Matthew Britton is our human blog-music aggregator, kind of like Hype Machine but with feelings and shit. Every week he goes, puts on his rubber gloves and trawls the darkest sewers of Soundcloud, reporting back to TLOBF with his findings. Sometimes he strikes gold, sometimes just faeces, but one day, maybe, just maybe, a band covered here will play an [...]
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Tracks of the Week – 21 November 2011
Flick on the music channels of your terrible freeview box and you’ll see it in all of it’s horror: Christmas tracks. This is how life is going to be for the next two months. Merry Christmas. It’s fucking November.
Tracks of the Week: 13 November [Double Bill]
It’s true: the mechanisms of the music industry can even taint the simple pleasure of kicking up damp leaves and having miscreants throw fireworks at you. Here’s a soundtrack for you as you run away from a banger, screaming.
Tracks of the Week – 31 October 2011
The thing about purposely trying to find new music is the sheer futility of it all – the ability to completely lose touch with reality, displace your disillusionment with life with the disillusionment at finding the hottest new jams. Or maybe it’s for a love of the music. Consider that while we bring you the best new tracks unearthed this week.
Tracks of the Week – 23 October 2011
Whilst you piss your life away, kicking up damp, decaying leaves and talking about what togs are in this season whilst sneering at the underclasses, these are the most relevant and exciting tracks from this week that you can accompany your middle class bile.
Tracks of the Week – 15 October 2011
This weekend saw Binnacle fest at the Old Blue Last, an event so filled with blog favourites that to not turn up is enough to see you cast aside as irrelevant for the foreseeable. For those who didn’t go, these tracks will keep you just relevant enough to claim that you hadn’t wanted to see Sun Glitters anyway.
Tracks of the Week – 8 October 2011
Few people know real hardship. Bloggers do. This week, that fact was hammered home in a harrowing fashion – for the space of two days, Soundcloud was down. In a week that will live long in the memory for all the wrong reasons, these are the best tracks that could be savaged from the wreckage.
Tracks of the Week – 1 October 2011
The seasons change, but new music never does, as the relentless march towards whatever songs you haven’t heard before continues, almost as harrowing as being able to count on one hand the amount of worthwhile things you did in the last four weeks.
Tracks of the Week: 24 September 2011
Our human blog-music aggregator, Matthew Britton, trawls the darkest sewers of Soundcloud, taking refuge from the masses of freshers polluting the outside world.
Tracks of the Week: 17 September 2011
Our human blog-music aggregator, Matthew Britton, trawls the darkest sewers of Soundcloud, reporting back to TLOBF with his findings. One day, maybe a band covered here will play an actual gig in front of human people.
Download: Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand
Entitled ‘By Your Hands’, it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to see that this is a typically upbeat-but-ultimately-depressing number, as you’d expect from a band who’s singer recently admitted that he’ll struggle to sing these songs live without crying.
Watch: Hourglass Sea – L.A. Lights
Though it’s be hard to see what influence California may have had on the sonic direction, perhaps the accompanying video has been set in a post-apocalyptic vision of the region, brought together by perhaps the most heartfelt performance by a murderous child you will see this year.
Washed Out – Within and Without
Chillwave is not dead after all – In the space of Within and Without’s 40 minutes, Washed Out’s Ernest Greene manages to weave new, rich layers into a tapestry that had begun to look threadbare, cranking it up to a level that imitators could’ve never had the imagination to reach for.
Caribou w/ Battles, Star Slinger & Kelpe – Apollo, Manchester 4/6/11
Caribou plays it safe in Manchester on a bill with some of the newest and brightest while Battles explore the freedom of losing a memeber. Matthew Britton reports.
Perfume Genius – The King’s Arms, Salford 17/05/11
On a Salford stage, many thousands of miles away from his Seattle base and with the backdrop of an oil projector, Perfume Genius sings the most honest, aching lyrics about love and loss. It’s nothing short of breathtaking.
Record Store Day: TLOBF meets Manchester’s Piccadilly Records
Like most independent record stores, Piccadilly in Manchester is about more than just shifting units. Matthew Britton caught up with Piccadilly Record employee Paul Allen to find out more.
