Exciting week with two of the best bands - Fightmilk & Desperate Journalist - releasing new music.
The new Fightmilk record, Contender, is killer. Great tunes that both rock and are very catchy, good lyrics too. My current favourite is 'Maybe'. Gorgeous. And the way it builds throughout the song to such a sumptuous juggernaut at the end is wonderful
Desperate Journalist are back with a great new tune and video, 'Personality Girlfriend'. I really dig the mood of this one, the minor slow romp of the verses, and especially when Jo goes high with the vocal, smoothly flowing into a chorus where the light of a major key makes for cool shadows
My favourite Facebook group is The Go-Betweens one and someone mentioned there's a Triffids 'Great Australian Albums' documentary for Born Sandy Devotional so I hopped on that right away.
'Spanish Blue' is in it, well before the album, but what a good single.
And then of course 'Wide Open Road' is one of the best songs ever written. Great performance of it here
And the Church cover of it is fantastic
Still making my way through Colin Harper's excellent John McLaughlin bio Bathed In Lightning. A good compilation of John's pre-Miles 60s recordings here
And finally I was playing quadruple solitaire with the family last night and I put on Burt Bacharach's '20th Century Masters' compilation for us to listen to, not realizing these are instrumental versions of the hits. But OMG, the version of 'Don't Make Me Over' is FANTASTIC. Especially the 'accept me for what I am' part. Intense.
And if anyone here is a comics fan, I wrote an appreciation of one of my favourite comics creators, the Belgian master Maurice Tillieux, for The Comics Journal, published this week. I love his style, one could describe it as a cross between Franquin and Hergé but it's definitely all his own, his art and dialogue are excellent.
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