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Milky Wimpshake – Cherry Pop
010 months ago
in Videos
“Milky Wimpshake join the MTV generation!!! Fuckin sellouts!” – Pete Dale
When it comes to certain bands, there are just some things that you don’t expect from them. If you’d told me a while ago that I’d be posting a somewhat amusing Milky Wimpshake music video on here, I’d have found the idea quite preposterous. Yet here we are. After nearly two decades of churning out songs and becoming legends within the indiepop scene, they’ve finally got around to making a video. And very good fun it is too, even with it’s wanton destruction of cherry bakewells.
Cherry Pop is taken from My Funny Social Crime, which is available now via Fortuna POP! The band will also be headlining the indoor stage at Indietracks on July 30.
Playlist from Moogie Wonderland 24 June
010 months ago
in Kent
Last night was our second DJing experience, and it was rather a contrast to the first time around. It was all rather last minute, meaning I didn’t have five weeks to fret about song choices. It was in a coffee shop instead of a bar with a dance floor, and given the rain and other factors, there wasn’t exactly a big turnout. Didn’t matter though as I still ended up enjoying myself immensely. Here’s what I played:
1. Herman Düne – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
2. Belle & Sebastian – Your Cover’s Blown
3. The Hidden Cameras – The Mild Mannered Army
4. Tigercats – Banned at the Troxy
5. Butcher Boy – Carve a Pattern
6. Art Brut – Lost Weekend
7. Shrag – Hopelessly Wasted
8. Comet Gain – You Can Hide Your Love Forever
9. Heavenly – C Is The Heavenly Option
10. God Help the Girl – Perfection As A Hipster
11. Milky Wimpshake – True Love/Youth
12. Pants Yell! – Your Feelings Don’t Show
13. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – My Terrible Friend
14. Cats on Fire – Higher Grounds
15. The Wave Pictures – I Love You Like A Madman
16. Moustache of Insanity – Dinner Party
17. Allo Darlin’ – Let’s Go Swimming
18. Pocketbooks – Cross the Line
Raymond & Maria – No One Notices Your Brand New T-Shirt
0There’s several reasons to be wary about Raymond & Maria. Usually if I receive a press release about a platinum-selling, number one record, I’ll tend to recoil in horror. Granted this is in their native land of Sweden, but it still suggests music perhaps a little too mainstream for an apparent snob such as myself. I also don’t really like remakes, so recording your Swedish songs into English seems a little silly to me, even if I understand the commercial reasons behind doing so. Then again, I’ve never heard Raymond & Maria in their Swedish form, so I have no point of comparison here.
So taken on it’s own merits, No One Notices Your Brand New T-Shirt is absolutely fine. In fact, it sounds like a hundred other indiepop bands that haven’t had the level of success that Raymond & Maria seem to have had. It’s upbeat, it’s handclap happy, and of course has the inevitable slightly sweet but also gently accented vocals. It’s all rather lightweight and straightforward, but then it doesn’t seem to be aspiring to be anything more than what it is, and that’s certainly no bad thing.
The debut English language album from Raymond & Maria, Jobs Where They Don’t Know Our Names, is currently being shopped around for a label. So you’ll probably be waiting a while to actually hear it.
Guest post: My Top 5 Records That I’d Recommend To No One
111 months ago
in Guest posts, Videos
Audio Antihero label supremo Jamie takes us through five albums he owns that he simply couldn’t justify to anyone else…
All us real people have record collections. In these collections we have classics and then we have those other records. Not ‘guilty pleasures’ but records we can’t explain or justify – ones you wouldn’t play on the office stereo. Records that your friends just wouldn’t understand…
My Top 5 Records That I’d Recommend To No One
Ciccone Youth – The Whitey Album (Blast First Records, 1988)
Ciccone Youth were Sonic Youth and Mike Watt (Minutemen) plus a bit of Greg Ginn (Black Flag) and J.Mascis (Dinosaur Jr). Why wouldn’t you recommend that muscle to everyone? Because it’s frickin incomprehensible!
This album offers a couple of tracks of silence, some poetry, some ‘skits’ (‘Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu!”), a few instrumentals, a rap/yelp from Thurston Moore and three cover songs; ”Addicted To Love” (Kim Gordon in a Karaoke Booth) and “Burnin’ Up” and “Into The Groove” by Madonna.
Why did any of this happen? I don’t know.
One of the things on the Audio Antihero “To-Do List” is a re-working of this album featuring the entire AAH roster. As if to say “Dear Sonic Youth, I will see your senseless indulgence and raise you one faintly illegal re-working of your most forgotten album”. Suck on that, Renaldo!
Video: Ciccone Youth – Addicted To Love
Various Artists – Judgement Night Soundtrack (Immortal, 1993)
OH BABY! 1999 and 13 years old! Rap-Metal was my education but for some reason everyone’s a total grinch about it, except for all those ‘people’ who do actually like rap-metal but I wouldn’t want to talk to any of those losers.
Anyway, this was a soundtrack to a film only I liked and an experiment on the genre/money, pairing up rock/metal artists with rappers to create something pretty monolithic. There’s Slayer & Ice-T! Mudhoney & Mr. “I-Like-Big-Butts”! Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul! Helmet & House Of Pain! Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill! Even Therapy? are on here!
