GUYS
GUYS
GUYS
I GOT TICKETS TO SEE RADIOHEAD
LIKE
TWO DAYS IN A ROW
if any of you haven’t noticed I’m kind of in love with them a lot they are one of my favourite bands of all time and I’m looking forward to October INSANELY okay
How do you capture the energy — both positive and negative — of the past 50 years by using instruments perfected in the 18th century and made of wood, glue and horsehair?
That challenge lies at the very heart of this album, which brings together one of rock and electronic music’s superheroes, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, with one of his own idols: the septuagenarian Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The collection features two string pieces written by the elder composer, 1960’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and 1961’s Polymorphia for 48 strings, juxtaposed with two of Greenwood’s similarly set answers to Penderecki’s work: Popcorn Superhet Receiver (inspired by Threnody) and 48 Responses to Polymorphia. Here, they both choose to use a seemingly antiquated vehicle — orchestral strings — to convey the noise, chaos and energy of our time. The results are ear-tingling. - NPR
Damon Albarn + Andre 3K + James Murphy - Do Ya Thing
Damon Albarn returning to the old Gorillaz sound. I can just imagine Andre dancing in the background.
Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
An online poll conducted in the ’90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners.
Amazingly, this “most unwanted music” contains little dissonance — that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way.
Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It’s actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone.
(via winterwankerland)
The 88 - Love Is The Thing
Discovered this looking for easy recording opportunities, and I have to say that I’m not sure if it’s because it’s happy or tastefully cheery or what, but I’m kind of…in love with it. I really like The 88 actually, they are relentlessly happy and I like that about them.
Another bedroom artist - this is a duo who recorded this experimental instrumental album at home, and it leaves me feeling dearly at peace. I adore this album, and it needs to be appreciated as a whole.
I’d just like to say that writing on here has left me feeling far better than I thought it would. I love writing about music, as much as I love making it, and I’ve not done the former because I’ve been focusing on the latter, and I’d kind of forgotten that I loved writing about it so much. Thank you.
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Okay, I know that I’ve not posted in…a LONG time. And I don’t even remember how many followers I used to have on here, it might have been near 40 but it’s gone down, probably, and I can’t say I’m shocked. I’ve not been big on listening to music lately. I have my reasons - the past few weeks I’ve been really busy with working on my own material, which is no real excuse. But before that, in late January, I did start listening to music again - I hadn’t since November.
November, a friend of mine died, and any form of music started giving me a huge fever, and I really thought about avoiding it. But running up to my seventeenth birthday, I got a massive shock, a bit of a disappointment, and then I thought to myself, ‘You know what, life sucks if I can’t even resort to music for my comfort.’ So I started listening again, and no regrets. I’ve been hooked on Sufjan Stevens, and I now have a massive, massive affinity with banjos. Also, Laurena Segura. I think I’m starting to shape my writing a lot like those two, what with use of banjos and accordions and…string orchestras. Jesus.
Okay, my excuses are made, thank you and goodnight! (…afternoon!)
First post of the year (or of the past few months, sorry! I have excuses and I will be shortly explaining them, though for the past three weeks or so I’ve not really got anything to say for myself.)
This album was entirely recorded on an iPhone, which I think is super cool - you can’t even tell, unless you listen through headphones, then the static shines. It’s made me think about doing it myself, though!
I’m not normally a fan of powerpunk, either, but something about this takes me back to being thirteen, which would normally be quite an angsty thing to do…but in this case, it just really cheers me up. Worth a listen, and a purchase, if you’ve got the money going spare! I’ve been looking at a lot of Bandcamp stuff lately what with recording my own album, so I’ve come across a fair shake of bedroom artists, and I’m actually really enjoying the selection!
