I love this song and the album it comes from, and I will not tolerate any criticism.
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15/01/2013
11/08/2012
WHO LOVES THE SUN
After several days with GO KART MOZART's new album, I've decided on which new song is my favorite:
22/07/2012
THE CITY WITH A SMILE
So LAWRENCE is back with a new album, and at the same time, so is the other enfant terrible of Birmingham, KEVIN ROWLAND. In fact he reunited the DEXYS (sortof) and released their first album since Don't Stand Me Down. Now the musics sounds a lot like AL GREEN, but this voice is what I'd been missing.
16/07/2012
LAWRENCE IS BACK
GO-KART MOZART have a new album out!
I've found this video, I'm embedding it and naming it song of the year. Disclaimer: I haven't listened to it yet.
I've found this video, I'm embedding it and naming it song of the year. Disclaimer: I haven't listened to it yet.
18/04/2012
I LOVE YOU PASSIONATELY
Several months ago, I rapped about CHASSOL's then forthcoming album, calling it my "most anticipated release of 2012". And now it's been with me for several weeks, and goddamn it, this fucker delivers! I've been listening to that album X-PIANOS pretty much non-stop.
When every song on an album is conceptual, and genuinely beautiful, and completely trippy, all at the same sweet time, well to me it's like Christmas and my birthday all at once.
Among a million other brilliant ideas, the album almost opens with a harmonization of poet GHERASIM LUCA's stuttering Passionnément. Here's the orginial: And now here's LA NEGACRA.
When every song on an album is conceptual, and genuinely beautiful, and completely trippy, all at the same sweet time, well to me it's like Christmas and my birthday all at once.
Among a million other brilliant ideas, the album almost opens with a harmonization of poet GHERASIM LUCA's stuttering Passionnément. Here's the orginial: And now here's LA NEGACRA.
22/03/2012
21/02/2012
ANALOG WALLS
CYANN & BEN was one of the absolute bestest bands in France in the 2000's:
I was pretty sad when they split. The upside is, now as two different entites, CYANN and YETI LANE, they will release twice as much music.
I was pretty sad when they split. The upside is, now as two different entites, CYANN and YETI LANE, they will release twice as much music.
31/01/2012
THE DARKNESS
I've had this blog for a couple of years now but so far I have never felt compelled to comment on a recent release - or review a new album if you will. But today I bought OLD IDEAS, the new album by LEONARD COHEN.
I'm sure by now you've already read some reviews, complete with quotes maybe, like
"We find ourselves on different sides of a line that nobody drew" or
"I know you have to hate me, but could you hate me less?" or
"I'm old and mirrors don't lie" or
"I caught the darkness drinking from your cup, I said 'Is it contagious?', you said 'Just drink it up'".
In fact you've probably already heard the whole thing since it's been streaming for a week. I must say though that the vinyl sounds way better than the stream, including the atrocious guitar sound on The Darkness.
Cohen has been making synth albums for 28 years now - over half of his recording career. Out of eleven albums, only six were good old fashioned Leonard Cohen style (I'm using that term loosely, considering his voyage with Phil Spector).
And I'm not complaining. In fact I will argue that I'm Your Man and The Future stand up there with New Skin and Love and Hate.
But now he picked things up where he'd left them in 1979 with Recent Songs. I just wonder if the title "Old Ideas" refers to that sound he'd left behind, or to the words.
The album opens with Cohen describing himself as a "lazy bastard living in a suit". Which reminds me of a 1964 poem from FLOWERS FOR HITLER in which he desribed himself as "locked in a very expensive suit".
It closes with "Both of us say there are laws to obey". Also in FLOWERS FOR HITLER he wrote "These were not poplar trees and nuns you walked between. These were laws."
In PARASITES OF HEAVEN (1966), he wrote " I loved a hundred women, never told the same lie twice." This has nothing to do with the subject at hand, I just think it's a cool line.
Old Ideas then. The working title was THE DARKNESS, when the release was first announced several months ago. It would have been misleading - although that would have fit more than one or two of his previous works.
Now, it appears that something has healed inside this man who in 1961 wrote "For you I will be a Dachau Jew, and lie down in lime with twisted limbs, and bloated pain no mind can understand". (from THE SPICE-BOX OF EARTH)
In 1971: " Myself, I long for love and light, but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?" (SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE)
In 1988: "Everybody knows that the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost". (I'M YOUR MAN)
And in 1992: "When they said 'Repent', I wonder what they meant". (THE FUTURE)
I'm sure many will describe this new album using quotes from it, calling it an "anthem of forgiving", a "manual for living with defeat". But really this could apply to everything he's ever published or sung.
I'm sure by now you've already read some reviews, complete with quotes maybe, like
"We find ourselves on different sides of a line that nobody drew" or
"I know you have to hate me, but could you hate me less?" or
"I'm old and mirrors don't lie" or
"I caught the darkness drinking from your cup, I said 'Is it contagious?', you said 'Just drink it up'".
In fact you've probably already heard the whole thing since it's been streaming for a week. I must say though that the vinyl sounds way better than the stream, including the atrocious guitar sound on The Darkness.
Cohen has been making synth albums for 28 years now - over half of his recording career. Out of eleven albums, only six were good old fashioned Leonard Cohen style (I'm using that term loosely, considering his voyage with Phil Spector).
And I'm not complaining. In fact I will argue that I'm Your Man and The Future stand up there with New Skin and Love and Hate.
But now he picked things up where he'd left them in 1979 with Recent Songs. I just wonder if the title "Old Ideas" refers to that sound he'd left behind, or to the words.
The album opens with Cohen describing himself as a "lazy bastard living in a suit". Which reminds me of a 1964 poem from FLOWERS FOR HITLER in which he desribed himself as "locked in a very expensive suit".
It closes with "Both of us say there are laws to obey". Also in FLOWERS FOR HITLER he wrote "These were not poplar trees and nuns you walked between. These were laws."
In PARASITES OF HEAVEN (1966), he wrote " I loved a hundred women, never told the same lie twice." This has nothing to do with the subject at hand, I just think it's a cool line.
Old Ideas then. The working title was THE DARKNESS, when the release was first announced several months ago. It would have been misleading - although that would have fit more than one or two of his previous works.
Now, it appears that something has healed inside this man who in 1961 wrote "For you I will be a Dachau Jew, and lie down in lime with twisted limbs, and bloated pain no mind can understand". (from THE SPICE-BOX OF EARTH)
In 1971: " Myself, I long for love and light, but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?" (SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE)
In 1988: "Everybody knows that the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost". (I'M YOUR MAN)
And in 1992: "When they said 'Repent', I wonder what they meant". (THE FUTURE)
I'm sure many will describe this new album using quotes from it, calling it an "anthem of forgiving", a "manual for living with defeat". But really this could apply to everything he's ever published or sung.
09/01/2012
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