Massive Attack’s new video for “Saturday Come Slow” featuring Damon Albarn premiered last week on Feeder, but I wasn’t until recently that I found the time to post it. It’s actually more of a moving short-film documentary, telling the story of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ruhal Ahmed and his experience with torture through music - [...]
One of my favorite Danish up and going bands, Oh No Ono, just released their third studio effort, titled “Egg”, an album bristling with tight synth lines and pop goodness. Today, Caribou released an incredible remix of “Eleanor Speaks”, the opening track for Oh No Ono’s Egg, which totally turned the original at 180 degrees [...]
After “Bye Bye Bayou“, we’re treated to yet another James Murphy brand new delight, this time under the form of this brilliantly re-arranged version of experimental composer Peter Gordon and Love of Life Orchestra’s 1979 songs “Beginning of the Heartbreak” and “Don’t Don’t.” The arrangement was used as the soundtrack for Yves Saint Laurent’s fashion [...]
Album name: Life
Artist name: Uniform Motion
Genre: Folk-pop-cartoons
Released: 9 February 2010
Label: Aahhh Records
ZME Rating: 5/10
Website: uniformmotion.net
I’m something of a deliberate philistine when it comes to fine art. Despite spending six years or so studying the subject in one form or another, I never really saw the appeal. I mean, sure I can appreciate it up to [...]
Models and music don’t usually make a good mix, but Jack White sure knows how to pick ‘em, considering his wife, Karen Olsen, has some great set of legs pipes. Don’t believe me? Check out her first music video for the title track off her 12 songs debut album “The Ghost Who Walks”. Simple, yet [...]
Since singer Skye Edwards left Morcheeba back in 2003, the trip-top pioneering vibe that the group spread across their catalog seemed to have faded as new material followed. The charismatic vocalist was truly a driving force that perfectly synched with the Godfrey brothers’ talented arrangements. Frankly, I can’t imagine Morcheeba without Skye. Today, however, as [...]
Album name: Perfect View
Artist name: Libby Johnson
Genre: Folk
Released: 23 February 2010
Label: Wrong Records
ZME Rating: 8/10
Website: libbyjohnsonmusic.com/
I want to preface this review with a plea, and a thank you. You see, this Libby Johnson album - quite a good album, as you’ve yet to find out - is, following Nite Nite and Phantom Family Halo, the [...]
Because the Drive-By Truckers make great music to drive to. (I presume. Being a half-blind halfwit, I’m stuck with public transport for now. [But mostly because, pun.])
I’ll come clean immediately, because I may have misled you slightly: you can’t actually buy the Drive-By Truckers. But, wonderfully, you will be able to buy their new album, [...]
In a recent gig at Beck’s Festival Bar, in Sydney, The Decemberists played a brand new song, called “Springville.” Someone from the audience caught the song on tape being performed live solely by the band’s frontman Colin Meloy and his beautifully strung acoustic guitar. The sound is very folksy and warm, like much of their [...]
Massive Attack’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Heligoland“, is slated for an official worldwide release next week, and while it is reasonably spaced away, today I’ve found out about a very scrumptious appetizer. Over at facebook, the service is streaming the British duo’s Helligoland Remix EP, a six track compilation featuring rehashes by Gui Boratto, [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
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