Thursday 28 June 2007

a couple of random listens...






























bed - spacebox


i managed to miss this album when it came out in 2003.
it wears it's 'laughing stock' influences on it's sleeve but is still right up my street, and leaves you feeling very 'warm-veined'.


ryan adams - easy tiger

there was a time when i'd have been really excited about a new adams record. easy tiger is the most middle of the road thing i have picked up recently - however it has still got some charm about it. the reviews of it seem to suggest it is his 'best one for ages'. i always get alarm bells when you see reviews like that (it always occurs when artists go through a wall of about ten albums and so prefixes every album review of everyone from the fall to paul mcartney these days) i tend to think it means, 'i can't remember what the last one sounded like - but this ones okay (if you like that kind of thing).

Wednesday 27 June 2007

the ting tings




i'd really recommend giving this lot five minutes of yr time. i know it is a bit 'of the moment' 'bit made at a barfly' - however i still rate it!

Saturday 2 June 2007

radiopotta - early june podcast

as usual there is a c90 theme going on so here is side a....

there is a darkish, psychedelic-electro-dub feel to this bit of pod. the red screen record, "future rock" is a particular favourite from this year - as are both the gudren gut/thomas fehlmann "i put a record on" and apparats "arcadia". the slowdive reissue of 1995s "pygmalion" fills a retro slot - but sits nicely with what i've been listening to this month...

Red Screen - Strategy

Move Me - Gudrun Gut

Arcadia - Apparat

Forever Heavy - Black Moth Super Rainbow

Crazy For You - Slowdive

Deserter (4Tet remix) - Matthew Dear

Space Jam 2000.17 - Christian Prommer's Drumlesson

Un Beau Jour - Jay Bharadia