Showing posts with label Thee Oh Sees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thee Oh Sees. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 December 2011

New Jamz on Thursday

It's getting cold and blustery up here at MA towers, so even more reason to stay in and dig deep....


I really don't know much about Run DMT apart from they're the kind of artist that i may have obsessed about a little as a teenager. A la mode 2011 stylee they release via casette, which is cool for me car-wise but pretty annoying Spotify-wise. Anyway, this is underground music that is entrancing and inviting and reminds me of as disparate artists as David Axelrod, Spacemen 3 and Ariel Pink . Check this un -



like it? download the whole goddam album here

Thee Oh See's sneakily released a new album which i knew nothing about until browsing the old Pitchfork. This particular track is by far and away the most one-dimensionally thrilling song i've heard all year (check the solos!). Come back to Manchester PLEEASE...



Anybody who's been with me since the beginning of this blog will know that Kwes.'s debut single was a big hit round these parts. Well he's just signed to Warp and here's his first new material in ages.

  Kwes - Get Up (download MP3 at http://emailunlock.com/kwes/get-up ) by kwes

Apparently he has a rare condition called colour synaesthesia, which allows him to actually see sound as colours. Would perhaps suggest how he manges to make his music sound so confusing yet soothing. Looking froward to his debut album, which i think should sit quite nicely next to one of my favourite (shockingly progressive) albums of the 80's, i.e A.R Kane's 69





Friday, 3 June 2011

New Jamz on Friday

some more new stuff to mull over.

Hotel Mexico, confusingly enough are from Japan. So, listening to this I immediately found myself pining to listen to Cornelius, but stopped myself long enough to listen to this. And i'm glad i did. This new single sounds like Pinky & Perky jamming with Stereolab produced by Caribou. Lazy, journalistic references ahoy!



if you like this teaser and you're one of those crazy people who still like to 'own' music, grab it via GorillaVsBear here http://cdn03.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/01-Dear-Les-Friends.mp3

Guess what? I liked a new band so much i actually asked if i could work with them. Thankfully, they said yes.
Live they remind me of, variously Big Star, Peter Gabriel, Beechwood Sparks and Mercury Rev, although this song is a bit like if Buffalo Springfield had come back and discovered grunge.


Last weekend i had to go to London which meant for about the third time now i missed Thee Oh Sees perform in Manchester. By the time i do get to see them, i think my excitement for seeing them may lead to me being slightly let down. Or they could just rock me to the motherfucking ground.

There's a new album out (now?) soon, but in the meantime, this is always worth a watch.