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Sweet readers, due to conditions beyond my control, I can't go into detail on my favourite records this year. Fortunately, I've gone into detail in the past so please check out the posts associated with each record, and if you like the song, buy the album, because they are worth it. All mp3s ...
Indie Music
Dan Deacon
The Action
Blackout Beach
The Fiery Furnaces
Emperor X - "Right to the Rails" . I didn't see the point of an older brother. He never gave a shit about me. He was in his room, or lying on the carpet in front of the TV with a journal. He bought an expensive camera and took photos of girls on our front lawn. Once he got in a fight at the ...
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The Go-Go's
Laura Rivers - "That's Alright (Since My Soul Has Got a Seat Up in the Kingdom)"
The doorbell rings, the view is just hips and backs in the distance, a mumbled exchange at the door. Meanwhile, the television talks on:
People ask why I'm a scientologist, but I don't really think that's a ...
Indie Music
Vampire Weekend - "Cousins" . A train holiday across Essex, to meet yr cousins. Share a carriage with a man in an eyepatch with a broom moustache. Turns out he's related. He teaches you to snap your fingers in a different way. Stop in Danbury. Man at the shop, selling peppery cheese rolls, ...
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Vampire Weekend
Son De La frontera - "Bulería Negra Del Gastor"
"I'm up, ma," only 14 and already he talks to his mother this way. He comes down the stairs for breakfast, but what does he really eat. A few bites of a grapefruit and a glass of milk and he's out the door. He barely looks me in the eye, his ...
Indie Music
Tune-Yards - "Hap-B (Congo)" . A song that feels less song and more feeling . The judder and shake of a long train journey, clattering along tracks, blinking eyes awake at sudden sun, strange trees whizzing by, thin birds, arid fields, homes hardly glimpsed. [ MySpace / this track from the ...
Indie Music
Wings
David Foster
Marvin Gaye
Idiot Glee - "All Packed Up"
In the glowing shade of an evening nap this song floats in the open window. Between sleep and awareness, this shapeless thing is like second-hand smoke, like practiced violin, like curry. In a closed courtyard, with rugs out of windows and soccer games playing, ...
Indie Music
Sean Savage - "Here She Comes!!!" . On November 19th, Sean Savage was kidnapped by an unknown woman. She wore a gingham scarf over her mouth. She had black bangs and blue eyes. She strapped Mr Savage to a large red wagon and climbed onto her bicycle and proceeded east. At first Mr Savage ...
Indie Music
Mr. Bungle
Alvin Band - "Tijuana"
"The beach is the most vulnerable place, but it's the place of most access. It's horrible to think about attacking a beach, about war on a beach. About all those people with their hot dogs and portable stereos and colourful towels and suits, and sunglasses and lotion ...
Indie Music
Cuddle Magic - "Expectations" . The voice like a trombone solo is back. But the thing you should understand is: there are no actual trombones here. There's a salt of drums, a pepper of strings, a little woodwind and whistle and the guitars that do not let you go. But the trombone thing is a ...
Indie Music
Neko Case - "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth"
Sparks - "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth"
The name of the game was "Gotta Do It". The rules were simple: someone would name a deed (it could be something normal like "eat grass" or it could be something weird like "climb up Dead Dog's ...
Indie Music
Ola Podrida - "Donkey" . Hard-strummed banjo, and David Wingo, one of my favourite songwriters, singing. He strums and sings louder & louder, and yet it's not because of mere urgency, the wish to communicate that he cares. He has to yell because there is howling. He has to raise his ...
Indie Music
Sparks - "Sherlock Holmes"
The Dirtbombs - "Sherlock Holmes"
Dick Colford, at 8 years old, and Walter Hannigan, at 8-and-a-half years old, were life-long enemies. Dick Colford, Dickie to his mother and teachers, was short, with his head stretched up he would just press against the flexy ...
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The Dirtbombs
Both these songs have unnecessary intros.
The Crown Vandals - "Guenevere" .You want to go back to the 14th century, to wait in a grove by the walled city. You want to hide your drum-kit beneath under a leafy oak, conceal your guitars in a mulberry bush; cheap amps, cheap mics, cheap booze ...
Indie Music
Frozen Bears - "Tape Eater"
In every society, even one as small and fluid as a city bus, there is an alpha creature. A being who, given a drastic change in circumstances, would rule. If this bus were to take off into space or suddenly bury miles underground, and we all had to live the rest of ...
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Lady Sovereign
Flaming Lips - "Watching the Planets" . Sometimes you reach for that crystal bottle because you want it to shatter. You want to grab it with your pink pretty hand and pour a dollop of wine and then when you take a sip - for all the monster in you to sour and redden, for your tendons to ...
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Red House Painters
Wale - "90210"
A backwards A's cap, on a kitten, who's licking a baby mouse, who's sitting on a handwritten letter, written on ESL stationery, soaked in butter, on a plate of dainty grandmother china, all on top of a burger, which is on the hood of a cooper mini, which is being carried by a ...
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Chad Vangaalen - "Corvette" . This is a song of metaphors. Most of them are obvious. Lyrics about a he and a she , manifested as corvette and jumbo jet . Lines about millions of miles , wheels going around . But it has quieter metaphors too. Two drums represent time. An electric guitar ...
