Due to something happening that could best be described as “pretty fucking shit”, it’s going to be a bit quiet around here for another week or so. Love L&L.
All posts for the month January, 2011
Not Post-Rock, Or Swedish
T’other day, I was thinking about my current music tastes, and it came down to a couple of choices. Either sprawling post-rock odysseys like Mogwai and Tortoise, or lonesome country/folk-tinged singer-songwriters like Iron and Wine (more tomorrow), John Grant, some Elliott Smith, with some dreamy psych-pop like the wonderful Cotton Jones thrown in for good [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 24, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/24/not-post-rock-or-swedish/
Oh Oh Oh Something
A bit of swearing goes a long, long way. The corollary of this is that a lot of swearing goes fucking miles. Especially when the music isn’t some thrashy noise like Rage Against The Machine’s excellent “Killing In The Name Of”, but a gentle, neo-folk, plucked guitar string affair with one of those harmonium things [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 21, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/21/oh-oh-oh-something/
SOUPS (And The Cure)
On the Tube home tonight, coming home from work, I was visited by SOUPS. That’s Sudden Onset Unexplained Pissed-Off Syndrome. Just a surprising and unexpected bit of grumpiness. And the only thing I could find to cheer me up was John Grant’s marvellously cantankerous “Chicken Bones”, which starts off as apparently chirpy easy-rock before rapidly [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 20, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/20/soups-and-the-cure/
Blah
Blah. Blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever I try and write at the moment just won’t come out right. There’s all sorts of stuff I could write about – new music, Mogwai’s new record, loads of interesting stuff I’ve been sent, even the long-lost Pitchfork Metal post, but it’s just not working. Maybe it’s the [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 16, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/16/blah/
Not About A Duck
All this hipster rap thing – Kid Cudi, Drake, even Kanye himself – has pretty much passed me by. Sure, I’ve heard stuff here and there, and even listed to a bit of Kanye back in the College Dropout days. But the tunes that have been floating round Hype Machine and the likes just haven’t [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 15, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/15/not-about-a-duck/
Cotton Pickin’ Tunes
One of the joys of end-of-year lists is to stumble across something that you missed entirely and realising that, if you hadn’t, it’d be nestling happily in your own end-of-year list. So far that honour goes to Cotton Jones‘s “Tall Hours In The Glowstream”, as recommended by the marvellous Song, By Toad. There’s nothing particularly [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 9, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/09/cotton-pickin-tunes/
New Year New Music – REM
Hey, there’s this unknown band hailing from Athens, Georgia, who’ve got an album out soon that everyone, but everyone, is going to be raving about. They’re called REM and… *phone rings in background* “What? Everyone’s heard of them? They are one of the biggest-selling artists of all time? Really? I’ve written about them before, you [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 4, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/04/new-year-new-music-rem/
New Year New Music 2011 – Rachel Sermanni
So here we go again. A new year, and lots of new music to post. First off, it’s a young lady named Rachel Sermanni who hails from the Highland town of Carrbridge. Looks chilly. An acoustic singer-songwriter, she has a marvellous voice which has been likened to Harriet Wheeler mixed with Liz Fraser by none [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 2, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/02/new-year-new-music-2011-rachel-sermanni/
Look At What The New Year Did Now
First off, Happy New Year. Hope your head is ok. Mine is, thanks to not really drinking last night. Hurrah! Following on from yesterday’s post on James Blake, I was reminded of the lovely duet between Feist and some fellow called Little Wings. Or rather, he’s called Kyle Fields. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of [...]
Posted by loftandlost on January 1, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/01/01/look-at-what-the-new-year-did-now/
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