Listening to a few things at the moment. First; Wolfmother’s self titled album. Sounds like modernised 70’s music with a very heavy and obvious Led Zeppelin influence. I’ve only recently gotten into them and I hear they have split, over money no less, although I also heard there are plans to continue with a different line-up.
Second is The White Stripes. I’m listening to two of their albums, White Blood Cells, an earlier album and Get Behind Me Satan, something more recent. The White Stripes are kind of hard to classify but if I were, I would say they are folk punk rock. Very creative in their simplicity.
The other is MGMT’s first album Oracular Spectacular. Super creative alternative pop. I’ve had it for quite some time now but it’s still in my regular play list.
Have a listen through this new fangled Amazon sample player. Amazon, better alternative to itunes as the mp3’s are DRM free.
I had a listen to Portishead’s third studio album Third today and was somewhat disappointed with what I heard. The first couple of minutes sounded like a 14 year old messing around with some audio software on the computer, rather than 40 year olds messing around with audio software on the computer. However, after the abrupt ending of the first song Silence, there is some improvement, although they seem to have moved away from the trip-hop sounds they are known for into often upbeat, abstract sounds and quick melodic changes, which for myself, was a bit disappointing because it stopped me being absorbed by their darkness and taken on the journey which the previous albums were apt to do.
By the fourth track The Rip, I did start to enjoy it with a relativity smooth Gibbons evoking Leonard Cohen in an electric female ballad and moving back closer to their old sound with the next track, only to be destroyed by a ditty which seems to come directly out of an old Hollywood movie set in Hawaii.
Far more than any previous album, this seemed more a collection of songs than an album as a whole. Although there are some good moments, overall I found it disappointing and am left wondering why they bothered, after 11 years since their last album, to release this.
To be officially released on Monday, April 28, 2008
Been listening to the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and am impressed. Taking what was good about both his old and new material, adding a little splash of something newer and more obvious humour. Mixing shit, murder, fucking and spiritual yearning, Dig is Nick at in true form and I love it.
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! video clip. Looks like it’s been done on the first take
I had a listen to Portishead’s third studio album Third today and was somewhat disappointed with what I heard. The first couple of minutes sounded like a 14 year old messing around with some audio software on the computer, rather than 40 year olds messing around with audio software on the computer. However, after the abrupt ending of the first song Silence, there is some improvement, although they seem to have moved away from the trip-hop sounds they are known for into often upbeat, abstract sounds and quick melodic changes, which for myself, was a bit disappointing because it stopped me being absorbed by their darkness and taken on the journey which the previous albums were apt to do.
