Sasquatch

I want to go to this. Next year...if I save a lot of money...maybe?

http://sasquatchfestival.com/


Few photo's from this year's festival are up on NPR's website, looks like the perfect place for a festival. Damn you Seattle!

http://www.npr.org/series/136238533/live-from-sasquatch-music-festival?ps=mh_frimg1


I WILL GO!

New Bright Eyes

So, its taken me a while to get hold of Bright Eyes new album....

I must say, I wasn't really sure what to expect but I am really enjoying the album.

Conor Oberst still has his genuine and almost quivering voice with a more fuller sound from the instruments!

I really want to know where the sampled voices come from though....I'm assuming it's something from Scientology......?

One of the songs that really stood out to me for having a bit of a different sound was "Jejune Stars"

Film Soundtracks

For me, a good film is made better by the sound track.

A few films that I have seen recently with great soundtracks are:


1: Away We Go - I watched this film on the basis that John Krasinski was in it, (seeing as I am a bit of an American Office geek...)

A featured artist in the Soundtrack is Alexi Murdoch, what a wonderful musical backdrop Alexi and his music add.




2: Garden State - A film I watched after hearing it had a good soundtrack and I was certainly not dissapointed.

Alexi Murdoch featured yet again as well as The Shins and Iron & Wines cover of Postal Service - "such great Heights". People who moan about covers annoy me. This is a great cover.




3: Once - such a cute film about a busker in Dublin. It's quite a sad yet warming ending somehow!? The soundtrack is from lead actor Glen Hansard's band 'The Frames'.

The Wave Pictures

I had the fortune of seeing The Wave Pictures recently at Southampton Joiners. It was an amazing show, showing off in my opinion some sophisticated ad interesting song writing as well as some intricate and tight instrumental performances on all instruments. David Tattersall in particular impressing with his guitar skills.

One of the more catchy numbers of the evening for me was "Little Surprise"

Chilling to The Low Anthem

Nothing beats doing nothing and listening to The Low Anthem.

On those long days where I find myself with nothing to do I personally love listening to The Low Anthem, story telling folk at it's best.

The First album has some real smooth songs on it and "Senorita" is one that has really started to grow on me.

This band deserve a lot more recognition!

BATTLES

Today I have been listening to Battles... Very much a band that I knew of but maybe didn't listen to as much as I should have as I am fully loving the album "Mirrored" and certainly the song "Atlas".

Ones imagination can go wild listening to this song!

DCFC "Codes and Keys"

So happy to have purchased Death Cabs newest album today!

I'm sure like most people I had streamed the album online when it was released on npr's website but now I actually have the album all to myself and it is superb!

The album has so many good songs, too many in fact so I can't actually choose a favourite!

"Doors Unlocked and Open" is one of the ones to have made a good impression on me today so here it is: