Coming home from another drubbing at the hands of a hated enemy, I was scrolling through my new iPhone, looking for something suitable to ease the pain. Midlake? Far too minor key. Hot Chip? Too cheery. Mark Eitzel? That’ll do nicely. There’s something in his tone of voice; that soft, gentle warmth that envelops you [...]
All posts for the month January, 2010
Klamath Feel The Noise
Posted by loftandlost on January 31, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/31/klamath-feel-the-noise/
New Year New Phone
Ok, I’m starting to push it with these New Year titles. This is the last one, I promise. But what a treat! For me, at least. Because I’ve finally got a new iPhone – one of the sparkly white ones – with 32Gb1. So I can put all the new music that’s coming out onto [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 30, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/30/new-year-new-phone/
New Year New Music Part Seven – Joanna Newsom
Ooh, another biggie. I’ve been an enormous fan of Joanna Newsom after seeing her support Smog at the Conway Hall in London some years back. Having never heard her before, we were all perplexed by this winsome lady in full Renaissance garb strolling onto stage and playing a harp beautifully whilst wailing in an unconventional [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 26, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/26/new-year-new-music-part-seven-joanna-newsom/
Last Year’s Music – The Twilight Sad
In my Albums of the year post at the tail end of 2009, I mentioned that there were a bunch of records by bands I loved that I hadn’t got round to listening to yet. This week, I finally got round to listening to The Twilight Sad’s second album, “Forget The Night Ahead”. Long-term readers [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 23, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/23/last-years-music-the-twilight-sad/
New Year New Music Part Six – Bullets In Madison
The internet is great, isn’t it? Hunting around so good blogs for more information about someone, I stumbled across Count Me Out. I hadn’t visited in a bit, but had always rather liked the site, and seeing that there were some albums he was currently listening to were my kind of thang, as you’d expect, [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 22, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/22/new-year-new-music-part-six-bullets-in-madison/
New Year New Music Part Five – Midlake
Here’s another biggie. Midlake‘s last album, “The Trials Of Van Occupanther”, was one of my favourite albums of the decade. I loved the old-age feel to the record, it was like The Band jamming with ELO in a theme park about the Wheeler Survey. And they are back on February 1st with “The Courage Of [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 18, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/18/new-year-new-music-part-five-midlake/
Sunday Sufjan
Sufjan Stevens, he of the hugely complicated musical extravaganzas, put a secret track onto his last album, The BQE. Personally I find all this secret track thing a bit annoying; if you like the track and want it on your album, just put it on your new album. Or post it on your website for [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 17, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/17/sunday-sufjan/
Swans Are Not Dead
Reunion fever seems to have taken over pretty much every vaguely important band of the last 20 years. Some, like Jesus Lizard, I’m not really too fussed about, but others, like Pavement, I’m well stoked about (to use the current terminology). And on Thursday, in the Grauniad, came news that Swans were reforming. Or sort [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 16, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/16/swans-are-not-dead/
Vampire Weekend – Contra
Hype, it’s a bitch for your band. At best, you’ll get lots of attention, which hopefully will bring with it legions of music lovers who will buy your records and come to your shows and give you all sorts of love, making those years of slog worthwhile. At worst, it’ll turn everyone against you, picking [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 15, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/15/vampire-weekend-contra/
New Year New Music Part Four – Freelance Whales
Animals are everywhere in music these days. Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles, Animal Collective, Frightened Rabbit, Startled Ocelot and Disgruntled Goat1 have all made their mark in recent years. If you are from Brooklyn (or Stirling) and need to give a funky, trendy name to your band, you’d better make sure you name [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 11, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/01/11/new-year-new-music-part-four-freelance-whales/
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