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Saturday 27 February 2010

4 for the weekend 27•02•10

The very nature of music blogs is to support and promote music that we love and enjoy ourselves, so it’s very rare to find anything remotely negative in an everyday blog post.  That’s not to say that their aren’t bloggers willing to take a knife to a particular artist, but for the most part, the forefathers of music blogging have been all about building people up rather than taking people down.  Unless of course you’re Peter Gabriel, and after 30-plus odd years in the music business you decide to record an album of covers originally recorded by much younger and more current artists, a decision spurred on perhaps because you were name-checked in a Vampire weekend song.  In that case, you’ll have to deal with one Matthew Perpetua and what is most likely the first documented critical attack in the history of his Fluxblog.  For the record, I totally agree with Matthew: This.  Is.  Hideous.

MP3: Peter Gabriel “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”

A little more in line with the QBiM aesthetic, and someone less likely to draw venom from bloggers is 1986, a project headed by Giorgio Angelini and Cully Symington, two musicians who have been touring with and working for the likes of Bishop Allen, The Rosebuds, The Gutter Twins, Cursive, and Okkervil River.  In between their work for others, the pair have pieced together a slightly corrosive and totally dirty (in a good way) sounding record called Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are.  The album drops on March 9.

MP3: 1986 “Undertow”
Myspace: 1986

Speaking of brash and loud, so too is the latest from Swedes Bettie Serveert, who are back after a four-year absence with a new album, Pharmacy of Love out a little later in March (23rd to be exact).  Punchy, a little tipsy, and pretty sweet sounding.

MP3: Bettie Serveert “Deny All”
Myspace: Bettie Serveert

Sticking with Scandanavia for the last of our foursome is The Radio Dept. who are getting ready to take North America with Clinging to a Scheme.  From origins as ramshackle and thrown together as Broken Social Scene’s , the band has evolved over a number of years and personnel changes into one of the crowning jewels of Labrador Records glittering crown. This is certainly a record that I’ve been enjoying this week, and know that you will too; sadly you’ll have to wait until April 21 to hear it yourself.

MP3: The Radio Dept. “Heaven’s On Fire”
Myspace: The Radio Dept.

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