Tweet all songs mentioned in this post can be downloaded below) Of Montreal has become one of the bands that I started to like a little and have begun to love a lot. Their new album “Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?” will be out on polyvinyl records on the 23rd of january, and what I have heard so far sounds absolutely brilliant. I am not going to say much about the album now, but focus on a thing that’s … →
Tweet Merry Christmas everyone! Here is one of my favourite alternative Christmas songs, “Winter Reporter” by The Loch Ness Mouse. The song is about a guy that works as a snow reporter for a local newspaper and the editor is giving him a hard time! The song is found on a EP with the great title “If I’ll make it through Christmas” (Perfect Pop, 2001) along with artists like Dipsomaniacs, American Suitcase, Cinnamoon etc. Listen to it here: “Winter Reporter” … →
Tweet I know I’m late, but here are the albums I liked best in 2006. Final Fantasy – He poos clouds Audrey – visible forms [Ingenting] – mycket väsen för ingenting My latest novel – wolves Page france: Hello, dear wind Someone still loves you boris yeltsin – broom Midlake – “The Trials of Van Occupanther” VETO – There’s A Beat In All Machines Bonnie “Prince” Billy – the letting go Headlights – kill them with kindness The Curtains – … →
Tweet Merry Christmas, readers! I hope Santa brought you lots of records; my favourite novelty gift this year was an i-Dog, which is just kitsch enough for my taste.
Tweet My last post about the lo-fi jet-set introduced Herman Düne; I always associate them with Canadian indie/folk star Julie Doiron, as they’re together on one of my favourite concert posters: Artwork by Yayahoni; I missed that show Julie was a member of Sub Pop band Eric’s Trip in the 90′s, and gradually gained a cult following with a series of hushed folk records that pleased all of us who think “quiet is the new loud”. There’s a sensibility to … →
Tweet I found some amazing videos on YouTube today, both from a band I love and have loved for some decades now: Kraftwerk. Both videos are really old, and from a time when I didn’t care much about anything else than my mothers milk and the brown stuff in my diapers. I remember my first Kraftwerk-experience very clearly: It must have been in 1979 or 1980, and I was a tiny kid. A boy I knew played “The man machine” … →
Tweet I was looking for the song “A Smile and a Ribbon” the other night; it’s a little ditty from the Fifties that I get periodically obsessed with ever since I heard it in Ghost World. (Ghost World, the comic book by Daniel Clowes) I managed to find it in the end, but not before I stumbled upon the page of a sweet little band from Malmö, Sweden, who appreciate that song so much that they named their band after … →
