Monday, 30 March 2009

MUSIC?!?!?!

I'm usually much more inclined to listen to standup or watch a movie than I am to listen to music. That tends to be why I'm so behind in all of the latest bands and what have you. But my two latest obsessions have involved music in some way: there's the Adam and Joe show on BBC 6 Music– something, I've found, that makes my week seem complete– and The Lonely Island, the greatest fake MCs on earth (by the way, as if I haven't said it enough times already, buy their album!!). With these two I've found a lot more music that I really like, and want to share with you all. I can't guarantee that you haven't heard it already, or indeed, that you haven't known about it for months and I am ridiculously behind the times, as usual.

Every so often Urban Outfitters (ie Sophie's Outfitters) sends me a free playlist of songs that I can download. Past gems from this collection have been 'I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance' by Black Kids, and 'Evident Utensil' by Chairlift (the ones who did 'Bruises', you know, that song about handstands). Here are the ones I'm liking from the latest list:






I'm sure everyone knows about Kings of Leon by now. They're pretty awesome. They're rumored to be headlining at Lolla this year, but that'll be confirmed this Tuesday. This is the first year I'm actually tempted to go. This is one of my favourite songs of theirs:



Apparently the 80s are back. Musically speaking, that is. Not in a sort of cyclical pattern of time thing... that would be weird. Two such artists who are proof of this are Empire of the Sun and La Roux, both of whom have pretty amazing tracks, check 'em:




Anyone who has ever received a mix from me knows about my love of Travis. A couple of weeks ago I finally bought their latest album, after about 6 months after saying I was going to do so. 'Ode to J Smith' is quite different from the rest of their stuff, but it still has the distinct Travis-ness and it's made up of good tracks:




And finally (god this was a long one, wasn't it? thanks for staying till the end), here's a few that I wanna share with y'all but are all a bit random, in that they don't have much to do with the others. Mind you, that seems to be the pattern for this whole blog.



this one's directed by Richard Ayoade (MOSS FROM IT CROWD!!!)













Much love. x

1 comment:

Unknown said...

as usual ophie-say, you have impeccable taste in music.