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Erland and the Carnival- ST (2010)
Essential- Troubled in mind, my name is carnival, love is a killing thing, you don't have to be lonely

Erland and the Carnival are a supergroup of sorts, in the way of the fictional biblical/red dwarf character Legion E&TC are composed of minds that have worked with damon albarn, paul mccartney and richard ashcroft. If you were asked to relay what the sound is that would best represent this name, that is how they sound.

They certainly play to their strengths; keys a plenty, abstract musical melodies and thankfully; original lyrical themes.

They're on the hot plate right now and it's been turned up to number 6 but this kind of stove takes a little while to warm up so grab it while it's still heating up and manageable as if you leave it for too long you're going to end up with something that's hotter than you can handle.

Two Door Cinema Club- Tourist History (2010)

"Two Door Cinema Club are 3 people with the help of technology and a thirst for anything quirky. If you were to pose the question, “Where do Two Door Cinema Club live?” and someone was to answer, “Why, Bangor!” That someone would only be 66.67% correct because Two Door Cinema Club are a Bangor/Donaghadee based electro pop band. Their music has been loosely compared to the likes of Death Cab for Cutie and Broken Social Scene but without a definitive capacity to be pigeon-holed. Melodic vocals, which hail from all three members of the outfit, infuse with guitar riffs that have been described as “oceanic” and rhythm described as “pulsing”. To get the symbolism out of the way, take your seats; it’s going to be a blockbuster!"

Two Door Cinema Club- Tourist History (2010)

1. "Cigarettes In The Theatre"
2. "Come Back Home"
3. "Do You Want It All?"
4. "This Is The Life"
5. "Something Good Can Work"
6. "I Can Talk"
7. "Undercover Martyn"
8. "What You Know"
9. "Eat That Up, It's Good For You"
10."You're Not Stubborn"

Essential D/L: Undercover Martyn, Something Good can Work, I can talk, Cigarettes in the theatre

Rogue Wave- Permalight (2010)

Rogue Wave- Permalight (2010)

1. Solitary Gun
2. Good Morning (The Future)
3. Sleepwalker
4. Stars and Stripes
5. Permalight
6. Fear Itself
7. Right With You
8. We Will Make A Song Destroy
9. I'll Never Leave You
10. Per Anger
11. You Have Boarded
12. All That Remains

BBC Sound Tips for 2010 Pt III

Everything Everything

It was difficult knowing which picture of these guys to pic they've got some brilliant ones. From manchester they are said to be pigeonholed as "surrealist neo-classical avant-pop for the digital age". They're getting a lot of attention from the johnny marr perspective but from me, who wasn't in the smith, modest mouse OR the cribs- i don't get it. It's mainly that the lyrics aren't very good that bothers me, the music's fine but as Morrisey might say with a dismissive yet flourishing waft of his right hand, it all seems so futile.

My keys your boyfriend

Gold Panda

You can only hope when searching images for "gold panda" that there are going to be pictures of gold pandas. Well if that's what you're into you're not going to be disappointed! I don't know if any of those are affilliated with the band but I figure it must have had some sort of play in the name considering the guy is more than a bit interested in oriental culture. His music owes a lot to this and his music is... very different. In a really exciting way. Like people this inventive don't come around every day but I feel a duty to say if you're going to listen to this do so with an open mind.

Like Totally



Hurts

Like that video by mystery jets and days hurts are indebted the 80's in a non ironic way. The name, hurts as well is great because you can put it at the end of most phrases (like your mom) and it will end up as a witty observation, a fact they shamelessly exploit. For example you can check out their myspace at myspace.com/ithurts or their website at informationhurts.com now we all know I like a bit of innovation but that isn't it.

The video for wonderful life pretty much embodies all that is this band; mournful lyrics, an upbeat chorus and a random dancer-



Wonderful Life mp3
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Thus concludes my review of the BBC sound tips for 2010 although if you've been paying attention there is one noteable absence. Well Stornoway are getting their own post. It's been a while in coming!

Happy New Year from Outroversion

I'm at a frank turner gig at the moment, hope you're doing something comparable.

In celebration i'm going to post the most downloaded track off my blog since it started-

With

12,724 downloads

The most downloaded track from the outroversion blog iiiiis-


Dizzee. Rascal. Bonkers.



W.T.F indeed Dizznee...

I don't even know why I posted that track originally...

*meanders off in an anti-climactic fashion*

Ha. The rest are quite predicatable to be honest but one nice surprise is a track I heard on MTV over in France and posted it on here, it's entirely in french but also entirely catchy- Olivia Ruiz- Elle Panique

Happy new year, have a great 2010!

