has the light gone out for you / because the light's gone out for me

ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...

I've been away for far too long. Have some music.

Jona Lewie

I heard this 1980 synth-pop gem on Gold last night towards midnight while heading towards Brunswick St. The street itself reminded me why I stay away from there on Friday and Saturday nights, but this song reminded me why its important to look back to the turn of the 80's, especially in England, when previously alternative musical influences such as reggae beats infiltrated pop music. Although this song "only" reached #16, the delivery of Lewie's lyrics (highly reminiscent of Squeeze, as in Cool for Cats) in a voice highly redolent of Ian Dury make this track highly worthwhile.

Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties

The Golden Silvers

find some time / for tea and wine

More infectious synth-pop, this time from the present decade. My vocabulary-tank is running on empty at the moment, so selling this is a little hard. Rest assured, its worth the left-click-save-as-or-download-with-bittorrent (irregular verb of the week). The refix is pretty "dope", even "ill", its taken the original and run with it like a watercolour in the rain.

Golden Silvers - True Romance

Golden Silvers - True Romance (True Romantic refix)

Gang Gang Dance

These guys first entered my consciousness when I went to see Hot Chip at Billboard at the end of January this year and saw Alexis Taylor wearing a Gang Gang Dance t-shirt. My interest well and truly piqued, a quick hype on everyone's favourite machine rendered them very listenable indeed. There are some interesting, transcendent similarities to Animal Collective's sound which I can arrogantly but falsely claim to have recognized before seeing them as a related artist on last.fm.

Gang Gang Dance - Before My Voice Fails

Simian Mobile Disco

SMD have come under fire (but the limp-wristed, bedroom blogger kind of fire) several times over the years basically because some people believe pre-Mobile Disco Simian are a lot better. Simian's songs like One Dimension and The Way I Live are certainly good, and sound a lot different by virtue of the larger group alone, but something about SMD sets them apart from most purely electronic music being produced today, for me at least. This is some of their most recent work, pre-empting a release of their new album they predicted for next year.

Simian Mobile Disco - 10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong

The Breeders/Deerhunter

For those that are interested, both The Breeders and Deerhunter have put out new EPs, both of which are worth a check-out. I might put some of their new stuff up here on my next post, what I can promise is J Dilla's Fuck the Police.

I said I'd save the best for last; some block-rocking beats from the Chemical Brothers...

Chemical Brothers

Words cannot express the sheer musical energy that courses through your body when you play this on a twelve-inch sub from 1.25 onwards...if I were to attempt an explanation I'd compare the experience to manifold personal jesuses spreading joy in your body's every cell...

Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night