Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

I know, I know. Why feature an album that came out years ago? Astro Coast certainly made the waves around p4k, rockband and other neat little riff raffs. What with the internet hype machine behind it, the amount of hype generated is enough to tear me a new asshole. In my defence, I regard Surfer Blood's only full length work as being disassociated with its massive hit Swim. Is it possible that too much hype emphasising a single track places the listener in a disposition to overlook the others in that album? 

That was the case when I popped Astro Coast for a second (and thorough) listen. What Surfer Blood did with their debut was to showcase the extensive range of feels Astro Coast encapsulates. The first few tracks, Floating Vibes, Swim and Take It Easy are easily the most played since its dancy, and we kids sure love to dance. But later on as the album progresses, Astro Coast takes on a different hue with Slow Jabroni marking the shift. 

If I knew you'd guard your heart so jealously then I'd fight for you. There's nothing in this joyless world to see, there are no places that are left to see, there's just the wilderness, it's shame, if I knew you pushed away so savagely then I'd back off.

What the fuck, guys? One minute we're happily grooving the sweet vibes and the next Pitt's sombre vocals echoes out "Take it easy on me" without skipping a beat. I don't have to tell you Slow Jabroni's by far my pick for Best Track on Astro Coast.

Little Dragon - Ritual Union

If you've been following Sleepy Son for over a year, you'd come to the realisation that I have a fanboy crush on Yukimi Nagano, swedish siren for Little Dragon. Playing trip-hop and new jazz amongst giants like Gorillaz (Empire Ants), Koop (Come to Me), SBTKRT (Wildfire), she definitely holds her own. Lets break aside from my fixation with Miss Nagano. Looking at Little Dragon as a whole, tight knit group of four, it is evident they have formed a niche sound. The drums, for one is infectious in a sense that it dominates and sets a platform where the synths seeps through. There's just enough room for Yuki's vocals to play around, changing form to suit the mood.

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

I'm too little too late to be posting this incredibly addictive album because they've recently disbanded. And I'm only getting to know their stuff. It feels weird, kinda like getting a boner to the late Winehouse. Makes me wish I had a damn tardis. Dramatics and necrophilia aside, there's no reason why we can't still dance to This is Happening! Headed by James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem borrows heavily on the sounds of yesteryear. LCD really took off in 2005, with the cleverly titled hit Daft Punk is Playing at my House. Wearing influences on their sleeves, they seem to have taken a short detour to Post-Punk manchester in This is Happening. The track You Wanted a Hit places a danceble twist to monotone vocals and chopped up basses.

His composition splits up markedly into two different facades. Positive upbeat and the other, brooding and contemplative. The opener Dance Yrself Clean falls into the latter. It starts off minimally with soft, whispered introspective vocals against a backdrop of a 2 chord repitition. Simple but profound. Though cutting off at 3 mins, the song goes apeshit and drops heavy synths and Cold-War Kids styled falsettos left and right. It's profound lyrics sheds light on Murphy's divorce,

Don't you want me to wake up?
Then give me just a bit of your time
Arguments are made from make outs
So give it just a little more time

We've got to bring our results
I wanna play it 'til the time comes
But there's a string of divorces
You go and throw your little hands up

How he makes his mid-life crisis so fucking danceable is beyond me. There are other notable tracks on This is Happening, and you should check them out. Seems like the clean cut Dance Punk genre is dying out, giving way to thick fuzzy works like SBTRKT, Joy O, Burial and Four tet. For old times sake, get a hold of this album and pray for a reunion!

Jens Lekman - An Argument with Myself

Jens Lekman; the suave swede strikes again! An Argument with Myself feels like a rolling film that is played in a first person narrative. The self titled opener feels very much like a Kerouac piece in terms of spontaneity. Lekman also manages to squeeze in thoughts that hints on borderline dementia :
"Fuck you no YOU fuck you!"
Why you hiting yourself, why you hitting yourself?"
History repeats itself twice said Marx
First as tragedy, then as farce
But where did I find the source
To make history of a love, a love like ours ?"
Haha okay, maybe not so subtle. The lyricsm comes off as vulgar and literal though it's done in a comical yet catchy way. I'm sure it'll rack up lots of replays. Each track in this bite-sized 18 min album is sonically distinct and dishes out witty words by the metre. Overall, An Argument with Myself feels very much like a continuation from Night Falls Over Kortedala, his second full length release back in 2007. Although now he's shifted from the topic of young love and more towards self discovery; On dealing with people, places and the mundane realism of life.



