Saturday, July 18, 2009

Everyone'll Be There At The Burial In Your Head

Going away on holiday without phone or internet so this will be the last post for the next three or four weeks... Gonna get my tan on [and the crowd goes wild].

Anywho, on to more serious matters. The music.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson not only has the longest name in music ever (it is so long that you actually remember it just because it is so long), but also writes great songs. Buriedfed is a dramatic and rousing song that builds and builds in a really captivating manner. It starts out slowly with just the guitar and his raspy-ish voice (great voice too). Slowly and steadily more instruments and other effects are added and it becomes this great big song. It really drags you in.

If I was to do a comparison - and I have to - then I'd say that it sounds a bit like if Bright Eyes and Grizzly Bear had a love child... not only a great visual, but sonically amazing too. I really like this song, and I'm sure you will too.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed



The song is available for free and legal download here.

Some Say We Walk Alone

The Horrors released their sophmore album, Primary Colours, this spring and it really surprised me (as it did most others, I suspect). I liked their first album (read: tolerated... I mean, it wasn't great), but this second album is really truly great. From beginning to end a great album, and one I'm quite sure will end up ranking very high on my end-of-year list (my beloved list... Mmmmmm).

I realize this post is slightly (read: very) belated and overdue, but I forgot to write back when I first heard the album (cue: sympathy). I could have just not written anything, but I haven't been able to stop listening to the album since I got it... so naturally a post was needed (yes, life is full of hard choices).

Sea Within A Sea was the first single from the album and still very much a standout track for me. It is one of the best songs, if not the best, I've heard all year and I just can't get enough. The song reminds me of krautrock รก la NEU! (which is a massive compliment), while also borrowing from one of last years best songs; The Rip (by Portishead). This is probably much down to Geoff Barrows (of Portishead) producing the album.

Longwinded ramblings aside, this is a great great song which I love love. Yes yes.

The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea



I also heavily recommend listening to second single Who Can Say, which draws a bit more on personal fave's Joy Division. Again, awesome song.