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Friday, May 30, 2008

...but what happened to the organ?

Hello Seahorse! - Won't Say Anything We are sparks. We are foam. We are crashing waves. We are clap-clap. We are clip-clop. We are oh oh ohs. We are seahorses! We are Mexicanos. We are the sand, the beach, the ocean. We are long whistles. We are not talking. (but) We are making you sing. We are *woosh!*

Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Spinach Water We will not care that you're into electronic music and don't usually like folk or twee-sounding songs. We will ignore you when you shout at us that our name is stupid. We will not give a damn if you think bottles and bells and kazoos sound pretentious in a song. We will continue to sing our beautiful songs. Not beautiful songs that punch you in the face. Songs that feel as light as an eyelash on your skin. We will sing our songs then, and you will silently, obediently but cheerfully hop along.

Meho Plaza - I Sold My Organs We loved our Moogs. We wondered just how much use could we make of them before getting boring. We realized it was quite a lot. We kept going on and on. We still sounded awesome! Pitchfork even included one of our songs in a mixtape! We made some money. We started acquiring a taste for expensive champagne and hookers called Cindy. In a couple of months we were broke. We had to sell something so we could afford buying new Moogs. We sold our organs. (And if we were talking about Mates of State that last sentence would've constituted a nice pun)

Okay so we are talking about Mates of State. What the heck happened to the organ? The instrumentation sounds so scarce and muted without it. It's like they were having loud & crazy & fun fun fun parties on the previous albums, but the police came and made them turn the music down on this one. The boy/girl harmonies are still there, but not quite as strong as they used to be. My favorite song on it must be Great Dane.

Oh, and here's an oldie but yummie (back in the day when Mr. Organ was still alive *sigh*):
I Got This Feeling

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Experiment #0361: Part 1

*to experiment: (v) to conduct a test or trial in order to study what happens and gain new knowledge

The Books - Take Time (The Lemon of Pink, 2003)

The Books - It Never Changes to Stop (Lost and Safe, 2005)
[no]
[actually it doesn't take any time at all to fall in love with The Books]
[it just happens instantaneously]
[right from the first chord strums]
[or the first words uttered by that Italian guy]
["tutto e santo! tutto e santo!"]
[and once it happens it never changes to stop]



Anathallo - Nonias Field (2008)
[now here's a band that comes with guitars and flutes and cellos and drums and all the usual things]
[aaand they come with stomp boxes and chains and pipes and Velcro strips]
[yes, Velcro strips]
[look for more of their songs]

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Open Field (Blues Du Jour, 2003)
[it means "Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder"]
[in Japanese, of course! Duh!]
[I think they really do live in an open field]
[...but with a window]

Le Loup - We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! (
The Throne of the Third Heaven..., 2007)
Le Loup - Planes Like Vultures (The Throne of the Third Heaven..., 2007)
[all too soon we’ve come to bloom]
[blown about in dusty rivers]
[and pointed skywards, scrape the heavens]
[should we end before we’re shriven?]
[and call the names that we’ve been given?]
[grown in cities long since abandoned]
[blown to pieces and thrown at random]
[this is what we see while standing]
[long before the thought of landing:]
[oh, this world was made for ending]
[oh, this world was made for ending]
[oh, this world was made for ending]
[oh, this world was made for ending]

PDF Format - We Shall Eat Krill (2008)
[they're cool]
[they have a manifesto and all]
[something about being awesome, fearing nothing and damaging nobody]
[or was it fearing nobody and damaging nothing?]
[it sounded much better when I was reading about it, I swear]
[damn I'm not doing a good job promoting them, huh?]
[they're cool! really!]

Descartes a Kant - Dolce (Paper Dolls, 2008)
Descartes a Kant - Maniqui Bordello (Paper Dolls, 2008)
[help! Someone just caught the Happy Tree Friends, shoved them in a pot, put them on fire and melt them into
songs!]
[...or maybe I was just switching channels between the Teletubbies and hardcore porn]
[I feel dizzy]
[switch switch switch switch]
[-to punk to jazz to indie to swing -]
[- to garage to screams to caramelized notes -]
[- to sheer noise to a whispered word to no more fucking breath.]