There is a free download available on soundcloud. Grab it!
Photos by: moses_namkung

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Live at Brighton Music Hall

Here's a gem. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is the moniker Aly Spaltro adopted for her jungle folk stage persona. I managed obtain a copy of her live performance in Boston, Live at Brighton Music Hall and I got hooked on her milk & honey. Miss Spaltro, is that a bibical reference behind your name? What struck me most was her raw voice. It's audibly strained yet, that somehow charges it with more emotion. Hair to the Ferris Wheel is well suited to her vocal style.
"Love is selfish,
Love goes Tick tock Tick tock Tick.
Love is Rubbissssssssssh "
It validates the whole performance and makes it more sincere/heartfelt. The musical arrangement is just her vocals and a guitar. Simplicity, spiced with appealing melodies and poignant lyrics makes for a good listen. Now little miss Spaltro placed her studies on hold to focus solely on her craft. It's paid off, having played with chamber pop giants, Beirut plus getting named Folk Artist of the Year by the Boston Music Awards.



Also, I had to say this: She is gorgeous.

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper : Bandcamp, Facebook.

Craft Spells - Idle Labor

Riding in a fresh 80's melodramitic retro pop wave, 21 year old Justin Vallesteros's Idle Labor is filled with teenage themes of heartache and unhappy love. Evidently, Craft Spell's lead has a ton of relationship problems, though he manages to dress up them up nicely. Idle Labor steps aside from its bedroom singer-songwriting predisposition with groovy basslines and lovely reverberating guitars that seem to echo throughout the album; much like the everpresent hum of passing trains.

Vallesteros is a relative newcomer, started releasing material towards the end of 2009 with Party Talk, and following it up 2 years later with Idle Labor has progressed nicely, garnering a fair bit of attention for his efforts. Admittedly, his sound isn't quite there yet, I have the pervading sense that the drums could have been placed to better use, instead of just being. The vocals dealt in a whispery monotone stream places an emphasis of longing in Scandinavian Crush.

Craft Spells seems sonically reminiscent of early New Order (Age of Consent/Temptation/Leave me Alone); tiredness, gloom and drained-out dancing notwithstanding. After the Moment is easy and catchy; you'll want to sway to the beat. Though some songs are just repetitive and not well made, You Should Close the Door for example it does nothing to me. Worry not, cause the other tracks more than makes up for it. All in all, Idle Labor is the first solid material Craft Spells has made, question is: Are they just another blog-worthy band destined to fizzle out within the year?

In Each Hand A Cutlass - A Universe Made of Strings

I have to admit, In Each Hand a Cutlass wasn't what I expected. Maybe jumping off too hastily to conclusions, after skimming through one or two pieces. The live performance masterfully executed brought to ends any allusions; I was blown away. What IEHAC manages to do is to cop feels of a wide variety of audio buttocks & sonic tits, claiming it for their own.




Openers The Escape ties in with Inspector Cutlass, clearly defining the mood as Asian with a touch of noir for added adrenaline. While the spanking bass in Inspector Cutlass and elaborate shredding makes for good technical summary, the opening for A Universe Made of Strings could use more experimentation and deviance.

Sliding in at just the right angle, the track Glaciers offers clear unaltered guitars with easy paced drums, losing the caffeinated edge to bliss for the first 3 minutes. The pace quickens after, rolling coasters picking up the pace once more. It's reminiscent of Hammock's "Raising your Voice..." work; Real easy on the ears. The wonderfully suave drumline in Chocolate & The Lovelorn Girl will get your body bouncing, assuming the bass doesn't grasp you in fits first. A transition to soft electronica is subtle, it's hard to differentiate where one track ends and another begins. The start of Marauder has a slight whirling drone tinge, sandwiched inbetween are pockets of blues guitarstry. That is to say, IEHAC stays true to the song's identity, never swaying away from the original, intended feel.

