Keyword results: Inertia Records
Girls, 'Album'
Cause I don't wanna die. Without shaking up a leg or two
Yeah I wanna do some dancing too
So come on, come on, come on
Come on and dance with me
So I feel strange writing about being so deeply into a band in the process of setting the world on fire, but with these guys (girls) I have to make an exception, for the record has been in constant rotation with me these past weeks.
They Blind the Stars, And the Wild Team
Featuring rainbow light refracting crystals on the cover, Decoder Ring wear their hearts on their sleeves with They Bind The Stars, And The Wild Team, their fourth-ish release to date, soundtracks and E.P.s included. Having dropped the dancey synth loops and vocals from 2005's Fractions, the new album is all guitar washes, twinkling notes and steady builds.
Lightbulbs, Fujiya & Miyagi
I really don't know what to make of this album. It's kind of an angular, electronic funk affair, much like if LCD Soundsystem had slightly less sensical, more repetitive lyrics, and threw in touches of The Knife, Air, and hell, a smidge of Goodshirt to try to create a digitally-driven folk-disco record.
Playtime for John Mountain, The Rectifiers
Playtime For John Mountain is an album caught somewhere in time; between Zombies 'Odessey and Oracle' [sic] pop, '60s film soundtracks, four-part baroque harmonies, and the pastoral soundscapes of contemporaries like Mountains in the Sky, Caribou, or even Wilco.
The third full-length album from this Melbourne four-piece (and their first in five years), is dreamy, lush, and atmospheric - an accomplished equal to Sensory Projects' terrific team of mood masters, The Sand Pebbles, Canon Blue, Mono and Hood.
7 Songs, Fabulous Diamonds
Minimal psychniks Fabulous Diamonds release their debut longplayer, 7 Songs, this week, and - as befits one of Melbourne's most idiomatic acts - it's a stoned cold stunner. With maximal overdubbing, longer length tracks and lush, atmospheric tape production, the duo sound more weighty and affective here than ever; their delay-on-everything style, swirling tiers of dub percussion, skronking sax and chanted vocals intensified by close analogue studio attention.
Good Arrows
A couple of years back, ‘folktronica' was the genre of the moment for many music journos, and no review of UK act Tunng and their debut album Mother's Daughters & Other Songs was complete without it. Now on to their third album, the core duo of Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay have evolved into a fully functioning six piece band.
HOMIES AND HOMOS
Having been released in Sept 2004 this album might not be gracing the grubby pages of the local street press but things move quickly in the media world and this is an album that deserves to be noticed. The title of the album is appropriate as it covers both the N*E*R*D* as well as the Scissor Sister-esque glam rock influence.
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