Pink Floyd. Let there be more light.

Kill Bill vol4.

Proof that the Germans do it best.

Moving Further Away- Horrors

Youtubes comments page is usually a hostile environment with a steady stream of trolls typing out poison, but on the comnments page of the bellow video, someone said

"this song shows the band has evolved way way further than the expected."

Let me shed some light on this, The Horrors appeared on the scene with 'strange house'in 2004 which was trashed by critics, and rightly so, it was an album of cramps pastiche tracks at best. Their lead singer bothered the tabloid gossip pages while dating one of the Geldofs, in esscence I prayed for them to fuck off and be dropped...

Then something happened. They recruited Geoff Barrows of Portishead to produce their second album Peaches Geldof married someone else whilst still dating Faris. Faris dropped the surname 'Rotter' and went with his real surname. They started to be more than a joke band for NME to poke fun at.



Some critics who perhaps felt bad about the thrashing they gave 'Strange House' gave this 'album of the year status' and it was cracking, well produced, well written yet quite inpenetrable in places- Perhaps they had something after all.

This is the highlight of their latest album Skying. It harks back to My Bloody valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain, Early Primal Scream and Death in Vegas, but it is a sound that is totally theirs. The song itself is good but it is not until 3min50 that the song stops being good and becomes great. As if its not good enough being a great song it goes on for the next 2 minutes being great, melting into a gorgeous synthline before that guitar part starts to sneak back in. at 6mins30 the song stops being great and the realization dawns that the Horrors might be the best band since the Beatles.

We are almost certainly dealing with Genius here. I dont remember feeling this way about a track since My Iron Lung by Radiohead.

Truly- Blue Flame Ford.

Of all the post Nirvana bands, these were the sludgiest and least grungy. Pretty sure it came out in 95. Closer to Kyuss than Anything off Nevermind.

Weatherall vs Ivan Smagghe back to back 3 hours of techno.

Andrew Weatherall & Ivan Smagghe Back 2 Back Live @ Nest, London, England - 24-06-2011 by R_co

Beatles Cover 1.

The point where the record company told the Beach Boys they were getting no more money.

My new blog.

I used to think that music blogs were lazy. They probably still are, but Having come across some pretty impressive music blogs recently, I intend to start my own, I promise to keep it void of political and social views unless the music I place on it demands it. For example, I might quite happilly highlight a bit of Gil Scott Heron or Sly Riot going on Era... black power will get mentioned, if I talk about army of lovers or magnetic fields, then there will be talk about homosexuality. There will be terrible pop, psychadelic gems, techno, folk, drug music, lots of kitch classics, banghra etc. I hope it is very much a blog version of Fred Deakins 'Triptych', an amazing mix CD from several years ago, or lives up to the same eclectic standard as John Peel. But fuck it, I'm rambling, and there is no way you will get this many words in future.