The Drums is ranked 5th in the BBC 10 for 2010-list. Dudes seem to be a little sketchy, and I saw a pretty bad live video, but they do have a couple of good singles.
Even though it's way too early for summer vibes, 'I want to go surfing' is a nice track that proves you don't need a whole lot to make a good song: a nervous bass line, some surfrock guitar riffs and some of the most cheerful whistling a whole time:
Another song by these New Yorkers that didn't even make it onto their ep, is "I felt stupid", which I listened to on endless repeat one night when I was playing Bejeweled Blitz into oblivion. Excellent track with some Cure and Smiths echo's, maybe an idea for that last track you needed for that valentine's day mixtape? I must warn you though that the music video is like, REALLY gay.
While we're on the subject of Valentine's, I like the new Hot Chip too. Maybe not as suited to heat up the dancefloor as 'Ready for the floor', but still, a very well crafted little track.
I checked some mixtapes by other people, and this was one of the standout tracks. High places is a duo that sound like a modern version of Dirty Projectors meets Cocteau Twins on vocoders or whatever.
I literally got up this morning and 2 songs from the nineties just sprang to mind like that, so I'm going to feed you some more random nineties stuff.
The Posies are not down with embedding videos.
I like some of the snippets of the new Joanna Newsom, but apparently, the successor to her last full-album is shaping up to be a TRIPLE album. As much as I liked most of 'Ys', sitting through one full-album of hers was hard enough already, so I'm not really sure whether this is really the best plan.
Couple of interesting concerts coming up: This Thursday offers the choice between Maria Timm @ Bruges (11/02 Cactus) and Beach House @ Ghent (11/02 Vooruit), both reasonably priced and not sold out when I checked yesterday. The Horrors (Minnemeers Ghent and Botanique Brussels) are playing 2 dates too, but I'm glad I caught them at Rock Herk because it seems they got a little expensive. Times New Viking @ Charlatan Ghent 23/03 too.
Then 2 more bands I used to be avid fan of but not so much anymore, both on weekdays: The New Pornographers (who haven't really done much since their latest effort 'Challengers') at Botanique BXL on May 25th and Los Campesinos!at the same venue on March 18th. These Cardiff youngsters had to replace their keyboard player and just have a new record out (3rd one in 18 months, can't blame them for not being productive) called 'Romance is boring'. Can't get into the new singles, but the video for the title track does have a nice bit of cleavage in it, so here you go:
