Eliza K.

Last.fm tags: indie, pop, swedish, twee Recommended because of: Lacrosse, The Sound of Arrows, Stars in Coma Just in case you missed it last time, here’s the deal. Once a week (approximately) we will listen to Last.fm’s personalized recommendations, pick our favourite band from what we hear and feature it on our blog. Simple...
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Berlin – The Metro (Pleasure Victim, 1982)   The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on wet, black bough.   “In a Station of the Metro”, Ezra Pound
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  Lacrosse’s “This New Year Will Be for You and Me” was one of my very favourite albums of 2007. Catchy, sweet, melodic, heartbreakingly touching when it needed to be and overwhelmingly happy in all the right places – the album was the nearest to pop perfection anyone got that year. Their new album,...
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 Winter Family – Auschwitz  Pipas – Amsterdam Wilco – Impossible Germany Savoir Adore – TransylvanianCandyPatrol Arms and Sleepers – A Mission to Prague  I’m From Barcelona – We’re From Barcelona Poni Hoax – Budapest
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  So, this is how it’s going to be. Last.fm features a list of personalized recommendations, that change constantly, based on the bands you are listening to. Every week we are going to try out said recommendations and pick our favourite band from the ones recommended to us, which we will then proceed to...
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Jeffrey Lewis & Laura Marling – Brain Damage (Eminem Cover)   Illustration: Arthur Porto
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  …is pretty good, though nowhere near as good as, say, Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy. It still makes you feel like you’re living in a Hayao Miyazaki movie for a while, though. Which can only mean good things; it can only mean that the magic is not yet lost.    If I...
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Walter Ferguson – Going to BocaasWarpaint – Billie HolidayPhoebe Kreutz – All Summer LongThe Drums – Let’s Go SurfingThe Smittens – Good MigrationsCoco – さよならから始まる物語Carton Sonore – DodoThe Besties – Pirate SongBlake Miller – This Morning   + a little sth for your car… The Hood Internet – Two Weeks of Hip Hop (Dead Prez...
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 ☄ The B-52′s – Song for a Future Generation ☄  (Whammy!, 1983)
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1. Modest Mouse – Whale Song 2. Mike Hale – Lives Like Mine 3. Stars in Coma – Underneath a Fallen Leaf 4. Bruce Peninsula – 2nd 4th World War 5. Typefighter – Ocean Floor 6. Golau Glau – Soft Silver Young 7. June Madrona – Santa Fe 8. Woods – To Clean 9....
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Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring To Noah and the Whale: what were you thinking releasing this now, boys? It’s already summer! Our minds are too busy thinking of huge heart-shaped sunglasses, big tasty cocktails with yellow umbrellas in them, kids with Cloudberry Records T-shirts at festivals, polka-dot bathing suits!...
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When you woke up from half-forgotten tangled dreams this morning there was a buzz in your head. It was dirty and muddled and stifling like last night had been and wouldn’t stop gnawing at you. And at first you wanted to punch and kill it and trample it down with your feet until the...
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…and this is what we loved! A Grave With No Name – Sofia Lunch Money – Are You a Rabbit? Math the Band – Why Didn’t You Get a Haircut? The Most Serene Republic – Heavens to Purgatory The Silent Years – Madam Shocking Shugo Tokumaru – Alaska The Legends – You Won Slow...
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“When I was young I used to sing I didn’t care for anything When I was young I used to sing I didn’t care for anything Simply nothing to be done Tell me I’m the only one…“      The Pastels – Nothing To Be Done 
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New! Stellastarr* – Freak Out (Civilized, 2009) New! ☆ Stellastarr* - Love and Longing (Harmonies for the Haunted, 2005) ☆ Stellastarr* - In the Walls (Stellastarr*, 2003)
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