So here is a mix I put together. It's full of stuff I've posted about already, but also things new and old that I'm currently enjoying. Check it out. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't...but download it and see.
Tracklist:
1) April Skies: The Jesus and Mary Chain
2) Worlds Away: Dark Times
3) Rendez-vous D'or: Xeno and Oaklander
4) Munkisi Munkondi: Whitehouse
5) Shrubbish Factory: Nocturnal Emissions
6) I Should Have Known Better: Wire
7) Swastika Rising: German Oak (note: this is not a white supremacist band)
8) Breathing In: Libyans
9) Frisco Dyke: Mika Miko
10) Floodlight: Slices
11) The Brood: BOY DIRT CAR
12) Beachy Head: Throbbing Gristle
13) Do You In: The December Sound
Loving this right now. Pretty damn melodic for Whitehouse. (I like how the caption of the video says EXTREME NOISE.)
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Xeno and Oaklander's Sentinelle is on my list of things I need to review. Classic French cold-wave sound with some Detroit electronic thrown in as well. Delicate, dripping synthesizer creations--and beautiful French vocals.
Nature of Feeling by Pleasure Leftists. If you haven't heard this yet, stop whatever you are doing and click the play button. It's ridiculously good. Like if you turned up the bpm on Joy Division's "Interzone" and then added Nico. I've been listening to it pretty much nonstop. You can listen to the entire EP on Soundcloud here.
"When You Sleep": Memoryhouse (My Bloody Valentine Cover)
Gorgeous piano cover of MBV.
"No Cure For The Lonely": Nadja (Swans Cover) Nadja basically takes the cure and drowns it in distortion and fuzz. Interestingly enough, it works.
"He's A Whore": Big Black (Cheap Trick Cover) This song just rules. Also notable is Big Black's cover of "The Model" by Kraftwerk.
"When Your Lonely Heart Breaks": Puerto Rico Flowers (Neil Young Cover)
Is it redundant if I constantly post PRF and say how awesome it is? Yeah it's redundant but I don't care.
"Just Like Heaven": The Watson Twins (The Cure Cover)
"Heartbeats": Jose Gonzales (The Knife Cover)
In Gonzales' hands, a former Swedish synthpop ditty becomes the most heartbreaking song in the world.
"Landslide": The Smashing Pumpkins (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night": Nirvana (Leadbelly Cover) I don't like Nirvana (pshhhhhhh, whatever), but I do love Leadbelly, and the whole grunge vibe just works really well with the traditional blues style.
"Under Pressure": Xiu Xiu (David Bowie Cover) Xiu Xiu manages to make the most strangely beautiful Bowie cover.
