metric – sick muse

just when i thought earworms are hard to find: here’s a new metric album. the have a lucky hand with them. everything they do is meant to be stuck in your ears forever. and they’re really good at it. i just wish i would have listened to my friend and bought tickets to their show in advance. but after nobody seemed to care about the von bondies playing i was pretty sure there no need to rush. it was sold out faster than you can name all their albums.

anyway i enjoy listening to their album and basically every song would has what it needs to be an earworm. it is just that this one is the one i keep singing in my head the last couple of days. this one and a few i mentioned earlier on. which actually gives me a good feeling because that means every song was properly chosen.
as you may have noticed i slowed down a little bit. like i said: earworms are hard to find. and i don’t want to force things too much and end up just mentioning songs i like and or think the world should know about.

but now i got some more already in stock and i hope i’ll soon find the time to put them up here. some hopefuls are jack peñate, jamie t. and the anomalies.
jack peñate’s new album is really awesome. way more solid than and totally different from his first one. it reminds me a lot of a “best of 70s disco” compilation. i feel embarrassed to like the songs but still have to admit that they are just great fun.
jamie t. – the so good. it is still jamie t. it is still so much london and still so much fun to listen to. and the anomalies are just the summer that we are all missing here. describing their sound as “mgmt getting drunk with the specials in the basement of the beastie boys house”. just fun.


metric myspace

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti – can’t hear my eyes

i found another label i took in subscription. after fashionable idiots and no way records please welcome captured tracks. not only they gave me the great dum dum girls from earlier on, you should check out blessure grave’s 12”, too. as joy division as interpol wanted to be but didn’t dare to. the label seems to focus on new wave bands with a little twist. yes, the glorious 80s are omnipresent but on a lo-fi level. i love it when i can rely on the good taste of a small label.
and best known might be the blank dogs whose mastermind mike sniper actually runs the label.

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti do their lo-fi in a totally different, kind of over the top mode. i can’t really listen to most of their songs. i bet no one really can but a lot of people pretend to because they are kind of hip nowadays. anyway, just to prove that they don’t use all the pretentious lo-fi stuff to cover up their inability to write or play well the do some great tunes here and there. can’t hear my eyes is such an almost perfect pop song. lots of 70s psychedelic feeling here but still. i actually could listen to this song over and over again. which i’d have to since i only bought the 7” and the flipside is pretty boring.

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti myspace