San Francisco Giants reliever Brian Wilson is the coolest sports person I’ve ever seen. Just so cool, nice mohawk, tats, just doesn’t care yet he goes and kills it on the baseball field. He is a ninja/mental assassin and has too much awesome on his feet!
Here’s B Wizzy on Rome is burning.
Edit: I had to change the video ESPN took the original off Youtube
The Juliana Field is Rob Smith’s sophomore album and sees the Dublin based musician return to basics. The stripped back productions throughout the album shows Smith as an artist happy in his own skin.
The first track on the album is recent single Way Back Home, a catchy earworm of a song that will get in your head and stay there. Memorable hooks and hand claps do the trick nicely, thank you. The Stomp Song lives up to its reputation with a driving beat and bass line. Production wise on this track, everything is given room to breathe, however I think the track may have benefited from the vocals being a little higher in the mix.
It’s not too surprising that other places seem to feature in Smith’s music. After all, he’s one of the few Irish singer-songwriters who seem to play more outside Ireland than in it. Marrakesh is a interesting instrumental piece building up with guitar and percussion. Really like this, if Smith can produce more of this maybe he should go into soundtrack work. Rue Saint Dominique is a tender song with nice guitar style. It shows that Smith is really a big teddy bear, but shhh! Don’t tell anyone.
It’s about eighteen months since I first heard of Everything Everything. MY KZ, UR BF (My Keys Your Boyfriend) became a stable on my radio show. Being named though as one of BBC1’s Sound of 2010 is definitely a good thing although with company like Marina and The Diamonds, Two Door Cinema Club and Ellie Goulding, you have your work cut out for you.
Man Alive is the debut album from Everything Everything. The UK band are hard to pin down, they definitely don’t abide by the norm. Post indie with a good dash of electronic eighties, they seem to aim to be deliberately arty with lyrics that you could spend hours trying to decipher their meaning.
The album opens with MY KZ, UR BF, re-released just before the album, the track got a well deserved second chance at life. Catchy hooks and breakneck speed vocals dominate with a subtle driving bass line. love it. You’re not going to get any ‘Baby I love you’ songs here, Everything Everything are far too clever for that. ‘Qwerty Finger’ shows this completely. It’s almost like the band have put these two songs first to completely disorient you from what you would traditionally call music. Instead they chose to overtake your auditory senses with such a sonic explosion that you will be putty in their hands.
Had some great fun making this with Xtranormal. Brilliant stuff.
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