That Music List: July 2012

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

LIST 87 - 13/07/12

Ey up,

It's the fourth list of season four of That Music List today, and a wee bit more laden with 2012 material than last week's fellow mish-mash assortment.

Quite a few returns to note, here, including the peerless Magnetic Fields (steel yourself for Stephin Merritt as never seen before in the video, by the way...), the now two-piece School Of Seven Bells, Liechtenstein, The Shins (subject of this week's Then And Now feature), Ladyhawke and Errors. Do watch out for the theme tune to a certain long-running BBC kids' TV show lurking within the other selections, though, along with a superb pastiche of early-1990s indie (replete this time, however, with kittens and nosedirt!).

Enjoy!

J xx

ALLO DARLIN’ – Wu Tang Clan (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=LVycF6_wUZQ

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – Andrew in Drag (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjOJjP2pXdo

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS – Lafaye (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYYa_B_clU

SYD DALE – Marching There and Back (1969 / 2002)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUaib5ksqWM

LIECHTENSTEIN – Strange Ideas (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28ssMw5928

LOW – Especially Me (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBkO1LAlhI

CORNERSHOP - What Did The Hippie Have In His Bag? (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRsiU9dc_Q

THE SHINS – Simple Song (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyAJ4V06izg&ob=av2e

THE SHINS – My Seventh Rib (1998)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSwMfThKEfg

LADYHAWKE – Black White and Blue (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1TbMAPbF0

THE GOOD NATURED – Skeleton (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3yn4zfzpE

RATHERGOOD.COM – When I Had a Cold (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QasAseoaCBw

LIGHTSHIPS – Two Lines (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9_Y404FQE

ERRORS – Pleasure Places (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mb63ATA_qY

PINEY GIR – Outta Sight (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjWwkQ-ohc

MARTHA – Standing Where It All Began (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3n7nOYXZhY

PHILIP GLASS – Opening (1982)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDN8NzIGz-Y

FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS – Les Plus Beaux (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLNMXXBwjc

JOANNA GRUESOME – Madison (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbf6AOEOZMU

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – Crash (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSBVvFU55fg

LIST 86 - 06/07/12

Hello there,

By the time this gets uploaded, your List editor and compiler will be on his way down to Butterley for a long weekend of indiepop, ale, steam trains and - judged by the forecast - trenchfoot. No doubt in mind, though, that Indietracks will be worth putting up with a bit of precipitation, and it sounds as if a lot of other outdoor events across the British isles just now are faring much worse.

Be that all as it may. Here's the first general mish-mash List of this season - still quite 2011-heavy (that's just down to the big backlog of quality stuff I've got to upload from last year, I'm afraid), but at the same time also including my front-runner for Single of the Year 2012. Yes, that'll be your single right there, Elizabeth... Chuffed to bits, incidentally, to learn that the sophomore Allo Darlin' album was recorded in Mossley, barely what, five miles away from where I was born and raised? Coo, come to the Saddleworth/Tameside border - it's where the indiepop is at, folks.

...And finding out that the recording studio is run by the former frontwoman of the short-lived but absolutely glorious mid-1990s Manc grrrrlpunk act Thrush Puppies just finished me off...

J xx

THE LOVELY EGGS – Panic Plants (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WORIV16gN6Y

THE WEEKND – House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2XIR2JqRRk

MAZZY STAR – Common Burn (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ayH09psxc

LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE – Cactus Cat (1986)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTTTX4VssU

ALLO DARLIN’ – Capricornia (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrnXEBq3QE

MIRACLE FORTRESS – Miscalculations (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLS6hPF73xI

LOW – You See Everything (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_G7PYb3aD8

CSS ft Ssion – City Grrrl (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDaLtGEQv4

FRANKIE ROSE – Know Me (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIfxIKg_0Z0

INSPIRAL CARPETS – You’re So Good For Me (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bws5oFh-eeU

INSPIRAL CARPETS – Butterfly (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us4RjCM9PlA

FEVER RAY – The Wolf (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UAjpQVeFc

REINA REPUBLICANA – Clonidina (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUSQqe7P0g

LA GARÇONNE – Super Hero (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na6AuO_tYms

COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY – Holiday from Your Life (demo) (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gXOVQaRGwo

BUTCHER BOY – The Day Our Voices Broke (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLgVCS6wOY

AUTOROTATION – Mothers (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R7p4RKhuo0

COLA JET SET – Candy (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A2XF0u44

MASTERS OF THE HEMISPHERE - Rules Of Life (2002)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnoFG4VDcGc

LIST 85 - 29/06/12 (Indietracks Festival special, part two)

Hello again!

As promised, herewith the other half of this year's guide to the great and good of the very best little festival of them all. Here's a sobering thought - with the 2013 renewal set to return to its normal berth at the last weekend of July, there'll be a record 55 weeks between this year's festy and next. How will I cope...

J x

ALLO DARLIN’ – Tallulah (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KtlzdrKd-8

TIGERCATS – Full Moon Reggae Party (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDpUCgpBIc

THE YOUNG ROMANCE – Swollen Hearts, Bitten Tongues (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3GGBlHqJw

LIECHTENSTEIN – No Idealists Left (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBsG73hK_6k

BALLBOY – National Trust (Pittenweem Session) (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy8Kt1ngQ1A

THE BIRTHDAY KISS – Choking (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwneMpNJcJw