the xx

what an interesting band the xx are

intro - the xx



their songs on the album 'xx' on a random play, they start and i start guessing

sometimes i think hot chip?

sometimes everything but the girl (if i had that on cd, which i don't...)

depeche mode

guitar bits can be pure the cure

and the harmonies

the simple double-lisp boy/girl harmonies

"i was struggling to get in, left waiting out side your door..."

and awesome to be in love, long distance or unrequited... both maybe...

'basic space', how we all need it, no matter how in love


... top tracks

islands
heart skipped a beat
basic space
and intro - their only near-instrumental :)

and from that poorly filmed interview over coffee we know that david gedge likes 'em

and cue the wedding present on random!

gazebo

my song

my fuckin song

:)

because i am also a wedding present fan

more so now, so much more so lately... :)

but gazebo, i always loved that song

off an album it's surprisingly hard to buy now (watusi)

and not on youtube, which is tragic

"you wouldn't believe all the time that i've wasted
staring at the photographs
you sent to me, but i remember oh, exactly how you tasted
and just how much you really meant to me..."

oh mr gedge

is that for me?

xx

~ lstnr

no remorse!

utterly content with those four record purchases

the xx album is a delight, even with its occasionally weak points. like a band of people raised on a diet of echo and the bunnymen and everything but the girl, but the boy/girl vocals are strangely balanced. prefer her voice to his, i think. 'islands' and 'intro' and 'basic space' all got several stars in itunes :)

mumford and sons - sigh no more
love songs with a healthy and sweet dose of implied muscular yet romantic sex... sexy, if true love ever was. 'little lion man' the most amazing song, but the album holds together around it, sitting there at track seven, like a fight scene in a film. 'white blank page' and 'thistle and weeds' have been singled out for attention so far.

the field - brilliant have-it-on-all-afternoon beats. with a few odd tracks, not sure if i like that 'everybody's gotta learn sometime' thing. but then, i didn't like the beck cover of that either, i figure why remake a perfect song, though... the rest of it, though, ace.

and holy fuck - yeah, wow. excellent. only got one whole listen in over the weekend, but will give it another full play as soon as i can.

am happy to recommend any of it.

mumford and sons to pogues (and possibly coldplay!) fans
the xx to cure fans
the field to fourtet fans
and holy fuck to mgmt/!!! fans

yay! new music!

~ l

polyester sale

in a rare spree, the unknown listener set off for polyester records this morning, and armed with a youtube's worth of recent favourites, made a short list and stuck to it!

so, this is what i bought:



the xx - xx (young turks)
the field - yesterday and tomorrow (kompakt)
mumford & sons - sigh no more (glassnote)
holy fuck - latin (young turks)

looking forward to listening in full to each album, and hoping that the songs i remember liking are in fact worth buying whole albums for.

the sleeves of all four are really similar: matte card digipaks

happy

will hopefully have a few new favourites to share soon

love

~ lstnr

p.s. polyester sale is 15% off everything. ends sunday.

brief sunday best of

different song, but the national





and haven't blogged this yet, but - a recent favourite by johnny flynn (nice video idea too)



line em all up enjoy twenty or so minutes of youtube musical action

~ l

uno mas?

the youtube comment about this one is bang on -
"one of the few songs you HAVE to listen to on loop"
#c0medy

and of the three xx songs i've listened to today, this one i like the best



and i notice that the offical xx videos on youtube contain links to buy the records from rough trade :) and what a fine shop that is

and in some other record store news, melbourne's missing link, with the superfine online shop, is "going digital": Melbourne’s Missing Link Goes Digital In News : Mess+Noise

still prefer owning the vinyl/cd, but then again, as a compulsive archivist and collector, i would

listen on

~ tul