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[Beavercanoe]

Wintersleep - Drunk On Aluminum

[Treefingers]

Finally listening to that new MBV song... http://hypem.com/track/1szp7/My+Bloody+ ... Rough+Song (un-took-down link for the interested).

Quite like it, though obviously with it being a bootleg recording (and the apparent technical issues at that show), you can't quite hear all the elements of it. I'm excited for the next "two or three days".

[Treefingers]

Re: that ^

In fact, I can imagine it - on record - sounding a bit like 'When You Sleep' or 'What You Want'.

Also LOVE that Grouper picture that Guido posted.

[TaoTapeTao]

Modest Mouse - Dramamine

[Amo Bishop Roden]

I don't usually listen to too much rap, but fuck...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMR45VOKj58

Also sampling Beach House is fucking brilliant

[A_Northern_Soul]

New Order - Crystal

Get Ready is a massively underrated album I reckon.

[2020k]

Gold ole "Dummy" by Portishead!

[subset]

I know any mention of James Blake gets lots of extreme love/hate reactions. I've never felt anything but love for his music, and his latest song is no different - brilliant as always.

Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/6p6PcFFUm5I

[Guido]

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Monki

[Magrathea]

Decline of the I - Inhibition - Ou se trouve la Mort

[A_Northern_Soul]

Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix

Glorious.

[Magrathea]

Accept - Breaker

Classic kraut metal

[Magrathea]

Cor Scorpii - Attergangar

[Treefingers]

'In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP' by some band you guys probably haven't heard of.

On a similar subject, I had 'Geogaddi' on earlier, which synced with the bit of 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' I was reading.

[SanPietro05]

On a similar subject, I had 'Geogaddi' on earlier, which synced with the bit of 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' I was reading.

Neat, man. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is probably my favourite Murakami book. The surrealism and the anime vibe gives always me the chills. I hope you enjoy it. Have you read Kafka on the shore?

[mono]

I remember loving Dance Dance Dance. Wind Up Bird, the first time I was so hooked I read it in three nights, but the second time I read it it didn't really strike me all that much.

I remember one of the first times I came to the city I live in nowadays. I couldn't sleep so I sat on the toilet (for some reason that feel good) and read Norwegian Wood all night. The street was empty and at maybe 3 AM a weird demonstration of old people (I think store owners or a neighbourhood association) marched through the street making a lot of noise - it was very strange. That room was very weird, too - there was a rusty safe on the balcony, among the flowerpots. I think it was also during this trip that I listened to Sonic Youth's Evol staring at the ceiling and understanding how boss that album is and how much I like this city and generally internalising the feeling of that weird room and that weird street and that weird album.

More recently I was travelling by bike through France, sleeping by the Garonne in Toulouse while I was waiting for my girlfriend (who had suddenly left as soon as she got her holidays) to arrive from wherever she was, I believe she was in Prague then. I needed something to read, so I got Wild Sheep Chase in French, and it lasted I think 3 days.

I don't know, Murakami is at his best when he gets nostalgic, but for me the problem is he has a very distant, or very non-militant, or very skeptical, or very postmodern, view on love and on the Japanese equivalent of May 68, while at the same time feeling nostalgia for these same things which he claims weren't even there in the first place. He can't make up his mind, so he just feels sort of sad, shrugs and cooks some spaghetti. I don't know, some of his stuff is rather touching and the surreal elements are hard to forget, but I really wish he took the side of revolution, and of another kind of love.

Haven't read his more recent stuff, though, the last I read was Kafka on the Shore which was a bit embarrassing really, but still a compelling read for some reason.

[Treefingers]

Yeah, I've read Kafka..., though I need to re-read it. He's one of those writers where I remember a lot of the scenes vividly in my head (namely... Hokkaido in A Wild Sheep Chase, so many places from After Dark (partly because it's narrated like a film, anyway, I guess, so extra vividity), and the woods in Kafka on the Shore) if not necessarily specific details about the storylines.

That's something that makes me hold him in high esteem, along with how he manages to introduce surrealism and philosophy into quite relateable situations and characters. His work's good to read if you're feeling lonely or a bit existential, too.

This is a really cool documentary about him and his work (mainly the latter), too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6LyqO9i8Y. Alan Yentob chats with a cat in it.

[Treefingers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kChGBKuJt6Q

Beautiful

[Beavercanoe]

Lorn - The Gun


Sorry, I can't find it anywhere on YouTube.

EDIT: However, it's off of the album 'Ask the Dust' (on Ninjatune). I'd rate it as a "highly recommend".

[A_Northern_Soul]

Dennis Wilson - Thoughts of You.

I bloody love Pacific Ocean Blue.