Hot on the heels of last month’s “All Delighted People” EP comes Sufjan Steven’s new CD, “The Age of ADZ”. Attention Deficit Zebras? Autistic Disordered Zoologists? I don’t know1. What I do know is that this will soon be called Sufjan’s “Kid A”, largely because it’s got keyboards and bleepy things and drum machine whatnots [...]
All posts for the month September, 2010
Kid Sufjan
Posted by loftandlost on September 27, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/27/kid-sufjan/
We Haz Nw Muzik
LOLZ! Finally, after weeks of posting old stuff, I am posting something that IS BEING RELEASED ON MONDAY. It’s not even Swedish, either. Bloody hell. Deerhunter‘s new record, Halcyon Digest, is the follow-up to last year’s sporadically brilliant Microcastle. I haven’t had a decent listen to it yet, but “Helicopter” is the one that’s grabbed [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 25, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/25/we-haz-nw-muzik/
Dance to the Karaoke
What sort of song would you expect to see at a Karaoke evening in a pub on the outskirts of a major financial district? A selection of recent hits plus some older numbers guaranteed to get the frustrated singer in all of us to drunkenly stagger up the steps with the sole purpose of slaughtering [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 24, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/24/dance-to-the-karaoke/
The Rat Girl Is Back In Town
Of all life’s little pleasures, coming across a band you’ve not listened to in years and remembering how great they are must rank up there with finding a nice warm cup of tea next to your chair you didn’t know you had (the tea, not the chair). Whilst regular readers – all three of you [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 22, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/22/the-rat-girl-is-back-in-town/
Tonight, Tonight Matthew, I’m Going To Moan For Hours
“So why did you have to get a 64Gb MP3 player then?” people ask me, disbelievingly. “Because I like to have loads of old stuff on there I haven’t listened to for years, so when the song pops back into my head, I can listen to it straight away”, I reply. They look at me [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 20, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/20/tonight-tonight-matthew-im-going-to-moan-for-hours/
The Pitchfork 500 Indie Explosion Part 2 – Cocteau Twins To Billy Bragg
In the mid ’80′s, British Indie music woke up from its glum post-punk nightmare and started to produce music that was, if not out and out happy, at least willing to step outside its front door with something approaching a smile. Of course, this was largely due to the huge amounts of drugs it was [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 16, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/16/the-pitchfork-500-indie-explosion-part-2-cocteau-twins-to-billy-bragg/
Flies Like A Banana
Doesn’t Time Fly? I hope I don’t end up in the press again. In other news, I’ve finally got me a new iPod, with tons of lovely free space, so I happily loaded on a huge bunch of stuff I’ve not listened to in ages. One of those was this gem from, appropriately, 2008; there’s [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 15, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/15/flies-like-a-banana/
Avi’ At It, Buffalo!
That post title is my entry in this year’s “Most Tortuously Entitled Blog Post” prize. I think I’m in with a good chance. Hope this Sunday finds you well; mine’s been largely spent doing a combination of cooking, lounging and working. And typing. As I have more cooking and working to get on with, I’ll [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 12, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/12/avi-at-it-buffalo/
Rejoicing In The (New) Bands 3 – Panic Attract
The music blog world is driven not only by the personal tastes of music bloggers themselves, but by PR people, bands and labels, who are constantly emailing music bloggers to plug their new bands. As any honest blogger will tell you, if you buy them a can of Old Purple’s Anxiety Reducer in your local [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 10, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/10/rejoicing-in-the-new-bands-3-panic-attract/
Congratulations and Celebrations
The Mercury Prize has something of a chequered history. Widely sneered at by the cognoscenti1, winners over the years have ranged from the worthy (Elbow, PJ Harvey), the new and frankly astonishing (Dizzee Rascal), the soon-to-be-obscure (Roni Size) and the ludicrous (M People. Seriously? Klaxons? You jest, surely?). The Xx have also, for some reason, [...]
Posted by loftandlost on September 8, 2010
http://loftandlost.com/2010/09/08/congratulations-and-celebrations/
