I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day is: a short 1/2 hour listen, nicely put-together, engaging, slightly annoying if you listen to it in a cynical mood, but overall comforting and warm. Not bad at all.
March, 2009
A Word To The Wise Guy #2
Stay in a class of your own, ignore the imitators and you can do what the fuck you like. Get paid handsomely and be cooler, fiercer, more beautiful, and more enormous than ever. The gospel of reforming according to David Laurie.
Wake The President – You Can’t Change That Boy
Memories of Orange Juice and Aztec Camera are revived by these young Glaswegians charting the lovelorn and hopeless by means of jangly riffs and melancholia.
Digitonal – Silver Poetry EP
This is supreme chillout music, destined to be played when the red wine flows and the candles have melted half the way down. The beats aren’t enough to get you moving, but they’ll give you enough rhythm when you need it.
Art Of Noise // Copy Haho
The first Art Of Noise mix of 2009 sees Copy Haho curate their own 10 track playlist. In doing so, they reveal a whole heap of influences that are hidden throughout their debut EP – from the epic gang rowdiness of Dexy’s Midnight Runners to the pop swagger of fIREHOSE.
Micachu – Jewellery
Micachu: part East London DIY street kid, part Waitsian musical innovator, part preternaturally wise ingenue; she’s an endearing and intriguing presence, and all of her character seeps and shines out through the songs on this amazing debut album.
Sons Of Noel and Adrian announce tour, plus Willkommen Collective news…
It’s a busy busy time for the members of Sons Of Noel and Adrian. Not only are a moderate amount of the Brighton-based folk collective moonlighting with The Leisure Society on their UK tour, they’ve just announced a ten-date headlining tour of their own!
Das Wanderlust announce ‘Horses For Courses’ for May
Originally recorded 18 months ago during a disastrous and short lived dalliance with a popular indie label, Das Wanderlust’s eagerly awaited album is finally due for release. Plus, details of the launch party inside which features a bed wettingly good line up.
The Bluetones – Expecting To Fly (Expanded Edition)
Yes, the debut by Hounslow’s foremost contribution to Britpop has been remastered and given an extra radio sessions disc for its vital thirteenth anniversary.
Download new Grizzly Bear song inside!
The first taster from one of the most eagerly awaited albums of 2009 – and (thank fuck) it doesn’t disappoint. Not one bit. As can be expected from team Grizzly, the track is sonically luscious, washing over you in a sea of spring reverb, mellotron and gorgeous harmonies.
Zombienation – Zombielicious
The album we’ve ALL been waiting for here at TLOBF towers.. No it’s not the new Grizzly Bear, oh no. It’s the new release from titanic German electro outfit Zombienation. Yeah.
Pet Sounds #2
Another installment of our column from the founder of cult indie label Big Scary Monsters. This month sees Kevin talk of one of his main passions in life. No, not whiskey. SWEDEN.
WhoMadeWho – The Plot
With thirteen tracks designed for your listening pleasure, there is a fair amount of filler on WhoMadeWho’s second album. Alex Harvey reviews.
Röyksopp – Junior
Between coming out with amusingly nonsensical pronouncements about the origins of their music, Röyksopp have found time to release some albums – Junior is their third.
Newspaper reports claim The Stone Roses are to reform for Summer dates
So far 21 UK dates are set – but sources say this could rise. The band are also in talks to play a US date, thought to be Coachella Festival.
Bishop Allen – Grrr…
How does a pop band such as Brooklyn’s Bishop Allen tackle the daunting challenge of topping an album as good as 2007’s ‘The Broken String’? Well, you know the old saying… “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”….
