Bored Nothing

Sep
15
posted by tommy

Guys ive got a real good one for us here. You already know bored nothing you say? Well sorry for trying guy, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but ive been busy with themesongs and bigsounds and playlists so if you’ll forgive me my diminished blog game you’d be doing me a real solid. This is a goodie though, even if the horse bolted back in April. Listen to the record several times over the next week, that’s your mandate as my recently elected listenership and isn’t a tall order for even the worst of records. I’ve listened to it sporadically via streaming services these past few months but I don’t want to overplay my previous affections for this outfit since they’re only now growing to any sort of substance. Fergus Miller and his band of cool guys played a sadly under attended showcase at BIGSOUND this week and I was completely and utterly drawn in. Then I relistened to the record with great pleasure and suddenly I knew that this would be a contender for ‘record that I really like the most from the year 2013′ and that POA hadn’t been wrongo this whole time. Hell, even pitchfork gave it a 7.0 which seems to bump up against their glass ceiling reserved for Australian artists with few exceptions.

I love the sonics on this record. I love the guitar tone, I like the shuttered, shallow drum parts and I like the reverb heavy vocals. Those features in tandem are enough to draw me in to an artist but it’s the songs themselves that actually keep me involved. Highlights of this record include ‘Shit For Brains’, ‘I Wish You Were Dead’, ‘Echo Room’, ‘Let Down’, ‘Popcorn’ & ‘Get Out Of Here’ and those are just the ones that are immediately worthy of singeldom. There’s plenty more on the record that similarly but less memorably slays. So with no further wordwang, here is what I refer to as the Bored Nothing smorgasbord: Two originals, a video, a live video session and a cover of that FKA Twigs song that has the tripped out pendulum video.

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