Archive for 2011
This is the new home of Sound Doctrine blog. Hopefully the change is a positive one. I didn’t bring this up before hand because I thought people might object but the design, hosting, domain name etc has cost me a total of about 900 dollars so if both of my readers could pitch in $450 that should cover it.
Here is a list of the new stuff you should know:
• The site looks really good now so when you are looking at it, you should remember that it looks really good. Jez Milledge is the dude to thank for that. So many small tweaks fixed. Sarah Adamson did the graphics. These are good people.
• You now have the option of clicking the Facebook ‘like’ button (bottom left of every post). This won’t automatically come up on your facebook wall unless you ask it to.
• You can also click the Tweet buttom (same place). I don’t really know what that does. Something something on Twitter or something.
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• There is a link up the top to go to the Sound Doctrine shop. It’s sort of a shop but it’s also sort of just a series of links that take you to real shops.
• I haven’t transferred every post over from the old SD yet so anything older than August is not here. I’ll do that soon, using science.
• Let me know if you spot anything not working and I’ll get on it.
What happens when an 11 year old African American girl collides with a middle-aged, bearded Irishman? Nope, not criminal charges, the answer is James Vincent McMorrow covering Willow Smith’s Whip My Hair. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry as I listen to this but either way, it’s an interesting artefact showing where two very different streams of music are at in 2011.
James Vincent McMorrow – Whip My Hair
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It’s been a few weeks since Daytrotter put out a session that I was particularly interested in. ‘Have they dropped the ball?’ I thought. ‘Have they no longer the pulling power to attract big artists?’, but they’re back (in my goodbooks) with a session from Two Door Cinema Club. It’s EXACTLY what you’d expect it to sound like. Unlike Tallest Man and Local Natives who both had crazy innovative sessions, TDCC are content just to strip it back to acoustic and leave the arrangement as it’s always been. Still, worth a listen. They’re the same catchy, cool songs we already love.
Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn (Daytrotter Session)
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Download the whole session here. Also, just for kicks, here’s this:
Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn (Jupiter Remix)
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The first single from Death Cab For Cutie’s mid year release ‘Codes and Keys’ came out today and is called You Are A Tourist. It’s more uplifting than what we heard from their last full length, the diappointing Narrow Stairs. If it’s indicative of what’s to come on the rest of the album then I’m excited. The threshold between ‘excited’ and ‘frothing’ hasn’t been crossed yet but I’m sure there’ll be a few more singles before May 31st.
Death Cab For Cutie – You Are A Tourist [Album Version]
“If you feel like a tourist in the city you’re born, then it’s time to go”
It’s kind of like Roy Orbison writing folk rock in 2011. That’s the impression Dry The River’s new single New Ceremony gives me, except minus the part about Roy Orbison. It doesn’t look like the folk rock phenomenon is going to blow over anytime soon so in case you’re still repping Jack Johnson, this is an ‘all aboard’ before the train leaves. The rising and the falling, the quavering vocals, they’re a little bit Orbinsonesque right?
Every day I expect to wake and find that this band have broken into the global consciousness but every day I’m wrong. Do you know how that feels? To wake up wrong everyday? Yeah, you do.
Dry The River – New Ceremony
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Artists you need to know rn
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| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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