A Universe Made of Strings was said to have been conceived with the mathematical Super String Theory in mind, but what I feel is that this album is one that echoes and reverberates with human ideas, rather than mathematical equations. In A Universe Made of Strings, the featured track; A gently plucked guitar sways with a soft bass, while the high notes of a violin offer duality. The use of haunting vocals will have your arms pockmarked with goosebumps. Having said all that, the extensive crossovers between different audio plateaus can be attributed to the band's lineup, their prolific musical background. IEHAC is indie rock veteran Daniel Sassoon (Electrico, Livonia, The Recidivists), keyboardist/DJ/dark mistress Amanda Ling (The Synth Experience, Electrico, Throb), producer/engineer Roland Lim (Seraphim) and drum wizard Jordan Cheng (Rafe, For This Cycle).

Find them on bandcamp : http://www.ineachhandacutlass.com/

Destroyer ▼ Kaputt

Let's say you were browsing CD's in a non-discrete music shop tucked in dark corner in god knows where. The shop manager gave you a sample of Destroyer's Kaputt to uh, sample. You flipped the cd over, and some dude with weird funky hair named Dan Bejar is listed as the producer. He sort of reminds you of that Ancient Aliums guy. After giving it a once over through your expensive headset, you deduce that the shop manager is either hoping it'd sell or he genuinely wish to see you half-naked- playing a rendition of careless whisper.


All for the right prices, you softly whisper to yourself making sure no one is within earshot. As an afterthought, you slipped in Kaputt in, to update your playlist. You swear vehemently that if another M83 song shuffles on, you can't guarantee absolute safety of anyone within a 30 meter radius surrounding you. Feeling satisfied with yourself, you plop the CD up again once you reached home. You decide it's pretty catchy, with songs like A Savage Night at the Opera, had the right idea in mind. Dan Bejar's vocals sounds like silk across your skin as you turn on the hot shower.

I heard your record it's all right
...
Just set the loop and go wild

The song delivers, going into an incredibly suave guitar combo, finishing with synths and a fading voice over. Next up, Kaputt (the 6th track) slowly makes its way into your room. Sustained guitar chords, that soft yet up-beat bass makes your feet shake, your head wobble about its axis.

wasting your days
chasing some girls
alright, chasing cocaine
through the backrooms of the world
all night

The sax eases slightly, not taking over yet the presence is there. You notice the soft bass is audible throughout the 6:18 mins of the song. It ends with slow fading piano and the dream inducing sax. Feeling good about the song, you decide to check it Destroyer out online.

This is what you see.



You look down, and realize that you aren't going to get any sleep tonight.

Dan Bejar took a huge gamble when making Kaputt. It's hard to change a musical style this late, having released a total of 9 full albums, and a couple of EPs. Dan took the backseat in releasing Kaputt, opting for a more slow paced vocal style as compared to Rubies (2005) ; songs like Painter in your Pocket. Ultimately, Kaputt paid off. A rare album in 2011.

Locals ▼ I am David Sparkle, B-Quartet, Amberhaze

I've ingested coffee by the cupfuls and paid in kind with bouts of explosive diarrhea. Now I'm finally free to do what I love; reviewing and spreading music for the sleepless night owls that we are. On a side note, me and a bunch of friends have decided to make a project specifically catering to the growing local music scene (in Singapore). The growth here is incredibly fast-paced, as you can tell from my previous 'live' posts. It's still under production, but I'll be writing for the local and regional musicians that stand out vocally.

As a prelude to this new endeavour, I'll quickly list and link tidbits of the seasoned homegrown musicians. Hopefully I'd get the chance to do the interviews and full reviews that they deserve.

Here we go!

1st stop : I am David Sparkle.


What can I say, they blew me away when I saw them play a year ago.

2nd stop : B-Quartet



Late last year, in their opening set for Tortoise, the brothers dropped Haykal's airy vocals instead opting for a open sound exploration. 4 new members were added as of their 2nd album "Conformity has replaced consciousness"

3rd stop: Amberhaze



Amberhaze is Giuliano Gullotti’s long-standing solo project. He plays anything from atmospheric ambient to piano pieces throughout 2006 to the present.

Pretty Lights ▼ Passing Behind Your Eyes

Derek Vincent Smith and recently Adam Deitch play by the moniker of Pretty Lights. Smith's a major proponent of PL, having dropped a his studies as a freshman at a Uni to focus on his beats. And man did he make the right choice. Insofar, Pretty Lights have made major headway on acts for 2010's Cochella, Bonnaroo + the EDC, and generally being on tour throughout last year. How I didn't find out Pretty Lights till 2011 is anyone's guess. Smith & Deitch mainly work around old vintage beats sampled with up tempo glitch-hop ones, so there's alot for your earbuds no matter what your taste is. Expect to chill with alot of synth-action, fat beats with a alot of soul.



