A blog about music by Mark Higgins.
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27 Feb 2010Donkeyboy – Ambitions (Youtube)
A lovely, eighties influenced track for you now, coming straight out of Norway. Ambitions was originally released early last year, but it’s garnered a re-release this year and I for one am thankful it did, because it’s a bit special.
Featuring guest vocals by Linnea Dale (she’s big in Norway, I’m told), you’ve [...]
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25 Feb 2010Stars & Sons – If It’s Good For Me (Youtube)
Bit of British indie type pop for you now, with Brighton’s very own Stars & Sons.
They’re being featured here primarily for a banging chorus and an mental synth/guitar solo (I’m not sure which it is, but I like it). Also it’s a fun track all around [...]
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23 Feb 2010The Most Serene Republic – Heavens To Purgatory (Youtube)
A slice of extremely affable Canadian folk-pop for you now, courtesy of the lovely types from The Most Serene Republic.
Their brand of music, with the odd horn and folk type noise going on in there, is a bit reminiscent of the UK’s own Fanfarlo, but ever so [...]
N.A.S.A. featuring Tom Waits & Kool Keith – Spacious Thoughts (Youtube)
It’s difficult to know where to start with on this one. Firstly, we’ve got one of the most sumptuously animated videos I’ve seen in a long time. On top of that, you’ve got some of the freshest beats Kool Keith has dropped in a long [...]
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19 Feb 2010Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, America (Youtube)
Some blissed out electro for you today, courtesy of Acid Washed.
It’s a lovely bit of noise with a pounding beat, but it’s the video that really sells this one. It’s got lines. Lots of lines. Also shapes, and circles. And COLOUR. Yeah, it’s definitely got colour. And that’s [...]
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17 Feb 2010New Young Pony Club – Chaos (Youtube)
There’s a couple of reasons to like New Young Pony Club – the fact that they put out Ice Cream, which may have been one of the best tracks of the 2000s, and they’re just so damn cool. They wouldn’t talk to me under any circumstance, and you don’t [...]
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15 Feb 2010Spoon – Written in Reverse (Vimeo)
I make no apologies when I tell you that Spoon are one of my all-time favourite bands, so it’s fitting I should post their latest video the day before their London show in support of new album Transference.
The video is all it needs to be – a stark, black and [...]
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13 Feb 2010Archie Bronson Outfit – Shark’s Tooth (Youtube)
Not a band I know a lot about here, but I’ve been swayed by the winning combination of a great track and an absolutely mental video. That is literally what it takes to impress me.
Space vikings! Wireframes! Rising cities! Space vikings! Also there’s lasers in there and everybody loves [...]
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11 Feb 2010Laura Marling – Devil’s Spoke (Youtube)
Apologies for an absence from blogging which has been rather longer than I would have liked, but the twin attacks of no home internet and some really rather fantastic work have double teamed me. Regardless, I’m back now, and serving up an amazing new track by Laura Marling.
I still find [...]
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