Good grief, been ages since we did one of these. I
blame all those Tesco Donkey Burgers I’ve been eating, developed a nasty
addiction to sugar lumps and loitering around on drizzle soaked beaches looking
downtrodden. Anyway, it’s 2013. Hurrah! HMV and Blockbusters may have already
snuffed it but at least we’ve still got the tunes. Okay, so we can’t buy them
from anywhere but still, we’ve still got the tunes (downloading? don’t talk to
me about downloading...the devil’s work I tells ye). First up the frankly
brilliant Pale Green Ghosts from John Grant. Whoah...where did this come from?
It’s like Scott Walker jamming with early era Human League in a Berlin dungeon. Awesomely good.
From the sublime to hip hop rockulous courtesy of
Elephant 12. Rage Against The Machine anyone?
I’m old enough to remember when house was new, yep,
that old. It still brings a shake to my rump though and this track XXXY’s Got
Me So is deliciously old skool.
Happily getting plenty of airplay over at 6 Music
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) is part 60’s tinged
hippyness and part indie hipster heaven.
Get naked, slap on the chocolate spread and let the love flow...no...I
have no idea what I’m on about today either.
That’s it for this week. Still vainly attempting to ‘get
in’ to 2013, already been an odd year what with HMV and Blockbuster both going
bust and just last night the sad news that Birmingham’s biggest independent
venue, The Ballroom, has also been forced to close. Add to this my self imposed
booze ban (not doing a month, that’s far too depressing, just up until the first
gig of the year on the 25th) and the arctic conditions and I’m half
tempted to hibernate for a few months. Tempting...very tempting.
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