video of the week...

i've allready mentioned "bildmeister" shortly in this blog some time ago. i'm now posting the video for their song "here alone". for sure a rather depressive one. but the song is great. check out more about the guys from portugal here.

monday pure morning!

"monday morning"
by death cab for cutie

she maybe young but she only likes old things,

and modern music it ain't to her taste,
she loves the natural light, captured in black and white,
she sees mirages of mountain ranges,
within a blink of her eyes it changes,
back to the open plain, oh no she can't explain.

i cried how love keep your arms around me,
i am a bird that is in need of grounding,
i'm built to fly away i never learned how to stay.

and i just going to fall and the vultures will surround you,
and when you´re lookin` in the mirror what you see is gonna astound you.
but all these lines and greys refine, they are the maps of our design,
of what began on a monday morning.

monday morning, monday morning,
ohhhhh, ohhhhhh,
monday morning, monday morning,
ohhhhh, ohhhhhh
(...)

hats off!

bowing humbly before more than creative creation!

for better or worse...

first of all let me tell you one thing : i can`t deny sprouting an at first irritating kind of sympathy for an lp since i`ve had this weird feeling - maybe then in 2003 - when "sleeping with ghosts" rised up out of the blue without any warnings and beloved band placebo all of a sudden changed their formerly resourceful ingredients a little bit by spreading them out under a first af all needs getting used to electronical influenced base ground sound carpet, which i`ve been digging hard and fast and i`m still being in love with roundly since time immemorial.

now amidst an entirely sudden but terrific embracing guitar-electronica-keyboard-chirring sound collage perfectly alongside curling vital opening verses crashening into a to-die-for estimate "monday morning..." ear candy loop. that`s a turning point death cab for cutie is twisting me tonal around my fingers again after a longer period of drought. turn up to lose yourself in charming atmosphere. what an adipsous appetizer! it seems monday morning is going to be a pure one again!

pre-listening via npr.org as well as the other brand-new codes and keys!

Death Cab for Cutie - St. Peter's Cathedral by ATL REC

video of the week...

the donkeys from san diego love the way you walk and we love their song. do you love it too? This is a song, from their previously released album "born with stripes". country rock at its best. but the cream of the crop is, the song is available as download on the bands webpage, just follow the link below. isn't that nice?

i love the way you walk (download at band webpage)

myspace // webpage

subtle! frisky! exquisitely of one´s own!

wye oak // wyeoakspace //

downloads // downloads 2 // downloads 3 // downloads 4

and that´s more than noteworthy ladies and gentlemen!

as i told with previous post before - somewhere glimmering at retral spotlight of genre outriders sonic youth - "holy holy" weaves a high-melodious net with its massive positioned guitar hookline alongside jenn wasner`s voice appears almost sheepish.

an initial step by step winding and majestic growing "hot as day" takes a similar line, which is consistently intermitted by stirring feedback-breaks and thus anticipates the "civilian"-effect yet.

with "that i do" accentuate jenn and andy their exquisite keen sense for subtle and frisky tremendous own melodies that an eerily formidable baltimore-duo here have recorded.

by the way...
upcoming stop in munich, atomic café: 11.06.2011


last but not least a very pure marked down acoustic attachment of past-described song "take it in".

Wye Oak - Parking Lot Video from Merge Records on Vimeo.

Live on Radio K: Wye Oak - "Hot as Day" from Radio K on Vimeo.

Wye Oak performs Holy Holy at The Rock Shop, Brooklyn from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.

Wye Oak - That I Do - Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.

wye oak? damn! why actually not...

