Walls have just released this new track taken from their new album ‘Coracle’ out next week.
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Coachella is this weekend, which means the summer festival season is officially upon us. Also, for some, an excuse to get naked and pretend you’re a wizard. If you can’t make the desert sojourn, you can at least recreate the experience elsewhere via this playlist (minus the oppressive heat and general dishevelment). Contained within are fifteen songs from Major Lazer, Phoenix, Hot Chip, and others who are set to perform, with the sad and glaring omission of The Specials, whose discography you should already own anyway.
An outsider would think that music bloggers the world over conspire at the end of each calendar year to produce a myriad of list-based posts merely to confirm the suspicion that music bloggers are anal, facile and childish. These outsiders would be absolutely right.
There’s something questionable about a deadpan San Diego punk band covering one of the most pants-wettingly melodic groups in existence, but considering we ride for both Phoenix and The Soft Pack (née The Muslims, lest you forget) we indulged this one out of curiosity–and it’s pretty good! Sounds like Lou Reed if he’d just been released from prison (or ever went there) and proves Phoenix’s wind-at-your-back bombast has less to do with chords and lyrics than we initially thought. Revelations!
For whatever reason the act of changing a band’s name has always annoyed me. You start to get to know a band as one thing and then all of a sudden they’re something totally different. It sucks and it really fucks up your iTunes cataloging! In the case of the band formerly known as The Muslims I think I can make an exception to the rule.
Don’t even feel like anything I blog about even matters. When u hear about a story so serious, it’s like all of this ‘alt music and culture’ stuff doesn’t even matter, cuz in the end, we’re all humans. In case yall haven’t heard, there is a strand of the flu going around called SWINE FLU.
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