before i disappear off into the cornish countryside...

Take a quick moment to sit back and calm the excitement by listening to
Boards of Canada's In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country.
Let's see how beautiful the country will be in Newquay shall we...

sparkadia: mary

If love is blind then I don't know what I'll find in you...

Well, let's talk more about what's in frontman Alex Burnett's enchanting voice shall we, rather than the not-so-appealing gothic eyeshadow and deathly black hair dye. Not that I have anything against self-expression, I just think it's a style that's been done so many times before... and could pigeonhole Sparkadia for those who watch the video first. Because it was a blind experience for me the first time I heard this song and I loved it perhaps a little bit more than I do after seeing the video. But all the same, it's a song I'd like to share. This guy plays on my guilty pleasures of Miike Snow and Cold War Kids, but I do sense a likeness to Boy & Bear's more folky, stripped back sounds. We'll see how the pendulum swings... (I mean, even now I can see myself finding the repeated "Mare-ray!" getting on my nerves). I think I've just talked myself out of liking this song. If the awful acting and try-hard video didn't do that for me already.

P.S. Well, if you like it, I'd advise you visit Sparkadia's website here; you can download a remix of Mary for free.

bombay bicycle club: shuffle video

I know I've posted and raved about this song already but this video makes me giggle so much. Human bicycle, anyone?

peggy sue: cut my teeth

 I wonder who the muse for this song was.

The first song to be released from Peggy Sue's second album, and it's growing on me. It's lost the layers of acoustic guitar that made me bob around to songs like Yo Mama and Fossils And Other Phantoms as a whole, and with my weakness for anything with acoustic guitar it's a real shame, but nevertheless I can't help going back and listening to it over and over again. The darker sounds from the electric guitar work well, especially coupled with the fierce and perhaps slightly morbid lyrics of "I cut my teeth, on his flesh, and watched him weeping, as I left". Acrobats, the title of their second album, will be out on the 12th September - another album to look out for that month.

P.S. You can download Cut My Teeth for free from Peggy Sue's website here.

viva brother

Brother have changed their name to Viva Brother to avoid legal action.

In other news, doesn't frontman Lee Newell bear an uncanny resemblance to La Roux?

I'm not sure who the more unfortunate is.