Morning Fader #7 - January 2012

Tribes - We Were Children

Pinch yourself, it's 2012! You're back? ..Phew, same happened to me. It seems we can be brought back, but Tribes are still there. Sweaty swaggering choruses, songs to spill your drink to, and lyrics to shout down your best friends ear at the end of a party. Fuck. It's the bloody 90s again! I love Tribe like I love my first childhood pet. I would give anything to see him again, but I’m not sure I want to dig him out of the garden.

Maccabees - Given To The Wild

I've slowly come to recognise this feeling of discomfort. Tentatively, with fingers crossed, pressing play on an album I want to love. This exactly how not to listen to music objectively, expectation is a powerful demon distorting your reasoning with Tweedledum and Tweedledee logic. I am a wasted vessel, there is no way I could give a good review of this album. Go press play yourself.

p.s. You won't disappointed.

The Black Keys - El Camino

Made for walking down the street and feeling like a badass. Outstanding even on first listen.


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Peaking Lights - Hey Sparrow

Burning the candle at both ends is a messy game, but it's surprisingly easy to clean off a library desk. The only real option in saving your sanity in these T-24 hours till exam scenarios is 3.56 minute bursts of escapism. For once this week, the numbers have come out just right.

Peaking Light's colours come from the duo Aaron and Indra from Rah Dunes and Numbers. Hey Sparrow's walking bass, reminiscent of 'Golden Brown', leads you by the hand through an enchanted forest of rolling feedback and endless echos. The foundation of this song is a beautifully sweet and simple pop song. So, drift off, press reset, and when you open your eyes again you'll have a smile pulling at the corners of your mouth.

Out now on Domino Records

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Recommended Remix: Hey Sparrow (D'Eon Remix)

Jamie XX does it again...

Sourced from Pitchfork

I love the culture of remixing at the moment, especially the specially curated remix albums from the likes of Radiohead with 'TKOL RMX'. I feel its very similar in style to the way classical composers composed 'studies' and variations on previous composers, making something completely original and just as masterful as the original. Jamie XX variation on Bloom titled 'Bloom (Jamie xx rework 3)' is a perfect example. This track is a negative of his previous version, and like film negatives, it has it own aesthetic beauty. Jamie XX has done it again.

Bloom_Jamie xx Rework Part 3 by Radiohead

Wirtschaft Traume

Universitaet Mannheim does exam times before Christmas, this is why this post might seem a little bit premature. I love the course I do, but it doesn’t mean I dont need a little release from exam revision. So I've started making a little blues EP, currently going by the working title 'Something Blue and Something Borrowed'. Fear not, I won't subject you to that, remember I only put quality music on here...

What I do have is my sketchbook. I really hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I do.

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