Archive for September, 2014
I’ve sat on this one for a few minutes because I’ve had lots of stuff to do ie only bloody well starting my own record label / Ponzi scheme. A new Foreign/National track is worth returning to despite my tardiness because the five of them delightfully straddle that formless psych aesthetic and the rigid form of a highly structure track with ease. For that reason I’m going to keep the psych references to a minimum because, in fairness, 98% of what bloggers label as psych is pop-rock with reverb. So you’ll excuse me if I don’t pull out a lazy Tame Impala reference or suggest easy stonerisms for the next three minutes (one minute if you skim read- recommended.)
This is just one of the multiple [great] singles that F/N have popped online from their debut EP due out this month through Sam Gill’s DOWNTIME Records. Honestly, it feels like the 73rd single these dudes have released this month but that might just be due to the fact that everyone everywhere everytime keeps writing about them to the point where it’s literally the only feature of my feed. You can personally blame this band for the fact I don’t like any of your wonderful statuses or thinspirational images, I’m just not seeing them, sorry.
BONUS CONTENT: F/N covering fellow Melbdogs The Harpoons.
Tame Impala.
As soon as I received the email for this one I knew something good was coming. I just knew it right down into my bones. They started shaking a bit and that was when I knew it right up in there. That was the exact moment I knew about this song. I knew it was a song that was going to have not just some good bits in it but also some good ideas. It’s all about the protagonist Lux who happens to be out wandering the suburban rains when he has a great realization. I’m pretty sure it’s something to do with love or something but I can’t really tell because lo-fi etc but I think this song is actually pretending to be more dischordant than it actually is. You can hang your hat on that guitar section and the chords padding into the background actually resolve the melody real nice like. It’s one of those deceptive Bored Nothing affairs that parades as a black coffee but is actually pre-loaded with artificial sweetener. Man, that’s a lazy metaphor. In conclusion, this is so good that I’d be willing to award it Sound Doctrine’s album of the week for this week, despite the fact it’s just one song and I don’t do an album of the week.
You can have it as a free download via Airpunch if you wanna.
So Melbourne, so good.
Artists you need to know rn
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