Song of the day – 647: Sunken Seas
They got something. A sense of distance, dissonance, dislocation, despair… I don’t know. But they got something.
Song of the day – 610: Thee Open Sex
You gonna do this sort of music, then do it right. And Thee Open Sex really, really fucking do it right.
Song of the day – 304: Float Riverer
My only complaint about The White Stripes was that the band weren’t composed of two Meg Whites.
Spotlight – 30: Songs
Yep, Songs. Their debut album – due out in November – is quite honestly the greatest record I’ve heard all year. Full stop, end of story. It might well be the greatest record I’ve heard this decade but a) it’s still not a competition, and b) my memory does play tricks on me, and c) I’m […]
Spotlight – 2: Beaches
Occasionally, I wonder if I stopped off in the wrong city. It’d be nice to travel down to Northcote or Collingwood of an evening and be able to catch a sprawling set of often instrumental music from Beaches: music that touches on much of what I enjoy (Krautrock, 60s garage, beach parties, Sonic Youth, 1980 […]
