a-LITTLE-comet

because you might invite someone to your house and share biscuits, we thought we should do a similar thing behind today’s advent calendar windoor… so here are lovely audio gems which have changed and augmented our sad and happy lives during the last months… click the links to get transported!

wild beasts, all the kings men

this song has lovely geographical placey lyrics and the word darling in a felt context. plus the high-soaring-vocal in the background is like an extra sort of emotional-instrument. it was on jools holland and that… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxN_DawtOw

grizzly bear, two weeks

in the month of march when the trees were getting furtive, I heard this song and it nearly made me weep. it’s got lots of reverb and the harmonies are like some classically constructed metaphor for pining. http://tinyurl.com/y8nf8oj

deastro, toxic crusaders

we met randy in bristol, arriving in an actioned breeze of positivity. after watching his one-man-festival each night we realised he was very special, anchored down by songs like this with a special middle eight and lines which hit like pistons: “even the darkest sin has the taste of regret, we can’t be all that bad if we wish we were different”. SPECIALE. scroll down on the player »»» www.myspace.com/deastro

everything everything, my kz ur bf

no one hits a high C (as long as it is a major seventh) with as much bombast or window-knacking perfection as these brambles. this is an intricately woven tapestry with more syllables than salman rushdie on speed. also, i can’t work out the bass part which is annoyingly a-tonal. http://www.myspace.com/everythingeverythinguk

animal collective, brother sport

aaaaarrrrrggghhhh a mangled-up congealed tangled eton mess of percussive and melodic intent. i got lost inside this song for a week and then realised it had altered me internally. so now i dance from place to place, still mesmerised inside my face. 2nd track down:::::: http://www.myspace.com/animalcollective

two door cinema club, something good can work

ow ow ow northern irish accented computerised-african couch-club compote-disco is how to describe it. but it is nice and swoony with a guitar line that you could hang stuff from. also, i think lexxx produced it which is always heavy (like esser and golden silvers). second track ooops ——— http://www.myspace.com/twodoorcinemaclub

fool’s gold, surprise hotel

i go to sleep with the radio on when i am allowed and this tiny urchin woke me up. please have a listen to it as it’ll help your feet twiddle through the winter to come. ho ho ho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0wPNow3ymc

hockey, work

this is the only song from the whole of this year that we’ve actually worked out to play as a band. matt likes to accompany the bass line with a strut and has grown a moustache in homage to anthony stassi. it grooves like nearly no other, except for fame by bowie which is the greatest thing ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apg180afsVw

bat for lashes, daniel

it is on the cusp of demureness and crafts together reverb (which we just *LOVE*), sensuality and crisp electricity. “daniel” pouts bat; as you feel like the world may just end around you. mark says: a tour de force.http://www.myspace.com/batforlashes

micachu, lips

we have this on repeat in the van as it kilters gently between sub-saharan meat pop and delectable ramp-grime. dancing in the rain has never felt better, cloisters-abandoned, get-t-t-t-t-t-ting wetter and wetter.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEA_xYaLBw

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