1) Destroyer, "Certain Things You Ought to Know", one of them being that we don't have enough Destroyer in the household. A situation to be rectified on my return. 2) June & The Exit Wounds, "Let's Shack Up Together," from an album by a bedroom pop genius who has internalised all that needs to be internalised from the Beach Boys (and a little Bacharach, I'm sure). His only album. 3) Machinefabriek, "Somerset." 4) Gudrun Gut, "Sweet." 5) Junior Boys, "More Than Real," crisp, razor-like beats, wiggles of bass and synth, airy, hollowed-out and desperate vocals. Proof that a life spent listening to New Order's "Blue Monday" is a life put to good use. 6) The Sundays, "Can't Be Sure," actually, when the guitars start, we can be sure that we're in for 3 and half minutes of exquisite pure pop perfection that, for some, will return us to '89 or '90 when Harriet Wheeler's voice ruled our living rooms. "And did you know desire's a terrible thing, the worst that I could find, but I rely on mine." 7) Tujiko Noriko, "In a Chinese Restaurant." 8) New Order, "Vanishing Point," my '80s. The Smiths, The Cure, or The Jesus and Mary Chain? No, NO owned the '80s, as well as the first few years of the '90s.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday iPodding
1) Destroyer, "Certain Things You Ought to Know", one of them being that we don't have enough Destroyer in the household. A situation to be rectified on my return. 2) June & The Exit Wounds, "Let's Shack Up Together," from an album by a bedroom pop genius who has internalised all that needs to be internalised from the Beach Boys (and a little Bacharach, I'm sure). His only album. 3) Machinefabriek, "Somerset." 4) Gudrun Gut, "Sweet." 5) Junior Boys, "More Than Real," crisp, razor-like beats, wiggles of bass and synth, airy, hollowed-out and desperate vocals. Proof that a life spent listening to New Order's "Blue Monday" is a life put to good use. 6) The Sundays, "Can't Be Sure," actually, when the guitars start, we can be sure that we're in for 3 and half minutes of exquisite pure pop perfection that, for some, will return us to '89 or '90 when Harriet Wheeler's voice ruled our living rooms. "And did you know desire's a terrible thing, the worst that I could find, but I rely on mine." 7) Tujiko Noriko, "In a Chinese Restaurant." 8) New Order, "Vanishing Point," my '80s. The Smiths, The Cure, or The Jesus and Mary Chain? No, NO owned the '80s, as well as the first few years of the '90s.
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