Praying for Pavement to get back together

I'll be upfront. Franz Ferdinand's new album, Tonight is a little tedious for me. Everything sounds so choppy. & It sounds like Franz Ferdinand which should sound good, but this album is not as good as its predecessors. Nothing on the album seems to flow like an album should. Each song is just like... *typical FF guitar riff* I suppose it's enjoyable enough, but I'm disappointed. Though I should mention, they DID write a song about me ;)


However, surprisingly, I find Coldplay's Prospekt's March to be much more enjoyable. It's continuation of "Life In Technicolor" is extremely satisfying. "Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground" is a purely acoustic song, reminiscent of the Parachute days. The song is without any complex string arrangements and lacks the warbling vocals that Chris Martin loves to pull. If you listen to the first minute or so of "Rainy Day" you can almost forget that you're listening to Coldplay and that someone put a Beck album on instead. When I heard Coldplay was releasing this EP just months after their album, I was all like lolz, just what we need, another Coldplay album. But srsly guys this is good stuff.

If you haven't bought, stolen, ripped, downloaded, WHATEVER, to Dark Was The Night, yet, WTF are you waiting for?? The album whose proceeds go to AIDS research, features gems from Arcade Fire, Beirut, and my personal fav, The National. The Arcade Fire goes for a kind of bluesy sound that is thoroughly adorable. The National's song however, is by far the best. "So Far Around The Bend" has no words for me to describe. Just listen to it! & The Yo La Tengo song is so beautifulllll. However all 31 songs on the album I'm afraid to say, isn't quite up to snuff. The 10 minute Sufjan Stevens electronica song is a jumbled mess & reminds me of a more disorganized Animal Collective. Which if you're me, is a bad thing. But the album contains so much goodness, I'm willing to overlook Sufjan's temporarily fit of deafness & give the album five out of five Hello Kitties!


Instead of listening to Sufjan's less-than-melodic song, you can enjoy these pictures of him looking mighty handsome with Bell Orchestre, My Brightest Diamond, & Clogs. He lures you in~*~*~ [Source]

Byyyy the way, Yeah Yeah Yeah's new single "Zero" is pretty great. Listen.

So much for dreams we see...

Another week is doneee. That's a week less until graduation!

So the elections are coming up. Do you support Obama?? Even if you don't that's okay, just as long as you support The National! Their song "Fake Empire" is the music to the Obama campaign video which is pretty nifty. Dude, McCain needs to step his game up & get like Girl Talk to do his campagin vid. Clickkk to watch Obama's! [Source]

So it seems like my favorite pretty boy, Patrick Wolf is getting ready for not one, but two albumzzz. That's pretty exciting. He says to think of "smashing pumpkins, kate bush" interestante combo there, Patrick. Read his full blog. [Source]

I feel like I blog too much about Coldplay, so I'm just going to post the link from Stereogum about something new that they're doing. Click if you want, don't click if you don't want.

Okay, now here's the news you should actually really super duper care about. Sufjan Stevens! Yes, I should just be able to type his name & you should jump up for joy! But I'll tell you anyways. Sufjan Stevens wrote the score for some movie Natalie Portman directed. Basically it's all like "quiet, sad, romantic flourishes." Perf, just perfect. [Source]

Alsooooo, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band are touring! I wish he had left it as Bright Eyes because that was a lot to type out. Anyways, check the dates out here at Pfork, & yes, he IS coming to Florida!

Oh & P.S., if you wanna buy Bob Dylan's harmonica, betterrrr hurry it up because there's only seven of 'em. Detailz at source.

... but never care to know.

Don't be scared of the corners

So after all this tropical storm shiz is gone, school has started forrealz. & lemme just say, it's a big BETCH. Srsly. I can't even update all I want to right now but to say I do have links for you guys, but I only have time to drop in & say hi. So hi. 

The main thing I wanna talk about is this band called Fredrik. Love 'em. I think you will too. Very laid-back, but their songs do have a driving force. Pretty melodies with light instrumentation. Thanks to Stereogum (click to d/l songs) for pointing them out. Check their Myspace hurrr.

Some quick shiz:

-The secret behind why Coldplay are still together? Find out. 

-Speaking of which, Albert Hammond Jr. is the supporting act for their tour. Which is disappointing. Why? It means he's not in the studio with the rest of The Strokes, working on an album. 

-If you have a thing for Sufjan Stevens (& who doesn't) Pfork has a few pictures up for your viewing pleasure. Exhibit A~

Adieu for now, I hope to see this blog very sooooooon!