BSITWT #92 or An Ode

Four Tet - Sing (mp3)

From the outrageously anticipated There is Love in You record. And yes, it is phenomenal. Is there anyone more important in music at the moment?

The National new album coming soon

The National will release a long-awaited, and as yet untitled new album in May on 4AD records. On top of that, they have released some dates for a short tour supporting the release of the new album. It's all very exciting, if you live in London, Paris or Berlin. Or America. Or Canadia

6-28 MARCH: KNOXVILLE, TN
BIG EARS FESTIVAL 2010 / TENNESSEE THEATRE
Tickets on-sale now:
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/3065

22 APRIL: RICHMOND, VA
THE NATIONAL
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0100442F9DDB5528

23 APRIL: RICHMOND, VA
THE NATIONAL
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0100442FAE716864

06 MAY: LONDON, UK
ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/promo/3v6xmt?camefrom=CFC_UK_LINA_TN_FC270110

07 MAY: PARIS, FRANCE
LE ZENITH w/ PAVEMENT
Tickets on-sale now / FNAC:
http://www.fnacspectacles.com/place-spectacle/manifestation/Pop-rock-Folk-PAVEMENT-ZPPAV.htm

Tickets on-sale now / Digitick:
http://www.digitick.com/ext/billetterie2/index.php4?site=radical&p=11&idRep=422355

09 MAY: BERLIN, GERMANY
ASTRA
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketonline.com/de/de/production/21099-The+National/

22 MAY: LOS ANGELES, CA
THE WILTERN
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/417298

23 MAY: SAN DIEGO, CA
SPRECKELS THEATRE
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php

27 MAY: OAKLAND, CA
FOX THEATRE
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00442BAD786B92

02 JUNE: BOSTON, MA
HOUSE OF BLUES
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php

05 JUNE: PHILADELPHIA, PA
ELECTRIC FACTORY
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004435CD005CB9

06 JUNE: WASHINGTON, DC
DAR CONSTITUTION HALL
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15004435C0226C84

08 JUNE: TORONTO, CANADA
MASSEY HALL
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php

16 JUNE: NEW YORK, NY
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Pre-Sale Tickets:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1D004435F3B759C

LCD Soundsystem - Tripod - 20/21 April 2010

LCD Soundsystem will begin their latest tour following the release of a new album (still untitled) in March. News of their Dublin dates leaked on Monday and tickets for the first gig went on sale (and sold out) on Wednesday.

Tickets for their second show on Wednesday 21 April go on sale tomorrow morning (Saturday 23 January) at 9.00am. You have been warned! This will sell out.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster (€36.50-€39.50). Do it.

Standing in front of people doing things loudly.

BSITWT #91

Levon Vincent - 'Six Figures'

www.myspace.com/levonvincent

File this one under 'Intimidating'.

Pantha Claus

Pantha du Prince releases his third record, Black Noise, on Rough Trade this Feb. Collaborators include members of Animal Collective, Panda Bear, !!! and LCD SoundSystem. Prediction #1 for 2010 - this is going to be huge.

Here's some magic from his 2004 Diamond Daze record. How this passed me by I'll never know.

More Choice Talk...

As mentioned by Ed.Ward below, the Choice shortlist was announced last week - cue streams of incessent bitching and general shiteology that tends to accompany these lists. Anyway, having inexplicably trawled through the guff, three ommissions seemed particularly harsh: Kittser (of course), Hunter-Gatherer, and the amazing Patrick Kelleher. One would have hoped that genuinely innovative records like these would have been picked up by the nation's alternative to the Meteors. Ah well.

If you want see what the fuss is about, pop along to Hunter-Gatherer's hyphen fest with Tune-Yards in Whelan's on Feb 12th. Patrick Kelleher has dates in Galway, Cork and Limerick at the end of Febuary.

Pantha du Prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rex Club, Paris, Sat 6th March.
Again, there appears to be no Dublin date!!! Flights folks!!

Broken Social Scene!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.brokensocialscene.ca/tourdates.php

Can't get onto the website to buy tickets for the Paris show, hope it is the fault of my laptop, will be trying at work tomorrow morning. There is no Dublin show. As of yet.

Thursday May 13th, 2010	London , UK	Brixton Academy
Friday May 14th, 2010	Minehead @ Butlins , UK	All Tomorrow's Parties
Monday May 17th, 2010	London , UK	Heaven
Tuesday May 18th, 2010	Amsterdam , Netherlands	Melkweg
Wednesday May 19th, 2010	Cologne , Germany	Burgerhaus Stollwerck
Friday May 21st, 2010	Paris , France	La Maroquinerie
Saturday June 19th, 2010	Toronto , ON	Olympic Island

Ricardo Villalobos - The Academy - 3 April

Ricardo Villalobos makes a welcome return to these shores on 3 April with an appearance at The Academy, Dublin. This is sure to be a sweaty sell out so get your tickets here (€29.50 incl booking fee).

Ricardo Villalobos Interview

Nice video

Bradford Cox, of Atlas Sound and Deerhunter fame, teams up with Randy Randall of No Age and Jim Jarmusch for a rendition of Neil Young's Cortez the Killer.

BSITWT #90

B Movie Lightning - Triple Trouble

Galway's very own Mike Smalle, who forms part of Cane 141, also moonlights by the above moniker. I know we traditionally put up a link to a way in which you can get the track yourself on these posts, but I cannot for the life of me locate this track anywhere except on the MySpace of the artist. Depriving you of this track for such a reason just didn't seem fair so I've decided to go for it.

So click on here and listen away. The other track on the website, Take Yourself to the City, is also a beautiful one.

