Some new albums on the way...

Probably some music we should all be listening to and looking forward too..


Laura Marling - "A Creature I don't know":


Dubbed by New York Times' Jon Pareles as "her new one and her best," the album to be released next week is streaming for free on the NY Times website. I've only listened to a couple of tracks so far but the album does certainly look good, a little different from her previous albums but I don't think its a bad thing and is probably just her voice ageing. My favourite that I've heard is "Night After Night" - possibly because it echoes Leonard Cohen's "sound" in "Famous Blue Raincoat" which is (in my opinion) one of the best songs ever written. Find the stream here: 


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/arts/music/laura-marlings-british-folk-cd-creature-i-dont-know.html?_r=1


Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical


CYHSY are like Marling soon to release their 3rd Album to date, unlike Marling's quick turn over from her last album CYHSY are releasing this after a good 4 or so years from their last studio album "Some Loud Thunder" and have again found a distinct new sound. The gritty voice of Alex Ounsworth remains the same, a little stronger perhaps. It's I've found (again from listening to about 5 tracks) a little more mainstream and more.. accessible (? if that's the right word) to new fans.. very much like his solo stuff.


Anyway, worth checking out if your a fan, if you'r not... still check it out:


http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/45106299#luisterpaal.45106299
and of course, the new The Drums album is also soon to be released and is streaming on the New York Times site too : http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/now-playing-portamento-the-new-album-by-the-drums/
God Bless and happy listening, L x

August Mixcast.

This here is a mixcast of all of my most memorable songs from this summer, there of course were a lot more, and think my mixcast includes only one new release... but either way. It's got some classics in there.. well worth a download if you as me!

Download here: August Mixcast

(artwork courtesy of Sophie Truman Photography..
and Ambers poor foot.)

1. Joe Jackson - Jumpin' JiveThis is such a great song, instantly infectious, such a exciting song that as soon as its on you wanna dance no matter where you are. So many times this summer has this come on when I'm on the train or walking down the street and I've had to resist the urge to tap my feet. 
2. Bedouin Soundclash - Jeb Rand
   When me, Amber and Sophie were in London we we're having absurdly cheap cocktails one of the Giraffe bars in Soho and this song came on the sound system as we were just talking away. I haven't listened to Bedouin Soundclash in ages but it got me wanting to listen to them loads more so when we went back to the travel lodge I wacked on their "Sounding A Mosaic" album and it was perfect for a chilled mood, and so reminds me of London. (Also, if you get chance, Giraffe do half price on select alcoholic beverages and cocktails on a Sundays.)
3. The Lovin' Spoonfull - Summer in the city. 
   This is just an ultimate summer song, when on my way to SUbmerge really... really hungover from one of Ambers Cocktail nights Paul put on one of his "Rock Gods" CD's or something. Either way my ears and body couldn't handle it, and I thank this song on my ipod for getting me to the service station.. I don't think my insides would have held up quite like they did without it. 
4. Arctic Monkeys - Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts 
   At some point in the holidays a good friend of mine, Joanne, came over for a night of drinking WKD and reminiscing our friendship and Blue Coat over the last 7 years. Naturally, we listened mainly to The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys but this song highlights that night really... I don't think I'd really listened to properly before, a old demo gem of the Arctic Monkeys. 
5. The Beatles - Blackbird
   This doesn't really hold much summer relevance to me other than I learn't to play the intro to this song years ago on guitar and this summer decided to learn the full song, it's probably my favourite Beatles song and plays so beautifully.
6. Leonard Nimoy - Bilbo Baggins
   In London we met up with a friend of mine that lives there who I've known since I was really young and one of my most distinctive memory's was sitting in his car after we'd been bowling and I was really really young and him playing this song which I hadn't heard since. We got talking about it in London and he sent me the link to it and anyway, I can't decide if its good or just hilarious. Probably both.
7. Bronze Medallists - Mathematics
   Again, this song doesn't hold a specific summer memory for me, rather it was just on my "on the go" playlist on my phone and I've just listened to it loads. A really cool song that I found when browsing Julez's Top Picks of the Moment. 
8. Adam and The Ants - Young Parisians 
   Last week or the week before me and Will got roped into cleaning the house and as I was in charge of the living room I got to pick what music was on via the TV. I put on 6 Music as I'm sure so many others would and on it was a interview with Adam Ant, I think the interview was a little dated but it was interesting to listen to and anyway they played this song after and me and Will were singing along cleaning up. It was nice.
9. Rufus Wainwright - Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen Cover)
   This is my all time favourite Leonard Cohen song about his brief romantic affair with contemporary Janis Joplin. Its a timeless classic, covered so well by Wainwright and also Regina Spektor. Cohens original is more of an Autumn song... 
10. Los Campesinos - C is the Heavenly Option
    This song was another on my "on the go" playlist and was also on my shower playlist. Thing is, it was the first song on and so every-time I forgot to press shuffle and it would therefore be the first song I heard every morning. A proper fast tempo uplifting song to get you in the mood for the day.. I think one of the lyrics from it took a proud spot on my Facebook profile for over a year at one point too. Another real pop song from Los Campesinos.
11. Queen Latifa - When you're good to mama (Chicago Sountrack) 
    Erm.. I could easily of picked any song from the Chicago Soundtrack as it was on at least once a day in the SUbmerge Kitchen. I remember cutting up some apples singing this and Sian pointing out how it's really full of innuendos and then I got really paranoid that some of the guests would over hear, not that they would understand anyway. Absolutely mint soundtrack for a mint film.
12. The National - Exile, Vilify
    This song features a proper melodic piano riff. The band recently did a music video contest for the song in which people just sent in there own videos and they picked a winner, I like the winning video but I think it was a little bit easy to do compared to the work the runner up put in, anyway check out the video's here: Video Competition

