After studying Marketing in Music, and being in a band that wrangled with the ugly music industry myself, i think I'm one of thousands that could see this happening, and it's a pleasure to witness true musical evolution that makes such good sense for ease of use, quality, sentimentality and the collector factor in us. Goodbye CDs, and fuck you for wasting 20 years!
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/05/lpmp3_the_ultim.html
30/04/2008
23/04/2008
Listen to...
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - 'Reckless Burning'
I got this about four or five years ago whey i was going through my dark Alt Country phase, along with The Handsome Family, Damien Jurado and Grey Delisle. After hering her perform so astoundingly on the Sunn0)))/Boris CD, I dug this LP out and it's amazing, so fragile, stripped and although completly steeped in it's context, sounds so fresh.
Just got to pick up the new one on Southern Lord now!
http://www.jessesykes.com/
I got this about four or five years ago whey i was going through my dark Alt Country phase, along with The Handsome Family, Damien Jurado and Grey Delisle. After hering her perform so astoundingly on the Sunn0)))/Boris CD, I dug this LP out and it's amazing, so fragile, stripped and although completly steeped in it's context, sounds so fresh.
Just got to pick up the new one on Southern Lord now!
http://www.jessesykes.com/
Term 5
You Love this, so much
Music and the Summer.
Today, while supervising my 6th form students in study time, I was rocking ‘Everything all the Time’ by Band Of Horses. This is a record I totally rinsed this time last year just before my trip to ATP to see their first UK show. There was a bunch of other stuff going on in my life at that time, and it’s been one of those situations where the sound of a record brings back memories, feelings, and an almost subconscious awareness of how it felt to be me a year ago.
It’s an age old observation, but one I’ve always been fascinated with, records that become fused to times, places, events and emotions in our own lives. Around the same time, I was hammering ‘We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank,’ by Modest Mouse, ‘Nebraska’ by Springsteen, The last Micah P Hinson full length, and they have become inherent to that period in my life; to the point where I lost interest and stopped playing them, and when I did spin them, they bored me, but today, something struck that chord that brought it all back… maybe the break was what I needed? Maybe I merely needed to detach myself from the events that shaped me a year ago?
The records are always part of an emotionally and mentally turbulent time it seems too; Break Ups, Falling in Love, the loss of a loved one, stressful and transitional times at work or while studying, and this really blows my mind. It seems as if our minds, senses and memory functions are working over time at these points to significantly remember trivial things that accompanied the events. Why?
I tend to find that I learn the most when I’m passionate about something, be it positively or negatively, willing or not; I take the most on the long run, from situations that make me address my conduct, my life, my efforts, my relationships and the things that continue to help me move forward.
Does the soundtrack to these events help us to remember? Does is put emphasis on the important times? Does it help us be philosophical, logical and objective? Does it merely remind us to be so?
Whatever really, whether it’s Band of Horses, The Smiths, Azure Ray or Old Man Gloom, they are truly that records that have helped define and emphasize memorable points in my life, as well as kick the massive ass. Amazing.
Music and the Summer.
Today, while supervising my 6th form students in study time, I was rocking ‘Everything all the Time’ by Band Of Horses. This is a record I totally rinsed this time last year just before my trip to ATP to see their first UK show. There was a bunch of other stuff going on in my life at that time, and it’s been one of those situations where the sound of a record brings back memories, feelings, and an almost subconscious awareness of how it felt to be me a year ago.
It’s an age old observation, but one I’ve always been fascinated with, records that become fused to times, places, events and emotions in our own lives. Around the same time, I was hammering ‘We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank,’ by Modest Mouse, ‘Nebraska’ by Springsteen, The last Micah P Hinson full length, and they have become inherent to that period in my life; to the point where I lost interest and stopped playing them, and when I did spin them, they bored me, but today, something struck that chord that brought it all back… maybe the break was what I needed? Maybe I merely needed to detach myself from the events that shaped me a year ago?
The records are always part of an emotionally and mentally turbulent time it seems too; Break Ups, Falling in Love, the loss of a loved one, stressful and transitional times at work or while studying, and this really blows my mind. It seems as if our minds, senses and memory functions are working over time at these points to significantly remember trivial things that accompanied the events. Why?
I tend to find that I learn the most when I’m passionate about something, be it positively or negatively, willing or not; I take the most on the long run, from situations that make me address my conduct, my life, my efforts, my relationships and the things that continue to help me move forward.
Does the soundtrack to these events help us to remember? Does is put emphasis on the important times? Does it help us be philosophical, logical and objective? Does it merely remind us to be so?
Whatever really, whether it’s Band of Horses, The Smiths, Azure Ray or Old Man Gloom, they are truly that records that have helped define and emphasize memorable points in my life, as well as kick the massive ass. Amazing.
15/04/2008
Easter Holiday
I spent last week in Leeds for my girlfriends birthday. For the ridiculously long drive there, I made some new CDRs as my iPod FM Broadcast thing is shit. I got a copy of the new Kills record Midnight Boom, Which i was pretty excited about as the previous two albums were wicked nice. I love the way the new record sounds, it has this thickness that the last two records have almost hinted at, but never really achieved. The new drum machines sound thuddy and dry, which sound good as fuck on my home system, but my poor 106 speakers were just breaking up at a mid volume. The bass tones reminds me of an attempt at some weird 70s or 80s disco or dance effect, and this idea seems to be carried through on some of alison's vocals, with the duel takes and hollow reverbs... The guitars, are, as ever, the star of the show. Jamie's attention to tone is second to none, its the main reason I love this band so much. His regular disgusting down tuned riffs are, as time goes on, losing the blues, and at points, he drowns them in revolting old flangers, chrous and all other manor of effects he can turn up to ten... This record is definitely not about being subtle.. and thats a good thing... but do the songs justify the destroying recording? Well I like the songs, sure, but i get the feeling they are not going to last with me as long as the songs from 'Keep On Your Mean Side,' a record still heavily rotated, more so than 'No Wow.'
With the loss of the blues element in every song, the bulk of the album seems to be reasonably run by the book of sleazy, 80's influenced rock/pop(See Black Balloon and Hook and Line), 'Cheap And Cheerful' and 'Getting Down' are notable exceptions, and clear stand out tracks here.
I also had a copy of the new Goldfrapp record. Its a pile of shit, folk tinged or not, massive wank.
And upon my return last night, Burrows played me the new Sebastian track 'Motor' FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
Also been spinning Dave Hanks various tracks from his various projects... Both Whistle and Star Power are outlets that demonstrate him as not only a stunning song writer, but something of a clever bastard in the recording department. Both guises sound straight from the mid sixties, for fans of Donovan(Whistle) or The Kinks(Star Power), almost, a rock and folk split personality, and its his keen ear for recording techniques that dazzle, pop sheen, bright tones, bass cuts... love it. These tracks would suit most Anderson influenced visual work you could find this year..... Miss this hidden gem at your peril!
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