Has Vampire Weekend leaked yet?!

BBC Sound Tips for 2010 Part II

I'm going to continue with a few acts that you, as I'm assuming you listen to good music if you read this, have probably heard of already this year..










Delphic

Formerly known by the quite fantastic name "Snowfight In The City Centre", Delphic are a four piece indie-rave band in cut from the same cloth as the cure and new order. One of the reasons they're hyped to be big is the stadium potential for tracks like this, reminiscent of klaxons circa golden skans with a major plus that the tone of lead singer James Cook's voice is so much more clear and with actual resonant lyrics rather than sounds that just go with the music. These guys are good.

Counterpoint

The Drums

Comparisons to the beach boys, the first hyped 2010 leak in 2009, the NME tour at the start of the year, pretty much all signs point to yes. With blissed out surfer pop there are drawbacks, a lack of substance (literal substance) being one and that which 2009's "girls" lacked and that 2010's surfer blood seem to have in droves. It would be easy to say that this band are somewhere in between the two and I'm on a tight schedule so there ya go :) bottom line is they're as catchy as any communicable disease you could possibly envisage.

Let's go surfing



Owl City

Pushed this guy on BIRP pretty hard since its inception really and he's gotten huge independant success which is now turning into major success with billboard #1's and shizz! You know this kind of music it's light electro-emo so like in between trees, secret handshake, rocket to the moon. I'm still kiiiiinda surprised at all the attention he's gotten because like i'm a fan of this kind of music and no one has really come close to getting this kind of mainstream press the past couple of years. And yes, it was a bit difficult not to mention the postal service... I like it alot though, it's familiar. I like it. ALOT. I'm really quite impressed with the BBC for this particular tip.

Hot air balloon
Fireflies



Two Door Cinema Club

They played truck last year and are an indefinable qauntity in that they're a great time but also have a great depth. Formidable lyricism and masterful instrumentation mean that TDCC have something to fall back onto but they don't need it because they have great tunes for that. They call themselves "electropop" but then so would the XX (who suck) so i'd like to steer clear of such labelling. You know on the postal service's give up where they underscore JT's music with guitars, hand claps and inventive swirling instrumentation, that is exactly where these guys are at. Oh they're also from bangor which (don't shoot me...) I thiiiink is in wales? and Donaghee which I gotta be honest, sounds made up :p
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I'm off to see Frank Turner tonight for the close of the decade. So I've just done a double blog today as i'll be in gloucester tomorrow but I plan on sticking around for the next decade so get ready for some good stuff!

Album of the year: Fanfarlo- Reservoir

Big surprise right?! When I think about 2009 I'll think of them. Here are some of outroversion's testemonial's from the past year-

"Dreampop, it's one of those abstract nondescript genres that still seems to fit some bands perfectly, this is one. Great for the summer, they're a mixture between the floatysunshinecatchiness of empire of the sun and the rhythmic intrumentation consciousness of an arcade fire. I really like these guys, they are probably the band that i've been most excited to discover in this blog, they really make stunning music. In the trunk is when it really struck me. Unbelievably endorphene inducing" ~ Outroversion, 25th March 2009

"YEEAAAHH!!! I know i've gone on and on about fanfarlo but I think they're going to be massive. I'm seeing them in a couple of weeks, the night before I leave for france. This track emphasises all they're great for; haunting backing, deep bass, high strings, introspective lyrics, hopeful sounding vocals with intense lyrics. So glad I found this band. "If you look at the horizon there is always something ducking out of sight" I wrote fucking the first time I wrote that :)" ~ Outroversion, 15th May 2009



Fanfarlo- Reservoir (2009)

The review

Before listening to this album the first thing I noticed was that standout track from the demo cd "you are one of the few outsiders that understand us" isn't included but then neither is "in the trunk**" which were the first two tracks I heard by them and what hooked me in. Well it's 9 months later and every single track from the album has 4 stars or higher on my ipod so that pretty much speaks for itself...

"I am a pilot" is a heavenly track, starts the album off perfectly, and purposefully. The strings are magnificent and add a haunting atmosphere to the dark lyrics which are masked by an upbeat tempo and clapped beats which underly the piano perfectly. Part of what sounds like percussion is actually a lot of people playing the same part on guitars.

I didn't really notice until I saw them live but Cathy underscores alot of Simon Balthazar's vocals on the album and once you listen out for her you'll fall in love with her-



The similarities and indeed comparison musically to arcade fire are both obvious and unignorable. The strings and brass heavy tunes, where the flowing vocals and harmonies maybe owe a little more to Beirut but in my opinion they do both better than either band can because it really seems like the entire band has a common goal as each track builds and support each other well. Like sometimes you don't care about the other members of the band but each member of Fanfarlo is integral to the scenes they create.