July Mixcast #1: Remixes and Mashups.

So, there was no real reason for wanting to do this, I think its because I was really bored and I guess I've been listening to a lot of remixes. Either way here you go, my personal favourites are tracks 1, 4, 5, 9, 10. The others are good too.. but, not as good. Totes worth a download though.. Hope you enjoy the album artwork this week, my very own brother punkin' out to some sick Remixes and Mashups.:


July Mixcast #1: Remixes and Mashups.

1) Jay Z Ft Blackstreet - Can I Get A Fuck You // No Diggity (Dj Tsumfink) 

2) The Killers Ft Daniel Bedingfield - Human // If your not the one. 

3) Beyonce vs. Dave Matthews - Lets Work It Out

4) Girl talk - Triple Double

5) Missy Elliot ft The Cure - Close To Me // Get Your Freak On (Pop Chop) 

6) The Ting Tings Ft Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out // Shut Up and Let Me Go

7) DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2010 

8) Lil Wayne - Offfice Musik

9) The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix)

10) Goldfrapp - Happiness (Metronomy Ft The Teenagers Remix) 

June Mixcast!

With June's Mixcast comes the opening of my new miscast page - so that if you look over to you're right of this page there should be a link to the mixcast page and you can see an archive of all of my mixcasts!

At first this was going to be a "Revision" mixcast and then it was going to be a nostalgic music from my time at Blue Coat. I decided against both, firstly because my revision mixcast would end up being a The Weepies playlist, and a nostalgic list of music would be a messy mix of Blink 182, Lil Wayne and David Lanz "Christofori's dream" - and as much as I'd like to put them all together, June is just not the month for that kind of experimental business.

SO! I have tried to put the revision and nostalgia together and then just added a couple extra at times, it is basically the songs I remember listening to when revising from the past couple of years till now.

Here it is: Waltzing's for Dreamers...

1. Santogold - Lights Out
2. Darwin Deez - DNA
3. The Weepies - Slow Pony Home
4. Jeremy Messersmith - A Girl, A Boy, and a Graveyard
5. Alessi's Ark - The Horse 
6. Los Campesinos - The International Tweexcore Underground 
7. Simon and Garfunkel - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
8. Death Cab For Cutie - St. Peters Cathedral
9. Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good
10. Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me of You
11. Local Natives - Airplanes
12. Richard Thompson - Waltzing's for Dreamers

Mixcast May

Hello Hello Hello,

My May mixcast is here and awaiting your download with a mixture of songs, I only have 8 tracks for you, but Let It Out is a mashup, so it's quite long.

Download: Savages!

1. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Ben Gibbard 
2. Let It Out - Girl Talk
3. Rad Pitt - Egyptian Hip Hop 
4. Winter - The Dodo's ft Magik Magik Orchestra 
5. We Aint Never Done - The King Blues
6. The Police and The Private - Metric
7. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized 
8. Tightrope - Janelle Monae ft Big Boi

God Bless, Happy Listening... xoxo

Mixcast 1

I have, after a day of sitting about in the sun having nothing to do but listen to music, generated a playlist.

I say playlist, it is a mixcast, because a playlist would have been too easy to fill my hours. So, I have generated a few songs that I'm listening to a lot lately / remind me of this month for some reason / are classics.

So, here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/file/y9demaltn8neh8c/Keep%20me%20up%20till%20dawn.mp3

1) The Flaming Lips -Fight Test
2) Patrick Wolf - Don't Say No
3) Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
4) Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Maps
5) Kelis - Milkshake
6) Massive Attack -Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
7) Ezra Koeing - Papa Hobo (Paul Simon Cover)
8) Death Cab for Cutie - House is a fire.
9) Hot Club de Paris - Snitches get Stitches (Acoustic)
10) Art Brut - Lost Weekend
11) The Weepies - Be My Honeypie


God Bless and Happy listening, L x

(sorry for the occasional sound of the Skype login and USB disconnections.. - hopefully will make a better one soon!)