No One Loves Me & Neither Do I.

Them Crooked Vultures--yet another musical party I'm late too.

Beirut covering Caetano Veloso

Everything about this is gorgeous. Beirut is awesome. Also now I wanna learn Portugese.

Quite apart from the fact that this song rocks, this compilation album raises money for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, so everyone should go buy it straight away.

Cat's Eyes have the potential to become my new favorite band.

Or maybe Cat's Eyes is just one guy. It seems like it could be just one guy. I'm not sure.

Point is, how gorgeous is that song? Cat's Eyes have more like it.

Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn

Euphoric, man.

summer music.

Seeing as I've nothing new to say but feel the need to blog anyway, I thought I'll give you the obligatory list of 'summer songs'. Okay? Woohoo.

1. The City by Patrick Wolf



I've been waiting to show you guys, one way or another, this song for ages. Months. While, when it comes to music I am prone to hyperbole, I think I'm speaking with sense when I say that this might be one of the best pop songs I've ever heard. Apparently his new album, Lupercalia, is full of great pop songs. If I were you, I'd buy the record based on its awesome name alone, but Patrick Wolf is something of a Pop Song Master soooo I'm sure you're in for a treat. It's not released physically in the US yet but I'm gonna get it the moment I go back to the UK.

2. Mornin' by Star Slinger



Trip-tastic hipster electronica, why not. One of the best bands of 2011 so far. Sounds like never ending summer days, heat waves, and friends.

3. Five Years Time by Noah & the Whale



I'd pay more attention to this than their recent work. This song will never leave my Summer Playlist, I reckon. It's just so damn adorable.

4. Crave You by Flight Facilities



Again, this is hipstertastic, but it has tribal drums and sounds like midday heat.

5. With Love by Elbow



This is only an excerpt, you'll have to deal with crappy audio or buy the record if you wanna listen to the whole beautiful song. But, my god, go buy the record because it is soooo good.

6. In the Water by Beat Connection



Yeah, I listen to too much chillwave for my own good. Oh well.

7. Kiss of Life by Friendly Fires



Let's grab some African drums, go to a beach, and dance like Thom Yorke.

8. Pensacola by Manchester Orchestra



Alcohol, dirty malls, pensacola, florida bars. Nothing about this song makes sense or fits in with anything else this band have ever done, but let's drive down a highway and scream the lyrics with the windows down.

9. Hair by Lady Gaga



No matter how many times I listen to this, I'm still not sure what to make of Lady Gaga comparing her freedom to her hair. *shrugs*. But this is an AWESOME pop song, one of the best on the new album. Endless fun here.

10. Let's Stay Together by Al Green



So, er, don't judge me by putting a soul song on this list. It's just...good, okay? Okay I'll leave now.

Hope you enjoy something, as always. I'll post more songs in the future, I'm sure.

Now, to magazines and the Office. night!

Okay. Bye.

Songs of Finals Week.

All the stuff that's been helping me get through this last one week before summer.

1. Fugitive Motel by Elbow



2. Government Hooker by Lady Gaga



3. You Stole by Brand New



4. East Harlem by Beirut



5. Run The World by Beyonce



6. Summer Wine by Claire Nicolson and Larry Love



7. In The Water by Beat Connection



8. Mornin' by Star Slinger



9. Between The Bars by Elliott Smith



10. Proof by I Am Kloot



I hope you find something you like.

Ten Songs

Sorry, this blog is a fail. I'll...do more over the summer? Yeah? I think that's wishful thinking, but I'll cling to it from now on.

So...guess I'm just gonna post ten songs I'm into at the moment. I'm keeping the crappy, half-assed descriptions to a minimum today, so you can just listen to some good music. Enjoy.



Either through James Blake or, for you more credible people(myself not included), through Fiest's original version, I'm sure you're familiar with Limit To Your Love by now. But I really like the song in itself, whoever's singing it, so let's spread some dark, brooding love for it.




So, it seems 80s pop music videos are in vogue at the moment. The song is good, though. 80s pop, which, when it's made in 2011 rather than the mid 80s, is usually a lot of fun.



PJ Harvey and Ben Waters covering a a Doc Pomus song. I don't know nearly enough about PJ Harvey or Doc Pomus to say something witty or insightful about this track, so I'll just say I like it and her voice songs cool.



I must say that I had doubts about the idea of this record when I first heard about it, buuut...turns out I must've been having a blonde moment, because this sounds great.



Bit of a guilty pleasure, the Script, and the idea of 'science is boring lol yay for emotions and art' that this song is about has always annoyed me, but that chorus is kind of irresistible.



It's such a shame that I just discovered Tune Yards, aka Merill Garbys, like, a week ago. I dare you to try to classify this is one genre. Merill's got everyone stumped on that point.



I'm afraid that this borders on pop-punk at times, and in its minute and a half playing times, it slowly builds up to be a total angstathon. But it's fun nonetheless. (I have so many guilty pleasures, in case you haven't noticed?)



Out of all the recent spew of new grime-dubstep-rappers in the UK music scene at the moment, I'd suggest that Wiley is probably the one worth paying most attention to.



I think this is like a bitter sweet no-fi pop song? I'm not sure, I'm no expert with stuff this hipster. it's good, though.



It seems only fitting to end with someone off the brand new Arctic Monkeys record, Suck It And See, as I've kind of shown you both preceding singles and have mentioned than a dozen times. I haven't got round to buying the physical record yet, though I will some time this week. I've listened to a few songs online, though, and the opening song She's Thunderstorms is my favorite so far.