A day of reflection...

You know...I miss Kanye West. I miss him when he was good, at the top of his game.
This new 808s and Heartbreak album is just not...Ye to me. At all.
The College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation just all seemed so full of life. They are as big and inflated as his ego which made it okay for him to spout off about how he is the next James Brown and how he will go down in history as one of the greatest entertainers of all time etc etc etc.
But stacked up against 808's...those statements just don't seem to ring as true.
I like to think that his next album will return to walking the walk AND talking the talk.

New Kasabian and other new things

New Kasabian track "Fire" from their newest album coming out tomorrow West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum released on RCA/Red Ink.

Also, no videos for this but...
The Most Serene Republic are releasing a seriously fantastic record. ...And The Ever Expanding Universe is an absolute must-have for fans of Arts and Crafts! Give 'er a listen when it comes out on July 14th.

It's Saturday

New Moby Single "Pale Horses" from the upcoming Wait For Me album out June 29 on Little Idiot. A charming video.

Amazing Baby - "Head Dress" from their upcoming full-length Rewild being released June 23 on Shangri-La. I'm not too sure how I feel about this video yet.

Something a little bit older. I just love this video. Lioness - "You're My Heart" from their 2008 self-titled release on New Romantic.

Fresh Friday

Again avec alliteration!

Franz Ferdinand has released a dub album. Yeah, you read that right. A DUB album. And what's more surprising? It is, for the most part anyway, incredible!
They've taken tracks from their last release, Tonight, and remixed them in a way to create Blood - a fresh take on the sound niche they've carved out for themselves. They should probably get risky like this more often. It works. Some tracks are more fetching than others but on the whole, I'm really diggin' it!

There's nothing on the internet that will let you listen to some tracks (quickly) so I've made a file of 3 of my favourite tracks and uploaded it to the site below. It's crude, so forgive me, but I have no idea how to do this and am pretty impressed I managed to do this much.

The tracks I've included are (in order of appearance) "Feel The Pressure", "Feel The Envy" and "If I Can't Have You Then Nobody Can."
Hopefully there's no trouble with this file. Enjoy!
Franz Ferdinand - Blood (Domino)

Tiga on Thursday

Apparently I really like alliteration.

Here's the new Tiga video for "Shoes" from the new album Ciao! on Last Gang records. Directed by AlexandLiane who did the video for "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by the Ting Ting's (We Started Nothing, Columbia) as well as "That's Not My Name"...and since embedding is disabled on both those videos...I'm gonna take it back to 2004 and post another video directed by AlexandLiane!

Scissor Sisters!!! "Laura" from their self-titled debut album on Universal.