A few gems to brighten your day (or evening)
Got a few gems to share this pleasant Saturday afternoon for you. Let's start off with the one I like the best.
Mascot Fight - Pantomime Hearse
For starters I like the name of the album. Pantomime Hearse... it's like pantomime horse.... but not quite! ha ha!..... yes well.... i like it, so shush.
The next thing I like about the album.... are all of the songs. It's such a cute album. Cute, poppy... and short (that is, kind to a girl with next to no attention span whatsoever). The type of tunes that just can't help put a smile on your face. The songs are simple and the vocals are nothing complicated either.
The tunes sort of remind me of something. It's not the mainstream indiepop style that so many bands are replicating today. Dare I say... this album takes me back to the early 90's style-wise... not britpop in the Blur, Oasis, Pulp sense of the word, but potentially similar to various other bands who was bounding around in the same-ish realm. I was going to tentatively say Pavement.... and then delete it, but i've just opened their MySpace page and had a look at thier influences... and bonanza! I hit the jackpot.
Who are Mascot Fight? Let's see. Mascot Fight
are not easy to stalk via the internet without finding heap of videos
about sport mascots fighting each other.... curious indeed. Other than
that, Mascot Fight appear to be a bunch of boys (4 to be
exact) from Derby in England who formed in 2004 with a quirky sense of
humour and a talent for writing catchy tunes.
Anyway.... if this interests you in any way... go here: http://www.mascotfight.com
This will enable you to listen to them, then begin stalking them (politely, of course) via any medium you so choose.
That's a photocopier (not a chair)..... something i'm glad we've cleared up now.
The Steps - The Steps
One thing i need to say about this band first, it that it was such a relief to find out they weren't the other band named Steps who were a questionably popular with english people (with bad taste) back in the late 90's.
The Steps are, in fact, a four piece indierock band out of Austin, Texas. I wouldn't call it pop at all. Although there are a couple of tracks on their debut self-titled album, which are borderline.
Pull the Cord and Townes Lane are two tracks which stand out in (or more probably stick in) my mind. You may have noticed i'm more of a girl who likes tunes more than meaningful lyrics? Well yeah, that's me to a tea.
There is one song on the album.... that caught me by surprise. Here was me sitting happily on the train to work, listening obliviously to my earPod and on comes a song that i thought was Jet (Loose Mind). You can imagine my disgust. I had to use all my might to remind myself that it wasn't Jet and it was ok to not hate them. Luckily most of the songs don't sound like Jet as much. (The start of Belle also sounds just like a Stereophonics song... hmm).
I reckon these guys would be great live and this album would be most suited to being played loudly during either a car-trip or a really intense session of carpet vacuuming. It's not reeeally my thing. but i would dance to it and sing along if i had a beer in my hand (and i knew the words).
For ease of stalking, here are some relevant links:
Offical website: http://www.wearethesteps.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thesteps
Brother - Little Birdy
Just the new single from the brilliant Perth band, Little Birdy. I'm not sure if we've covered Little Birdy here before (I'm sure I'll find out pretty soon one way or another)... but they are one of a great number of brilliant bands to come out of Perth. I'm sure there's something in the water over there or maybe it's just because there's not a lot to do other than spend hours perfecting musical skills and recorded some of the best tunes there could be.
Brother is the first single from their yet to be released 5th album, Confetti.
It's quiet, but has both a catchy tune and beautiful lyrics. It gets almost to the dance-around-the-room level during the hand-clap portions of the song. However, in my opinion, the best thing about Little Birdy, by far, is the awesome vocals provided by Katy Steele (brother of Luke Steele, frontman of the Sleepy Jackson and half of the duo Empire of the Sun, who have been having quite a bit of recent success all over the shop). I wont admit to singing along with various other Little Birdy tunes and feeling inadequate in my lack of singing skill prowess.... no I wont admit that.
Anyway.... I wont spend too much time on this. Best wait for the album, i reckon. In the meantime here's their website where you can grab the single and play it to your hearts content: http://www.littlebirdy.net/
I think that's it for now.
Have a tops weekend!
Sal
sally@weheartmusic.com
For starters I like the name of the album. Pantomime Hearse... it's like pantomime horse.... but not quite! ha ha!..... yes well.... i like it, so shush.
The next thing I like about the album.... are all of the songs. It's such a cute album. Cute, poppy... and short (that is, kind to a girl with next to no attention span whatsoever). The type of tunes that just can't help put a smile on your face. The songs are simple and the vocals are nothing complicated either.
The tunes sort of remind me of something. It's not the mainstream indiepop style that so many bands are replicating today. Dare I say... this album takes me back to the early 90's style-wise... not britpop in the Blur, Oasis, Pulp sense of the word, but potentially similar to various other bands who was bounding around in the same-ish realm. I was going to tentatively say Pavement.... and then delete it, but i've just opened their MySpace page and had a look at thier influences... and bonanza! I hit the jackpot.
Anyway.... if this interests you in any way... go here: http://www.mascotfight.com
This will enable you to listen to them, then begin stalking them (politely, of course) via any medium you so choose.
That's a photocopier (not a chair)..... something i'm glad we've cleared up now.
One thing i need to say about this band first, it that it was such a relief to find out they weren't the other band named Steps who were a questionably popular with english people (with bad taste) back in the late 90's.
The Steps are, in fact, a four piece indierock band out of Austin, Texas. I wouldn't call it pop at all. Although there are a couple of tracks on their debut self-titled album, which are borderline.
Pull the Cord and Townes Lane are two tracks which stand out in (or more probably stick in) my mind. You may have noticed i'm more of a girl who likes tunes more than meaningful lyrics? Well yeah, that's me to a tea.
There is one song on the album.... that caught me by surprise. Here was me sitting happily on the train to work, listening obliviously to my earPod and on comes a song that i thought was Jet (Loose Mind). You can imagine my disgust. I had to use all my might to remind myself that it wasn't Jet and it was ok to not hate them. Luckily most of the songs don't sound like Jet as much. (The start of Belle also sounds just like a Stereophonics song... hmm).
I reckon these guys would be great live and this album would be most suited to being played loudly during either a car-trip or a really intense session of carpet vacuuming. It's not reeeally my thing. but i would dance to it and sing along if i had a beer in my hand (and i knew the words).
For ease of stalking, here are some relevant links:
Offical website: http://www.wearethesteps.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thesteps
Just the new single from the brilliant Perth band, Little Birdy. I'm not sure if we've covered Little Birdy here before (I'm sure I'll find out pretty soon one way or another)... but they are one of a great number of brilliant bands to come out of Perth. I'm sure there's something in the water over there or maybe it's just because there's not a lot to do other than spend hours perfecting musical skills and recorded some of the best tunes there could be.
Brother is the first single from their yet to be released 5th album, Confetti.
It's quiet, but has both a catchy tune and beautiful lyrics. It gets almost to the dance-around-the-room level during the hand-clap portions of the song. However, in my opinion, the best thing about Little Birdy, by far, is the awesome vocals provided by Katy Steele (brother of Luke Steele, frontman of the Sleepy Jackson and half of the duo Empire of the Sun, who have been having quite a bit of recent success all over the shop). I wont admit to singing along with various other Little Birdy tunes and feeling inadequate in my lack of singing skill prowess.... no I wont admit that.
Anyway.... I wont spend too much time on this. Best wait for the album, i reckon. In the meantime here's their website where you can grab the single and play it to your hearts content: http://www.littlebirdy.net/
I think that's it for now.
Have a tops weekend!
Sal
sally@weheartmusic.com
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