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Mulatu Astatke totally made my day today:
Loving Gil Scott-Heron at the moment.
The Cayce boys have finally returned after 5 months since recording their debut EP with legendary producer Phil McKeller “The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Do”. With supports from Central Coast band Miramar who opened the gig with a blast, a eccentrically awesome band Mish, and a room packed with fans & friends, Cayce have delivered on their growing expectations as a band to watch.
Check out the new clip from The Kills ‘Black Balloon’. This song was certainly a highlight for me from their latest album, ‘Midnight Boom’. This video was directed by their good friend Kenneth Capello with Alison donning a sexy and surreal vampire vixen. The tone of the clip is undeniably suitable for the sound of The Kills – edgy, dark with understated sex thrown in. Here are some of my favourite stills:
Swedish song writer Frida Hyvonen’s second album Silence Is Wild is both quirky, moving and downright honest. When you can rhyme your songs with stegosaurous and cock is such an achievement already in itself!
Her songs, which are too dark and sexual to be labeled precious, take their convoluted metaphors a step or two too far, and her prose-poem lyrics often create verse lines with odd, sometimes amelodic meters…Pitchfork
I’ve finally gotten to listening to this album in full rather than hearing bits and pieces while shuffling my ipod on my way to work. Unfortunately I have not heard her debut album Until Death Comes but from what I have read, Silence is Wild is a more solid offering. Highlights for me include “Dirty Dancing” (yes that gives some throwbacks to the movie of the same name, “Enemy Within” and a trip to the abortion clinic is told in “December”. The lyrics sometimes don’t make sense or are worded in a way that makes you stop and go “what”? But the beauty of her lyrical content is moving and most of the time will bring a smile to your face for its honest and unashameful approach.
…Hyvönen sings about such matters on Silence Is Wild is brave enough, but that she does so with such a complicated sense of generous affection and self-preserving detachment truly sets her apart…Pitchfork
