HOOD crow blown west

Earworm's very first release.

and so many, many 'forever fall in my heart'-memories instantly present, like the smell of fusty wet leaves on a rainy late winter day. damn.

listen.

MY MORNING JACKET there's just one thing

a fabulous comp 7" on Darla - just imagine, early My Morning Jacket sharing the vinyl with Holiday Flyer. those were the days...

listen.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND ladies of cambridge

nowadays fervently hated by many people. like my buddy T., who once commented on Ezra Koenig's singing this way: like Kermit the frog fucking its plastic duck in the tub.

quite poncey and oversmart. still, this is a great song.

listen.

HELEN LOVE il fait beau

i have been told that this was one of the very last flexi 7" to have been pressed. ever.

jonathan richman, à la radio...

listen.

SONGS:OHIA untitled #1

in the fall of 2004, i went to a Magnolia Electric Co. show at Sala Rossa in Montréal. I sincerely thought, five minutes after the show had started, that it was meant as a deeply ironic Neil Young tribute (at least in comparison to the Songs:Ohia show i had been at five years before in Brighton, where Molina had been all alone on stage).

it was not, of course. needless to say, i quickly left the show.

on this Western Vinyl 7" - it's the last post with that tag on, one goal achieved... - Molina takes another kind of Youngish path. Less americana, more Dead Man style, he's overtly quoting one guitar riff of the soundtrack.

definitely an essential song in his extensive discography.

listen.

CUB pillow queen

simultaneous listening sessions with, say, the Vivian Girls are very welcome.

how refreshing, in comparison!

(this is the first comp 7" on Papercut Records. The second issue is to be found here.)

listen.

COTTON CANDY fantastic & spectacular

Mark Robinson. genius by all means. on his new adverts-fetish-project together with his wife, Blast Off Country Style's Evelyn Hurley. including the essential jingles for Anderson McQuaid and Canobie Park.

listen.

buy as long as you can!

JULIE DOIRON it's nice to come home

i thought my emotional tie to her music had loosened with the years.

but today, in the tube, listening to this very song, tears inevitably came to my eyes.

listen.

buy!

MASTERS OF THE HEMISPHERE die mustapha die

Dave, don't tell me that you hate berlin. cross the ocean, instead.

listen.

THE MICROPHONES lanterns (or: let go of everything)

listening to this, it's hard for me to connect my present life on it.

is this an irreversible step (forward)?

dear Elverum afficionado, tell me.

listen.

EXPLODE INTO COLORS eyes hands mouth

how can this be? how can such a band release three brilliant elaborate 7" within half a year, give amazing shows and then, out of nowhere, decide to break up?

too bad.

listen.

IDA when u were mine (Prince cover)

hilarious.

listen.

SUMMER CATS let's go!

what a killer track!

bought this split 7" because of the POBPAH song - but this is far better!

try to get it, this song version is way superior to the one on the album.

listen.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL mrs robinson

my childhood condensed in less than four minutes.

walks with my parents and friends through the parc de versailles, in 1987, on some foggy fall days. mostly.

hey, the copyright-sharks came by...

HOOD useless

a clarinet on a Hood song - like the taste of a bacon-plum on a rainy, rainy day.

listen.

THE MAKE-UP pow to the people

D., you flitzpiepe, i can't wait to disturb the dance floor on that tune together with you!

listen.

SUFJAN STEVENS i went dancing with my sister

even though the song is brilliant, it's mostly a welcome pretense to post this video:

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listen.

BIG BLACK the model (Kraftwerk cover)

Steve Albini, the hardcore-saint.

one, two fuck you!

listen.

buy!

DAVID GRUBBS & F.S. BLUMM back to the plants (music for drawing) #3 + #1

two of F.'s heroes.

he's right, on that one.

bought in a kulturgüterrausch last week. (quite a stupid comment, considering what Mister Blumm's oeuvre is all about.)

listen.

buy!

ROSE MELBERG cupid

everybody's indie-darling since, hm, 1995.

Adrian Tomine did the artwork. oh yes.

as far as i know, the only flexi to have been released by Slumberland.

listen.

ISAN damil 85

definitely one of the best Wurlitzer releases.

listening to this, i remember one brief conversation topic last friday at Japanther's West Germany show with M. and K. i argued that having been a teenager in the mid-nineties had determined my physiognomy preferences. seriously. if i can't potentially relate someone's face to a mid-nineties mtv or viva2 vid, then we'll likely remain strangers to each other.

listen.

WILL OLDHAM patience

welcome back, dear reader.

may this journey be amusing to you.

listen.

DAN DEACON the crystal cat

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i've been told that there were people in this macrocosm - that is: yours and mine - who didn't know this song.


this is a paradox, isn't it?


listen.


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ELLIS ISLAND SOUND olympic 2020

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tribal Brian Eno.

naaaaaiiiiiiiiiiccce.

(sadly, this has - musically speaking- absolutely nothing to do with the stuff that has been recently released under this moniker.)

listen.


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CHRISTMAS ISLAND nineteen

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simple and semi-efficient. low key yet single-start (you name it).

one could state that an acclaimed Captured Tracks label (or, for instance, Girls band) is not the best sign for the indie music scene spiritedness. emblematic for a jaded weariness.

everything comes to an end to start again. permanent transition, you know.


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JAPANTHER change your life

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for maybe obvious reasons, this song makes me cry.

doesn't everyone have his personal Japanther-story?

personally, i'm having five. at least.


anyone to start a special blog on that topic with me?

tellyourjapantherstories.blogspot.com?

common.


in january 2005, i made S. listen to this 7" at Parallel in cologne- a band he hadn't heard of before and instantly loved.

first (and until today, the only) time that such a thing happened.

dig that song from their brilliant Altin Village-album:




listen.

and buy it as long as you can!


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HOOD sirens

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their first 7inch. eighteen years ago. oh yeah.



listen.


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