Music to drink tea by
Archive for February, 2010
3 Songs: Airport Girl, Operator Please, Pale Sunday
11 year ago
in MP3s
MP3 Airport Girl – The Foolishness That We Create Through Love Is The Closest We Come To Greatness
With London Popfest coming up in just a few days, it seemed prudent to familiarise myself with some of the bands on the bill that I didn’t recognise. One of these was Rob Price, who is also the front man of Airport Girl, one of those bands that has been around for years yet I’ve never noticed. Thankfully that has been rectified now though, with the wonderfully awkwardly titled The Foolishness That We Create Through Love Is The Closest We Come To Greatness. It’s not just the title that’s long either. It’s a rare indiepop song that manages to run over six minutes and never outstay it’s welcome.
Myspace / Fortuna Pop!
MP3 Operator Please – Logic
I really enjoyed Operator Please’s single Get What You Want a few years ago. It was a fun, punchy little number that got straight to the pop. Logic doesn’t seem to work quite as well. There’s nothing really wrong with it, it’s just a little too plodding for my tastes. A lot of other people seem to be liking it though, so maybe it’s just me.
Myspace
MP3 Pale Sunday – Shooting Star
If I was asked to tell you what country Pale Sunday came from, I’d probably get it wrong. I’d likely lean toward the US, the UK, or for an outside bet, somewhere like Sweden. Somewhere like Brazil wouldn’t even cross my mind. I’ve never really considered South America as somewhere indiepop would come out of, but Pale Sunday are seemingly doing their best to change that. Jangly guitars and harmonies are the order of the day here. If you’re familiar with other bands from the Matinée stable (Northern Portrait, Cats on Fire etc.), you know exactly what you’re getting here.
Myspace / Matinée Recordings
Where we are
01 year ago
in Site News
Just a quick post to address exactly what’s going on with this place. If you visit with any regularity you’ll have noticed that posts have dried up recently. This is down to a couple of reasons. One that I can’t do much about and one that I can.
First off, for the past 18 months, my father has been pretty ill, resulting in him being constantly in and out of hospital. This most recent incident began in November of last year and is still ongoing. This makes it pretty difficult for me to arrange much beyond working, visiting hospitals and sleeping. This has cut quite significantly into the time I have to not only write here, lessened my ability to get to gigs and also finding and listening to new music in the first place.
The second is rather more mundane in that I’d become somewhat bored with the process in general. Pretty much the whole thing fell into a routine formula of pick a song, write a little about it and post with no variation in that format. There was a time when that seemed like the most efficient way to post, but the end result is lazy, both in content and writing.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been kicking around various ideas to get us going again here. A few new features, and most importantly, not dragging out three paragraphs about a song I kind of like that can be achieved in one. Hopefully this’ll be more pleasant to read, and better for me to write. How much time I’m going to get to write though I have no idea. So no bullshit about posting everyday or anything similar. Posts when I’ve got time to post, and something worth posting about.
Let’s see where we end up.
