Just Heard This Of An Ozzie's Playlist

Dangermouse and Sparklehourse (Featuring Julian Casablancas)
LITTLE GIRL
It's fucking class.

Do it.

Declan, Drunk, India xxxx

What To Do If You're iPod Is Broken, No Computer Will Play 'Hooting And Howling', You Have Two New Frank Zappa C.Ds but Nothing To Play Them On....

...And also if you're really very desperate to listen to Bitte Orca, because at least three people have reccomended it you, and all the YouTube videos on this very blog are unavailable to you due to restrictions laid down by the Internet Cafe L.A.W.

Prescription:
1. Learn the tabla in Varanasi, three hours practice a day, one lesson a day.
2. Play impromptu little gigs on street to curious Indian men, who sing all over the top of it, dancing.
3. Take Indian singing lessons. Maybe just once.
4. Attend a concert every evening, enjoy them more and more per night.
5. Get yourself a new, better, guitar from Calcutta, decorate it all nice and pretty, and write, write, write, write.

Doctors orders, I'm afraid.
:o)

Declan xxxxxxxxxxx

Past-time Pleasantries...

Here's just a few things that I'm liking at the moment.







This is Dan's brother, Ben. He makes very good songs.
www.myspace.com/crackazatmusic

I've been listening to 'Bitte Orca' by Dirty Projectors on repeat. It is one of the best albums I've heard in a long while. No doubt.

Huw
xxx

Another flash of Re-hash...

When I was away, it seemed increasingly evident that the idea of going 'dark' within indie music was becoming the new thing to do; much like when bands were tending to go all big, "epic" and stadium-worthy.
When I was away and travelling down the Australian coast, when tuning into various radio stations, it became quite obvious that 80's bands, particularly Joy Division and The Cure, are aiding a resurgence in the sound bands are lending their tendencies to. I don't think this is a really recent thing, just becoming gradually more popular; Editors were doing it a few years back now.
This isn't me having a go and I'm not about to dive into an anti-recycling rant, but merely observing. If anything, I'm sure we all have learnt to a certain extent, that that's what popular music has become- one big cycle, where now and then a particular period is pounced upon and reintroduced. Like it or not, I guess.
It just doesn't leave much to the imagination, really. That, or my faith in new alternative music.
But what can you do?





To Lose My Life

A Current Collection...

Ladies and gentlemen, the time is nigh. Time for my (imaginary) mixtape of the moment.
I know it's been hard without me. I understand that. I really do.

1. Q-Tip- 'Won't Trade' (This is such a big tune. The album is full of them, too)
2. Rjd2- 'Ghostwriter'
3. Roy Orbison- 'Crying'
4. Bombay Bicycle Club- 'Morning After' (I found this on a blog; it's not on the tracklist for 'I Had The Blues But Shook Them Loose', but is really really good. Listen here)
5. Skream- 'Oskilatah'
6. MED- 'Can't Hold On'
7. Radiohead- 'Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Exectutioner)'
8. Vivian Girls- 'Where Do You Run To' (I love the garage-y sound to this song. Nice and rugged)
9. Wild Beasts- 'Hooting And Howling'
10. The Downs- 'Please Mind Your Head' (They were pretty good, weren't they?)

It seems I always resort to putting Bombay Bicycle Club or Wild Beasts in my selections. Call me boring etc, but there is definitely a reason why this happens, which I think speaks for itself.

I'm on the look out for more new artists in the quest of musical satisfaction, so hopefully I'll be back soon with some big ones. As for now, me and Dan are getting started on some of that so aspired musical satisfaction. Let the good times roll.

Huw

xxx

Honey, I'm home!

Yes, honey. I'm home.
It's been a while, but it's nice to be back.
Now I'm home, I can while away endless hours indulging in internet-based interests and musical frivolities. Oh how English I have become on my return.

Here's something pretty cool:



It reminds me of New York, of which I was there only a few days ago, which is a nice thing.
The recorded version with David Byrne is where it's at though:



I'm getting stuck into 'Bitte Orca' at the moment, it's quite a listen.

Huw
xxx

Picky and finickity, in an instant of a flicker he

Picked a parody, that promise me,

I'd rather be seen dead than be.

Dylan Hypermix

1. 'Drifter's Escape'
2. 'Visions of Johanna'
3. 'Isis'
4. 'One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)'
5. 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'
6. The Whole Of Side Two "Blonde On Blonde", beginning with 'I Want You'
7. 'As I Went Out One Morning'
8. 'Simple Twist Of Fate'
9. 'You're A Big Girl Now'
10. 'Highway 61 Revisited'