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David Devant and His Spirit Wife — "Miscellaneous" (from Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous)

Well, you can ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer
Are you the singer? No, I’m a dancer
People in glass houses seldom throw parties

David Devant and His Spirit Wife go in search of extraneous details in 1997’s “Miscellaneous”, the title-esque track from Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous.

posted : Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

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Remember that stockpile of the Internet’s most embarrassing images I found last year?

Presenting “Leela in My Dreams”, an original poem by DSS.

posted : Saturday, November 27th, 2010

tags : sounds

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Operator Please — "Logic" (from Gloves)

Maybe all it takes to convince me Australian music isn’t all terrible is a sexy fat chick fronting the band, but Operator Please’s “Logic” is thoroughly lodged in my skull.

posted : Sunday, September 26th, 2010

tags : sounds

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Vague Rant — "You Are My Sunshine" (from The Your Mother Revue)

You are cordially invited to enjoy 26 seconds of musical genius from the (computer) keyboard of Vague Rant; a slipshod recording of “You Are My Sunshine” played using a web-based keyboard app and recorded with the high-tech setup known as “a splitter in my headphone port which sends the audio to a) me and b) my line-in port”.

Seriously though, don’ts listens to its. It’s my first musical output since Mario Paint. I am not a musical guy.

posted : Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

tags : sounds

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White Town — "Thursday at the Blue Note" (from Women in Technology)

Holy fuck. I’ve been sitting on White Town since downloading 1997’s Women in Technology months ago, and “Thursday at the Blue Note” just blew my god damned mind.

posted : Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

tags : sounds

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Spoiler Alert! — "Batman" (from Spoiler Alert! E.P.)

Spoiler Alert! probably isn’t the latest project from Eddie Argos, Dyan Valdes and Keith TOTP, but whoever is behind this band of superheroes can sure make a cracking song. Here’s “Batman”, track one from their self-titled EP.

posted : Thursday, August 12th, 2010

tags : sounds

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Kevin and the Octaves — "Get Up Get Moving" (from Get Up Get Moving)

Kevin and the Octaves’s “Get Up Get Moving”, as heard in—wait for it—Huge. I’m super-pissed that Kevin and the Octaves don’t have an album out right now (besides their Christmas album) because it meant I had to download this as a single, and as a massive album loser, I only have maybe five or six singles total. Still, cool song and worth the annoyance.

posted : Saturday, August 7th, 2010

tags : sounds

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(from The Suburbs/Month of May)

New Arcade Fire single, “The Suburbs” is like some weird artrock-canpop (by analogy with britpop) mashup. I love the idea, but the track kind of puts me to sleep.

posted : Friday, July 23rd, 2010

tags : sounds