After the first 6 listens to the album I considered it a consistant and not overly ambitious debut, which was by no means a bad thing, they just know what they're good at and what they can pull off live and have aimed at hitting those highs first.

For the generation that can't listen to an entire album you simply have to hear the walls are coming down, finish line and fire escape. For those that can you've probably already got this and made it your album of the year, if not, do yourself a huge favour and invest your time in this band. They tour relentlessly and will no doubt be playing within your vacinity in 2010.

**If anyone has an mp3 of this I would be eternally greatful if you could send it my way

Courteeners- Cross my heart hope to fly

Courteeners- Cross my heart hope to fly

I haven't missed a courteeners tour since I first heard of them in 2007 and that's meant travelling to manchester at times which I'd only do for very few but live they are that amazing. I go to a lot of gigs but I'd drop everything i'm doing to see Liam Fray and the guys. I loved St. Jude I thought it was flawless and was so excited for the second album, still am in fact haha. Check out this free download that was released last night and then go and get st. jude and catch up, they're here for the music the thing that they love.

Can you play guitar my boy?
Can you fuck

BBC Sound Tips for 2010 Pt III

Everything Everything

It was difficult knowing which picture of these guys to pic they've got some brilliant ones. From manchester they are said to be pigeonholed as "surrealist neo-classical avant-pop for the digital age". They're getting a lot of attention from the johnny marr perspective but from me, who wasn't in the smith, modest mouse OR the cribs- i don't get it. It's mainly that the lyrics aren't very good that bothers me, the music's fine but as Morrisey might say, it all seems so futile.

My keys your boyfriend

Gold Panda

You can only hope when searching images for "gold panda" that there are going to be pictures of gold pandas. Well if that's what you're into you're not going to be disappointed! I don't know if any of those are affilliated with the band but I figure it must have had some sort of play in the name considering the guy is more than a bit interested in oriental culture. His music owes a lot to this and his music is... very different. In a really exciting way. Like people this inventive don't come around every day but I feel a duty to say if you're going to listen to this do so with an open mind.

Like Totally



Hurts

Like that video by mystery jets and days hurts are indebted the 80's in a non ironic way. The name, hurts as well is great because you can put it at the end of most phrases (like your mom) and it will end up as a witty observation, a fact they shamelessly exploit. For example you can check out their myspace at myspace.com/ithurts or their website at informationhurts.com now we all know I like a bit of innovation but that isn't it.

The video for wonderful life pretty much embodies all that is this band; mournful lyrics, an upbeat chorus and a random dancer-



Wonderful Life mp3
______________________________________________

Thus concludes my review of the BBC sound tips for 2010 although if you've been paying attention there is one noteable absence. Well Stornoway are getting their own post. It's been a while in coming!

BBS Sound Tips for 2010 Pt III

Everything Everything

It was difficult knowing which picture of these guys to pic they've got some brilliant ones. From manchester they are said to be pigeonholed as "surrealist neo-classical avant-pop for the digital age". They're getting a lot of attention from the johnny marr perspective but from me, who wasn't in the smith, modest mouse OR the cribs- i don't get it. It's mainly that the lyrics aren't very good that bothers me, the music's fine but as Morrisey might say, it all seems so futile.

My keys your boyfriend

Gold Panda

You can only hope when searching images for "gold panda" that there are going to be pictures of gold pandas. Well if that's what you're into you're not going to be disappointed! I don't know if any of those are affilliated with the band but I figure it must have had some sort of play in the name considering the guy is more than a bit interested in oriental culture. His music owes a lot to this and his music is... very different. In a really exciting way. Like people this inventive don't come around every day but I feel a duty to say if you're going to listen to this do so with an open mind.

Like Totally



Hurts

Like that video by mystery jets and days hurts are indebted the 80's in a non ironic way. The name, hurts as well is great because you can put it at the end of most phrases (like your mom) and it will end up as a witty observation, a fact they shamelessly exploit. For example you can check out their myspace at myspace.com/ithurts or their website at informationhurts.com now we all know I like a bit of innovation but that isn't it.

The video for wonderful life pretty much embodies all that is this band; mournful lyrics, an upbeat chorus and a random dancer-



Wonderful Life mp3
______________________________________________

Thus concludes my review of the BBC sound tips for 2010 although if you've been paying attention there is one noteable absence. Well Stornoway are getting their own post. It's been a while in coming!