Letters have no Arms is away!

 

Hello all!

For those of you who have written us in the past few weeks, and haven´t received a reply, fear not! It´s not that we don´t like you, are avoiding you or are ignoring you. Letters have no Arms has simply been on the road! Travelling by bus, train, boat, cable car, taxi, metro and plane, to Berlin, Lisbon, the south of Spain, the Benicassim festival (a review of which willl follow soon) and the Standon Calling (ditto) festival in England this coming weekend. We´ll be back at LhnA headquarters next week, and will reward you for your patience with plenty of goodies... 

Saludos de Madrid!

In Berlin

Letters have no Arms is in Berlin today, hence the theme and tracks included. Over the next 4 weeks our journey will take us down to Portugal and Spain, where we'll attend the Benicassim festival. We'll be posting along the way, so stay tuned!

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"There is thunder in Berlin
We fell down under a moving sky
When you walked into the room tonight
Lighting took hold of my heart for a while..."

Electrelane - In Berlin

    

I first discovered Tocotronic on Alternative Nation, sometime in the 90s, and remember thinking that if they sang in English, they'd be huge (well, huge in indie terms). I've loved them ever since. Here's one of their few songs with some English lyrics.

  

Tocotronic - Hi Freaks

Another MTV introduction here, and a big European hit in the 90s.

Die Fantastischen Vier - Die da

   

In Berlin I saw two men fuck in the dark corner of a basketball court.
Just a slight jangle of pocket change pulsing. 

Why? - The Hollows

 

No nightmares last night

Sebadoh - Dreams
"In my dreams, I react as my true self"

Weezer - Only in Dreams

The Magnetic Fields - Asleep and Dreaming
"I've seen you when your ship came in, and when you train was leaving"

Chasing Dorotea - Dreamer (Acoustic)

Get Well Soon - Your endless dream
"One by one they tear up your heart with their coldness and word, one by one you stop to feel your bleeding knees and heart, and everything that's real"

dEUS - Dream sequence #1
"My little dreamone, you O. K.? I'm thinking about you everyday. Along with your smile, I took my belongings . Along with the sunshine, I went away. There is a space here, there is a void, I need to find, a little more time gimme time.

Of all of the fuckups that I do, I've saved up the best one for you"

Let's just imitate the real, until we find a better one

The Notwist were introduced to me in the summer of 2001, when, purchasing a copy of Uncut at the Waterstone's English book store on the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, the guy at the cash register looked at the CD attached to the cover and spotted said band. "Oh, cool, the Notwist are fucking amazing, you should check 'em out if you don't know them yet".

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Listen to/download Good Lies
from The Notwist's upcoming album The Devil, You + Me.
+ a classic track from Neon Golden (2002):
The Notwist - One with the Freaks