The mid-’80′s were a haven of experimentation. New technology – sampling and sequencing – had appeared, which threw open the doors of possibility to those with the imagination to use them to their full potential. Oh, and had a spare £10,000 knocking about for a Fairlight. Here’s the first three of a selection of six [...]
All posts for the month April, 2011
Pitchfork 500 Electro Part 1 – Art to Liquid
Posted by loftandlost on April 29, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/29/pitchfork-500-electro-part-1-art-to-liquid/
Beads On A Rosary
The other night, on the far side of a safe number of drinks, a friend asked me how long it took, if ever, to truly get over a lost love. A year? Five? Never? Funny she asked me that, as I’ve been listening to Elbow’s “The Bones Of You” a bit recently1, and the song [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 22, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/22/beads-on-a-rosary/
On Leaks
Records leak all the time. As a band, you record your new album, get it mixed, get the cover work done, get the damn thing pressed (people still buy CD’s, you know, no matter what the New Meedja Mandarins try and tell you), and send out lots of hard-working pixies out into the world to [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 20, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/20/on-leaks/
Spinning Out Gracefully
So those beardy fellas My Morning Jacket have a new album on the way, and they, in the time-honoured manner of the music biz these days, released an MP3. Aren’t they nice? The track is named “Circuital” (me neither), and starts off all haunted, muted arpeggios, Jim James’s high, keening voiced echoing around in its [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 17, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/17/spinning-out-gracefully/
Record Store Day!
Today’s the fourth annual Record Store Day, the day in which you should get your fat ass away from your computer and visit your local Record Store. You know, the place that’s always full of slightly strange people and even stranger records. Of course, I’m one of those slightly strange people and I like strange [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 16, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/16/record-store-day/
Slow Panda
Panda Bear are one of those bands that, on paper, ought to make me go all shivery and funny and weak at the knees. But, like the related Animal Collective, I’ve always found them (him?) a bit too dry and calculated for my liking. This, for me, is a danger of using electric doohickeys and [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 14, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/14/slow-panda/
Bus Of Blonde Girls
Music can pop into your head thanks to all sorts of funny reasons. The other day, taking a bus from Sloane Square – posho blonde girl capital of London – toward Putney, when the Tube was bejiggered, I wandered onto the top deck to find that it was half-full of slightly baffled looking blonde girls. [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 13, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/13/bus-of-blonde-girls/
A Simple Earworm Of Fate
No doubt awoken by Saturday’s mention of Blood On The Tracks, a little earworm shuffled into my perception at some point this afternoon, during a particularly mind-numbing part of the project course I’m on at the moment. Said earworm being “A Simple Twist Of Fate”, one of Dylan’s finer songs, and one of those songs [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 11, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/11/a-simple-earworm-of-fate/
A Woman, A War
A new PJ Harvey needs a certain amount of preparation to listen to. For starters, you’ve got to be in the right mood. After all, it’s not like all her records have been what you would happily call “easy listening”. Plus there’s the subject matter; often about the terrors of the human heart and the [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 10, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/10/a-woman-a-war/
Re-Release, Repackage (And Do It Well)
Two box sets have recently come into my possession, from opposite ends of the rock spectrum, and opposite ends of the How To Do A Box Set Properly bookshelf. The first is the mega 3-CD box set of The Fall’s This Nation’s Saving Grace, and the other is the even more mega 7-CD set of [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 9, 2011
http://loftandlost.com/2011/04/09/re-release-repackage-and-do-it-well/
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