Eliza K.


Last.fm Recommendation: Speedmarket Avenue

July 26, 2009
Last.fm Recommendation: Speedmarket Avenue

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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From the depths of my external hard drive: The Metro

July 24, 2009
From the depths of my external hard drive: The Metro

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 dispersing bandages for your hearts

July 22, 2009
Lacrosse dispersing bandages for your hearts

  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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Some places you’ll be able to find us during the summer

July 19, 2009
Some places you’ll be able to find us during the summer

 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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Last.fm Recommendation: Hutch and Kathy

July 17, 2009
Last.fm Recommendation: Hutch and Kathy

  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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Brain damage? Or pop brilliance?

July 15, 2009
Brain damage? Or pop brilliance?

Jeffrey Lewis & Laura Marling – Brain Damage (Eminem Cover)   Illustration: Arthur Porto
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Múm’s new album

July 14, 2009
Múm’s new album

  …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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Playlist for lazy days to come

July 9, 2009
Playlist for lazy days to come

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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From the depths of my external hard drive: Song for a Future Generation

July 8, 2009
From the depths of my external hard drive: Song for a Future Generation

 ☄ The B-52′s – Song for a Future Generation ☄  (Whammy!, 1983)
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Little playlist for the week.

June 26, 2009
Little playlist for the week.

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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Spring? Summer? Gethen?

June 25, 2009
Spring? Summer? Gethen?

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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Navigator: Bad Children

June 23, 2009
Navigator: Bad Children

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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LHNA went around the blogs checking out new songs…

June 17, 2009
LHNA went around the blogs checking out new songs…

…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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From the depths (of my external hard drive) – The Pastels – Nothing to be done

June 12, 2009
From the depths (of my external hard drive) – The Pastels – Nothing to be done

“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*

June 5, 2009
New Stellastarr*

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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