Early Day Miners – “Marauder”
The Last Snow EP
Normally a very sedate band, Early Day Miners pull out the big guns on this track. Well, they’re normal-sized guns compared to everyone else, but still. Relatively big.
Bellmour: But tell me how you would be ador’d — I am very tractable.
Congreve, The Old Batchelor
Skygreen Leopards – “The Heron”
One Thousand Bird Ceremony
One of my favorite songs, period. Just the absolute pinnacle of jangly forest-folk. From a fantastic album (their follow-up was disappointing).
What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveller, and gold-digger, and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman?
Sherlock Holmes
The injury therefore that you do to a man should be such that you need not fear his revenge.
Machiavelli, The Prince
“Is it possible to imagine modalities of radical participation on the universe of brands and at the same time present oneself as an advertising agency? Is it possible for the professionals of communication not to give up their own political ideas in carrying out their job? Guerrigiamarketing.it is still a bet that is up against demands of income and the need not to betray this projectuality.”
Now I don’t mind a little viral marketing here and there. But when advertisers start talking like that^, I start calling bullshit.
Then the gentle breeze would enter her window, laden with sweet scents of which he had just been rifling the coy flowers beneath, in their dewy repose, tended and petted during the day by her own delicate hand!—Beautiful moon!—cold and chaste in thy skyey palace, studded with brilliant and innumerable gems, and shedding down thy rich and tender radiance upon this lovely seclusion—was there upon the whole earth a more exquisite countenance then turned towards thee than hers?
Samuel Warren – Ten Thousand A-Year
Gustav – “Total Quality Woman”
Verlass Die Stadt
Gustav has always been hit-and-miss for me, but it’s rewarding listening. This song is very far from her normal oeuvre, but it’s still a fun little thing, and you get a good idea of her strangely idiomatic and not exactly correct English.
If triangles had gods, their gods would have three sides.
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Bibio – “Mr. and Mrs. Compost”
Vignetting the Compost
This beautiful, micro-sized bite of a song is a bit of an exception on this album due to its primary vocal focus. I have to say that Vignetting the Compost is one of my favorite albums I’ve gotten this year.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
The Wind-Up Bird – “That I’ve”
Whips
I wrote this album up at length here. What a fantastic, crushing album. Joe Grimm has moved on to a new album under his own name which I need to check out.
from here
Broken Social Scene – “Baroque Social”
To Be You And Me
BSS like you never hear them. Actually sounds like Do Make Say Think’s “Chinatown” crossed with Loscil. Great track no matter what.