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I used to go to school around here 2 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm
I don't really know much about Saint Yorda. I don't know when they started writing, or formed into a band, but I'd like to imagine this was a song half-written after school one day, that has stayed wi...
Reinventing the Wheel 28 Apr 2013 | 07:46 pm
I rarely post more often than once a month nowadays, which is clearly just how it's going to be from now on. The advantage in this is knowing that when I do emerge to point towards a song and go "wow!...
The Revival Hour - Copper House 9 Mar 2013 | 07:20 pm
The vocals start off a little bit shrill in this one, a ghost in a house party of night and glass and liquid and full of people, striving to have its haunt heard. The voice twists and turns, it implor...
my favourite songs of 2012 6 Jan 2013 | 07:05 pm
I was busy this year. I've noticed that in the same way the work you need to get finished expands to fill the time you allot to it, the music you want to listen to contracts to fit into the time you t...
always looking away 2 Jan 2013 | 08:48 pm
Peter Broderick - I've Tried Peter Broderick remains one of the finest songwriters that I know, and what he does here is both refreshingly new and yet, at the same time, of the same cloth as his prev...
I guess I was busy 12 Dec 2012 | 04:27 am
I have two interpretations of this song. The first derives from the fact that the first time I heard it, I was watching the video at the same time. The video is evocative and merciless. It details th...
An Interview with NO 24 Nov 2012 | 05:24 pm
NO are perhaps my favourite discovery of the year. They may tread on ground that has been broken by others, but what they're building there is a delight, a feast of catchy melodies and guitar lines, a...
The Luyas - Animator 5 Nov 2012 | 01:33 am
The Luyas - Fifty Fifty Hallelujah, hello Luyas, I see you have a new album. It is cold and snowy and warm and brittle and wet and gentle and sweet and breathless and all the things good good music s...
in the dirt 1 Oct 2012 | 02:34 pm
The Ambience Affair are celebrating the one year anniversary of the release of their debut, Burials, by making it free to download from their Bandcamp page for a limited time. This is great. The album...
sleepy lakeside town 3 Jul 2012 | 03:29 am
Beat Radio - Dreaming Wide Awake I find it weird to live somewhere that is far from the sea. I feel at a disadvantage, like I haven't built up a relationship with that kind of world, like I'm not sur...
