Friday 31 December 2010

happy birthday dylan sinsicalchi.

Wednesday 29 December 2010

Saturday 25 December 2010

Wednesday 22 December 2010

james blake s/t

My Disco - Little Joy (2010)



It's not often that I get an album that I fall in love with one mere listen, but the minimalistic, post-punk albeit modernized form from the early days within Little Joy is fascinating and addicting. "Rivers" could be one of the top tracks of 2010 and Little Joy may be a top contender for album of the year.

"There are others just like me..."

Saturday 18 December 2010

Baby Jazz - Song For The Season

Sorry I wasn't indie enough and didn't get to this before p4k.
oops?
Anyways you nerds keep making great jams, keep it up please.
Boss.



Friday 17 December 2010

Ralph Vaughan-Williams


It's cold out, say, and you're curled up by a fire-and there may be a Christmas tree illuminated in the background somewhere-and you're reading over your notes for your final examinations before the Christmas break. You think to yourself, "my I am tired of that cheesy, aweful Christmas music I hear in the stores, on the radio, on television. If only there were something that encapsulated the warmth I'm feeling right now, without all the holiday cheapness."

Here is that moment of perfection.

Thursday 16 December 2010

Beach House - I Do Not Care For The Winter Sun

An Xmas song courtesy of everyone's favorite snooze inducers.
Oh and it's quite good + free.
Enjoy.

(click)

Saturday 11 December 2010

To Please A Yeti:


^ That equation is pretty spot on honestly.
For you Kiran. I hope you haven't heard these.


and if you have? fuck you. I TRIED!

Wednesday 8 December 2010

On The Move...


Why must December be a month of seemingly endless "Best Of:" comps?
Season's greetings yall.
Hope you get snowed in.

The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day (ft. Best Coast)

feck yeah.
I miss this band.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

robin's top albums of twothousandten.

robin's top albums of 2010,
//with no links omg\\
because someone had to.



hi. i'm robin.

when this blog started up, i was just a chirpy kid on a mission to make the best damn buddy cop script of all time. unfortunately, all my musings were based on one-dimensional wannabes. the route-one sidekick, "dylan," for instance, lacked any punch. "rudy" was just a super-serious dr. cox. and kiran was swedish, so that didn't work.

but thanks to the existence of this blog i'm on a constant mission to listen to music. the whole solving-crime thing has taken a backseat.

i'm alert and on the hunt for music, yo.










10. no age - everything in between

sometimes i just really want to go for a tranquil skate around the park. mostly, this happens when i listen to no age, because, in all honesty, i never learned to skateboard. i had one of those fake ones you have as a child but all i ever did was sort of sit on it and fall slowly down my garden.

but this album is really great, and very 'transcendent' or whatever everyone says. lots of cool songs and interludes and no age don't suck anymore. to quote dylan sinsicalchi: "this is awesome."

he probably said that. he says that about a lot of albums.



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9. maps and atlases - perch patchwork

sometimes i'll look at his facebook statuses and feel really bad for keelan. he has so many essays and usually they're about modernism, which i think drove him to the brink of insanity. but if keelan harkin was writing an essay on perch patchwork, what would he say? he'd say... think of a better opening.

no but seriously, i think he'd laugh at any form of math rock. and so would i, there's this band in my town who think they're insanely experimental for guitar taps and shit, and basically they suck. and all they listen to is maps and atlases, which means they have a tendency to rip off don cab. a lot.

this album, and maps and atlaess in general, is great. rustic and all that.



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8. defiance, ohio - midwestern minutes


i don't live in america, so i wouldn't know, but im fairly sure defiance, ohio are just one of those bands that beat up america with words.

and this was the only punk album of the year i really got all pissed off and immersed by/in



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made me all:
























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7. cherry ghost - beneath this burning shoreline

simon aldred, the guy who wrote this album, compared 'kissing strangers', the album's best track, to the works of frank sinatra. he's kinda right.
made obvious from this post: robin has never actually listened to sinatra.







