Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

Ah, punk-rock / hardcore punk is alive and continues to be Fucked Up.

Aggressive, melodic and powerful – just as we like it.

Go and listen to the album – David Comes to Life - and stay tuned for The Other Shoe:

Arthur Russell - This is How We Walk on the Moon

Men & Moon, still one of the biggest unsolved myths of the world. REM sang about it and many hundred conspiracy theory fans wrote about it. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Arthur Russell took it to another dimension. He was a man with a conflict, his music was sometimes confusing, messy, but this song is just brilliant.

This is How We Walk on the Moon by Arthur Russell – may he RIP.

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Radiohead - The King of Limbs

They have their own planet. Created and managed by Tom Yorke & co, visited by us common mortals who understand the message, the call, the amazing musical richness of Radiohead.

I could be writing for years about all their albums, tracks, experiences, etc. but there’s no point. First, because I’m not that good writer, and second because their music is extremely ‘personal’.

Moving forward, they released their 8^th album entitled The King of Limbs. Quality is there, the trip is still on, but in my honest (and strange) opinion, In Rainbows is far better, not to say that they’re still very far from the magical Kid A (probably one of the top-10 best albums ever).

Anyhow, here is their new single – best track in the album? – Lotus Flower. You gotta love Tom’s moves, a genius of his own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

Sweet 70s

A classic tune for a wild weekend.

"Well' she's shakin' that thing (bam-BA-lam) / Boy she makes me sing (bam-BA-lam) / Whoa, black betty (bam-BA-lam)"

Brontide - Sans Souci

Sometimes no lyrics are needed to express feelings.

Brontide's debut album ‘Sans Souci’ sounds promising, with Matador simply taking them to another level.

Enjoy the ride…

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Everything they do is simply good - I'm convinced they're not able to do anything that songs bad. It's worth listening, worth sharing, worth keeping in the shelf for a lonely Sunday afternoon.

Fleet Foxes are just relevant.

“Yeah, I'm tongue-tied and dizzy / and I can't keep it to myself / what good is it to sing helplessness blues?”

Time Machine - Volume II

There are people who were born with a gift. Hendrix's was to play the guitar.

He knew how to play guitar and the guitar knew how to be played by him. Doesn’t matter how you put it. He was born to do it, he lived doing it and he died doing it.

It will always be an adventure to be invited to his planet of bad-ass-awesome-devil's-R&R.

Someone once said : ‘Hendrix isn’t dead, God just wanted some guitar lessons’.

The music world would be different without him, and that’s just a fact.

Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring

Great lyrics, rich instrumental background, lovely leading voice, excellent album cover, and little else to add. Just the fact that they are so underrated it seriously annoys me.

This song is...well, you tell me.

“I ask her to speak French / And then I need her to translate / I get the feeling she makes the meaning more significant / She was always far too pretty / for me to believe in a single word she said”

Eels - Romance and Fantasy

I’m in love with Mr. E, there is no other way to put this. Since the first (and blessed) time I heard him and his Eels, it was love at first sight audition. We just had a special chemistry, or at least I believe we did. E's voice is my conscious, it comes from where the 'special ones' decide what is your destiny. It's that deepness, the sound of experience, the voice that guides us through the path of life.

And they've evolved, they changed styles, they tried it all and every single thing they make is damn good.

From all their precious collection, I would cut-your-eyes-off-if-you-don’t-listen recommend ‘Souljacker’, ‘Blinking Lights and Other Revelations’ and ‘Hombre Lobo’. All Epic, a true musical orgasm - what the 'musical experts' nowadays call Eargasm.

Finally, because a post is nothing without some evidence, you can listen to ‘I’m going to spot pretending I didn't break your heart’ (all-time favorite together with ‘Fresh Feeling’, ‘Tremendous Dynamite’ or ‘Novocaine for the Soul’):