Month: January 2014
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The Story of Blue Monday
Excellent documentary about New Order’s Blue Monday for Swedish TV (it’s mostly in English with some subtitles) – many facts you might not know about the best selling 12″ of all time – for instance I never knew that Hooky’s bassline was inspired by Ennio Morricone!
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Jungle – Platoon & The Heat
Again, playing catch up on 2013, but an article in Vice about all those Sound of 2014 list (yah know how I hate those, how they tend to pick dead cert mainstream label-backed artists, ones that get the push so they know they’ll have something to crow about next year – no-one saw XX or…
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Wild Beasts – Wanderlust
Shame Wild Beasts couldn’t afford decent lighting (cutbacks, obviously) but love the new single. There’s seemingly a cameo from Fernando The Man Whore. Sounds much more upbeat and strangely Phillip Glass-inspired than the last album Smother, which was good but very downbeat and introspective musically. “Don’t confuse me with someone who gives a fuck, Funny…
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Poorly drawn lines
Love this from Poorly Drawn Lines…feel sure I posted it before, but can’t find it so…rest of them are great too.