Follow them on PrettyLightsMusic.com

Pretty Lights ▼ Passing Behind Your Eyes
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Kites Sail High ▼ Alone

San Fran native Mario Baltodano is the enigma behind Kites Sail High, an all new act that's comparatively comparable to Flylo & Ulrich Schnauss warped vibes freefloating with a slew of experimentation to boot. Not much is known, aside from the two very solid albums Alone & Secrets up on Life's Blood. Hmm, the album Alone,which im going into since it has more plays, is (imo) about the adolescent emotions or daytime hallucinations of a single child. It just comes to me, feeling that way. The effects in play here are immense, wonder just how many pedals and distortions were needed in the making of. Kites Sail High have been in tons of collabs, and is in the process of making more. Some include Baths, Teen Daze, Blackbird Blackbird and a few others which was released up on Heart Music Group.



Kites Sail High ▼ Alone
Try being alone.
Pay to be alone!

Ilkae ▼ Pistachio Island

Yet another postup! Ilkae (thats ill-kay) is two-man project consisting of Aaron Munson and Krystian Lubiszewski, from Canada / Poland (can you guess the polish dude?) Thier music could be said to encompass anything from electronic funk to 8-bit vidgame glitchy music thats commonly popular among twenty-somethings reminiscing lost childhoods. The tracks are fitted in bite-sized pieces, with an average of 1 min per piece. Insofar as I can tell, the album features these tracks as singular notes, not combining or flowing into each other like some do. Perfect for the shuffle feature, if you're heading for a quick destination.

Feel good vibes are abound in Pistachio Island.



Ilkae ▼ Pistachio Island [2001] Merck Records.
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Harlem ▼ Hippies

Since creepin' out on 2008 with their album Free Drugs ;-) and the huge splash they made with Hippies, it became clear I couldn't very well keep putting off listening to the trash-punk duo from Austin any longer. So this week we have Harlem.

In all out honesty, when Harlem kicked it off with Free Drugs, I didn't really lionize them. It seemed like the type of music which you'd dance along to, only to be forgotten when the new week starts. Sure there were tracks like 'Beautiful & Very Smart' whose bass reminded me of Joy Division's Atmosphere, with more tempo and jumpyness. Other tracks include 'South of France', trashy yet not overdone, mainly due to the emphasis placed on vocals. The result is an enjoyable album with a couple of noteworthy tracks, but it felt more like they had to get thier shit together and 2 years (and a mexican drumman) later, we have Hippies.

Oh they got their shit together alright. My attention was encased in concrete with their very first downstroke guitar hook; Someday Soon continues on a very smooth and simplistic but takes a drastic turn as the track progresses, much like a roller coaster ride. The drums dole out constant rythms then yet again, they simmer the volume low, and picks it up till they live to their trash-punk name. Friendly Ghosts opens up a throbbing migrane of a drumline in the very best sense. Lyricwise they're a little eccentric, its hard not to be eccentric when you're devoting a punk song to Casper the friendly ghost.

I can't stand it, I'm so possessive ~ (oh i see what you did there @_@)
I wanna disappear all the time
Help me disappear, Tonight!

Transport us to the middle of the album, track 06 we have... Gay Human Bones! Does modern medicine be able to tell whether one was gay in their lives simply by judging the bones?! Hmm. Maybe i should get opt for cremation. Gay Human Bones, has a sweet hook going and when added with euphorically vocals makes for a catchy song. I can't, for the life of me figure out what exactly they're singing about but from the snippets i can make out, it's something about being alone, and a basketball team or so they tell me. Not sure what the relation is, too busy enjoying the track to care.




'My basketball teams name is gay human bones, we win most of the games we play at home.'

There's much other tracks I barely even touched upon, but I think they'd rather speak for themselves. The 16-track, is vaguely long for me, granted it they had a respite of 2 years to come up with new material but I'd rather they seperated it into medium sized bits, and toss a little more variety in it. All in all, Hippies was one of the albums I enjoyed out of 2010.



Time to get Hippies!
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Lets make time.

Its been raining dogs for three weeks, can't do anything but work and latch on to whatever warmth each and every weekend brings. Lets try to make time. Warmth usually found when we tip that edge down our guzzling throats and look upon yet another empty husk. Haahh, holiday seasons almost come and gone. What super realistic resolutions would we conjure up only to turn to smoke a month later. Haahh, lets try to make time.

