Song of the day – 43: Galaxie 500
Surely, you had to be expecting this one. Domino Records have just reissued this still-missed Boston band’s three studio albums, each with a bonus CD of ‘rarities’. Exciting, although I do believe I own ALL these songs already at least four times on various previous reissues and box sets and vinyl originals. Exciting, because this […]
Song of the day – 42: Camera Obscura
Spain’s Elefant Records just sent me a parcel of 14 lovely shiny brand-new seven-inch singles. Names like Television Personalities, The School, Papa Topo, Helen Love, The Carrots and Stereo-Total. Oh yes. I really will have to dust off that USB record-player finally and have myself a listening party with a few select Brisbane sorts. There’s […]
Song of the day – 41: The Pipettes
I’m going to keep the faith here, for a while longer. It’s a change of sound, a change of direction. To these ears, it sounds like they’ve smoothed out many of the rough edges that made Pipettes Mk1 so delicious and charming – I wouldn’t blink if you played this to me in a club, […]
Song of the day – 40: Teenage Fanclub
This song can reduce me to tears. Just beautiful. That line, the harmonies on that line, “Here is a sunrise/Ain’t that enough/True as a clear sky/Ain’t that enough?” Ignore the weird intro bit at the start of this video. You need to start listening at 0.17 seconds. I received an advance copy of Teenage Fanclub’s […]
Song of the day – 26: The Adverts
Some lovely folk from the UK have just sent me the reissued second Adverts album (Cast Of Thousands) replete with bonus CD and everything. And Bangs alive, it sounds incredible: articulate, melodic, sarcastic, nasty, challenging, full of fire and vigour and saliva and that killer drum sound. Way too smart for its good, of course. […]
Song of the day – 24: Scout Niblett
So good to hear Emma once more. I don’t read the music press, online or off. Was her new album greeted with the universal acclaim it deserved – or was it the usual idiots going, “Um, this sounds a bit like PJ Harvey and a bit like Cat Power”? Oh, whatever. She’s magical to me, […]
Song of the day – 23: Bikini Kill
It came on my iTunes at random while I was riding on the 380 bus home and literally figuratively beautifully spine-tinglingly metaphorically stupidly wantonly mind-bustingly… made me glad it had. And let’s not forget these couple of conversations about Riot Grrrl here, and here.
Song of the day – 22: Electrelane
Well, I was thinking of posting some music from Zola Jesus – very Gothic, but with a good ‘G’ – especially as I’ve been admiring old clips of Siouxsie And The Banshees on Top Of The Pops. But then I got diverted by the sighting of an Electrelane song: and damn, if it wasn’t the same song […]
Song of the day – 21: Buzzcocks
Long overdue, even though this series is less than a month old. And there’s only one song it could be (um: complete lie – pretty much ANY of their songs is a contender).