My favourite is “Another Body Murdered” by Faith No More & Boo-Yaa Tribe which is terrifyingly O.G. “I KEEP LOOKIN’ AND HUNTIN’ JUST LIKE A LION! LET THE SUCKA KNOW IT’S THEM THAT BE DYIN’!”. Fuuuuuuuuck.
If XOYO or Old Blue Last ever book me to DJ I’ll probably just pump this album on shuffle until hipsters crucify me on an upside down American Apparel ‘A’. I’ll be a Nu-Martyr. Fred Durst will write a rhyme about me. S.O.W.O.R.T.H.I.T.
Video: Faith No More & Boo-Yaa Tribe – Another Body Murdered
Type O Negative – The Origin Of Feces (Roadrunner, 1992)
Oh ‘90s major labels…you truly are the gift that keeps on giving! The sophomore effort from pseudo-goths Type O Negative was a fake live album where the band re-recorded and miss-titled songs from their debut and play intentionally badly whilst argue with a dubbed audience who loathe them. The ‘gig’ even gets interrupted by a bomb scare…It’s nonsense.
But in all the “what?” and “why?” it packs more punch that it ought. Plus, I never expected a song called “I Know You’re Fucking Someone Else” to carry any significance to me…but life has its twists!
RIP Peter Steele.
Video: Type O Negative – I Know You’re Fucking Someone Else
Tomahawk – Anonymous (Ipecac, 2007)
“Original arrangements inspired by Native American material from the late 19th century” from members of Faith No More, Jesus Lizard, Helmet, Battles & The Melvins. Supergroups-are-weird-you-guys!
This rhythmic, spooky and furious music is destined to confuse or irritate most people you know. It somehow found its way into my father’s life and he complained that it was ‘endless’.
I don’t know if I would play it backwards.
Video: Tomahawk – Song of Victory
Henrietta Collins & The Wife Beating Child Haters – Drive By Shooting EP (Texas Hotel, 1987)
Post-Black Flag, Henry Rollins came to England to start afresh. He recorded the seething “Hot Animal Machine” but all the rage and resentment that flowed couldn’t match the perversely illogical “Drive By Shooting EP” that followed.
It opens with a ‘60s pop parody about going out with “the gang” to embark on a killing spree (“it might be your sister or it might be you!”) but that’s relatively tame compared to what follows. ”Hey Henrietta” shows Rollins having an unnerving conversation with himself about murdering his racist father and raping a policewoman; “Can You Speak To This?” places him as the protagonist in a Sabbath-riffed tale of meeting a woman who produces her husband’s severed head and encourages him to speak to it; then a glimmer of relaxing familiarity comes and goes with “I Have Come To Kill You” a re-working of Queen’s (immeasurably tiresome) “We Will Rock You” in which Rollins offers us freedom and salvation…because he has come to kill us.
Next to the ‘gags’ about raping a policewoman (erk), “Men Are Pigs” is easily the most uncomfortable moment. He encourages women to thank and please their men by using their mouths – and then…
“CUT IT OFF! THE WHOLE THING! DO IT TONIGHT!
PUT IT IN AN ENVELOPE, SEND IT TO ME:
ROLLINS, P.O. BOX 2461 REDONDO BEACH CALIFORNIA 90278 USA!
MEN ARE PIGS, YEAH!
Ladies, no one understands you like I do.”
Video: Henry Rollins – Men Are Pigs
No sir, they don’t make them like this anymore. If you own no records that you’d recommend to no one then I feel sorry for you, son.
Jamie is the one man machine behind the mighty Audio Antihero label. You know, the place that put out the Nosferatu D2 record I go on and on and on about. Since then, the label has put out quality releases from Benjamin Shaw, Jack Hayter, Wartgore Hellsnicker and will release the new EP from Paul Hawkins and the Awkward Silences in the near future. To celebrate this, the label will be putting on a launch gig at the Brixton Windmill on July 1, featuring three of their acts and the lovely David Cronenberg’s Wife. You should come.
Evans the Death – Threads
011 months ago
in Videos
Well this is really bloody excellent. Evans the Death have been floating around the indiepop scene for a little while now, building themselves a great reputation in the process. I finally managed to catch them at the Odd Box Weekender last month, where they were one of the highlights of the weekend. Newly signed to Fortuna POP!, their debut single Threads is loud, fast, and messy, and really, what more could you want from a band? So good.
Threads will be released on July 4 via the mighty Fortuna POP!
