Seven Day Soundtrack

All the good shit this week.

David Jordan - Sun Goes Down
David Jordan has been knocking about for a while now, although to be honest we’ve been fairly oblivious to it all. It has taken ‘Sun Goes Down’, a massively bonkers bit of baroque gypsy psychfolkpop, to bring him to our attention. The video is good because it features a popstar actually behaving like a popstar and - ladies - a topless chap on drums. Hurrah.

The Long Blondes - Century
If you have seen The Long Blondes’ choruses or know where they are, please contact the band IMMEDIATELY, as they desperately require their swift return.

Avenged Sevenfold - A Little Piece Of Heaven
Avenged Sevenfold are a band who make a type of music - metal - beloved of people with excesses of hair, piercings and tattoos. This, from their latest album, is a fairly ridiculous System Of A Down-style waltz/ballad/thrash/Godknowswhat that brings to mind scenes from Tim Burton’s Batman. As such it is amazing. Goes on a bit though.

Various Artists - Digital Penetration
A chance and welcome return to our disc drive for 2006’s Album Of The Year.

Lykke Li - Little Bit
With this sweet ‘n’ curious Scandipop love song (“for you I keep my legs apart”, bless), the young Swede dubbed as the new Robyn/Annie by everyone everywhere has ensured that we ‘Lykke’ her not a ‘Little Bit’, but actually quite a lot. Ahem. Sorry about that.

Lykke Li - Everybody But Me (Christoffer Remix)
This reminds us of something but we can’t think what. The plinky bit in the background definitely sounds like something else. Whatever, it’s a million kinds of amazing.

Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Did you see Alexis on The Culture Show this week? Expect the mole-in-a-spaceage-poncho look to hit Topman in time for the onset of Spring. In the meantime listen to this beautiful little ditty, the title track from their upcoming album. It has to be said they did a bloody good job of hitting all the right notes considering they had no lights on.