Brassed up

Does what is says on the tin. A selection of tunes with brass bits in.
No. There's no Peter Skellern. It veers a bit close to Radio 2 territory as it is.

(click on the pic to download .mp3)

Rocky returns

There's a new Roky Erickson album out - 14 years after his last. He's backed by Okkervil River and it's produced by their main man Will Sheff. And it's great!
The production incorporates "found-sound and archival recordings culled from Erickson's home videos and recordings made in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane", where Erickson spent several years in the early 70s. These hissy snatches of birdsong and bits of conversation add a real atmosphere to the album.

Here's the title track on Youtube -



... and here's another track from the album for you to listen to -

Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - Goodbye Sweet Dreams

Erickson has been plagued by mental illness for decades - his life was chronicled in the excellent 2005 documentary You're Gonna Miss Me.

Mix Tape

Holy Fuck ...

... have a new album out called "Latin". Sounding great on the first couple of listens - possibly slightly less "full on" than their last album - it's still got the great driving rhythms and it still has the excitement generated by the feeling that the whole thing may fall to bits at any minute. But it has kind of floaty bits too.

This is the official vid of the track Latin America -



If you pre order 'Latin'  from my favourite record store Rough Trade you will also receive a bonus cd called 'Ghost' with four extra tracks.

Jónsi – go

Jónsi of Sigur Rós has a solo album out next week. It's called "Go" and you can read about it and order "special" and "limited" editions of it here .
I reckon if you like Sigur Rós you'll enjoy this.

You can pre-order it on vinyl from Amazon

Here's a track from the album to download -

Boy Lilikoi.mp3

Or you can stream a preview of the whole album from NPR Music

Watch Out For That Bat!

A shortish "mix tape" for you (it'd very nearly fill both sides of a C60).

Thanks to Cosmic Jane for help and inspiration with this one.

I'll bung up a track list later if anyone asks for one.

Watch out for that bat!

Pantha du Prince ...

... has a lovely new single out featuring Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear out of off of Animal Collective) ...



And there's a Four Tet remix available for free download

The single is available as a 12" from Rough Trade and has remixes by Efdemin and Lawrence as well as Four Tet - I've ordered my copy even though I still don't have anything to play vinyl on ....