Monday Music is the one post wherein Some Of It Was True! abandons it’s London-music focus to go global…
Creep – Animals (Feat. Holly Miranda)
The third single from Brooklyn duo Creep (two girls, both called Lauren), this is as good as their first and most-famous, Days. That one saw them collaborate with The xx‘s Romy from some indie grind; this time the equally ephemeral Holly Miranda is roped in, and the tempo shifted to a spectral pop, with both rock and r’n'b overtones, but the catchiness and bold production values remain. Next up is a song with Grimes; SOIWT has actually run out of saliva.
The Shrieks – Coldest One (mp3) (Brighton band #1.)
I listen to this and visualise grainy Super 8 family footage, with children running around at giddy speed, parents eating ice creams, first bicycle rides, dads winking lustily at mums, grandparents smiling soporifically in an armchair, brothers chasing sisters with a hosepipe, a frisbee being thrown, laughter, grazed knees…
Great Bays – Numb (Brighton band #2.)
“In the second half (…) I looked around. The trees around the park were perfectly still as if time had stopped, as if every second of the afternoon were held in a single moment: Steranko frozen in his running, his feet barely touching the grass; Carlton bent down tying his shoe, the breeze rippling his shirt; the muscles straining in someone’s leg; players jumping for the ball, their feet suspended in mid-air, the goalkeeper’s hands rising above their floating hair; the ball hanging over them like a perfect moon. And everything around us: the crease of the corner flag, the wind-sculpted trees, the child’s swing at the top of its arc, the water of the drinking fountain bubbling towards the lips of the woman bent down to drink, the cyclist leaning into the curve of the path, a plane stalled in the sky, someone’s thrown tennis ball a small yellow planet in the distance.” – from The Colour of Memory, by Geoff Dyer. (via Don’t Die Wondering)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – Trouble Every Day
Sometimes you watch the news and it’s all bad; consistently, constantly grim and depressing – climate change, wars, stabbings, corruption, sinking cruise ships, tsunamis, disease – and you think where will it end?…
Youth Lagoon – Afternoon
… but then you hear this piece of beauty, off the Idaho band’s new album, Year of Hibernation, and it’s like an affirmation of life, and maybe everything’ll be okay somehow.
