i’ve been waiting for the youtube of ghostpoet‘s new video for the amazing ‘cash & carry me home’ so that i could embed it in here and shit. it’s only myspace at the moment though so to see it you’ll have to click this bit of text right here. enough about all that though. look who directed it! even more amazing.
for those that don’t know. my full name is tim brown.
i’m well busy and stuff at the moment though. and i haven’t got internet in my new place yet. this place will become more interesting again in 7-10 working days. anyway, this is the video to mystery jets’ ‘show me the light’ from the fantastic serotonin. don’t you think kai looks a bit like oz from american pie in it?
she’s certainly not everybody’s cup of tea, and her (very long awaited) album was a disappointment. you have to give it to uffie though. she sure can make a video. remember ‘pop the glock’? the overly stylised video to that was awesome. the brand new promo for ‘difficult’ does the job as well. the song is the usual stuff about how she’s hot and has cash.
lykke li went to the desert. she went out there after a tour while a bit depressed and wandered about a bit. she’d just gone through a break up and it was all pretty deep and shit. she filmed it in black & white on a super 8, then put some soft music with it and found herself. or it can just be seen as an excuse to watch lykke prancing about in a leotard. no bad thing.
first it was just a viral video sweeping the internet with more energy than iggy pop in an insurance ad. now, cee-lo has released a proper version. the track is still more catchy than chlamydia and it will still be interesting to hear how reggie yates (does he still do the chart show on radio one?) manages to play it when it inevitably goes top ten. unless it already has a radio edit? it probably has hasn’t it.
do you see what i did there?
single review: tricky. murder weapon. 30 aug 2010. domino records
next month tricky releases his first studio album in two years. two years? is that right? it amazes me because i can’t remember anything from him for ages. there were a few singles that flitted about at the turn of the century i think, and i’ve been aware that he’s still been recording stuff, but it still seems like years and years since his last serious assault on my eardrums. i remember ‘the hell ep’ taking over my life in the summer of ’95. it would still have a prime position on my cd rack many years later.
he’s back anyway (although it seems he’s never been away) with a new album and this is the first single from it. he has reworked a dance-hall track form the era i remember and adore tricky from. for me this still works. it’s a mixed up and confused track moving from one sound to another throughout, but in a way that make you want to listen again and again. from a quick flick through reviews of his more recent records i get the feeling that he hasn’t lived up to his early nineties promise, but to me ‘murder weapon’ can hold its head up high. it is dark. it is moody. that’s how i like my tricky. bring on the album.
this is in no way weird. oh no. it is a perfectly normal love story between a woman and her… boglin? nice work yeasayer.
edit… heroes. i meant heroes. not lost
