November 18, 2006
low effort posting: in effect
So here’s a little experiment. I’ll put all of the recent albums I haven’t written about yet on random and write something about the first five tracks that come up. Here goes!
Brand New - “Handcuffs” - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (pre-order)
Starts off with plaintive guitar strumming and lyrics dripping with emotions–regret, sorrow, longing, etc etc. Some fairly impressive production tricks that sound, honestly, pretty great on these headphones, but where is this song going? Where… where… where? Midtempo midtacular, that’s where. I guess as an outro to a record that’s acceptable, but while this album is pretty shockingly good at times, this song isn’t its best foot forward in an outstanding single kind of way.
Exploding Hearts - “Shattered (You Left Me) (alt. version)” - Shattered (buy)
As with every other Exploding Hearts song, this one mainly leaves me wishing they’d stuck around so we could have really seen what they were capable of. “Shattered” is right in line with most of Guitar Romantic–grimy, greasy, catchy as fuck.
*Deerhoof - “The Perfect Me” - Friend Opportunity (can’t pre-order yet, but look here)
Sometimes when I think about Deerhoof (and, let’s face it, that’s a pretty rare sometimes) I wonder if they’d be anything worth listening to without their over-the-top-cute-sounding Japanese singer. “The Perfect Me” and the rest of its album pretty much nail down “no” as my answer. With her, though, they’re absolutely wonderful.
(*Kill Rock Stars asked us to take this song down, but we should have an authorized mp3 up in a week or two.)
Pulp - “Duck Diving” - Peel Sessions (buy)
It’s hard to get away from Pulp around here these days, what with me posting about reissues and Niina posting about Jarv’s solo wankery. This song comes from the recently released Peel Sessions double disc collection. It was previously unreleased, but it’s nothing really new in the Pulp canon–a lounge-y groove for Jarvis to spin a yarn over in his distinctively, well, British manner. This time it’s about diving in a pond, of all things. Not much to speak of musically, or narratively for that matter, but somehow it still works.
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November 20th, 2006 at 1:48 am
yeah I am surprised I like this Brand New album, some lyrical content aside and throwaway tracks like the aforementioned
December 11th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
hi…i’m in here by accident
i don’t know you, you don’t know me
but are you’re always sharing many pretty cool songs?
i’am surprise because my favourite movie,all about lily-chou chou,was in your list.