Posts Tagged ‘ 2010 ’

hew, it's been quite a few days for the music blogging community. What happened? This week Google decided to take down (i.e. completely delete) a number of large and smaller music blogs hosted on the popular Blogger and Blogspot services. For supposed copyright infringement. While in the past, Blogger would simply delete the offending...
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No, I have no random trivia or annoying rants about it. You can sigh the glorious sigh of relief.
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So, Los Campesinos! rant today. Ready? Predictably, it's about the new Romance Is Boring, an album I've been listening to quite a lot these days. I am very perplexed by all the bloggers and journalists who have hastened to proclaim it the band's most "mature" work to date. Whatever they mean by "mature". This...
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These are dark days. Rain. Cold. Darkness. Unemployment. Swine flu. And it's times like these that call for futuristic rap crews like Die Antwoord. Coming on like some twisted Chernobylesque Chris Cunningham, Flight of the Conchords, Chris Morris, Tim Westwood, David Lynch hybrid love child, Die Antwoord hail from ever-cooler South Africa, and have...
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The colours were designed to promote the promise of a fantastic future,A better tomorrow, instead we got this.   Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love (One life Stand, 2010)   Cold Cave – Heavenly Metals (Cremations, 2009) Lali Puna – Remember (Our Inventions, 2010)
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Last Letter from the Mary Celeste The Majestic Song of the Majestic Humpback Whale * These are the lovely songs of a band called Trouble Books. What you should know about this band: They are from Ohio. I like them. Moving on. * The more astute of you might have noticed that something peculiar...
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Photo credit: Miles Aldridge Lately, in the morning hours, you’ll sometimes find me playing the shit out of these songs: Beach House – Used to Be Beat Circus – Boy From Black Mountain Colour – Over the Moon * Owen Pallett – Keep the Dog Quiet But that’s not all I do. I’ve also...
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“But know that I love you, know that I wrote my last words to you from a  sinking boat…”  The Magnetic Fields – From a Sinking Boat  Pre-order Realism here (UK)
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As regular readers of Letters have no Arms will surely already be (perhaps excessively) aware of, we here are rather big fans of The Magnetic Fields. You can imagine therefore our unbridled glee (yes, glee!) (and yes, unbridled!) upon reading today’s news: The Magnetic Fields are set to release a new album, titled, Realism,...
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Unless you’ve been in a cave somewhere recording video messages to the great Satan on your webcam, trapped inside a large bear outfit, abusing Kurt’s avatar (now those are three words I never thought I’d write), under a table somewhere hiding from swine flu, too busy following Terminal Man, worrying about your missile shield,...
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‘Yeah, they say two thousand zero zero party over…’ No, this isn’t a cover of Prince’s famous ode to late-millennial partying (cause ‘life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last’), but a new release by everyone’s favourite (Silver Jews inspired) Swedish indie popsters Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. It’s so summery...
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