Blue Ice

There are many ways to promote a new record, it seems. An ice record to play 'Blue Ice' by Shout Out Louds:



Listen to the track at SoundCloud (with better quality):

Shout Out Louds - Blue Ice by The Line Of Best Fit

End of Daze

@jowesterlund

It arrived one day after its release, that's service.

I have listened to Dum Dum Girls' EP 'End of Daze' many times now. On the lovely clear vinyl that I got in the post today, and at Spotify. At the moment, 'Season in Hell' is my favourite song off the EP.



Here is the video for 'Lord Knows':



Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze (Stereogum Premiere) by subpop

The Day

@jowesterlund

Sibille Attar's first record, the EP 'The Flower's Bed', was released this month. I have had the pleasure of listening to it on both vinyl and Spotify for some time now and I really love it. I have earlier shared a couple of songs from the EP and here is now the first video from the record. The beautiful song 'The Day':

The Glass Arcades

The b-side of 'Forever In Negative' by Artmagic. While waiting for my copy of their 7" single to arrive, I listen to it on Spotify. And, it's not hard to like the beauty of 'The Glass Arcades'.



Get the single here.

Vinyl on play

Got a new record the other day, Lana del Ray's 'Video Games'/'Blue Jeans'. I like to listen to vinyl records from time to time, to hear that dust sound together with nice music coming at you through the speakers. I just listen to the music, that's what matters.

Blue Jeans

I have listened to this song by Lana del Rey so many times since I first played the youtube video. I think I like it more than 'Video Games' I posted some days ago. I actually like it so much that I've pre-ordered the 7".

My heart needs a love dance

Since I don't live in the U.K., I don't have the opportunity to run from record store to record store this Record Store Day to find this beautiful 7" Suede vinyl...

www.recordstoreday.co.uk

Because of this, I simply lose myself in some other music than Suede today. I listen to gimmeindie.se, or why not this lovely video to You Say Party's 'Laura Palmer's Prom':

Because you're worthless

I bought this single most for fun, because I love vinyl and thought it would be nice to have something more of The Tears.

Yesterday I wrote about the aesthetics of this green record, and I hadn’t listened to it by then. I did however listen to it later on, when the darkness had entered my living room. Now, I don’t know how many times I have listened to it, the b-side that is.

What an amazing composition it is! I have listened to this song, ‘Because You’re Worthless’, in the same way that I used to listen to Brian Eno’s version of ‘Introducing the Band’ (b-side on ‘The Wild Ones’ single 1994). I have listened to it over and over again, almost making it mantra-like, though it is difficult to manage that with a song just about five minutes long. ‘Eno’s Introducing the Band’ is about fifteen minutes long, if I remember correctly, so it’s a bit easier with that one.

I think the reason for me not listening to The Tears album that much is that I couldn’t relate to the songs, and to be honest it’s impossible not to compare those songs with the early Suede ones. It might be unfair to do so, but inevitably it happens if you’re an old Suede fan and you know their back catalogue by heart. If however the album would have sounded more like this b-side... Maybe I should listen to the album too. I probably haven’t listened to it that many times since it was released. Perhaps I’ll do that later.

Gorgeously green vinyl

About a week ago, I happened to enter the site of a record store that I hadn't visited for a very long time. I was probably looking for something. I don't remember what that might have been, but I do know what I found. Today I got my order by mail and even though I bought several records, there was one that made this purchase somewhat special. I bought a 7" green vinyl.

Yes, this record store is one of those that sell vinyl and at times one can find some interesting stuff there, at least one used to. Since they seem to have made some changes at the site I don't really know how it is these days.

I was really looking forward to receive this record. To hold it in my hands, examine the sleeve and feel the vinyl. I really do love vinyl, for many reasons, the main ones being that the moment of listening to the music feels more 'exclusive', and that the artwork of the sleeve comes to its right. Of course I love the simplicity of mp3 and digital music, however, I'm one of those that still like to by a physical product (obviously) and when it is something produced by one of my favourite artists/bands, having it on vinyl adds extra value to the song/s.

Maybe you wonder, what's on the 7"? I haven't actually played it yet, but I'm going to, after I've posted this. The gorgeously (?) green vinyl is The Tears' single from 2005, i.e. "Lovers". I didn't listen to The Tears that much when Bernard and Brett released their album, and I haven't listened to any of the songs for many years, so it's going to be a special moment, without a doubt.