Tigercats – Banned at the Troxy
0
You ain’t seen nothing yet
We’re gonna get bigger than national debt
So proclaim Tigercats toward the end of their sprawling new single, Banned at the Troxy, and it may just be true. The evolution of Tigercats has been an odd one. Forming from the ashes of the mighty Esiotrot, the band has quickly risen through the London indiepop ranks from go-to support band to a band capable of selling out gigs as headliners in their own right. Their earlier releases were focused more around three minute pop songs, but Banned ups the ante to cross the five minute barrier, and doesn’t even come close to outstaying it’s welcome. It builds, jangles, builds some more and ends in a controlled chaos of noise, all without ever losing it’s sense of fun. Which is demonstrated by the wonderfully whimsical video below:
B-side Skydiving (below) is just as interesting in itself. A much more downtrodden, sullen affair, it manages to run on for nearly four minutes with only two lyrics throughout. From most bands, I’d find this to be a rather frightful prospect, particularly given how trite those lyrics could have ended up sounding: “Where do you go when you fall apart / Into my arms and into my heart”. Yet four minutes of this somehow works and ends up being the most mature thing the band have recorded thus far.
The Banned at the Troxy 7″ picture disc is out now on the lovely WeePOP! Records. If, like me, vinyl isn’t your thing, it’s also out on download places that aren’t iTunes. If, like me, that isn’t your bag either, you’re just too damn fussy I suppose.
Website / Bandcamp / Myspace / Twitter / Soundcloud
Playlist from Moogie Wonderland
0Last night was Another Form of Relief’s first outing as a DJ, at the lovely Moogie Wonderland in Rochester. There were a lot of reasons why last night could have been a failure, from me not having a clue what I was doing to the event being moved to a new venue at a relatively late hour. I’d say it turned out rather well though, with a good number through the door, and there actually being a proper dance party through the second and third sets. Here’s what I played across the four sets:
1. Allo Darlin’ – The Polaroid Song
2. Voxtrot – The Start of Something
3. Tigercats – Banned at the Troxy
4. Betty and the Werewolves – Tu Veux Jouer
5. Cats on Fire – Your Woman
6. Math and Physics Club – Baby I’m Yours
7. The Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Seen A Digital Accordion?
8. Oh No! Oh My! – I Have No Sister
9. Los Campesinos! – There Are Listed Buildings
10. Johnny Foreigner – Salt, Peppa and Spinderella
11. Shrag – Rabbit Kids
12. Heavenly – C is the Heavenly Option
13. Airport Girl – The Foolishness That We Create Through Love Is The Closest We Come To Greatness
14. Standard Fare – Fifteen
15. Belle and Sebastian – I’m A Cuckoo
16. Comet Gain – Love Without Lies
17. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Heart In Your Heartbreak
18. The Wave Pictures – Leave the Scene Behind
19. Kenickie – Punka
20. Help Stamp Out Loneliness – Record Shop
21. Camera Obscura – French Navy
22. The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
23. Moustache of Insanity – We Need More Awesome
24. The School – I Want You Back
25. Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945
26. Tullycraft – Twee
27. Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
28. Arab Strap – The Shy Retirer
29. Allo Darlin’ – Kiss Your Lips
30. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
31. The Go! Team – Ladyflash
32. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – My Terrible Friend
33. The Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds (But I Like Other Animals Too)
34. Shrag – Faux-Coda
35. Art Brut – Good Weekend
36. Another Sunny Day – You Should All Be Murdered
37. Summer Camp – I Want You
38. Go Sailor – A Fine Day For Sailing
39. The Moldy Peaches – Who’s Got The Crack?
40. Standard Fare – Love Doesn’t Just Stop
41. Pulp – The Night That Minnie Temperley Died
42. Lemon Jelly feat. William Shatner – ’64 aka Go
43. The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
44. This Many Boyfriends – #1
45. World Atlas – The Winter Stories
46. Destroyer – Painter In Your Pocket
47. Acid House Kings – Are We Lovers Or Are We Friends?
48. Voxtrot – Raised by Wolves
49. Pants Yell! – Your Feelings Don’t Show
50. Butcher Boy – Carve a Pattern
DJing in Rochester this Friday!
0A shameless bit of self promotion here, but I’ll be guest DJing at the delightful Moogie Wonderland indiepop clubnight this Friday in merry olde Rochester. Free entry, 8pm-2am at Oliver’s (which used to be Enigma) on the High Street. Full details available here.
Things that may or may not be on the playlist:
Help Stamp Out Loneliness – Record Shop
01 year ago
in MP3s
You know those times where you judge a band incorrectly, rigidly stick with that initial impression for ages and then end up eating humble pie about them? That’s my experience with Help Stamp Out Loneliness. The first time I encountered them was at Indietracks 2009, when they were on immediately before Art Brut and, assuming my memory is correct, I actually found them a bit boring. That opinion has stuck ever since, without any attempts to give them another chance. Over the past few months, buzz has been building for their debut album, and people whose opinions I trust have gone on and on about it. Did I listen though? Nope.
Then I heard Record Shop. Which is bloody fantastic. I can’t tell you what has really changed since my first opinion, but this is just superb. It builds and drops back at the right times, jangles appropriately, and good lord, the vocals are spectacular. Which is ironic as they were one of the things that put me off the first time around. But the depth and tone here are just completely wonderful. This deserves to be a big hit, and if anything else on the album is half as good as this one, it’s going to be one of my favourites of the year. So, so good.
The debut, self-titled album from Help Stamp Out Loneliness was released yesterday by the ever fine Where It’s At Is Where You Are. You’ll be able to see the band at Indietracks, which takes place July 29-31.