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6. the war on drugs - future weather


good music about about a man coming to terms with not garnering as many bob dylan comparisons as the tallest man on earth.

well if he ever gets to slumber... :(







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5. deerhunter - halcyon digest















usually any critque on deerhunter woul
d just be the lines "pass the joint" and all that, but as someone who lives in tunbridge wells, cocaine pathway of brighton and london, i am only able to tell you this:

don't do cocaine.

halcyon digest is that album of the year where a band becomes a favourite band. it's not a house anymore... it's a home!


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4. rogue wave - permalight


i wish i had posted my review in multicolour











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3. women - public strain














you guys probably think i actually like disliking albums that dylan loves, but it's not true. just because i al
ways align myself as 'team kiran' that doesn't mean i don't occasionally listen to people with hilarious facial hair.

and i felt like a complete drag not liking this album, but i find mostly with records like this (that just go on and on and on and on and on) i just need a little push. an
d that push was snow.



duh.




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2. sufjan stevens - the age of adz


this year, everyone made a big deal about how this album was sufjan becoming royal robertson and going absolutely nuts. but what people fail to understand is that this year i did something far bigger: i became sufjan stevens.

was it the ten thousand times i listened to him from october to the now? or was it the fact that i started a tribute band with two friends and a casio keyboard? who's the real sufjan
here?

get real get right? oh i'll get real, alright.
but yeah, good effort sufjan.


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1. the magnetic fields - realism

me: i'm a huge fan. realism changed my life.

SM: oh. mm. huh.

me: can i have your autograph?

SM: [eyes widen] huh.







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this year was good for:
  • indie pop that i will forever refer to as 'twee'.
  • my discovery of the concept of 'twee' and my ambitions to create music that is above all, twee.
  • recieving university offers from places i don't want to go to all that much.
  • being a river, a tall tree or a volcano.



Los Campesinos! - Too Many Flesh Suppers



B-Side Track is B-Side. Thankfully it doesn't suck. Also free download (click-click)

Hercules & Love Affair - My House


Dance! Dance! Dance! (or something like that)

Friday 26 November 2010

Dog Headed Man Smoking A Cigarette

Because no one else here is active.
oh and fuckit.
1:19 of lo-fi love.
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You guys are jerks for posting just this btw. <3


Sunday 21 November 2010

Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP

Band is best thing about SF other than "legal" weed and my dude Stephen.

Surfing-Horns!-Girls-Horns!Horns!!Horns!!!(@320kbps)

Pretty Much Already Sold.

Princess Bride + more drugs/hydras? Ok.

Friday 19 November 2010

Weekend

I like Sports

Dino Jr.-esque guitar rawk.
With enough dreamy fuzz to send A Place To Bury Strangers into a tizzy.
Brought to you at 320kbps (ok Marko?)

Music-Marko




ilu.

Thursday 18 November 2010

Saturday 13 November 2010

Don't Tell Yeezy.

But this shit is dope as the day is long.


Monday 8 November 2010

kylesa


come on, guys.

the school


possibly the most annoying record since gareth campesinos discovered the glockenspiel

also sounds like: twee, i wish he was my bahhhhyfriiiiend

Saturday 6 November 2010

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Heart In Your Heartbreak"

There have been far too many times I've felt these guys would play Field Mice songs much better than the FM ever could have. js.
New track, and its good.

Thanks Dr. Kiran.


Friday 5 November 2010

blue hawaii - blooming summer

"blue gowns" is a tune and a half - the rest of it isn't bad either

real estate - out of tune

two songs from the chillest dudes this side of snoop dogg is better than no songs from the chillest dudes this side of snoop dogg

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Sunday 31 October 2010

Get Fucked Up.
Eat Candy.
Hail Satan.

Friday 29 October 2010

Thursday 28 October 2010

Rap-Rap-Rappin Robin

I keep it so g;
obv.


change


possibly the best album ever, or something.

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Memoryhouse - To The Lighthouse

can't sustain this breathing, it weighs on my chest.



Saturday 23 October 2010

Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (1996)



Since Squarepusher decided to release some complete bullshit this will suffice.

Wednesday 20 October 2010

gareth bale, you are amazing

Monday 18 October 2010

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Autumn, Again

: D : D : D : D

Free until the end of Autumn (hehe). Click above (^) for download direct from band.
Or buy the vinyl if you're all sentimental n shit.

might as well