Á túr - Píka

Yeah, I didn't just randomly decide to upload a picture of some sanitary towel, that's totally their album cover.
Hard to the core, huh?
Okay so these guys are hardcore feminists apparently, they're like from iceland I think, least ways they were signed to some Icelandic label, and their music is pretty marvellous.
Not a bloody clue what they're singing, but the voice is very pretty, and they use like a cello and a piano and probably something else. It creates a really atmospheric feel most of the time.
It's maybe like a harsher version of Tattle Tale?
But harsher, still awesome.
I really do like this album, and I've liked it for a long while, it's a deep one.



Be sure to impress all yr icelandic feminist friends!
(Also they're quite unknown, my hipster senses are tingling)

(Where have I been? Mostly having an outside life. You'd think that's good, but the other day I was at an indie rock night and I only knew like 70% of the bands. I tried to pass it off because I was so drunk, but oh god they all knew and were laughing at me. So I need to stay inside and music geek up some more.)

OMG I just noticed

that listening to skins without actually SEEING it, makes it seem a lot more realistic.
They all really do have their whole speaking the lanuage thing down, it must just be the facial expressions that put me off.
I would probably go in there and watch it; it's the episode where Em&Ni GETEETONNNNN, but I'm meant to be cleaning/preparing tonights vegetarian meal.
It's like I went back in time to the 1950s, y'all.

Sorry for making this blog a lot less music related, here's an absolutely marvellous song by Kathleen Hanna, it's from a Kill Rocks STars comp, and is a cover of some other song, but it's brrrrrilliant.
Also I'm irriated, I just discovered my files DID upload to mediafire after all, and it gave me errors that meant nothing. So you can expect some home grown posts in a few moments.

Lê Almeida - REVI

This is an awesome fuzzy poppy, slightly psychedelic band. It's a neat catchy release if you like that kind of thing. And according to pitchfork alla you guys do atm. I don't know anything else about them, but no doubt google blog search does.
Perhaps it's a bit too summery sounding for me right now oh i have to go make tea.
In a bit.

Liz Phair - Girlysound cassettes

I think the common consensus is that Liz Phair is goddamn essential on Exile In Guyville, and then takes a suddenly horrifying boring approach on her next few albums. It's not so much that they're rubbish songs, just that they're Avril Lavigne type stuff - catchy, contained pop.
I like pop too, just that there's so much better pop out there.
Okay, so we've established Liz is good on Exile, and not afterwards. But what about beforehand?
I never thought of checking out her previous stuff until this week, and I'm very pleased that I did.
She has three cassettes under the name Girlysound, and while only two of them are avaibale in their complete forms on the net, they're very much worth a listen to - it's like, some're rough versions of Exile songs, and some are just rough. And lo-fi is clearly great. Even if it wasn't, Liz Phair lends herself very well to lo-fi kinds of things anyway - just her guitar and a few harmonized voices make her songs pure magic enough.
Go download awayyyyyyyyy

mediafire sucks, etc

For some reason the home net won't even let me upload, & I'm meant to be revising for my plants&animals&micro//bio//chem exams anyhow so it's probably a good thing.
But, just because I've had this blog for like a year and a bit, and posted on it for a bit, I'm loathe to just completely desert it.
I'll try my best to give you some links to legal stuff/record labels, and tell you a few albums that aren't much more than a google blog search away.

The Crown Vandals - The Guenevere EP

These guys are fuck awesome. Like, one of the best bands I've heard this year. Definetely one of the best bands I've heard the second half of this year. They sound like Neutral Milk Hotel, only more awesome and they actually still release music and one day maybe they'll do a solid real life release that I can hold in my hands and cry over. Violins, gitars, fuzz fuzz fuzz FOLK and ohlord if you aren't listening to it you're missing out.
Overhyping it? NO.
You can listen for free, real life, actually not stealing at all, free on their myspazz.
Or they say you can download it here.

I'm still working on the xmas Ep thing, but in honesty, this band is the best christmas present you could hope to receive.

Merry Christmas

So few updates, tis awwwwful.
I'd lie and say the new year shall be better, but it probably won't be, seeing as I've exams in january.
I've also got three tomorrow, and yes I am super prepared for them, how did you know?
Anyway, this is a fail of a year as regards blogs, so I'll try my best to push together a mixtape relating to xmas, and perhaps a few general updates on the side when I go home friday and have nothing much to do.
But in case I don't: THIS is a super awesome bird&the bee song which they probably made last yr, but whatever, I've heard it now and wowowowowowow.
Deffo going on any possibility of a mixtape I create.
(They also apparently did a somewhat less awesome cover of Twelve Days of Xmas, but it's still not bad)
Also: The reason for using youtube is because mediafire doesn't work well for me anymore. My love affair with the university internet is now officially over.
Merry Xmas/Happy Holidays if I don't update before then. xxx