BSITWT #89

Ben Klock - 'Grip'


www.myspace.com/benklock

Choice Music Prize Shortlist 2010

The nominees for this year's Choice Music Prize have been announced. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 3 March at a special event in Vicar Street. The shortlist has been compiled by a 12 person music industry panel.

The 10 nominees are as follows:

And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar
Bell X1 Blue Lights on the Runway
CODES TreesDreamInAlgebra
Adrian Crowley Season of the Sparks
Dark Room Notes We Love You Dark Matter
The Duckworth Lewis Method The Duckworth Lewis Method
Julie Feeney Pages
Valerie Francis Slow Dynamo
Laura Izibor Let the Truth Be Told
The Swell Season Strict Joy


Jim Carroll is the overall force behind the prize but the shortlist is compiled by the following:

Martin Burns (News of the World)
Josh Clarke (i105-i107, Galway)
Roisin Dwyer (Hot Press)
Tony Fenton (Today FM)
Cathal Funge (Phantom 105.2, Dublin)
Padraic Halpin (Ragged Words)
Sophie Gorman (Irish Independent)
John McMahon (2fm)
Rob O’Connor (Beat 102-103, Waterford)
Eva Staic (Spin 1038, Dublin)
Chris Wasser (Evening Herald)
Aoife Woodlock (Other Voices Tv Show)

www.choicemusicprize.com

BSITWT #88

Floating Points - K&G Beat

I know Eoin gave Floating Points a BSITWT already in the last week, but the guy is just that good.

www.myspace.com/floatingpoints

Four Tet Mix CD

This CD was given out by Kieran Hebden at a Plastic People gig recently. Having seen it appearing on blogs all over the place, Hebden decided to put it up on his own interwebpage for our listening pleasure. Starts off with Love Cry and Moth before moving onto some stuff that I need ID'd very soon. Incredible hour and a bit's listening.
Enjoy

Top 50 albums of the decade

On the back of a taunt from Ed, I am going to try write up my "Best of the Noughties" list. Given that at the turn of the millenium I was listening to nothing but hip-hop and garbage trance, you can consider this a personal, yet very incomplete attempt, heavily skewed towards albums since 2005! Some albums are included for their sheer brilliance, others are highly rated for their hugely influential role in defining or shaping a genre (Kid A, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Balance 005, The Eraser), while some are there for the utter dominance of my ipod over a prolonged period of time (In Rainbows, Boxer, (), Takk...). I decided to try to rank a top 20, and to leave the next 30 in no particular order, as it would have become ridiculously arbitrary ranking 42 vs 43. Kid A wins for the sheer daring of it given what had come before. Arguably never before has a band taken such an obscure turn after producing two of the top ten albums of all time (according to all those lists on TV). And never before has it sounded so good. If I did a top 50 tracks of the decade, Idioteque would win, and Everything in its right place and The National Anthem would both be high up, which is heavy going for one album indeed! The Postal Service make the top 20 almost uniquely for The Natural Anthem, which is easily one of my top 5 songs of the decade, but also for injecting something very different into the world of electro-pop, including two of the most remixable anthems of the decade in The District Sleeps Alone Tonight and Such Great Heights. The Knife make the top 20 for a similar contribution both in the delightfully eerie and atmospheric tracks they have offered us, and for the ease in which they have been transformed into a must-have for any techno DJ in remixed form. So.... here goes.

The Top 20

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. The National - Boxer
5. Sigur Ros - ()
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
8. The Libertines - The Libertines
9. James Holden - Balance 005
10. Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
11. Sigur Ros - Takk...
12. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
13. Donal Dineen - Small Hours, Summer Mornings; compilation for Foggy Notions
14. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
    
15. Hot Chip - The Warning
16. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
17. The Postal Service - Give Up
18. Four Tet - Rounds
19. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
20. The Knife - Silent Shout

Numbers 21-50, in no particular order

Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Interpol - Antics
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Moderat - Moderat
Apparat - Walls
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling OST
Various - Dark Was the Night
Air - Talkie Walkie
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Tiefschwarz - Fabric 29
Ewan Pearson - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
Foals - Antidotes
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Jape - Ritual
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Milosh - You Make Me Feel
Royksopp - Melody AM
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Birun
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Daft Punk - Discovery
The Field - From Here we go Sublime
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

BSITWT #87

The Knife - Colourings of Pidgeons

I dare you to take a walk through a foggy, scary, icy forest with this on.

Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay

Matias Aguayo released one of 2009's more unconventional albums in Ay Ay Ay. Formed mostly around the human voice in varying chants, percussive samples and languages, it is a departure from the standard techno flavour of Kompakt's output over the past number of years. Aguayo himself has moved away from the minimal sound that forged his reputation, he is one half of Closer Musik (with Dirk Leyers). I don't feel that Ay Ay Ay represents a new dawn for all things around the 120bpm mark but it is something different to wrap your ears around. The lead track 'Menta Latte' can annoy and delight in equal measures with its numerous layered vocals. First single 'Rollerskate' is a worth a whirl and will have your head moving before you know it. My favourite track has to be the sinister sounding 'Ay Shit - The Master'.

Ay Ay Ay was released on 26 October 2009 on Kompakt records. Buy here.

BSITWT #86

Joy Orbison - 'Hyph Mngo'

Buy here

www.myspace.com/joyorbison

BSITWT #85

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're back. Sorry about that - we've been drinking.

This edition of BSITWT is brought to you by Floating Points. Enjoy: Floating Points - Truly (mp3)

Take note London residents: FP play Fabric with James Holden AND Four Tet on Jan 22nd. Bastids.