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Tignes are Tignes

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

I was here last week.

Listen: Real Estate – Kinder Blumen ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (possible track of 2011)
Listen: Of Montreal – Wintered Debts ←♥♥♥
Listen: Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless ←♥

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Tags: Cloud Nothings, Kinder Blumen, Of Montreal, Real Estate, Stay Useless, Wintered Debts
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Sorry I’ve been off the radar for a while. Just entered the final year of my PhD and it’s all getting a bit hectic. So don’t be surprised if I don’t update this very often. Here are 3 of my favourite songs since I last updated.

Listen: M83 – Midnight City ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Lana Del Rey – Video Games ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Wilco – Born Alone ←♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Tags: Born Alone, Lana Del Rey, M83, Midnight City, Video Games, Wilco
Posted in Chill, CHOON!, New Bands, New Songs | 2 Comments »

MooooooOOOOOoooooonpig

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Laura Marling’s new song ‘Sophia’ is probably my favourite song by her yet! Even if she has nicked the melody from Moonpig.

Listen: Laura Marling – Salinas ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Laura Marling – Sophia ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Laura Marling – All My Rage ←♥♥♥♥

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Tags: All My Rage, Laura Marling, Salinas, Sophia
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I Have Not Sold Myself To God

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

The newly refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh – easily on par with any natural history museum I went to in the United States.

Listen: Patti Smith – Babelogue/Rock N Roll Nigger ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks – Tigers ←♥♥♥
Listen: Tiny Ruins – Priest With Balloons ←♥♥♥♥

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Tags: Babelogue/Rock N Roll Nigger, Edinburgh, National Museum Scotland, Patti Smith, Priest With Balloons, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, T-rex, Tigers, Tiny Ruins
Posted in Chill, CHOON!, Heard On Radio, New Songs, Oldies | 1 Comment »

Mouves

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

She also took this.

Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit) by Jai Paul ←♥♥♥♥
Mouves (Out July 18th) by Tropics ←♥♥♥♥
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble (Chad Valley remix) by T-E-E-D ←♥♥♥

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Tags: BTSTU, Jai Paul, Mouves, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Tropics, Trouble (Chad Valley remix)
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A GUD LYF

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

My friend took this photo. Think it sums up these songs pretty well. Very 2011.

Listen: WU LYF – We Bros ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: WU LYF – Summas Bliss ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: WU LYF – Dirt ←♥♥♥♥♥

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Tags: Dirt, Summas Bliss, We Bros, WU LYF
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Stay Young, Go Dancing

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Took this at the Botanical Gardens a few weeks ago – would look even better now with all the greenery. Going to see Joy Orbison this Friday at Cabaret Voltaire. Cannae wait. In the mean time here’s some new Death Cab For Cutie.