30 November 2007

Some Things For The Weekend

Stick this lot on your ‘boombox’.

Foals - Hollaback Girl
This is just weird.

Modernaire - Velvet Never Dries (EP)
This is just brilliant.

Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme
H&LA have got the best new band name of the last 24 hours and make noodly-but-listenable rackets like this, their eponymous theme tune, which sounds like Dangermouse producing Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstition’ at the end of the world.

Operator Please - Just A Song About Ping Pong
Fiddle 'n' axe madness courtesy of the Antipodean indie quintet, with lashings of ADHD drums and breakneck shouting from lead singer Amandah (that ‘h‘ is hers, FYI). Sounds like going to a barn dance with a crazy girl who's forgotten to take her Kalms. Noisy.

Girls Aloud - Black Jacks
Entirely amazing. See here.

T2 - Heartbroken
In the past month, we have heard this song in the following places:

:: at the end of that ‘1Extra’ advert.
:: on someone’s phone in a bus station.
:: on someone’s phone outside an off license.
:: at a party

It sounded very good in all of those places, except outside the shop because we had our hood up to keep the cold out and also to avoid being asked to buy alcohol for the people who were listening to the song.

Kylie Minogue - Wow
Most of Dannii’s sister’s new album is quite shrugworthy, but this, a song that sounds a bit like ‘Holiday’, but with a Daft Punk bassline and Kylie singing instead of Madonna, is more fun than telling little children Father Christmas doesn’t exist.

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