Tune up your musical life with a British musical pit-stop…

Here’s a digest of what some mp3 blogs across the world have said about British music recently :: The stuff I’m missing.

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Mp3 Blog Jungle Overlord Chris @ Gorilla Vs Bear likes Stricken City: “The band’s lo-fi demos vaguely recall new-wave pop… ultra-catchy pop jams”. Jams + Pop are words that get me interested immediatly.

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20 Jazz Funk Greats is a blog far in the distance, and you look at their lap times and your jaw just drops. How do they do what they do!? Revenge of Shinobi is told as so: “…erasing the memories of those who had been born and lived and loved and hated and come to rest under this ground, still together and guarded in their sleep by silent inhabitants of the woods who would never forget, I am giving you their song now.”

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Portishead @ Said The Gramophone :: Dan posts an irresistably light new track: “even Portishead, the dreamiest of underwater trance-weavers, is sometimes awake, at the table, making music to a crumby morning”

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Irish blog The Torture Garden writes about Fanfarlo. I could never find the words to describe or try to sell this song to you but as Shane says “there’s a chance some of you have yet to fall victim to its super sweet charm.” Trust him.

Over at The Morning News a one Paul Ford attempted to write six word reviews of 763 mp3s that South-By-South-West used to promote the music playing. He gave this Fanfarlo track one grey dot out of five and said “Wanders. More instruments than ideas.” - not neccessarily negative though - is it? And that’s a five word review, so due to the laws of the internet, it can be disregarded.

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Photo credit: JohnThomson

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