vampire weekend trying to outdo kevin barnes yet again
Before I head off down Brunswick St to trawl op-shops for a very "spucific" article of clothing, here's a few songs which match my current mood of finished-exams-but-technically-still-at-school-until-thursday-at-twelve-oh-five, namely a Foals tracks which tends to fly under the radar, a new one from Vampire Weekend, and a slice of Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor's stripped back solo album.
Don't worry, there's still the obligatory 1;1 ratio of songs to pretty pictures, (C) every pretentious mp3 blog in the multiverse
Foals
because I couldn't find that staged picture of them posing with balloons
I hadn't listened to Foals for aeons ever since downloading their album Antidotes way back when, but recently when reminded by George (http://www.oligarchicalmachinations.blogspot.com/) of their goodness I went in search of their more obscure songs on hypemachine (http://www.hypem.com/, a great site for finding music that even some torrents don't have, most serious DJ's go there to find things like Soulwax edits of Walter Murphy's Fifth of Beethoven, to take a purely hypothetical example). The result from a multifarious bunch ranging from Daytrotter live sessions to Fucked Up! covers, the pick of which was definitely Brazil Is Here.
I'm not sure why Foals aren't more popular down under; like MGMT they were on Skins (they even performed live in one episode, similar to the way in which 2-tone ska bands like Madness would play Our House In The Middle Of The Street during Young Ones episodes) yet they have none of the uber-sickening popularity now enjoyed by the "Management" over here.
Vampire Weekend
they used this picture for the poster for their melbourne gig at the prince this year, how exciting
They're currently working on their "sophomore" album and trying to move away from their "college inspirations", and this is the result, a sneak peek that is pretty decent, obviously covering Radiohead has done wonders.
Alexis Taylor
he's the one on the right, looking like one of the accordion-listening villains from the movie diva (see the erich satie song a few posts below)
If you like Hot Chip, you'll probably like this, as the singer Taylor has an extremely distinctive voice. In his solo album Rubbed Out he's stripped back most of the synthesizers that proliferate Hot Chip's albums to shift focus.
PS: As a Hamlet-like aside, I'll be featuring some songs by my friend's band Haze next post, check them out at www.myspace.com/cupidswounded before they get famous, as well as a teenage band called [is] who won the Triple JJJ high schools competition with a great song called Cult Romance.
PPS: Photos of 70's music stars such as Grace Slick (my favourite female singer by far) and Frank Zappa...with their parents: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-70s-rock-musicians-and-their-parents-homes-070419
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