From their latest album, High Violet. Buy it – it’s good.
May 162010
Mar 172010
This works so well. Knocked Up from the Kings of Leon covered by Lykke Li and Miike Snow.
Mar 122010
A must see:
Jan 192010
I love mashups. Ever since a producer called Danger Mouse took (in his own words) “a very white thing and a very black thing” to create the Grey Album, I’m amazed how combining two or more songs, samples or snippets can create a new experience that sheds a new light on the original material.
My current favorite mashup artists are The Kleptones, a.k.a. Eric Kleptone & friends, from Brighton, England. They’ve just released Uptime/Downtime (download page), a double album containing some of the finest and most original mashups around. Mixing together music and great soundbits, it provides something old, something new, most of it borrowed, and sometimes something blue. ;)
Follow these guys around on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or Last.fm. And book ‘em in your club! Now. Some of my favorite tracks from the last album behind the cut.
Dec 262009
Best songs of 2009.
For some reason, 35. Youtube links where available.
- Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
Dark, soulful hip-hop. Horace Andy at his best. - Animal Collective – My Girls
Trippy synths, but the melody just keeps on sticking. - The Kleptones – Voodoo Sabotage
A mashup of two epic dancefloor anthems. - Eels – That Look You Give That Guy
Hands down the best song about jealousy. - Wilco – Wilco (The Song)
Wilco will love you baby. - Mason Proper – Get Innocuous/Love Lockdown
I prefer this over Kanye’s version anytime. - Doves – Kingdom of Rust
The reason Coldplay doesn’t deserve to be that famous. - Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)
Anticipated remix, and A-Trak delivers. Close to the original. - Röyksopp – The Girl and the Robot (Spencer and Hill remix)
Great vocals by Robyn, this interpretation just adds a little disco spice. - The Whitest Boy Alive – Islands
Erlend Öye and electronic pop.
more…
Dec 182009
Nov 252009
Aug 132009
I’ve been planning on reviewing some of the records which changed my way of listening to music. You could say they have set new bars to compare to or opened an unkown section of the musical spectrum for me. Today: Mezzanine by Massive Attack.
Released in 1998, this is considered a landmark record in the trip-hop genre: dark, soulful, dubby electronic music with fragile vocals.
Jan 052009
2008 in music retrospective. I take on the albums I liked, I take down the ones I didn’t like.
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
How many fantastic records does a band have to put out to receive the acclaim they deserve? In Elbow’s case, the answer is four, over a timespan of 18 (eightteen!) years. With their latest album they finally won the Mercury Prize. It’s quite hard to believe that these guys aren’t as big as Coldplay by now. Highlights of the album are The Bones Of You, Audience With The Pope (lyrics) and The Fix. Check this out if you haven’t already – next to Doves, this might be the most underestimated British band. Continue reading »
Aug 252008
Since the excellent muxtape.com was taken down by the RIAA yesterday, I thought it was a good time to post some of my favorite summer tunes:
- Tricky – Veronika
Probably the best track on his newest album, which is worth listening too. It’s a return to his trip-hop roots, and I can’t help but wondering what Massive Attack would sound like if he was still in it. - Cat Power – Hate
It took a while before I could sit through the latest Cat Power album (The Greatest). The cover art belongs in the deepest bowels of hell, and at a first listen, all the songs sound pretty much the same. How wrong I was, and I stand corrected. - Gnarls Barkley – Blind Mary
It’s okay, Cee-Lo. I love Blind Mary too. God forbid you should release this as a single, instead of the mediocre Run. - Portishead – Threads
Although not really a kick-back, hats-off summer song by definition, it surely is a powerful end track. I think. I’m always so unsure. - Wilco – Impossible Germany
You think the melody is nice, wait until the guitar solo at the end. - Beirut – Napoleon on the Bellerophon
Lights out.
