So back a few months ago Karen O (Lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Danger Mouse (World famous Producer, you may know him for the 'Gnarls Barkley' tune 'Crazy' (Remember that?)) announced they were working on new music together. See above the second track they've released so far, Woman is a sixties infused marching band of a track, I'm picking up similar vibes to the production Danger Mouse created for Beck's album 'Modern Guilt' on this one.
I like this very much and am looking forward to hearing a full release from these two (whenever that might be). However their first track entitled 'Lux Prima' just beats out this one for me. Lux Prima is pretty much a Pink Floyd sandwich with a blended Portishead and Air filling. And I love it.
Random happy song to help drive away the Monday Moods...
Max Tundra - Which Song
Playful. Bloopy. And full of confetti. I have an Australian friend who told me, 'a man with these eyebrows shouldn't be a able to sing like that'. Interesting fact, this video was made with a budget of 22gbp, thats about 28.25usd. It was released by Domino Recording Co., which is a British Independent record label who currently have Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip and The Arctic Monkeys signed to them.
I Just wanted to say this album was sooo close to being my favorite album of 2018. Melody returned with her fayre of psychedelic french tinted breathy angel vocals. However, even though it retread old ground, Melody certainly tried pushing Psych Rock into some interesting new directions with this release. Despite it's short run time, it says to me that in the future, she could possibly develop a REALLY interesting new sound. Check it out by clicking the YouTube link below!
'New Rave' was an sub genre of Rock music that emerged in the UK from the years 2005 - 2008. Essentially it sounds like a mix of scattery-crushy guitars, fuzzy bass, siren like synths and a hectic punk attitude. The band Klaxons were certainly the victors of this movement. Though they didn't care from the term 'New Rave'.
This album was certainly a break from the norm. In a time when UK indie rock was just about to fall into genericizm, it was a sign that there was still going to be bands that will try new things and dare to be different. The Klaxons, 'Myths of the near future' won the 2007 Mercury Music prize. In the UK we basically have two major music award shows, one being 'the Brits' and the other being 'The Mercury Music Prize', just so you know the latter is considered the more 'sophisticated' and 'professional' award. Kinda like: 'the Oscar is better than a Golden Globe' deal. The other nominees that year included The Arctic Monkeys' second album 'Favorite Worst Nightmare' and Amy Winehouse's 'Black To Black'.
Let's take a quick look at the Singles real quick.
1) Gravity's Rainbow - Yeh so the vocals across the whole album are like this. It's like two voices an octave apart with the top voice a little more airy sounding. The bass has that fuzz on it, Drumkit is a bit reverby and the guitar is playing some real janky jaggedy zig zag type riffs.
2) Atlantis To Interzone - The 'D.J.!' sound right at the beginning is a sample from an old Yamaha keyboard around at the time. I remember we had a bunch of them at school. My teacher hated the 'D.J.' mode, it was just a bunch random cheesy samples and sounds, I don't think it even had decent drum sounds.
3) Golden Skans - This is the one you've most likely have heard. I really like these next two videos, this distant future symbolic mythology style is really interesting to me.
4) It's Not Over Yet - I remember hating this when I first heard it. That grating synth was abit much and it would make my T.V. start vibrating. However now I admire the tenacity, using such a grating synth in that way.
Anyway Klaxons when down a route with their following releases that was a lot more bland after this anomaly. It's a shame because I feel like they really captured something interesting with this album. This music creates an interesting mood of loud obnoxious rave music and dark mystic babbling about the future. It comes across dark and mysterious yet full of energy and playfulness.
It's one of my favorite albums ever and I'm putting it on the list of 'Vinyl records I will one day buy if I ever heave disposable income or feeling like I should treat myself, even though It's probably a bad idea'.
Previously I had never heard of this band. Turns out Wild Nothing were quite popular back in 2012 with their release 'Nocturne', that must of just slipped through the cracks for me.
Actually now I think about it 2012 was pretty batshit crazy year.
Anyway... August 31st 2018 this new album from Wild Nothing dropped.
I remember I was desperately scouring Youtube and found it by accident, which is pretty much my primary way of finding new music at the moment.
I was pretty much hooked right away and I kept coming back.
I hope we can all agree that music is splendid. And I Welcome you here! I'm sure you are not that one cat who once told me that they didn't like music. ...How can you NOT like music? ......Seriously?! Sometimes I just can't help but wonder why we do not SHARE the music we love more often? There's many reasons, maybe it's because it's a personal thing, maybe it's because we do not think anyone would care. You have to understand that there are many different people in the world, and their own individual lives have ingrained themselves into their own taste in music. Think about that. Every sound they have ever heard in their lives has somehow altered how they associate frequencies, timbres and rhythms with emotion and thought. So next time if someone does not like your jams... Don't take it personally. Some things just don't click. HOWEVER! We should still share our opinions and tastes in music. We should be open to others opinions and tastes in music. When you hear something new that you enjoy, it's normally because of one or both of two reasons. 1. It reminds me of something else I can deeply relate to. 2. It has made me think or feel about things from a radical new perspective. The first reason can make us feel great because it's like we are now connected to a large bunch of other people who also like what you like (Fans) or sometimes even to just one person (Artist). The second is not quite as popular, but occasionally it gives new music a chance, and that is where a huge breakthrough can happen! When a living being experiences something new that affects them to the point of altering their perspective of reality. It helps them grow. You ever hear something for the first time from some band you never heard of in the car of an acquaintance who was driving you to the store cause you a broke ass mofo with no car? You ask who is on the radio and they ask if you like it. HELL YES I LIKE IT! And, you know what, I like the fact that you like it! One day that cat is gonna finally connect with music, and it will completely change their life. So yeh im jst gona post wutevehr ere basic like.
