Archive for August 2010
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August 1, 2010Episode 1468 is up
August 1, 2010Alphabet Soup, Episode 9, 1 August 2010 Playlist
August 1, 2010Ludo, Love Me Dead
Dynamite Club, Ladykiller
The Duhks, Mighty Storm
Ear Pwr, Future Eyes
Dutchess/Duke, Let It Die
Heather Duby, What You Thought
Feist, Mushaboom
A Fine Frenzy, Come On, Come Out
Sarah Fimm, How Does It Feel
The Fiery Furnaces, Up in the North
Florence + the Machine, Dog Days Are Over
Fabulous Disaster, No Stars Tonight
Flashing Red Airplane, It’s a Long Way Down When You Know Your Way
Fonda, Electric Guitars
Free Kitten, Surf’s Up
Frente!, Labour of Love
Edith Frost, My God Insane
Joel’s Hit Show, Episode 73, 1 August 2010 Playlist
August 1, 2010Tender Trap, Suddenly
The Newloud, Don’t Dance
Picture Me Broken, Skin & Bones
Tracey Thorn, Come on Home to Me
Here We Go Magic, Collector
Gemma Ray, Rosemary’s Baby Vs. Drunken Butterfly
Dean & Britta, Making Me Smile
Annuals, Turncloaking
M.I.A., Story to Be Told
Boyskout, You Act Strange
Pretty Hideous, Mercury
Misty Boyce, Be a Man
Unnatural Helpers, Girl in the Window
Telegraph Canyon, Into the Woods
Tender Forever, But the Shape Is Wide
Fading Collection “Attakk”
August 1, 2010It’s an EP. “March Rabbits” is first and has a late ’90s feel. This was the direction Republica and Sister Soleil tried to take modern rock, but it did not stick because everyone wanted to listen to fucking Creed. Their loss. “The Real Rotator” is slightly more industrial. Slightly. “Antlering” reminds me of God Lives Underwater, only with a woman singing. It’s a little too slow for my liking, but it’s still worth a listen. Everything here is. This is the stuff I would listen to after work on my way home from the bar. It’s impossible to fall asleep at the wheel when this kind of music is blaring from your AM/FM cassette deck.
“Broken Teeth” does the start and stop tempo that the original Beatmania songs made famous. The backing vocals on the chorus seem a bit misplaced, though. “Five Forests” is the fifth track. Who knows what that means. It is also the last track and the longest. One of the things that firmly implants this record in the Monica Lewinsky scandal is that, even though the tracks are all mainstream danceable for the era, the tracks are mostly 3-4 minutes long. That was the style at the time!
This won’t be my favorite album of 2010, but it will be right there with the honorable mentions.
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