LIST 64 - 26/08/11

Hello again,

Still the Indietracks festival of this year casts its influence over That Music List all of four weeks on, albeit this time in the most delightful form of a brand new White Town single with a video filmed entirely at the festival itself!

Jyoti Mishra wasn't actually on this year's "official" line-up, for want of a better expression, but as indiepop royalty - and indiepop royalty from just up the road from the Butterley venue, at that - his presence at this event is always a cause of cheer.

That new output seemed like as good an excuse as any to make White Town the Then And Now subject for this week, so there's something he put out 14 years earlier included as well (and not "Your Woman", either).

Elsewhere, Moustache Of Insanity continue to be this year's gift that keeps on giving, courtesy of an indiepop-bitcore crossover b-side that sets the plot and gameplay of the old Donkey Kong arcade game to music; and it's also a pleasure to welcome back to action the likes of Howling Bells, Sourpatch, Lo-Fi-FNK, Rosie Taylor Project and Peter Bjorn & John for the first time in a while.

The inclusion of "Mathematically Safe" will confuse some, but it's one of only a couple of songs I could find which mentions Cartmel - the home of sticky toffee pudding, Britain's most cheerily eccentric racecourse, and my favourite place on earth. I'm off up there tomorrow for more pudding, racing and eccentricity. Self-indulgent, moi?

Oh, and the other song I could think of was an Eliza Carthy number. But you probably all shouted that at the screen way ahead of me. :-)

J x


MASCOT FIGHT – That’s A Photocopier (Not A Chair) (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpok7_M8JpA

TIGERCATS – Banned at the Troxy (2011)
http://www.vimeo.com/23626034

TENNISCOATS – Baibaba Bimba (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZBDoitcRo

MOUSTACHE OF INSANITY – The Monkey and My Princess (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaASu0b13Q

THE ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – Sleep (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOfnem7SSQ

CULTS – Go Outside (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVIK0ZJvtA

STANDARD FARE – Suitcase (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amml6E2XtNU

WHITE TOWN – She’s A Lot Like You (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWwgPVCBqTU

WHITE TOWN – The Death of My Desire (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97tEw8PpM54

WHITE WISHES – Come And Say Hello (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9qJoO660N8

NICOLE ATKINS – Vultures (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAZHTKY6qU

THE DEIRDRES – Milk is Politics (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xRpo58SVo

LO-FI-FNK – Boom (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBSxpeEoSjY

PETER, BJORN AND JOHN – Dig A Little Deeper (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKiQhT4F9c0

KEY LOSERS – Cheap Display (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3gbM7dmtRk

PANDA BEAR – Last Night at the Jetty (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzNq03e7e8

SOURPATCH – Cynthia Ann (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pZjnNWgIA

CASSOLETTE – Not Just Anyone (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwy82EsOMp8

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Mathematically Safe (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBt0nsgCWgk

HOWLING BELLS – Into the Sky (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0wkapy1FBU

VERONICA FALLS – Bad Feeling (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uQnrOV6xo

THE HERMIT CRABS – About You Before (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQnrHdFeD34