This is awesome too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9jBH7ufRU
I love it when they say, I do karaoke, like it's an achievement. It's like when people are proud to be on Facebook - Yerse, I have a Facebook page now. Well done. Very rigorous selection policy for Facebook. They don't let any old tosser on there do they?

Listening to neworder while reading about other bands.
Drift records in Totnes (twinned with Narnia), Devonshire, creates a deluxe edition of reviews of top 100 albums each year, but everyone in england probably is aware anyway

Finally got round to investigating CHVRCHES' music today.Had been aware of the name for a while and had seen it around increasingly but hadn't heard their stuff except for maybe one song on Jools Holland's show a few years ago.Gave the most recent album a few spins today and liked what i heard .Have listened to some of first album but need to give it more attention when i can.Agreed about Empty Threat from most recent album - quite a perky little tune isn't it!

Ova Nova from Underworld, wow what a great electronic dance song, EXCELLENT. their new album is pretty good to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-nEnVN4z0k

Was gonna post the youtube for Keep You On My Side from Chvrches but it won’t play, maybe copyright? These links seem to expire, I don’t know if they are actually supposed to be there. No time for a proper investigation of various links with different browsers however.
So anyway heard this on the radio and liked it, no idea what the rest of the album is like though. The song plays then it goes to a video of the same song, at least for now, in a few weeks it'll be a error message I expect


Mystery Jets - Bubblegum

^ I've just had a weird sense of deja vu as I was about to start this reply, and that's probably because I've discussed Tame Impala on page 30 of this very thread, as have you Mr FP (posts #738 & 739). And if anyone here still hasn't watched that video for "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" rendered entirely in plasticine, then I urge you to do so.

Speaking of deja vu, some might argue that listening to the band themselves is a bit "deja vu". This NME review suggests that Kevin Parker's entire sound (circa Lonerism) is pilfered from one song; The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows. But he gives the album 9/10 anyway!

I don't have the first album but I have Lonerism and Currents (not illegally downloaded either!). I think Currents has a slightly more upbeat, amost dancable sound compared to previous stuff by them. Maybe that's what happens when Erol Alkan keeps coming back to remix your records, along with Soulwax too. I'm a big fan of Soulwax.



Gotta say I was a bit suprprised that they sold out two nights at Alexandra Palace on the most recent tour. I considered going but when I failed to get tickets i just sort of shrugged. Currents ended up in my multi-CD player for a long period, but after a while it sort of bored me (perhaps that's harsh; I could say the same for lots of albums). I guess what I'm saying is that they're not an essential band for me, but they're a good one, and I'll probably be interested again when the next album comes out.

Well well well, you're absolutely correct, DB.I do indeed recall that Tame Impala mash up of Remember Me/Superstition.I mean, i recall that mash up but had forgotten it was by Tame Impala.So i have listened to some of their stuff before, or at least a mash up of theirs.I'd long forgotten posting that track! I played that Feel Like We Only Go Backwards video - yeah very clever video and hats off to whoever made it.The song didn't do much for me on first listen though, it's from the Lonerism album? As for the Soulwax version of Let It Happen yeah it's ok but i much prefer the original album version.

I bought Tame Impala's Currents album on vinyl the other day.I decided i'd try going back to the old school way of discovering bands that i hadn't heard much material by.Instead of illegally downloading or streaming i thought fuck it let's actually make the effort of actually going out to a record shop, browsing through and seeing what catches my eye and take a chance with my hard earned bucks.Too much these days i listen to lots of music just on streaming or what i've downloaded or YouTube or wherever and half the time i listen to it while i'm doing something else.My thinking was i'd pick an album i hadn't heard any of whatsoever and take a chance with it.If it turned out i wasn't keen on it i could always sell it on.Browsing in the record shop Tame Impala's album caught my eye.I knew the name Tame Impala as i'd kept seeing it a fair bit over the last year or two and as i said the album Currents had earned top spot in a lot of the end of year polls so it must be pretty good, right? I don't know why but i had a gut feeling i'd like the album and i certainly liked the sleeve! So i bought the vinyl version . £20 and it's not the sort of thing i can afford to do every week but i was just in the mood.


I'd say at the moment i'm really loving about 3 or 4 tracks, quite liking a few others and the rest i need more time to get acquainted with.I'm at a point with music right now where i don't mind actually paying for and investing in the product.To actually own the album on vinyl and properly sit down and listen to it, not do the washing up while i listen to the mp3 on headphones.Back to to the old way of developing a bond with an album on vinyl by sitting down and properly listening to the thing you've spent £20 on.

Jamie XX decided to do a 2016 video for Gosh, despite having already done one in 2015.
It seems this one was done for Apple Music, as it briefly appeared on Youtube and Vimeo before being taken down.
It's worth a watch though and can been seen embedded (from Apple Music) in articles

HERE and

HERE.

It did look even better on Vimeo in full screen though. I suspect it will eventually reappear there...some year.

Good stuff. A nice eerie electronic-with-a-touch-of-indie sort of feel to it.
If I was talking to the artist I might ask them if they liked Love Like Blood by Killing Joke, and Fade To Grey by Visage. They might say no...

Erm , wow.A real what on earth did i just watch? moment.That's some massive video.How do they make this frickin things? Or maybe more how do they come up with the ideas for these videos? I didn't watch on quite full screen, more three quarters screen but that was some video.Phew.


The track Gosh itself always reminds me a little bit of Belfast by Orbital for some reason.Synths towards the end have a vague similarity.


Was listening again to Jamie XX's album today.Yeah i still like most of it like i did when it first was released last year.Loud Places with Romey is fab.There was a great performance of it on some French tv show a year or so back with the girl who drums for ...oh i forget the name of the band but she was great on the drums.There was the clip of it on YouTube at the time.



Will be interested to hear The XX's next album when (or if?) they release one.

^ Ah that's the one.Yes.Thanks.

Mesh are back - with what is clearly the album of 2016: Looking Skyward.


Track 11 (There Must Be A Way) is possibly the best song Mark (Hockings) and Richard (Silverthorn) have ever written to date.

I wouldn't quite call the album a classic, but if Paul Weller was right in saying "You're only as good as your last album", then Mesh currently hold that title - without doubt.

Fantastic tune. About time we got rid of cancer once and for good too.