Future of the Left
MP3: Future of the Left - The Lord Hates A Coward
Stream only: Future of the Left - Fingers become thumbs!
‘Lord hates a coward’ is a song that will put a knife to your throat until you agree to make them a cup of tea… they don’t want to do you any harm - they just want tea - but they will make a loud noise and a lot of fuss until they get it. Tea you say? Well I think Future of the Left are pretty good chaps, not pretentious to write and record loud and overdriven songs - they don’t seem all that bothered about how we percieve. They want to have things go their way. In this instance I think of tea.
The fantastic Ex-Mclusky and incredible Ex-Jarcrew team members come together in an strangely inevitable fashion to produce the inevitably exceptional music. The linkage of these two mega-forces forces creates a rather loud and unashamed indie/punk loud noise maker with lyrics more aggressive than insightful as this rough demo version of their current single ‘The Lord Hates A Coward‘ shows…
And then ‘Fingers become thumbs’… that’s vintage Mcluskyism with a big fat bow on it… throttling riffs you don’t want to get on the wrong side of and I guarantee these are the sort of songs that will translate into a damn energetic live show. ‘Fingers become thumbs’ is the other half of their 7″ single out 29th January, at Itunes and other digital retailers now.
Photo: David M McNeil
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Also:
Sky Larkin’s single “One Of Two” has been made single of the week on BBC 6Music. Well worth checking out @ myspace. It will be one of the best singles of the year.
Other blogs: Chris @ Gorilla Vs Bear and Shane @ Torture Garden can’t recommended the (not British) Deerhoof track +91 enough … it sounds like marching in an elephant parade in Tokyo on Valium. mp3: +91. Tres bien. Estupendo! Track of the month! Maybe… that’s enough superlatives for one post.
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New site design. A little less writing on the music from now on and more posting/info - I don’t like reading blogs with loads of writing on one songs so I’ll try and cut down.
A little less writing on the music from now on and more posting/info - I don’t like reading blogs with loads of writing on one songs so I’ll try and cut down.
boo! boo, boo boo boo! hiss!
yes - you are an exception Sean. I will write more if it is worth saying… usually I just blabber on way too much
i love “blabber”! i like -your- blabber, too. boo to more tour dates and boring press release crap. yay to ranting and raving.
Cheers Sean! I’m certainly not going to cut down and chuck tour dates or copy+paste stoof in it’s place… perhaps blabber is good… we shall see how I feel when I come to write the next post… which will now no doubt be all forced and such with all this considerations… although my memory isn’t that good so we might be safe from such.
I like writing things like “The song is a floating folk acoustic ship travelling between ports that welcome it, but are equally happy to see it leave.”… but I find if I write loads I tend to water it down with rubbish like what it sounds like and when is recorded - perhaps the trouble of being brought up on bad music writing makes me want to do this
I think what I’m really trying to do is write more about the music and less about the enviroment that creates it - does anyone care where it was recorded/ who by? I don’t really, yet I still write it. Hmmm too much thinking for now. I’m going back to listen to new Arcade Fire (it’s very big).
does anyone care where it was recorded/ who by?
Yes we do. That is the point of music blogs surely. Anyone can browse myspace and download new stuff and find out tour news. It’s the personal touch that makes it worth reading.
“‘Lord hates a coward’ is a song that will put a knife to your throat until you agree to make them a cup of tea… they don’t want to do you any harm - they just want tea - but they will make a loud noise and a lot of fuss until they get it. Tea you say? Well I think Future of the Left are pretty good chaps, not pretentious to write and record loud and overdriven songs - they don’t seem all that bothered about how we percieve. They want to have things go their way. In this instance I think of tea.”
Are you feeling alright Mike?
Mathhew: Yeh that’s what I was trying to get at - that I doubt people want to know who produced it, and technical information - obviously who it’s actually performed by is crucial (who by - who recorded it). I’m trying to give my writing a bit more of the personal touch.
Alias: Yeh I feel fine! I wrote it - then edited it trying to justify it - but that just made it worse… perhaps just listen to the music when that happens eh?!