Check out the new group Them Are Us Too. They have been
compared to 4AD and Creation Records sounds from the 80s with direct
comparisons to Cocteau Twins. They have two tracks out on soundcloud that sound amazing. I
will be keeping my ears on this duo.
OK Go have contributed a new song called You’re A Fucking Nerd
And No One Likes You to the Hot Tub Time Machine 2 soundtrack.
You can now preorder one of two EPs scheduled for release
this year from Incubus
over at their web page. The two EPs will complete the full album for 2015.
Foxes has started working on her second album. Not much more
info than that though.
Here we go...
This is an EP that came from the Graveface Charity series.
It is a 7” released on black, brown or double mint/gold vinyl. The proceeds
went to the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. When this series was new I got a
triptych of these singles. The series didn’t sell all that well and you can now
get these as separates. I recently got into Haley Bonar and purchased her
charity single in the limited double mint/gold color.
The first track, Baby In The Water, is an amazing track that
sounds like it could have been on her latest album, Last War. It has a really
cool underlying string section that is absolutely beautiful. The lyrics convey
urgency because there is a baby in the water and a snake in the grass but the
music isn’t that fast giving a bit of confusion. Will she get to the baby
before the water takes the baby or the snake bites? It is a beautiful song with
built in tension.
Be My Kazoo is a sweet song about a relationship. She is
willing to be whatever it takes to be the right thing for the relationship but
at the same time they don’t need to try because they are so perfect together.
It is a fun love and friendship song.
the last song comes off a bit redneck. there are no actual
lyrics except Do-del-le-do. It is still a bit fun when I listen to it and it
shows me where some of the stuff for Gramma’s Boyfriend came from. By the way I
am excited for a second album from that group too!
First off, Perfect Pussy (PP) are a hardcore female lead
punk group. The group was originally formed to create a song for a movie called
Adult World. The group continued working on new music after the song was
created. The result of that was this EP that was self released by the band. The
EP was originally released on cassette and later as download. Just recently it
was also pressed to vinyl through Captured Tracks. The vinyl is single sided
with the bands logo etched on the B side.
Meredith Graves is one of the most punk people I have ever
seen. Her vocals sound threatening but unintelligible for the most part and she
still dresses like a girl. Good or bad it’s cute as hell. She is also tattooed
like a sailor which is kind of funny to me, more important than all of this is
that the lyrics to these songs are positive. If feel happy and lighter when I
hear her sing “I am full of light, I am filled with joy”
Each of these four songs on this EP are unique and fun with
an underlying pop feel under the noise that is noisy punk rock with the
screamed lyrics found somewhere in the middle of the pop and noise music that
is PP. There is something that attracts me to this group and I think that I
just nailed it. I am not going to decrypt this EP as I want to like it for its
face value. I will get into their full length at a later date though as half of
the EP is on the full length anyway.
This is some of the best punk music that I have heard in a
long time.
Third Man Records has put out the third installment of the
Sun/Third Man represses. This time all three of them are from Roy Orbison.
While he is better known for his pop hits from Monument Records, these three
singles have some great pop sensibility with some classic clean sounds that
make you want to move and groove.
Chicken-Hearted has some great slide guitar sounds that are fragile sounding with the treble turned all the way up. The saxophone solo parts
are raw and sensual. Orbison’s vocals are so smooth and clean it is hard to say
no to this single, it’s hard not to dance too.
I Like Love smacks of Jerry Lee Louis’s Great Balls of Fire
but sounds so good with Orbison’s vocals on the track. Although it sounds like
Louis the song is still a great rocker.
Sweet And Easy To Love shows the softer and slower side of
Orbison. It is a sweet and slow love song that had to have the girls crooning
for the man. It does get a bit repetitive with the chorus though.
Devil Doll is another slow song about an x-girlfriend that
dumped him. It depicts this story about a high school couple. He wants to warn
the others about her wily tricks but he also still wants her back at the same
time.
Ooby Dooby is basically a dance song showing you how to do a
dance but with out being specific. The song has some great ululation it is even
in the song title. The guitar solo is so cool sounding. I could see the cool
kids getting down to this in the 50s.
Go! Go! Go! is a quick song about not stopping. It is a great
song that moves and is designed to get you on that dance floor and move it. I
think it does it very well.
That's all for now...
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