//. Bachelorette - The End Of Things

the best ep of the year.

haha. I wasn't disputing the quality of the list. Maybe simply suggesting listening to some records outside of the old freemans bay warehouse or my not so subtle suggestion that this post was more a cleverly disguised marketing tool then a list of genuine relevance.

what are you talkin about...Wellington this weekend... You know very well that I am up north. You are coming to the show at the KA tomorrow night right? ahem (www.alowhum.com) ahem.

now, THAT is how you do some subtle marketing.

I gonna bust it back down to try and make it to the Sticky Pictures party on Sun night though at the bodge, Are you in town? Word is Signer is playing..and if we talking albums of 2005, then that is around the top of my list.

Question for you Blink, who else is playing at this Sticky business on Sunday - is there a flier to look at? (I failed to find any information about the show online)
I will of course be ensconced deep in my strategic compound out on Matiu/Somes Island over the weekend with Ms Warden, and will not wish to foray into the township unnecessarily.

you 2 are so gay

I'd concur with the busyness of Wendy, the rudeness I won't comment on...the comp is out on Monday and all information about it can be found on the Flying Nun website, natch.

//so fair suck of the sav...

yeah... people don't say that enough

best gig - Nick Cave

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Not if you pay for your albums and live in NZ smartypants.

Bloc Party released Feb 14 05, DFA79 Feb 05 in UK/NZ. m83 25 Jan 05. Arcade Fire and BB were out Oct 04 but not out in NZ until Jan 05 but you can have that one.

DFA was October 26, 2004... who orders shit from the UK anyway?

that last comment sounded more like a troll than it shoulda.
let's blame it on the hangover and move along shall we

//Birchville Cat Motel & Lee Ranaldo - 26th Dec. 2004//

That's pure magic that is!

Anyone who compares my band to COLDPLAY can get fucked. I don't even mind COLDPLAY, but frankly we don't sound like them. Cars Of Eden? Hitchcock? Seaworld? Nest Egg? Slightest Shift? There may be two or three songs where there is a slight resemblance... "This Charming Van" for example has the same strum as the first song on their first album (whatever it's called), and people seem to think that "Through the Woods" sounds like them too (personally I think the dual BIG MUFF PROPHET synths and general darkness of the song is mighty different but who am I to argue?).

Sorry for this but we've had to withstand many a COLDPLAY quote and I honestly think it is an ill wind.

// Slightest Shift?

...sounds like Dire Straits circa Communiqué.

//The woo woo's are direct reference to I'm On Fire and the Boss is OK.

Woo!

i have never heard this billy idol song....i must seek it out

It seems to be on at least some of his best of compilations... and on at least one 80s hit compilation.

... I wasn't acusing anyone of plagarism, btw. :)

Crikey.

Luke, it's not about the writing, it's about the feel. Which probably still doesn't make much sense. Mainly I reckon it's Sam's vox, it's only in the soft moments. Take something like 'Cars of Eden', which obviously has fuck all to do with Coldplay if you're being a composition student about it - in particular the outro vox "On the other side .. of the Nile" sounds heapsda Coldplay to me.

Anyway, no point arguing. Sorry if I've offended either of yous. Beat me up in Auckland on Friday night.

More stuff... it was too early maybe?

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow. David Sylvian is such a wanker. Couple his deep, fruity tones (always thought Paul whatshisname from Gramsci sounded like he loved Sylvian) with song titles like "The Day The Earth Stole Heaven" and "The Banality". He loves Buddhism, he loves references to antiquity. Yech. But still, I can't stop checking out his music and in recent years he's got way more interesting again. Seems dumb to be ashamed of getting really serious from time to time. This project isn't up to the standard of the incredibly bleak quiet and intense 'Blemish', but he's roped in German producer Burnt Friedman (he who kept coming and visiting NZ a few years back) and the results are pretty interesting. Every now and then they try to rock out a bit, and .. well, it's a bit shit.

Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens. This is the fruitiest music I've heard in a long time. Arthur Russell for the new millenium? Not quite, but mining a similar crossover point between disco, chamber music and the avant garde. The cover has a big ol' nebula on it, maybe the same one I thought looked ridiculously dated and shit on a Pearl Jam album cover? Track titles like "Cosmological Constancy" and "Matter Into Energy" do not bode well. And lo, it is really fruity... restrained, but fairly hippyish crooning from Mr Polar over Larry Levan style 80s disco sounds.

Steve Spacek - Space Shift. The first Spacek album a couple of years back blew me away. The spartan yet amazingly futuristic shuffle-bump of contemporary R&B reinterpreted through a thoroughly UK angle. Super, super sparse, weird clicks and bonks, none of the gun talk or bling or .. well, no sex really... except maybe like that Bjork video with the robot her... Anyway, the next album went further into weird land and I thought maybe it was all getting a bit shit. Now singer Steve's gone solo and roped in some wicked producers.. it's way more forthright and good time party vibes than I'd expected.. maybe cos he moved to the States? :D Either way, great.