Num­bers stands apart for my ear­lier music explo­ration days… I can dis­tinctly remem­ber see­ing a review of this on Pitch­fork years back (found it! link) and lis­ten­ing to one song– that was enough for me to run out and get the album.

Their fol­low up didn’t really strike a cord the same way the first one did. A time and a place? I don’t know– I hope maybe some­day they’ll come back.

The 3 minute mark on Love Me Like You and the 3 minute mark on Which Way to Happy both stand out for me on this album.

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1. Love Me Like You
2. Which Way to Happy

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Club Status

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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Two Door Cin­ema Club are fan­tas­tic. I loved “Some­thing Good Can Work” but that pales in com­par­i­son to the excite­ment I have for some of the new tunes that are leak­ing off their debut LP titled: Tourist His­tory. They just have that pop-rock awe­some feel that I love. Its got more depth and more lay­ers and just sounds fan­tas­tic. I would echo the sen­ti­ments expressed on Asian­Man­Dan that this record is pol­ished. Way to go dudes. With such a great col­lec­tion of songs they will undoubt­edly have a fan­tas­tic sum­mer tour­ing sched­ule lined up. Hope­fully every­one can catch them. Their songs lend to that fun sun­shine atmos­phere for sure. Look out 2010– Two Door Cin­ema Club are ready to kick some ass/ sign me up.

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1. Two Door Cin­ema Club — BBC Radio 1 Annie Mac Mini Mix

2. Two Door Cin­ema Club — Under­cover Martyn

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If You Like Noise / Experimental / Post-rock

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Here are some good­ies for you to check out.

Fuck But­tons is a two-piece exper­i­men­tal group from Lon­don, Eng­land, bring­ing Noise and Drone to the world in a non-threatening way.

No Age Hail­ing from LA, this Noise-Rock band is more Indie-friendly. Suit­able for those who are per­haps not so ready for Fuck But­tons, but are tempted to try dip­ping their toes into the pool of Noise gently.

World’s End Girl­friend This Japan­ese one-man Post-Rock / Exper­i­men­tal band is more Ambi­ent and Elec­tronic than the other two I have just sug­gested. Great with a cup of cocoa.

Fridge is a British trio offer­ing a more melo­di­ous kind of Post-Rock. If Cin­e­matic Orches­tra and Four Tet ever had a one night stand in a corn field under some stars and made an accidental-but-meant-to-be lovechild, it would be Fridge.

Wavves is a rel­a­tively new Noise-Pop / Punk band from San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia. Formed very recently they have already gained a mas­sive fol­low­ing both in Amer­ica and across the pond, here in Lon­don, UK (I have an ‘i heart wavves’ tshirt that I wear under all my other shirts … just kid­ding?) Goths are now allowed in open sunny spaces thanks to Wavves. All their songs sound like they’ve been recorded in an air­tight sound-proof bath­room filled with hazy weed smoke, so yes, if you’re won­der­ing why the sound qual­ity is so low, it’s not because your mac speak­ers are fried: wel­come to the won­der­ful world of extreme psy­che­delic lo-fi.

MP3s (click on link to pre­view, right click save as to download)

1. Fuck But­tons — Race You To My Bed­room / Spirit Rise

2. No Age — You Is My Hot Rabbit

3. Worlds End Girl­friend — Singing Under The Rainbow

4. Fridge — Insects

5. Wavves — Weed Demon

Ok I think I have posted enough for today, enjoy the music! Next time: lo-fi / punk / grunge / weird shit.

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The Dodos

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

This break­out band, The Dodos, of 2008 with the hit album Vis­iter have been busy. They churned out a new album Time to Die (2009),but if you take last.fm stats seri­ously then either not many peo­ple have picked up this new album or the Vis­iter is still rock­ing, it is. I didn’t really pay much atten­tion to these guys last year. At the time I don’t think that I was really into this whole Fleet Foxes esque guitar-y folk style. A year later and I am pick­ing up on all of this stuff that I missed out. “Red and Pur­ple” and “Park Song” (ded­i­cated to Mag­gie and Laura) are my two favourite tracks off Vis­iter and “Fables” is off Time to Die, its a bit of a grower but give it a chance.

MP3s (click on link to preivew, right click save as to download

1. The Dodos – Red and Purple

2. The Dodos – Park Song

3. The Dodos – Fables

*Bonus*

4. The Dodos – Undeclared

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