The Maccabees ▼ Color it In

I first came across Color It In, on the ever reliant train system, where tons of people contort into makeshift sardines for however long their journey demands them. A friend offered me a listen and wham I couldn't stop shaking my leg to the beat. Might be due to the earlier intake of coffee & red bull but i can't pinpoint for sure so wot the hell wot the hell. Me & friend were immediately transported back to 2007 where clear cut indie rock; The Kooks, Killers, Bloc Party (and the occasional Menomena) nostalgia hit us hard. So here I am rediscovering our first loves ; lost loves ; so we say its only love. Refreshing respite from the countless chillwave//witchhouse//garabe sounds or, how our fucked up minds can't make our fucked up minds up.

Color it In jumps beat off with X-Ray, man can't resist that bassline and unruly guitars, it just melts with Orlando Week's lyrics. Up on to All in Your Rows, they show more control and a religious dogmatic criticism. Mehh thats what it sounds like to me ;

City-scape and country-side
We've got local boys, they're going nationwide
So here's your church and here's your steeple
And you're locking your doors to keep in all the people

// Let them go.

The opening of the next track Latchmere creeps me out to no end. I get goosebumps when theres people screaming at each other at the pool. Like something bad's happened while you were swimming, just before you resurface you notice they're shouting AT you, and a glance down you see a fucking shark had bitten off your fucking legs off or, something along those lines. Precious Time lies more towards traditional relationship reworkings, no sharks to be had here guys. Still, its lyrically impressive and stands out from the other tracks of Color it In. Tissue Shoulders; strikes a chord with me. Recent events, maybe they've predicted what would happen in three years and made this song just for me? I'd like to think it as such.

The song Lego is by far the saddest song on Color It In. Lego has very dismayal lyrics, I can only guess that its about the death of three children, or growing up, or both. The drums are very persistent, almost hammering that fact home. All in all, Color it In has depth in character, given life by Week's vocals, the guitar's + basses + drum's dances. Get it.



The Maccabees ▼ Color It In [2007]
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Jeff Pianki

These days, youtube seems to be brimming with potential like a small pond full of tadpoles. Ever seen one of those? At times, there may be up to a million of them swimming, squirming and jostling each other for the little breathers they have. Hard to pick and individual taddy and squeeze it out from the rest. Not to sidetrack too much, we have virutal unknown (aside from youtube) Jeff Pianki, and the way he's going it wouldn't be too surprising to see his name pop up here and there in the future.

Jeff has released an EP called Hello Scones, and aside that, a 13-track demo series, which, surprisingly packs alot of punch. I get a strange Sufjan-meets-Andy Hull vibe from his work, and his lyricism is really commendable. Up on both Demos and Hello Scones, Jeff puts his banjo / guitar / harmonica combo into good sparing use. Plus, the song progression is noticeable it takes alot to grovel new fingerpicking riffs that brings out different emotions, from 13 other tracks.




Most of the tracks on the Demo, are bare- like in the track Buried in Winter- there is certainly room to add. But somehow its feels complete, like a newly constructed house, with little furnishings and a whole lot of space to fuck around. Throwing Coins is clearly thought out, with the harmonica & glockenspiel skitting across the background.


Enough words i think; I am hooked.
Follow Jeff on his Bandcamp! (Buy them)
There are a couple of tracks on his last.fm page.

Dark Dark Dark - Bright Bright Bright / Wild Go (50th Post)

The sextet, Dark Dark Dark from Minneapolis revolve around Nona Marie Invie and Marshall LaCount, producing chamber-folk with Nona's flitting haunted voice. Dark Dark Dark dabbles in strudy old instrumentation that'd prove fitting with Nona's vocals time and time again. And the desired effect comes through as though the sextet are tapping into some arcane, ancient melodies brought back. They play songs, with a driven narrative of soulsearching, finding and being found, basic human emotions blown out of proportion. And fittingly, the rag-tag bunch travel alot, keeping on their toes like a group of touring troubadours.



Having toured with WHY?, they'd just released their newest album yet, Wild Go, earlier last month up on Supply & Demand. I've been trying to get into Wild Go, but I'd have to admit, it hasn't been getting much plays with me. Hopefully its a grower, but as of now, I just can't put Bright Bright Bright down. Kinda felt that with 6 short songs, they'd pack more punch. Like a blow to the Jugular.

