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Playlist from Moogie Wonderland 24 June
07 months ago
in Kent Scene
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
Tender Trap – Girls With Guns
0“Amelia Fletcher never meant anything to me” declared Los Campesinos! on The International Tweexcore Underground, and for the longest time, I was just like them. My journey through indiepop has been a largely backwards one, with many of my discoveries only through the modern bands that are influenced by the bands of the past. A few years ago was the first time I heard Fletcher’s seminal Heavenly, and more shockingly, it was only last year that I first listened to Tallulah Gosh. It took me a while with Heavenly, and I went through quite a long period of reasonably enjoying them but not much more. Some time on though and I regard The Decline and Fall of Heavenly as one of my favourite albums.
For the last decade though, Fletcher’s talents have been located within Tender Trap, not to be confused with a bafflingly more popular band with a similar name. Tender Trap used to slant more toward an electronic sound, but now seem to be heading back toward a sound more in line with Fletcher’s previous bands. Adding to this, Elizabeth Darling of the oft-praised on here Allo Darlin’ is now a part of the lineup, somehow finding time to be in more than one top notch band at the same time. Girls With Guns is a great little single with a half-hilarious, half-disturbing video that doesn’t hide the fact it was made on a shoestring. I might have been late jumping on the Fletcher bandwagon in the past, but I’m certainly on board for the band’s upcoming third album now.
MP3 Tender Trap – Girls With Guns
Tender Trap’s third album, entitled Dansette, Dansette will be released sometime in the summer on Fortuna Pop! in the UK and Slumberland in the US.
Foxes! are another musical casualty of Unfortunate Exclamation Mark Syndrome
02 years ago
in MP3s
Foxes! are an indie pop band formed in Oxford, who are now seemingly from Brighton. Which makes sense I suppose as Brighton has one hell of a music scene; Oxford not so much. They also seem to be another band on the exclamation! mark! trip! which is starting to get just a little annoying. It doesn’t even make them any easier to find on search engines. Hype Machine still kept giving me tons and tons of poxy Fleet Foxes tracks.
Musically, the band take the lo-fi pop route. Handclaps, casiotones and sweet vocals are the order of the day here. From listening to these songs, I think the artwork has had more refining than the songs, but that’s part of what makes it so utterly charming. In fact, if you close your eyes and let your mind wander a little, the whole thing even has a touch of the Heavenly about it.
Apples to Apples is from the band’s very first release back in 2006 from what I can tell, but I couldn’t find any free downloads more recent than that. Not that this doesn’t kick ass in itself.
Foxes! will be releasing a new single, entitled Who Killed Rob? on May 4 via CatCutter Records
Website / Myspace
The Hermit Crabs in bullet points!
02 years ago
in MP3s
Stupid bloody WordPress just managed to lose my post, so this is a rather more brief version.
- The Hermit Crabs are a band from Glasgow who are making indie pop in the purest sense.
- Song has a timeless quality that would feel at home in the 60s or on a Heavenly record.
- Unlike many indie pop bands, this doesn’t sound lo-fi at all. All perfectly constructed.
- The vocals hold it all together perfectly. Gentle throughout, but never sweet enough to be sickly.
- Uses a fadeout (spawn of the devil). Will forgive as it’s meant to be last song on record.
- I think there was a bad joke in here somewhere too, but it escapes me now.
- Just download the damn song.
The Correspondence Course EP was released back in December by Matinée Recordings.
Website / Myspace
