james blake! out of left field! this kid is being pegged as the best thing since sliced bread. creating his own genre of selfproduced partial dubstep acoustic? its all a bit patrick wolfy. but this feist cover is pretty cute with some added intrigue.

Limit To Your Love – James Blake.

when i first heard this track, i thought i’d finally worked my head around yeasayer. unfortunately, yeasayer hype is still a bit unwarranted and instead i love hooray for earth! snappy drums and that urban jungle beat, paired with the swaying vocals. had me fooled boys.

True Loves – Hooray For Earth. removed at hooray’s request. still streaming though!

and of course from the greatest album of 2010, the national, ladies and gentlemen.

Terrible Love – The National.

led in by drums and ferocious guitar, wolf gang returns with a slamdunk track. didn’t think he could top lions in cages, but he’s clearly repaving the pop rock road. he’s got the formula down pat with the accented angel vocals and mika chimes.

Dancing With the Devil – Wolf Gang.

a bit of a radio dept. & middle east crossover, but high highs hold their ground with horns, cymbals and luscious gravelly notes. calling back to a lofty late night on the seaside, pretty sure these boys will be golden.

Flowers Bloom – High Highs.

toro y moi, hazy sound oasis. sheer washed out brilliance with that keyboard jazz tang.

Still Sound – Toro Y Moi.

what a terrible summer hiatus.
back in action, with box jelly scars and horn rims.

first cab off the rank,
super obsessed with this russian gem from pompeya. seriously good chow.
lowly strum with soviet space synth, smooth groove.

Cheenese – Pompeya.

steady sunshine on this 90s ballad.
tuning killers on the backbeat but oh so catchy, set to rattle some cages.

Anna Sun – Walk the Moon.

lilting irishman mcmorrow sails this one home. croon as rough and sweet as demerara sugar, baby.

If I Had A Boat – James Vincent McMorrow.

may have missed the boat with halloween,
but in my defence, was mildly distracted watching nightmare before christmas and fruitlessly trying to think of a costume.

do they know it’s hallowe’en? – north american hallowe’en prevention inc.

ghosts (hey champ remix) – gemini club.

broken bones – the holidays.

some days, the wanting comes in waves.

the storm – boy & bear.

all night, all night, all night – david vertesi.

static on the wire (rac remix) – holy ghost!

lately, sheer brilliance has been pumping out of australia’s musical orifice.
on the world stage, we’ve got temper trap, miami horror, bag raiders etc.
ridiculously good, no? see examples below for other such magic.

eyes wide open – gotye.

trans ending – the seabellies.

rock it – little red.

just ignore that month long delay.

first on the agenda,
matt corby.
may i point out how utterly stunning this boy is? helllloooooo. same age as i, and while i’m forging my way through a halfass uni degree, he’s making sweet love to a geeetar and pumping out jeff buckley spawn.
the fuck is this? THE MAGIC. let us forget the idol business. don’t get me started on the cover of transatlanticism, i cried alright.
made of stone – matt corby.

and a bit of foals for good measure.
wear & tear – foals.

everything smells so freaking amazing on my street at the moment. two weeks into spring (a deceiving term, otherwise known as melbourne winter) and today was blue skies & peachy. let’s not get carried away.

sunshine!

long ago, in the 90s glory days, kylie was my absolute idol. mainly because we have the same birthday, so she was obviously my spirit animal. menace absolutely picks apart her most recent track, and it is marvellous. all cheery blissed out goodness.

get outta my way (kris menace remix) – kylie minogue.

i’m not going to get started, because their magic speaks for itself. any blog mention of my fellow melburnians temper trap, and i am literally alllll over that ass.
run and tell that, homeboy.
this remix just chills it down with some lior like wonder. little bells and tickety drums.

soldier on (big city love affair remix) – temper trap.

the swedish. they have everything. ikea, alexander skarsgard, the radio dept, cheap mondays & that amazing daim cake.
you know what, you didn’t need jens lekman too. so um, we stole him.
and now we can have an english summer getaway harpsichord orgy!
very similar to belle & sebastian, and much much sweeter than matt & kim.

your arms around me – jens lekman.

can’t we all just get drunk and fuck jeffrey dean morgan in bolivia?
never really had a liking for the kills before, they’re like a dirty british johnny&june/the white stripes.
but this is just far out badass. i can’t even.
u.r.a fever – the kills.

canadian postpunk. hmm. same response when i fell in love with ‘in a cave’, and i kind of get the inkling i shouldn’t like this either? but there is something in that chorus that gets me everytime. angsty bam!
runnning forest firesss underneath your bed!
breakneck speed – tokyo police club.

roughed up southern swagger, a supercombo of the walkmen, grunged up arcade fire and kings of leon. much love.
leaving on the 5th – voxhaul broadcast.

excuse the neverending space puns, but there’s nothing like a bit of mooncrooning to launch you into a cosmic evening. a countdown of stellar tracks promise to take you intergalactic.
one small step for blog, one giant leap for musickind.
ahh i could go on, for lightyears perhaps?

right here right now (trumpdisco remix) – fatboy slim.

slow peels – com truise.

space around the feel station – violens & washed out.

tonight, tonight – passion pit.

way back home – bag raiders.

julius – starfucker.

like a locus (shake hands with the dead) – the appleseed cast.

moonlight hours (jonathan boulet remix) – the holidays.

mr. rager – kid cudi.

got far too carried away with that one.