NBGL Playlist #1
Playlists are probably a better way of doing things around here. Here’s some new tracks, some British tunes from other blogs, some tracks from the NBGL archives that fit & are worth your continued apreciation.
PLAYLIST #1: Float on folk & screw up guitar lines:
Photo Credit: jtcatbagan + hessiebell
1. Screaming Tea Party - Golden Blue (NEW!)
2. It Hugs Back - Other Cars Go
3. James Blackshaw - Infinite Circle (NEW!)
4. Banjo or Freakout - Archangel (Burial Cover) (NEW!)
5. Arch M - 21st Union (NEW!)
6. Screaming Tea Party - Today is the Day (NEW!)
NOTES:
1. Screaming Tea Party start and end the mix. “Golden Blue” skims across the surface, aches to waltz across the lake. A lullaby delivered with Japanese and Italian size-wonder, and combined romanticism. They are now based in London and their EP Golden Blue is out on Stolen Records on Oct 7th. Originally posted on 13th March.
2: Original posted on May 5th, “It’s long, but like in a dream-world there’s exhilaration before exhaustion… gliding through clouds of feedback and distortion, above predictable seas,”. Now: Signed to 4AD. Head to their myspace page for more tunes.
3: I wrote about this track for The Morning News saying, “The music of James Blackshaw, 12-string guitar virtuoso, elegantly drones and is perfect for drifting—in and out of the room, in and out of concentration, between the city, silent trains, and the ocean. ‘Infinite Circle’ is really about these sorts of grand and complete movements.” Download it at Indiemuse.
4: A cover of one of Burial’s best tracks. Writing for The Morning News I said the original was “gray, stormy, and silhouetted, painted with long strokes of treble and bass. Burial respects the sparseness of every city at night and presents a ghostly and almost Gothic space—somehow this is glorious”. The cover is by Banjo or Freakout courtesy of our friend Chris at Gorilla Vs Bear. Mr Freakout takes it out of city, underground to the caves, charges it with ultra violet light, dresses it in gold.
5. I originally posted Arch M on August 6th, this is a different song, a more accessible one for sure but the same applies “Is this what dubstep did to Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys’ legacy? Dragged the summer out so that it lasts seven seasons? All the plants will die! Lofi-pop from that seventh season.” If you didn’t check him out back in August do so now, now–now–now.
6. “AHHH A MANATEE–STICK TOGETHER!” Those crazy kids. Screaming Tea Party show off their superb range. And this is where these art-punks really show off. (Though these are the sort of art dudes that will get more paint on their faces than on the canvas. “I am the canvas; we are the canvas”, they will retort.) I have been told you should expected much screaming from the live show: I look forward to it just as much as I look forward to Screaming Tea Party getting >>>MASSIVE<<< (in your minds and on the stage. Not neccessarily in the charts. That's not important for our purposes.)
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Also:
Watching: I wrote a perfect-for-your-lunch-hour Video Digest post for The Morning News titled “Getting Literacy Dun, the Rendition of Bamboozled Pandas With Chinese Accents”
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“Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours… We provide fast, dependable streaming and downloads of your entire catalog, and we do it for free. Give away your music, sell it for a set price, or let your fans name their price — it’s up to you…. think of us as your invisible bandmember who loves that [tech] stuff. And we won’t even ask to play tambourine.”