Bright Bright Bright, their 6-song EP includes Something For Myself which was redone in Wild Go. They also have a movie inproduction, not too sure when it'll come out, but the title's Flood Tide, here.



I don't know bout you, but she blows me away.
Just realised it's my 50th blog post. So yay~

Dark Dark Dark - Bright Bright Bright / Wild Go
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Crystal Castles (A-sides Ft. Robert Smith)

Yes the title doesn't lie. I came across this here @ vaudevillevillain's. Thought I'd give this more love, since its well -dare i say it- maybe one of the best collaborations of 2010. Robert Smith's distinguished vocals seemingly snatched from the 80's inhere with Crystal Castles electro-goth fat bassy-beats in Not In Love ; Originally a Platinum Blonde song injected with a healthy dose of Duran Duran vibes. Other B-sides would include Celestica // Suffocation. Also, Crystal Castles will be in Singapore for on the 15th Jan the year ahead. Won't it be divine if they dragged Robert's fat(sexy)ass along?



Not in Love ;
Consider this my Halloween Gift, Candy for all!

Not in Love will be out - December 6th 2010 on Fiction Records

Jordaan Mason And the Horse Museum

Don't tell anyone, but as of late, I've been slowly losing interest in the normal Guitar+Bass+Drum routine. It feels as if I needed a well prolonged time off from overly-used Bread & Butter instruments. You could say it goes parallel with me wanting a break from my drab status-quo lifestyle. So for these few weeks, odd voices, accordions, brass instruments and banjos will dominate these follow-up posts !



Jordaan Mason And the Horse Mueseum - Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head



Thats Jordaan. With an extra A. Having an album name which looks like 2 completely isolated phrases fused together, Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head finally came together after three stolid years founded by complete unknowns Bryar Gray & Jordaan Mason. According to last.fm, the album "tells the story of a failed marriage between two people of confused genders and identities. the album takes place during a glandolinian war and includes horses, shotguns, carnival horn sections, religion, male birth, sickness, semen, haircuts, and an eventual apocalypse in 1990." And I couldn't come up with a better sypnosis, had I tried (and I did.)
All I could come up was :

"The album to me is, about a kid watching two horses gallop across muddy fields against the oncoming rain sleet, like they were symbolically fighting the rain, batting their lily-like eyelashes each time it struck a furious rainblot, the ones which are as big as golf balls. Despite that, or more accurately; because of that, they (the horses) seemed happy, to be free of reins, of human contact ; how ever long their faces might seem. And seeing the horses happy made the child, now stuck indoors really, really angry. The kid works up a tantrum, screaming at two patches of slick fur ;lightning speed. He knows the horses can't actually hear his screams, that only drives more fury into his child-like skull."


Musically speaking though, Bryar & Jordaan's vocals are emotionally compelling, track after track. Some might be put off by his exceedingly screechy voice but I personally like. With banjos, soft-clad thumps sounding like horses hooves in mud, Bird's Nest literally reverbs with the beat, vocals and that bass trumpet gently cruises along the background.

With Racehorse : Get Married! they take it up anotch or two, with vocals reaching their peak, it showcases what one can accomplish with vocal chords by locking oneself in a toronto hotel for three years. It opens with a huge "YOU FUCK LIKE A RACEHORSEEEEE" (listen to it here). I mean, how can you not take notice. The song goes on to proceed about bags of blood, hunting with shotguns, swallowing shotguns and private conversations. Currently, they're on tour with Oh Foot, Shelby Sifers, and Tinyfolk. Man I haven't heard from Tinyfolk for quite awhile now.

JORDAAN MASON AND THE HORSE MUSEUM - ____ is Water from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

You know you want this.
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Piriki (Ukulele Special!)

Hallo goede mensen! This week's special would be towards Piriki, a dutch song (hence the dutch greeting) cause I've just gotten a new Makala Tenor Ukulele with courtesy of the UkuleleMovement in Singapore. So woot, it sounds do-able with Aquila strings, and man am I addicted to it's glossy veneer smell. Makes me think of Horchata for some reason. Anywho! Here's to an adorable weekend, hope you guys get laid ! (with people who don cat-outfits, how hot is that huh.)





Also, any ideas to naming my ukulele?