Yeah so its very late here and I'm having trouble sleeping so naturally I thought "Why not write a blog about music stuffs, because I definitely have the brainpower required to do that and use sarcasm right now." Sarcasm.

So here in no particular order (seriously this is just me looking at my iTunes and thinking "Ah, thats a good un'!) is some stuff I've really liked recently and maybe you should take a listens to, K?

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

Over the course of the last few months I have gone from being someone who's only real knowledge of St. Vincent was some random person's avatar to a pretty large fan of the curly haired one. I got supes into her second album Actor in the lead up to the release of Strange Mercy so when it dropped I was pretty hyped. Bit of a weird position to be in getting hyped like two days before an album comes out but HGNFFFFHHH I really like this thing, the way it flits between a delicate little flower to LOUD GUITARS AND SYNTHS AND AHHH YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A CHEERLEADER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MS. CLARKE fills me with joy. Saw her live in November. Twas every bit as good as I expected. Go, listen.

Death Grips

Yo, givin' it to you straight up. I feel like all I need to tell you here is that you can pretty much make up your opinion on Death Grips after a couple of minutes of one track. Its violent, its abrasive, I like it. Your experience may vary.

The Black Keys - El Camino

Was a little bit dissapointed by the latest Black Keys album El Camino, its certainly not a bad album but it most definitely is more of the same. If you've been listening to the Black Keys for a few years you'd hope for maybe a bit of evolution but all that said, it does fill a nice White Stripes shaped hole in my heart. Even if it is only momentarily. However if you've never really listened to the Black Keys before consider this an opportunity to go and check them out for the first time. They always have been good fun. Watch out though, it might get raunchy.

SBTRKT - SBTRKT

London based producer putting out some kinda dubstep soundin' stuff sprinkled with real soul and some great guest vocals from the likes of Little Dragon. Love it.

Actually because I can lets just list off some stuff I listened to recently that was crap.

• Beady Eye - Different Gear Still Speeding. Fuck me it's a boring mess.
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Actually kind of liked this at first but after a few listens it just sounds so stuck in the 90's. He needs to ditch the fucking capo.
• Jay Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne. Really, really not liking this. Don't know why but absolutely none of it is clicking with me. Urgh.
• Leona Lewis - Hurt EP. I shit you not X Factor winner Leona Lewis put out of a covers EP with on it amongst other things a cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. Like what the fuuuuuck.

Oh and One Last Thing

For some reason a couple of weeks ago I sat down and just started listening to Beach House out of nowhere and I'm hooked. Victoria Legrand's powerful androgynous voice tears me apart every single time.

That's enough insomniac rambling for now. I have no idea if anything I just typed has actually gone through so that's probably a good sign to leave it there. Proof reading, what?

Much Love

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