Marina and the diamonds

I've written about Marina & the diamonds 3 times on this blog already and she's been featured on here twice as much. I saw her live for the first time just over a month ago, I liked her music before hand but one thing that struck me was how close she was with her audience, she really makes you feel like she's excited to be performing for you and for you to be there. Which is no doubt why she's amassed a great fanbase in a pretty short space of time, this as well as being an electrifying performer.

She's another artist I follow on twitter and through this I know that Perez Hilton and Kanye West are hyping her to the high heavens. This means two things. The first is that she's going to be huge and deservedly so. The second which I pray doesn't happen is that she's going to do electronic music and marketed to the brit awards crowd ala la roux and little boots.

I'm not sure I can say anything that I haven't said in any of my other posts! I must emplore you to make up your own mind before you get told what to think by the press.

I love her delivery so much, I am not a robot, seventeen and Mowgli's road are just brilliant, check them out. Also I had only heard "shampain" live before today and it was quite the fans favourite then, I've included the studio version here.

Fact of the matter even if these are the only good tracks on her album (which they won't be) it'll be massive, 2010 is the year of the diamonds.

I am not a robot
Mowgli's Road
Seventeen
Shampain Sleeper
Obsessions - "This track is laden with secret stars like angst with her synesthesia infused vocals. Maybe the piano is a little simple but the pulsing of the percussion helps it on the journey that she's becoming pretty spectacular at creating." ~ outroversion

Frontier Ruckus- The orion songbook [2008]

With the indie rock playlist and my best of wrapped up for octoboer I started on November and this is the first band I got excited about. The track I heard (Rosemont) reminded me so much of Bright Eyes' old soul song and that was one of the tracks that pretty much tipped me over the edge from a casual fan to conorobsessive. You simply gotsta check this one out.

Frontier Ruckus
The orion songbook [2008]

1. Animals Need Animals
2. The Latter Days
3. What You Are
4. Dark Autumn Hour
5. Mount Marcy
6. The Blood
7. Bethlehem
8. Foggy Lilac Windows
9. Orion Town 2
10. The Back-Lot World
11. Rosemont
12. Orion Town 3
13. Adirondack Amish Holler
14. The Deep-Yard Dream

"Matthew Milia, David W. Jones, and crew take the americana, backwoods-homespun-heirloom sounds of a bygone era, and give them a new understanding, with an unobtrusive modern edge. Top it off with the most intelligent lyricism you've heard in years, and you have Frontier Ruckus. It's hard to recall a voice as untreated and honest as Milia's... ever. His is a voice whose timbre carries as much meaning as the words that come through it"

Reccomended Downloads: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13

So on my album posts now I'm going to put what tracks I reccomend to download as recently i've gone through my itunes and tended to keep sort of 5 or 6 tracks on quite a few albums and my ipod is much more healthier for it and when you put it on shuffle it's pretty much all gold rather than hit and miss.

Dead Man's Bones- Dead Man's Bones (2009)

I will remember them forever for soundtracking my halloween 2009! What an awesome and creepy album.

Dead man's Bones

1. Intro

2. Dead Hearts

3. In The Room Where You Sleep

4. Buried in Water

5. My Body's a Zombie for You

6. Pa Pa Power

7. Young & Tragic

8. Paper Ships

9. Lose Your Soul

10. Werewolf Heart

11. Dead Man's Bones

12. Flowers Grow Out of My Grave

Twitter

Everyone probably knows what twitter is by now, I'm pretty obsessed with updating everything I do but it also makes me make sure that everything I do is awesome. (This is not always true).

Mine feel free to follow me

The reason for posting this blog is to highlight some of the great musical artists that use the micro-blogging site. A full list is here- http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phtgMLGe8aahYaH0pRs7VHg

And here are some highlights of people who update regularly

Camera Obscura- http://twitter.com/Camera_Obscura_

Slash- http://twitter.com/slashhudson

Lily Allen- http://twitter.com/lilyroseallen

Ezra Keonig (Vampire Weekend)- http://twitter.com/arzE

Lightspeed Champion- http://twitter.com/addmelolz

John Vanderslice- http://twitter.com/johnvanderslice

Adam Ficek (Babyshambles)- http://twitter.com/AdamFicek

Eminem- http://twitter.com/eminem

Nick Harmer (Death cab for cutie)- http://twitter.com/onewhoharms

let me know of any other great ones you know of...