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Say Hi use titles that make tagging mp3s more difficult than it should be

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I have a confession to make about . Even though I have liked every release (six including the ones) I have never bought any of them. Even in this day of everything being available on demand, something seems wrong about that. In my defence, a few of those albums were downloaded on an eMusic free trial, so hopefully they still got a little back for them. One day I’ll pick up the albums in physical form, but seeing as I can’t find them below £10 each anywhere, it won’t be happening anytime soon.

That aside, Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh is taken from Oohs & Aahs, Eric Ellbogen’s sixth album in the space of seven years. It doesn’t seem like very long ago that I was taking in The Wishes and the Glitch, but here we are again.

The main revelation here is that we now seem to have production values. Not to insult the older material, as the lo-fi sound was part of it’s charm, but it’s nice to hear Ellbogen can do with a richer sound. It builds nicely, and the little flourishes dotted between each section slot in perfectly without ever dominating. The only slight disappointment is the mixing with the vocals. It could just be me, but they seem to be a little lower than they should be, making the words a little tricky to pick out given the pace of the song. Even this isn’t hugely important though as the song bombs along regardless.

Oohs & Aahs was released just yesterday on Barsuk.

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Say Hi – Let’s Talk About Spaceships

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Bedroom electronica week vaguely continues here at Another Form of Relief, something that was unintentional but I’m happy to go with. used to be To Your Mom. Perhaps that is too twee or too precious or something these days. Which is kind of a shame as I rather liked the name and doesn’t really sound like anything at all.

Whatever the name though, Let’s Talk About Spaceships remains a lovely, if sad, little song. When things are too much, it’s far easier to just switch off and move onto anything else. It’s a position just about anyone will have been in at some point, whether it be personal or something bigger. So let’s not talk about that break up. Let’s not talk about recession. Let’s not talk about Georgia. Let’s talk about spaceships.

July: The Leftovers

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I get through a lot of music in a month, which is probably obvious given I have to find material for this thing constantly. A lot of what I hear is rubbish. A reasonable amount is great and that’s the part that ends up being featured on the blog. There’s also a third section though: simply good music that I don’t write about for a number of reasons. This could be that I’ve just featured someone and then found a new song, or it’s an older band that everyone already knows that I only just discovered. Whatever the reason, it’s good music, so I’m going to start including it here. At the end of each month, I’m going to feature these “leftovers”. Seeing as July was such a good month for music, there’s some fantastic little songs here.

Kate NashMP3 – Little Red (expired)
MP3 Kate Nash – The Shit Song (expired)
I’ve written endlessly about Kate Nash in the past, so I didn’t include these songs on the blog before. One is a new song, the other is one that wasn’t previously available for download. Both now are though, so they are going up here. ‘The Shit Song’ is the new one that is pretty simplistic (the chrous is basically “don’t give me shit because you’re full of it”), but it’s pretty fun, and at only two minutes, doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. ‘Little Red’ is pretty much the most developed song so far from Nash though. The piano jumps all over the place, the lyrics are the most complex so far and her voice is sounding more and more confident. The sound quality is once again pretty poor on both of these, but apparently she’ll be recording some higher quality ones soon. Which will probably give me another excuse to include them on here.

MP3 – Your Blood (expired)
I avoided Destroyer for the longest time. It was one of those things where I had a massively wrong impression about what kind of music it was. I know I shouldn’t do that, but once you get an idea stuck in your head, it’s pretty hard to get past it. For some reason I believed Destroyer was some abstract instrumental group or something, and that kept me away. I have no idea why I thought that, particularly given that I quite like The New Pornographers. I really should have known that it was one of the guys from there, but there you go. Seems I can be ignorant too. The best part about this for me has been discovering a wonderful new project. Particularly given that I find The New Pornographers kind of dull when hearing more than a couple of songs at a time, but these songs are far more enjoyable. ‘Your Blood’ is about my favourite so far, but I’ve still got a lot more material to get through.

The PipettesMP3 – We Are (expired)
The Pipettes are another band that I’m somewhat late to the party on. Well, that isn’t entirely true. I first heard them a couple of years ago performing a live set on XFM, and thought they sounded great. Then I downloaded some songs and found them kind of dull. An impression that stuck even through this year’s blog explosion and excellent reviews. I heard one song the other day though and I really enjoyed it, so I got some more, and they are far better than I recall. Whether this is thanks to a change in their sound or a change in my tastes I don’t know, but I’m finding them to be an awful lot of fun now. Not quite enough to pick up the album or anything, but it’s good stuff.

MP3 Say Hi To Your Mom – Let’s Talk About Spaceships
This is something of an older song, but it’s new to me, hence why it’s here. This is one of the bands where I downloaded some songs simply because I liked the band name and song titles. They turned out to be better than I expected though, and ‘Let’s Talk About Spaceships’ is one of my favourite things that I’ve discovered lately. It has this wonderfully innocent quality about wanting to talk about stupid things instead of slightly more important issues like a relationship that’s collapsing. A lot of their songs seem to have this kind of melancoly feel to them, so they are getting a fair amount of play at the moment. It still amazes me just how many bands that are already well established that I can be completely unaware of. It does make finding new stuff very entertaining though.

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