Host-Mean Streak

This was originally released as a 3 track in 2003 and it's now on Host's forthcoming album Minimum Listening Guaranteed out in September. Poppy punky poppy jerk stuff that I like, I don't know if they'll do much but hopefully they'll get a bit of press. They have a site here and a Live Journal blog here. They are on a little record label called hitBACK.


Har Mar Superstar-As

Ok so this one won't stay up for very long. This is from Har Mar's new album The Handler, out in September. I was due to review it for a magazine here in the UK called Jack but like so many other mags recently Jack has just gone down-oh well, less work for me all the time which is good in some ways but if you wanna make a living it sucks. Anyway much of the album is like lost Prince or Stevie Wonder classics, but somehow without being too derivative. It's a pop record through and through and is produced by John Fields who has also worked with Pink. In fact some of the tracks without Har Mar's sleazy silky vocals could easily be given to some non-descript girl band and make them into top ten artists. There's a definite sense of fun going around in music at the moment, less the ironic kind , more the get out and dance kind, some rollick and role with dare I say it some disco hedonism thrown in. Yes I like.



The Faint-I Disappear

Also one that won't be up for long...
The new Faint record Wet From Birth is waaaay more electro than the last, scuzzy squelchy noise that sometimes works, and others just make them sound like hanger-on losers. This track I like though and I think the album as a whole is a grower. I think it's also out sometime in September but I can't be sure.

New Mp3 blog Scattered Needles focusing on live recordings and unreleased stuff.

Also people don't like talking much around here, might just be that I'm not worthy but it'd be great to get some comments.