Some bands shot for the moon and came pretty damn close with their debut albums. Where will they go from here? 10. The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa – You can’t help but smile when you hear Esau Mwamwaya sing, even though I have no idea what he is saying, it exudes light [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The xx’
An Arbitrary Number of My Fav Songs from 2009
Everyone is doing their year end/decade end lists these days so I better get in on the action. In no particular order. Well that’s not entirely true ’cause if we’re friends, then you’ll notice that this is the order of the mixes I made you! Swimming Field – Memory Tapes Snookered – Dan Deacon Turn Me Well [...]
Pop Ya Eardrums!
On constant rotation this week: 1. Warpaint – Elephants – This is a bizarre cross between Bjork, Portishead and Metallica’s Enter Sandman. So weird that it just has to be good. Listen on their MySpace page. 2. The Knife – Heartbeats – Reading Pitchfork’s Top 500 songs of the 2000′s brought me back to this [...]
Review: The xx – xx
This is the album you should put on when you take someone to your house for a make-out session. It’s just ridiculously lustful and oozes sex. I love the way Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim’s breathy vocals play back and forth off of each other backed by minimalist percussion and guitar lines. I do think that because the tempo [...]
