Week in Music May 10th - 16th

 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

David Shah's new Zeitklein project has released a nice new tune, 'Skydivers'

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. 

Week In Music July 27th - August 2nd 2020

Week started off with Lonelady's 'Marble' stuck in my head, as I just saw on Twitter that she had some t-shirts left for sale, and me being in the market for cool new t-shirts - most of mine are years old - I snapped up a Nerve Up one. Looking forward to its arrival. 'Marble', what a tune. Especially that 'ha' section at 3:46





Also discovered on Twitter is Katie Dey, whose new record 'mydata', released on the same day as, I am liking even more than Taylor Swift's. Lovely melodic 'floating in space' synthpop




My friend Jon messaged me about Shabaka & The Ancestors cause Jon knows I dig exactly this sort of thing. A new album came out in March which I listened to as well, though I like the one from 2016 even better




The Church's version of The Triffids 'Wide Open Road' has consistently been in my head this year, and this week was no different. What a wonderful version of a stellar tune





Just listened to Sunshine's 'Sunshine' album again this evening while casting a BaZi chart. I've listened before and I dig it more and more. Discovered them through Letterkenny



My phone was acting up in the car the other day so I hit play on the cd player and The Indelicates' 'Savages' came on. One of my favourite songs of all-time. Gorgeous, and says so much about life, my favourite line being 'the tear on your cheek will fall ignored by the suckers to fake romance'. It's one of those tunes that when it comes on you have to ask yourself 'do I want to go thru the intense experience of listening to this right now? is that something I'm prepared to do?'

You got any songs like that?