Albums I’ve been listening to recently:
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013)
David Byrne and St. Vincent - Love This Giant (2012)
Dirty Beaches - Badlands (2012)
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (2009)
The Men - Open Your Heart (2012)
Merchandise - Totale Nite (2013), Children of Desire (2012)
Mikal Cronin - MCII (2013)
Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion (2012)
St. Vincent - Krokodil b/w Grot (2012)
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
How am I only just discovering Jay Reatard? He was so awesome, super-quick garage punk songs, mmmmmmm
St. Vincent is just the hottest person in indie rock
beginner’s guide to eurovision song contest
i literally cannot express how accurate and culturally important this is
man i cannot wait
needs a place on my blog
to explain what will happen to my posts next weekend
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Merchandise’s Children of Desire seemed at first to be some overmelancholic, grungey post-punk crap. But in fact, on repeated listens, it actually opens up. It’s 6 songs long, two of those are over 10 minutes and one’s below 2, and at the end of ‘Roser Park’, the 11-minute closer, the riff from this song, ‘Time’, is fuzzily reprised in one final sigh of music. At first I found that repetition narrow and repetitive, but after a few more listens I like it. It’s a cleasing process, bringing back the musical themes from earlier on and ending with a note that represents the album as a whole, not just the final track. It ain’t bad,
So this bank holiday weekend I decided I hadn’t listened to any new music in a little while, so I decided to change that. Here are the albums I devoured over the past three days:
Alex Calder - Time EP (2013)
Mac DeMarco’s Makeout Videotape buddy makes slightly more unsettling, ramshackle indie hillbilly rock.
Mikal Cronin - MCII (2013)
Ty Segall Band member’s second solo album, full of almost too catchy pop-rock fuzzfests.
Metz - Metz (2012)
Like someone crossed Nouns-era No Age with Iceage, but with louder drums.
Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Reverse Shark Attack (2009)
I was so pleased to find some of the few remaining classic Ty tracks on this album, super catchy and oh so short.
Dirty Beaches - Badlands (2012)
A fucking weird concept album that sounds as if Elvis got washed up on a beach at twilight, only half-remembering who he was. Yeah.
King Tuff - Was Dead (2008)
King Tuff’s dance-your-heart-out debut, ready for a reissue this month. Like King Tuff, but a little more lo-fi.
Merchandise - Children of Desire (2012)
Undefinable indie post-punk with one of the weirdest album track listings I’ve seen.
(Also I downloaded the Garage Swim complilation, I’ll be working through that this week too wahey)
And while we’re on the subject of music I’m into today, this song is very loud and very satisfying. Maybe because it’s loud. I still think there’s something missing from it though, there’s no relief…
Holy fuck.
Mikal Cronin honestly doesn’t make a bad move on this record. Honestly I used to think he was the long-haired fuzz guy in Ty Segall Band and on Reverse Shark Attack but this changes everything. MCII is classic, it’s fuzzy, it’s pop, it’s oh-so catchy…
The only thing I can flaw with it is that it isn’t a very ‘cool’ record, but if we’re talking talent then Cronin’s got it all.
Got some photos developed ^_^
A Game
I was playing a game with my brother and he got sent to jail and he wiped his poo on the wall so we never played monoply again
This blog is honestly the best thing I’ve seen on Tumblr in months. Rejected jokes submitted by kids to a jokes site.
