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Guillemots. The vultures got them, pop that is.
Eliot was wrong, I think it’s March that is the cruellest month. Had they released the album a couple of days later, then I wouldn’t question a great poet. Actually, you’re better off reading a couple lines of modern verse, as it’s heavily anchored in rhythm, which I can’t say about the Guillemots’ new album, Red.
Most of it is heresy, and this isn’t about selling out. Pop is good, but not if the first chords of a choice song remind me of a certain Mika. There’s pop, and there’s pop-that-back-where-it-came-from. What else is there to be found? Who knows, my head’s spinning from this over-produced thing. Fluctuating wildly, looking for a Top 40 slot, with soul stripped of its soul, electronica that’s half-baked and clumsy. This is madness, and not the kind of musical madness that dislocates and enhances your inner world- actually I want to either hide from fear or pull a Van Gogh. Some remnants of the jazzy experimentations are there, but in quite unsatisfying shape, and reverting to more formulaic sounds.
Makes you shed a tear for the past glory of those wondrous EPs, “From The Cliffs” and “Of The Night”. Alright folks, we do have a couple of good songs on this big red yarn of heterogenous. But here I am, wondering, are they good only because the rest is quite awful? Or maybe they just remind me of what they used to be. Call me a reactionary.
Compare and contrast,
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The Noisettes
I keep stumbling onto bands that are from the UK and that everyone says are the bees knees live. Well live is actually what sells them, so the more bootlegged or scratchy an mp3 the more I delude myself that those blips and blops are live particles. Moving on!
Away
Back in the day I would waste my time in the most monumental way on messenger. I don't know why it would make me sick of people eventually. Because it's not people, it's you, keyboard, screen?
Love and Communication (Cat Power)
I'd get into fights. I'd wait for the outcome. I'd linger and check some music websites. I'd give people music recommendations. Some would hate me for it. Some you can't deal with. How people get stuck on certain music genres or artists they've grown accustomed to is how they also get stuck on life situations.
My friend who's in acting school listens to System Of A Down and Chopin. she threw away her Westlife CDs because her only true loves now are the two mentioned above. How does she bridge them? I tried, I did, but I can't force-feed her The Smiths. The Shins. electronic music which she still thinks boils down to Tiesto and others along that vein. My other friend (I only have three FRIENDS the rest are people, acquaintances, buds to drink Buds with) listens to Curtis Mayfield and Erykah Badu, old school soul, DJ Shadow, hip hop that nobody's heard of 
and the like. So why didn't she appreciate Stone Roses? Why did she sort of like Jamie Lidell? Only sort of.
Lots of folks are talentless in appreciating what music others would want. This blog and its visitors will remain a mystery to me, no matter how much I'd track boring viewing statistics.
I hadn't checked my messenger for two weeks. Today, I had loving messages from friend number three, who's in France telling me she didn't forget me, and from one of my cousins. I almost cried like the girl that I am; she asked me: EŞTI? In Romanian messenger shortcuts, that generally means 'are you there'. What it means without context is 'ARE you'. Do you exist. (girls cry, boys do too, they're not from different planets)
Kathleen Emery - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
(Update. Sorry the Guillemots link got lost among the other mp3s. Took care of that though. People, you could just shout to me, oi girl, the links are mixed up. or something along those lines)
*I spent some time in the garden with my cat Gogol and her kits, she reacts to Guillemots in a very weird way, as if she's looking for another cat.
DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)
(i get the feeling she'd smack me for posting one of her songs like that - ahem.)
Animal Collective - Turn Into Something
Jamie Lidell - Music Will Not Last
The Shins - The Past and Pending
These artists apparently have nothing to do with each other. That makes me laugh a sad little laugh.
Turn that smile upside down. Mixtape ahoy.
sad today
lazy to pick up ipod 5 tip toes away
extend hand press play
delightful cassette noise. pac pac pac it says & the stereo… nowt
cassette speaks to stereo! like sun, and god, and ra.
Also, meine damen und herren in today's listen lesson:
guillemots - by the water mpdrei (kept rewinding the cassette)
nick drake - place to be mptrei
dubby: him - what's up tonight mp3
chopin - mazurka no 49 op 68-2 m4a
sunset rubdown - a day in the graveyard mp3
jeff buckley - the boy with the thorn in his side (live smiths cover) mp3
bavarian druglords - the great ape mp3
stone roses - sugar spun sister mp3
Indie Mixtape. Stoop to hype level
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Tapes n' Tapes 
dubbed the hardest working band in indie rock by Filter Magazine, with a cheery downer of a song that strums its way through highs and lows like heartbeat on acid.
Tapes n' Tapes - 10 Gallon Ascots mp3
What I'm really into these days. The first movement (because it really does sound like several movements that cohesively build up into a classical concert, in an indie rock jazz kinda way) sounds a loke* Doves' Black and White Town, but then the Guillemots' identity resurfaces. (You have to believe I did NOT read the pitchfork review beforehand)
The Guillemots - Train To Brazil mp3
The Delgados are from Scotland, which like Montreal, has a terrific scene. This is an older 2005 song I am adamantly proud of (owning). Sunny and vivacious. Universal Audio review
The Delgados - Everbody Come Down mp3
A nice song, sparky. Official site.
The Essex Green - Don't Know Why mp3
It rarely happens that I get ever so excited. Pop does speak to the heart. You can accuse me of over-hyping (hyping schmyping), I just had to post this funny jangly tune here. Indie for kids let's call it, about her brother Alfie. You'll love this if you have a funny tooth.
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness. My new favourite Austinites. Partly due to the name of course, but a great name wouldn't compensate for lousy songs anyway. Subliminal message massage: Hype them away please.
I love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According to Plan mp3
2 songs for download chez myspace
Bla bla. Green elephants and banjos on the mxipate. I can write anything here you're not reading anymore *evil*. Just have a look at this. I had a friend say to me the other day, "you know, most people don't consider the 'universe' every day like you do." The rest is on their site actually.
The Impossible Shapes - Florida Silver Spring mp3
Larrikin Love, the punk-bluegrassers du jour. This one sounds like a very sober very cool Pete Doherty coming from singer Micko.
Be your own PET. I didn't get the band name at first, but I wasn't too interested. I rediscovered them in April, and have been, how you say, hooked =D
Last one already? Well uploading songs for an hour was just so much fun. No really it was. I don't know why people complain. I really don't know, I was thinking of White Rose Movement, but maybe there's something more unhyped out there.
Let me know what you think of my mayhemiotic bunch. Bless you
*a lot like (join my inside jokes)
Gracias a hellopretty for the picture I warped in PShop CS.
