The Knife

These cuts go deep.

Silent Shout

We Share Our Mothers Health

Pass This On

Got Moves?

Simian Mobile Disco- Love

Simian Mobile Disco- Hustler

"Im a hustler baby. Thats what my Daddys made me."

Enough said.

The New (and Old)

Starting predominantly with the old. TV On the Radio. These guys took me a while to get my head around (TV on the radio? Would that not just be radio?). But once I did I really did. Staring at the Sun builds slowly, majestically like dawn then at 0:33 grinding synths unsettle the mood in preparation for Tunde Adebimpe's fantastic doom leaden vocal. Wolf Like Me another of their best is from the latest album Return to Cookie Mountain. The drop mid song is simply fantastic and at 3:06 when the whole piece shifts back into gear, well it just leaves you trailing behind.

The new... Chromeo. OK the band have been around for a while (check out the debut album She's in Control) but this track of their forthcoming second lp is hot off the press- Fancy Footwork. If there was anything more 1980's than this track (other than hairspray and possibly Grace Jones) I have yet to find it. The chorus, David Macklovitch's vocal (its hot- even I would sleep with him) and those synths. This shit makes me want to dance and that is all thats important.

May Day

To celebrate... a few songs to ease away the hangovers (or in my case the pain of falling asleep on my guitar). So yeah we are going to keep this post relaxed.

Maximo Park-Books from Boxes. The introduction is stunning. Paul Smith's voice is as haunted and instrumentation is as clipped as one would come to expect from one of Britain's most underrated indie bands. Only slight problem- the bridge at 2:12. With this exception-truly beautiful.

Arcade Fire- Maps. Covering one of the most touching love songs to have been written in a very long time was always going to be difficult. Admittedly it doesn't eclipse the poignancy of the original (Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps) but instead adds a sense of fragility which makes the message of this piece almost unbearable to listen to.

LCD Soundsystem- Someone Great. I've posted it before but this track means too much to escape your attention. It's the most perfect break up song if ever there could be such a thing.

"I wish that we could talk about it,

But there, that's the problem.

With someone new I couldn't start it.

Too late, for beginnings.

There shouldn't be this ring of silence,

But what, are the options

When someone great is gone?"