Hey people,

The reason why this blog has had no new posts recently you can probably guess – the author’s life is slightly changing, getting more complicated and he “doesn’t have time”. I’ve been thinking and I’m not 100% sure whether I’d like to resume writing. I need you to motivate me. Give me a big hug, no wait…

If ten or more people write a positive comment to this post, then I’ll continue. If not, well, yeah.

Noting a new Wilco album as I’m busy preparing for my August trip. See you guys in September! Check out the music and feel free to drop some comments about it.

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Would this blog be worth anything if I didn’t throw you some hard to find jazz? Of course not! Here’s an awesome guitar / piano / bass + drums trio. Tal Farlow is a great jazz guitarist.

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But maybe she will…

A friend introduced me to this band. There’s nothing particularly awesome about them in fact, they’re just a very good post-rock band, that can remind you of many others but thinking, hey these guys have some variety. And they did make The Paris Hilton Sex Tape song worth its title.

download Sing The World In Four-Part Harmony (latest album)

download Japanese Spy Transcript EP (debut, should be yout first listening) + Not For Want Of Trying

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Lately I’ve been exploring a few shoegaze bands, sometimes when it works it hits me like an ocean wave. Experimental Aircraft can make one; this is their debut from 2000.

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There are always only a few rock singers that can sing something like “Shake me… shake me… skyscraper” and have us listen like it’s not really important because you really feel the music and perhaps it’s more about the background or something. In any case, Paul Banks of Interpol has become one of those. Some of these songs remind me of the band, not so much on the surface because this is largely a solo experiment, there are finger picking acoustic guitars crossed with atmospheric beat loops, but the way he sings and the song flow and layout. And it works, because he is really good at making simple sound great.

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To me previously unknown British artist Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio made one excellent album that’s, as all good ones, kinda hard to describe – it’s largely electronic music but at the same time it floats back and forth between folk and funk let’s say. Mellow but experimental, it grows on me on each listen. I don’t associate the music to a perfectly ordered street with identical cars parked on the side… rather to an afternoon out on a hill.

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Don’t let this album pass you by. Seriously. It’s probably the best typical British album in a long time – strings, trumpets, piano, bittersweet melodies with the accent. And unexpected, at least judging by how little there is about the band on the web. We’ve been listening a lot to it in the office, and you always feel like you need to play it one more time. Thanks, Strips.

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I think this is the first grindcore album that I ever listened to. Hmm Six Feet Under don’t count right? How to explain the genre? It’s something that I listen to when something’s really wrong, or I just feel like I wanna hear something ultimately badass. 27 tracks people. Mumakil are always to the point.

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There is a light that never goes out in the world of alternative rock music, and it comes from Sonic Youth, their constantly unusual compositions filled with details that they have invented so long ago. If you like them, it’s just such a pleasure to have them always return and deliver another snapshot of unique creativity.

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