Broken-Beat Fever

Pondering on the thought of how I felt this time last year, just before returning to school, I remembered The Young Knives who were probably my favourite band of last summer. So here is a nostalgic moment for you to enjoy or cringe through as the summer holidays will, in a few weeks, seem like a very small blip disappearing over the horizon…

The Young Knives – Weekends & Bleakdays (Hot Summer)

Listening to the Deluxe Daydream Nation reissue over the last few weeks has rekindled those ringing ears and a bizarre craving for more sugar in my coffee. This video just shows how unique and jaw-dropping Sonic Youth were when they recorded Daydream Nation. Today they still seem to innovate from a thunder cloud far far away in their own strange world.

This song just oozes classic status!

Liars, hmmm, this is very weird. It scares me. Enjoy:

This is amazing, Bjork is on some chat show and she performs Cocoon with just a music box. It really shows how beautiful her voice is.

Liars have just uploaded three new songs from their forthcoming self-titled record. “Plaster Casts of Everything” has been around now for a while but now we have three more songs! After hearing them it’s quite clear that this is quite a different record from Drum’s Not Dead but the songs sound still very distinctly like Liars’ songs. Chilly, atmospheric, drone like but with plenty of snappy drum-breaks.

Liars: “Sailing to Byzantium” / “Freak Out” / “Protection”

Living proof that Blur’s “Song 2″ is a rip-off of Pavement’s “Debris Slide”. Replace Bob Nastanovich’s part with ‘woohoo’ and you’re half way there. It would go: Bababadaba, WOOHOO!

They simply don’t make TV like this anymore. “The Beatles” (of the 90s):

 (Part 7 of 7) Taken from the documentary, “Miles Electric: A Different Kind Of Blue”

(Part 6 of 7) Taken from the documentary, “Miles Electric: A Different Kind Of Blue”