Freaky Things

I am at a loss for adjectives.  Holy hell.

A Matter of Function

I had always wondered what had happened to Peter Adams.  

Apparently he's been writing for the Cincinnati ballet and film.  Holy crap!
I was obsessed with this album when it came out back in 2004. I had "The Disappeared" on loop for something like six months.  Yet here I am eight years after the fact finally googling him.  (What the hell is wrong with me?)  

Also, because I am lazy, a list of random reviews: http://www.tinderboxmusic.com/default.asp?page=154

I Don't Need a New Life

"One Foot" from: Fun.--Some Nights

Infectious is the word that springs to mind.  Fun. can be obnoxious, yes (hellooo, Autotune!)-- but sometimes all you want is a catchy chorus and something to rattle your teeth with.

Try, Try to Get, Get Over It!

Archie Bronson Outfit has always fascinated me.  They're all kinds of 60's garage-noise-jangle and stabbing lovesick deranged-ness channeled through driving drum lines punctuated with Sam Windett's frantic vocal swagger.  He sounds unhinged.  Their first two albums bent towards obsessiveness through blues-influenced claustrophobic psychedelia.  Their third album? Well.  They took on producer Tim Goldsworthy--and took on a dance-punk sensibility that somehow manages to work.  It is the strangest thing, in a way, but not really all that shocking when you give it a go. 

Somehow it makes sense.

"Kangeroo Heart" from 2004's Fur



"Shark's Tooth" from 2010's Coconut

I guess They're Coming to the Chorus Now

Sambassadeur, everyone! 

This is still such a lusciously hazy album.  I can't believe it's already 5 years old.
Oh! And Labrador is releasing a new digital single come August!

All I Want

DENA--Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools

Presented without much comment, except that this is ridiculously awesome.  People keep comparing Denitza Todorova to MIA, but I think it's mostly a cop-out way of saying her first language isn't English. (C'mon people.)