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Chrissie, I got your postcard! ♥ A couple of days ago, but I keep forgetting to mention it of course. XD; Your handwriting is rather as I pictured it but I can't remember if that's because I've gotten mail from you before.
I'm going to take the music in this post down pretty soon, so if you're still downloading, step it up!
Patrick Wolf - The Bluebell
Patrick Wolf - Bluebells [official video]
I'd planned to link this song (it's one song, no idea why the intro is split off) on Bonfire Night, since it's actually about the 5th of November - the drum track is made out of fireworks! - but I forgot. XD Or was not at the computer, or something. Insofar as one can pass an objective judgment on something like songwriting I'd say this and "Augustine" are his best thus far.
The PWolf thing is unusual because it's actually following the arc of a proper fandom i.e. gone into the "waiting for new canon" holding pattern. XD The count is at two pints per album, plus one for the b-sides, plus one for being generally THE MOST HILARIOUS PERSON ALIVE, plus one for introducing me to Angela Carter. He will probably want that in Bailey's though.
Been listening to Burial for a day or so, the new album (I'd put money down to get a higher bitrate than 192vbr). Thinking about Burial, how he apparently wants to stay Anonymous Kid In Hoodie #183,255, South London, After Dark. His friends put his music on and don't know he's the one who made it. Insanity! The past year of listening feels like a series of prodigy narratives - Jesse Somfay**, Patrick Wolf, Zach Condon, Burial - there's this whole mythos of the teenaged bedroom producer. XD I built my equipment out of duct tape, I multitracked myself to pretend I have a band, I only know how to use Soundforge so I draw sinewaves on a napkin. Then again all it's done is replaced the "any kid could pick up a guitar and ROCK OUT" meme, probably. A little.
It could also be my own selection bias as all these artists share a primary mood: a saudade one is probably born with, or not. Imaginary countries glimpsed over a wall, between treetops, under sodium streetlights, in the sunset, in the fire.
...You guys will probably be grateful once the CDs go out and I can post mp3s again instead of wanking on and on AMIRITE.
** I just checked Jesse Somfay's website, and he's got a new page up. HTML title is "An atmosphere the scent of crystaline[sic] static, vapourised snow and metamorphic rain. An ozone embrace for my hexahedral heart." STAY TRUE, JESSE, NEVER CHANGE.
I'm going to take the music in this post down pretty soon, so if you're still downloading, step it up!
Patrick Wolf - The Bluebell
Patrick Wolf - Bluebells [official video]
I'd planned to link this song (it's one song, no idea why the intro is split off) on Bonfire Night, since it's actually about the 5th of November - the drum track is made out of fireworks! - but I forgot. XD Or was not at the computer, or something. Insofar as one can pass an objective judgment on something like songwriting I'd say this and "Augustine" are his best thus far.
The PWolf thing is unusual because it's actually following the arc of a proper fandom i.e. gone into the "waiting for new canon" holding pattern. XD The count is at two pints per album, plus one for the b-sides, plus one for being generally THE MOST HILARIOUS PERSON ALIVE, plus one for introducing me to Angela Carter. He will probably want that in Bailey's though.
Been listening to Burial for a day or so, the new album (I'd put money down to get a higher bitrate than 192vbr). Thinking about Burial, how he apparently wants to stay Anonymous Kid In Hoodie #183,255, South London, After Dark. His friends put his music on and don't know he's the one who made it. Insanity! The past year of listening feels like a series of prodigy narratives - Jesse Somfay**, Patrick Wolf, Zach Condon, Burial - there's this whole mythos of the teenaged bedroom producer. XD I built my equipment out of duct tape, I multitracked myself to pretend I have a band, I only know how to use Soundforge so I draw sinewaves on a napkin. Then again all it's done is replaced the "any kid could pick up a guitar and ROCK OUT" meme, probably. A little.
It could also be my own selection bias as all these artists share a primary mood: a saudade one is probably born with, or not. Imaginary countries glimpsed over a wall, between treetops, under sodium streetlights, in the sunset, in the fire.
...You guys will probably be grateful once the CDs go out and I can post mp3s again instead of wanking on and on AMIRITE.
** I just checked Jesse Somfay's website, and he's got a new page up. HTML title is "An atmosphere the scent of crystaline[sic] static, vapourised snow and metamorphic rain. An ozone embrace for my hexahedral heart." STAY TRUE, JESSE, NEVER CHANGE.
