Half way through the year some how, and more new good music than ever. If last year was the year of
The Horrors for me, then this year so far has been the year of
HEALTH, must be a kind of musical chinease new year celebration for me. One of the highlights of this half of the year has to be when I saw
HEALTH for the first time in Leeds, which totally hooked me on their once confusing noise rock which has well and truely made my last 6 months. Other live treats have come from bands such as
Ulterior at the Bodega (Nottingham) whose live show was well up there with
HEALTH's performance but for wholey different reasons. This was a more static affair, with strobe lighting and mist filled room provide the main effects for the bands psychadelic sounds. Other attractions came in the shape of
We Are The Physics,
Lightspeed Champion (both Faversham, Leeds),
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man and
Operator Please (both Leadmill, Sheffield). The traditional start of summer, came in the shape of the Dot to Dot Festival in Nottingham, where the likes of my new favourites
Iglu & Hartly,
XX Teens,
Hatcham Social and
The Mae Shi improved the weekend event from the short drenched effort of the previous year.
As for Albums, again my band of the moment
HEALTH came up with the goods with two spectacular albums in 6 months, with their remix album being especially pleasing. Along with the noise rockers came
Crystal Castles' self titled album, which came close to beating
HEALTH's efforts. Along with
Crystal Castles came the most anticipated album of these months, "Antidotes" from math-rockers
Foals which was well worth the wait, especially the special edition second CD.
Well what of the next 6 months. Onwards and upwards we go, I say, with Leeds Festival only around the corner, the Transgressive Records tour,
Late of the Pier's debut album and hopefully some more physical releases by the hottest bands around at this moment;
Teengirl Fantasy,
Fryars,
Electricity In Our Homes and
White Lies.
Happy Bi-Annual Celebrations to be shared by all!
O' and the top 50 tracks of the past load of weeks;
1.
White Lies - Unfinished Business
2.
Teengirl Fantasy - Hoop Dreams
3.
HEALTH - Lost Time
4.
Fryars - Olive Eyes
5.
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
6.
MGMT - Kids
7.
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
8.
These New Puritans - Elvis
9.
Ulterior - Weapons
10.
Electricity In Our Homes - We Don't Need Honesty
11.
Foals - Olympic Airways
12.
Iglu & Hartly - In This City
13.
Late of the Pier - Focker
14.
S.C.U.M - Visions Arise
15.
Hatcham Social - So So Happy Making
16.
XX Teens - The Way We Were
17.
Metronomy - You Could Easily Have Me
18.
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man - Thanatos
19.
Dan Deacon - The House I Was Isn't Me
20.
Four Tet - Ringer
21.
Lightspeed Champion - Salty Water
23.
We Are Scientists - Chick Lit
24.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
25.
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
26.
Portishead - Machine Gun
27.
Ipso Facto - Eyes Of The Blind
28.
White Williams - Violator
29.
Panic at the Disco - Nine In The Afternoon
30.
Black Lips - Bad Kids
31.
Friendly Fires - Paris
32.
Pictureplane - Dayglowwed
33.
Esser - I Love You
34.
Black Kids - Hurricane Jane
35.
We Are The Physics - You Can Do Athletics, BTW
36.
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
37.
The New Sins - Feelings (Have Changed)
38.
Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
39.
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
40.
The Teenagers - Love No
41.
1000 robota - Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt
42.
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
43.
Cajun Dance Party - The Race
44.
New black light machine - Disguise
45.
Zombie-Zombie - Walk Of The Dead
46.
So So Modern - Piece It Apart
47.
Kixly - I Woke Up It Was 10AM
48.
futurism vs. passeism - Union Of Two Sets
49.
BDRMPPL - MaShirtBraNew
50.
Two Minute Noodles - Hit Me
t!N
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