RANT ALERT! Don’t you find it annoying when bands blatantly rip off other bands? I’ve been noticing it a lot lately when listening to 6music. Now I don’t mean “taking inspiration from and going their own way” – I mean slap-you-in-the-chops rip-off. Can’t remember what the band were called but if they’d sounded any more like Animal Collective I’d have phoned up to make sure they hadn’t got the track name wrong. RANT OO’ER!

There’s only 1 Panda Bear thankfuck, and his new track is such a grower I could swear I’ve been singing it in my sleep. Also NEW RADIOHEAD THIS SATURDAY I CAN’T FUCKING WAIT I’VE ALREADY PRE-ORDERED MINE HAVE YOU? Finally, a choice cut from Siriusmo‘s new album ‘Mosaik’. This song bangs and bangs and bangs and just keeps giving. Holla.

Listen: Panda Bear – Last Night At The Jetty ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place ←♥♥♥♥♥
Siriusmo – Goldene Kugel by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥

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“It’s got, ah, Ted Danson and Magnum P.I. and that Jewish actor…”

It seemed like a throwaway statement when I saw it in The Hangover last week, and there was delayed laughter as it took me about 10 seconds to work out what Zach Galifianakis’ character was talking about. Then it clicked!! I nearly died.

Photo by Elizabeth DeCicco

Listen: Zach Galifianakis – Three Best Friends
MP3:  Zach Galifianakis – Three Best Friends

Speaking of hangovers, there’s no better cure for a hangover than the 3,000 year-old Scottish remedy – a bottle of Irn Bru and a Greggs‘ sausage roll (pictured).

Recently I’ve been getting into Miike Snow. I could swear it’s the singer from Passion Pit on a couple of tracks. That’s who they sound like most actually. You could take the best songs from ‘Manners’ and add them to the best tracks ‘Miike Snow’ have to offer and you’d have a pretty awesome debut album from Passion Snow… or Miike Pit. I haven’t really decided.

Listen: Miike Snow – Animal
Listen: Miike Snow – Black & Blue
MP3: Miike Snow – Animal
MP3: Miike Snow – Black & Blue

It’s quite good sometimes how remixers take shite songs and make them good. Just heard this Burns remix of White Lies‘ ‘Death’ over at LAFriendly. It’s not got quite the tyrannosaurus firestorm wamp that the Crystal Castles remix seems to muster from nowhere, but tis still a fine doodle.

Arthur’s Seat from the Meadows, Edinburgh

Listen: White Lies – Death (Burns Remix)
Listen: White Lies – Death (Crystal Castles Remix)
MP3: White Lies – Death (Burns Remix)
MP3: White Lies – Death (Crystal Castles Remix)

Heard sayCet from OhhCrapp a while back when he/she/they did this Panda Bear remix. Loved it then and I love it now. Also just heard this sayCet original. Makes me want to turn out all the lights and hibernate.

Rose Street, Edinburgh

Listen: sayCet – Metadine
Listen: Panda Bear – I’m Not (sayCet Remix)
MP3: sayCet – Metadine
MP3: Panda Bear – I’m Not (sayCet Remix)