Rural Alberta Advantage New Song!

Yay!

Aww shucks. One of my absolute favourites ever The Rural Alberta Advantage are releasing album #2 in March 2011 and to celebrate that fact they've released a new song called Stamp.

It's a free download right about here



Welcome back guys and gal! Not much seems to have changed from back in day (all of a year ago) but then again that IS just the way I've always loved you (Especially you Amy).



Take a bow, I've missed you.

Season's Greetings

Hello. Hope you had as good a Christmas as me and hopefully even better.

I got loads of underpants. Underpants and socks. So when you catch me walking the mean, lean streets of Turku, Finland in flashy new undergarments you'll now know why. Showing off your underwear in -fuckoff°C might not be seen as cool but, damn it, with all my new clobber I'm gonna make it cool.

For the time being I'm still in England and we've got something (hopefully) special lined up for me for new years eve. As somewhat of a tourist in London and even here in Brighton I mostly rely on other people to tell me what to do. Kind of like a cultural sheep. But obviously a really, really good-looking one.

So this year what we're (planning on) doing is going up to this. Should be a party. Should probably try not to pass out before most people have even realised it's new years eve.
Should have a great time dancing/nodding to Pariah. Especially in the wake of all this James Blake/Mount Kimbie megahype.



And as if that wasn't enough to get my (brand new, possibly primark) pants wet then we'll also get some Girl Unit in our ears to get potential bragging right back in Finland. Who according to Mira gave us THE best dubstep anthem of the year. I've agreed to disagree but, whatever, it's still good.

T-Bone's Top Picks of 2010

It's time again. Time to do the annual listing of what's tickled everyone's fancy and what hasn't. What's made me slaver and what's made me go "OMG WTF ROFL". What's hot and what's not, as they say.

But as I'm sat here writing this thinking that everyone's already done this already, I think I'll just keep it easy and list a few albums that aren't on EVERBODY'S list. If you are however looking for some kind of "definitive" list then try this one.

Starting off with Baths' Cerulean.



Baths kind of hit me out of nowhere with the unbelievably good track Hall. So I went on and preordered the LP without even listening to any other tunes from it. Hell, I didn't even care if Baths was a "one-hit wonder" kind of in the mould of a certain DOM, because Halls was so good.
Cerulean didn't disappoint. It is a special album. Special as in it's my #1 of the year.
If you haven't yet heard Baths then please do so now.




Forest Swords' Dagger Paths is taking it down a notch from Baths but this (touted as an EP but who cares as its running time's probably longer than say Male Bondings LP) album is one atmospheric son of bitch. Dabbling in similar soundscapes as Burial, Forest Swords made the perfect dark, brooding soundtrack to what it looks like out my window right now.




Actress came as a last fm recommendation. Thankfully as his album Splazsh is some of the best what-you-ma-call-it "post-dubstep" you'll get. The hype and acclaim for Mount Kimbie is there for a reason, but people tend to forget this little gem.





Games are part Oneohtrix Point Never and even though Dan Lopatin's work under OPN was a highlight of the year, it's still his work with Joel Ford as Games which tops it. That We Play is such a nostalgia-fest that it's hard not to get worked up over this. Any tune that starts with the Playstation 1's opening theme has a place in my heart. Easily.


My apologies for not doing a proper list with numbers and shit, but this is the way it's going to be. Maybe I'll do one next year or something. Oh and also my apologies for everything on here being all electronic and shit. Maybe next year people will stop making electro-mumbo-jumbo that I'm fond of.

I'm feeling quite bad now for not making a real list, so I'll do a quick sped-up version before I go. In no particular order these have been good:

Beach House - Teen Dream, Forest Swords - Dagger Paths, Caribou - Swim, Four Tet - There Is Love In You, Tunng - And Then We Saw Land, Micah P. Hinson - The Pioneer Saboteurs, Gayngs - Related, Eels - Tomorrow Morning, Black Keys - Brothers, Mount Kimbie - Crook & Lovers, Baths - Cerulean, Besnard Lakes - Are The Roaring Night, Laura Veirs - July Flame, Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffitti - Before Today, Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise, Everything Everything - Man Alive, Broken Bells - S/t, White Denim - Last Days of Summer, Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma, Darkstar - North, School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire, Warpaint - The Fool, Effi Briest - Rhizomes, Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here, Glasser - Ring, Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner, Owen Pallett - Heartlands, Delphic - Acolyte, Toro Y Moi - Causers of This, Harlem - Hippies, Sleigh Bells - Treats, Anna von Hausswolff - Singing from the Grave, Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here, Zola Jesus - Stridulum, The Album Leaf - A Chorus Of Storytellers, Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts, Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be, Tobacco - Maniac Meat, Star Slinger - Volume 1, 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway, Vampire Weekend - Contra, How To Dress Well - Love Remains, Javelin - No Mas, Holy Fuck - Latin, Delorean - Subiza, Gorillaz - Plastic Beach, Liars - Sisterworld, Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time, These New Puritans - Hidden, Holly Miranda - The Magicians Private Libarary.

Ha now get your head around that.

Peace out. I'm going to England. I might have time to blog from there, but if not then Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year!

xoxoxoxo

Food Pyramid

Say hello to my new little friend. My new little friend's called Food Pyramid and Food Pyramid make THE MOST hypnotic and wonderfully repetetive progelectro (or maybe krautrock, who knows with all these genre names flying around).



Their debut album I starts off with the epic 18 minute long Sundance kid which maintains the same pulasting arp all throughout and brings in more and more until a vocal sample is brought into the midst (rare in Food Pyramid's case). The sample being Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles' Sundance Kid is Beautiful.

In addition to the sometimes even lifeless pounding, Food Pyramid have found a striking balance by adding live elements such as saxophone, like on Speedboat Exit Miami Sunset. I was such a warm, thoroughly enjoyable affair that I can't wait to get my ears on their new record II, both released on Moon Glyph records

Speedboat Exit Miami Sunset from Allen Killian-Moore on Vimeo.

Here's another song called Southside Blacktop Beat:

Keep Shelly In Athens

Keep Shelly In Athens is a band/artist I've purposefully not learned anything about. I've wanted to keep it pure. Just me, Shelly and the music.

The first song of theirs I listened to was Running Out of You and it hit my ears like a chillwave version of Portishead made by Chase & Status. A Wierd kind of hybrid yes, but an interesting one.



Cremona Memories wouldn't have surprised me if someone had told me it was something by Mylo. (good thing)
Keep Shelly in Athens have blatantly got a penchance towards the "great" sounds of the 90's, and Cremona Memories' vocal snippets have got M-People written all over them.



The In Love With Dusk is a smashing little EP for those who want to revere the the days when everything was better ie. The Spice Girls were still alive. Its out on Forest Fire Records. (Well it was. Now it's sold out)

ANR

ANR (short for Awesome New Republic) are this like totally awesome hot new music group from Miami. Maybe the hottest thing from Miami since its weather. Maybe.

Awash in fancy new-retro soundscapes and simultaneously theatrical and just plain chill. ANR are a hotpot of ideas just bubbling under the lid.

Bubble bubble. Bubble bubble. Bubble bubble

The band have got a new record out called Stay Kids and it's got a crazy acid-horse on the cover. That people, is how you can tell a good album.
They say never judge a book by its cover, but if it's got a motherfucking crazy acid-horse on it then you're allowed to. Nay you MUST.
Besides, it's not even a book.


You can listen to the single Endless Fields of Mercury via the video below and if you "dig" then head off to their website to download said track.



Luckily for us well-off people with spotify, the whole album's already on it.
ANR - Stay Kids on Spotify