why am i blogging about music and posting songs all of a sudden? and since when did this become an mp3 blog? (since a week ago, apparently) this is more fun. it's an experiment of sorts, to see how long i can keep up output of this nature (i don't really expect this to last very long once intern year begins) and if i can keep it interesting enough that other people will continue to read it. (also, the last post was an experiment on typing with proper punctuation and capitalization and it was tiresome.)
as it is, my life has enough routine that i get bored easily, and honestly, being bored doesn't make for interesting writing (from myself, anyway). when everything becomes routine and uninteresting, then i go 2 weeks without posting and someone will post a comment that i've been neglecting this blog and then i'll post some rubbish about the movies i saw on tv or something.
I"M TRYING TO FIND A BALANCE (trying to find a balance)
so here's the low end of the see-saw: i saw A&E's made for tv movie Flight 93 this weekend. not on purpose, it was just on after SNL - they ran a special for "saturday TV funhouse" (i lead a busy life) - and once i realized what i was watching, it was hard to turn away. i almost felt like it was my patriotic duty to watch. and it was disturbing. oh lord was it disturbing. i can't say right now if it felt cathartic or whatever. it was just weird. and i can't imagine paying money to go sit in a theater and watch United 93. it's hard to decipher if all the positive talk surrounding the movie is because nobody's got the balls to say "this is a shit movie" or because it really is that good. or is it obvious that i'm drowning in hype because i'm even having these thoughts?
and now the balance:
i don't know a whole lot about metronomy. what i do know is that it's one dude named joseph mount who lives in brighton, and last year he released the curiously titled album, "Pip Paine (Pay Back The £5000 You Owe)." he also dabbles in the odd remix, such as the franz ferdinand one i posted a couple days ago.
i like his remixes a lot. the remix of pal of godin and dunckel and overall french weirdo sebastien tellier's "la ritournelle" transforms the original from a very AIR-like, mellow orchestral number into a nice thick slab of falsetto-laced casio-rock which would make any hot chipper proud.
as far as his full-length album, i think it's a bit of a different affair. for one guy, he can definitely change up the style from song-to-song (and sometimes within a song). "you could easily have me," the lead off track, is wiggly synths and garage rock in a haunted house. "danger song" has a microhouse start, and swells into an 8-bit arcade get-to-the-next-level finish. "this could be beautiful (it is)" is sweet, glitchy lap-pop a la múm. "black eye/burnt thumb" is another interesting merging of lo-fi guitars and vibrating synthesizers over a backdrop of choppy machine beats. and so on and so forth. i'm not going to write about every track.
also also also i hear he plays live with a backing band. dude.
the official site, under construction.
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Metronomy Mix)
Metronomy - You Could Easily Have Me
Metronomy - Danger Song
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the music posting is doin it for me, those new phoenix tracks are the illest, could rock for hours to that. the metronomy is interesting, very techy, simple...i kinda dig it.
stay away from the allergens. my throat hurts.
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on 01 May, 2006 09:41 [*]
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the new format is making me work up a black sweat
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drop some science: