MGMT : Time to Pretend

MGMT : Time to Pretend I like this one a lot too.  It has kinda an echo feel to it… like it’s being sung from space, or in an aircraft hanger.  I think the vocal is slowed a little also, helping with the spaced out feel overall. Fave lyric?  Easy one: This is our decision, [...]

Ane Brun – True Colors

A wonderful cover, of a bloody amazing song.  Many people believe Billy Steinberg wrote True Colors originally as a tribute to his mother.  However it was co-written with Tom Kelly, and the lyric which actually was about his mother, has been dropped in the now famous recordings; “You’ve got a long list with so many [...]

Elbow – On a Day Like This

It’s Sunday, well Monday if you don’t count days by how many times you’ve been to sleep. What kind of a tune do you need at 01:44am… this kind of tune. Elbows “On a Day Like This” is a masterpiece, and that’s not to strong a word. My advice is simple: 1) Play it 2) [...]

The Enemy – This Song

I’ve just started getting back into The Enemy, having had a month or two off them. I’m starting to wonder how I managed not to listen to them for so long, because they’re bloody brilliant. I only have the Live & Die album, and reckon there’s not a bad tune on it. You may have [...]