Song of the day – 297: Lispector
This is the greatest hidden music you’ll encounter all year. Five hundred songs, and I haven’t yet found one I don’t think is less than magical.
Song of the day – 294: Young Marble Giants (new song!)
After 30 years, a new Young Marble Giants song! And it doesn’t disgrace. It is so sweet, so melancholy, so understated, so Young Marble Giants.
Song of the day – 293: Fall Of Saigon
Damn straight it still sounds fresh. And eerily poignant, reminding me of secret trysts and forbidden flats in the early 80s…
A day in music
Seems to me I most listen to music most any hour, don’t matter day, don’t matter night.
the first interview I ever did
Ultimately, the music is the most important thing. If we never did any gigs then it’d be terrible.
Song of the day – 179: Otouto
Folk over here (notably themselves) compare this Melbourne trio’s delicate and intelligent dance music to Bjork, Young Marble Giants, Arthur Russell and Laurie Anderson… but I don’t really hear any of that. The oblique and faintly awkward grooves, the summery feel of the constantly changing percussion, the minimal repetition, the constant throwback to insidiously vaguely […]
Song of the day – 98: Woom
Holy crap! (The following is taken from Drowned In Sound.) Xiu Xiu’s tourmates, Woom, are tremendous, right now. In fact, they’re so obviously Everett True’s Favourite New Band in the World, someone should tell him. Yes, the net result of their influences (or, more accurately, their raw intuition) ends up somewhere like Young Marble Giants, […]
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 […]