"civilian"

by
wye oak

wyeoakspace // rather downloads

it seems with their 3rd album any penny has been dropped - by this unconventional operating duo from baltimore that actuate a special kind of electrifying and distortive folk reduced to a minimum. and the excellent reputation of these two eccentric persons as frontier runners between noise-attacks and welfare melodious shiver has already been perseding them in music scene circles.

wye oak`s music seems in essence rather measured, indeed drifting towards noise-pop time and time again. a little shimmered with an organ here and an electronic effect there accompanied by a stoical beat, at times blustery, dissonant clamorous like sonic youth, but mostly melancholic pending. that obscure congenial combination between andy stack`s virtuosic right-handed drum-kit - while his left hand creates some bass-melodies on a keyboard - and jenn wasner`s restrained vocals let wye oak being an angelic music experience. jenn s dark-pigmented voice seems adequate for a particular form of music with all its frowning promise and an everlasting anxious bubbling under an exhausting even-tempered unexpended surface.

there is this magic moment one minute before "civilian" ends: the guitar - it previously has already pulled at shackles several times - explodes formal in the background, melts in an all illuminating feedback loop, everything is infernal blatant, all senses deafening, dangerous on the abyss swaying, wunderful and agitating at the same time. "civilian" is the the title piece and meaningful song par excellence!

a second track worthy of mention including following primary lyrical exciting context is called "take it in" from earlier "the knot lp" anno 2009. it is that type of denied perfection what makes the band quite unique and interesting.

half the day away
half again asleep
i am left alone
with dreams
i wouldn’t care if i
i wouldn't carry you
is it still a lie
if it’s true

do you never ask
because i’ll never tell
we are both the same
unwell
but how much would you ask
and what did you expect
of what it is that we
have left
(...)

Flock of Dimes (Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak) performs at Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.

PS I Love You

brilliant up tempo smashing-guitar rock 'n' roll song from canadian duo "ps i love you". fantastic song.

reunion of retained coolness of artistic simplifcation!

a confirmed reader knows my faible for extraordinary artist characters, female or male - don`t matter in the end. in former times brian molko has been considered as the unchallenged first in my personal category. i think it has been changed a little bit so far. i won`t stop short of doing saying he lost his validity in all. but after a mind-blowing reverberation of a groundbreaking masterpiece "sleeping with ghosts" circumstances have changed during the last few years. he left something since there. these small but nice things between the lines. the mystery or magic of his together aloof and vulnerable seemingly person often came from his tightrope walk between a crosswise "ignorance" and absolutely concentrated passion on stage. such as allocation to music and announcements in the world in general, his kind of rebellious attitude, most however an inconceiveable splendid latent ambiguity of a lyrical remarkable well-nigh poetical tongue beyond daily routine broadening oneselves horizon right up to mediate awareness of life were the main reasons for having dealed with them. nowadays all things around placebo seem to be planned down to the very last detail and going uninspiring boring, almost exsanguinous. where has all that formerly unique and spellbound latent vitality gone? where`s all the hidden subliminal unselfconscious viridity? to much love, peace and harmony. oversized ballons in the audience. this detracts from main issues. well-nigh punch and judy show. an overkill even for (a) "placebo".

hopefully this won`t kill the kills, a further all-time artist favourite of ours. alison mosshart and jamie hince still possess above-named property "hidden subliminal unselfconscious viridity" more than ever. just retained coolness of artificial simplifcation without losing all drive and power therefore! the magic word, the door opener, a key-and-lock principle, whose symbiosis fits perfectly. but see and convince for yourself! trusting that we`ll produce you proof of one of the best performing independent artists in place, here are two worthwile nuggets - an new and an old one - for watching!

"satellite / baby says / pots and pans"
(rare acoustic session, sxsw austin 2011)
by
the kills

"you don’t love me & steppin razor "
(acoustic cover from originally dawn penn & joe higg)
by
the kills
"you don’t love me & steppin razor"
(cover from originally dawn penn & joe higg)
by
the kills

pictures even speak louder with words!

"cabin fever"
by
drunken boat

following nature inclusion of "bilbao" amidst an impressive scenery firstly operates a calming impact but then with beginning and increasing phenomenal-voiced lyrics the context changes, rips the listener and observer out of its daydream and unearthes a depth of overwhelming emotions. wow! what brilliant mixture of some nice decent words, striking instrumentation and rare nature photography! being thrilled, confused and hypnotized altogether...

dignity, liberty and aspiration flying by theoretical
anywise some restlessness
however peace of mind streams
along gracile wing beats.

drunkenboatspace // further downloads via bandcamp , via soundcloud