Good Friends Not Bad Friends

Quiz Quest returned on Monday in Gwdihŵ with the theme of TV comedies (we won a Euro 2012 Panini sticker book for coming 3rd - I haven't opened it yet for fear of no shinys).

One of the rounds was guess the next line in Friends, which we sucked at. But my word we sucked nowhere near as hard as that show. I haven't watched it in about 10 years, what was I thinking?

Coincidentally search-engine-bothering-Sound-Of-2012-listed-Brooklyn-hipsters Friends released the video for their new single Mind Control, which looks like it's trying a bit to hard, especially when there's no need to with a song this good. Think Gang Gang Dance, think Tom Tom Club, think ESG and you're getting there.

Seams Like Spring

As that weird blast of proto-summer has long since disappeared, we're knee-deep in proper spring. And Seams has made a track that sounds just like it.

That means birdsong and chiming, glitchy acoustic sounds in a Susumu Yokota/Four Tet vein. A beautifully ambient 294 seconds.

Thursday = Clock Opera

Clock Opera are playing 10 Feet Tall on Thursday (19th April 2012). They didn't exactly get a raving preview in The Guardian's Guide this weekend but anyone who doesn't butcher Metronomy when remixing them are OK in my book, especially when they charge £6.50 entry (there's a couple of tickets left on WeGotTickets when I typed this).


[Right-click and "Download Document" to get an mp3 of Clock Opera's remix of The Bay by Metronomy]

Blitz

Time to get tenuous. Spent the week in Falmouth. After a disappointing DVD hunt in Trago Mills, it fell to Sounds OK. I didn't even bother flicking through the walls of CDs - £5.99 now feels a lot, how times have changed (the ridiculousness of an mp3 blog noting the depreciation in the value of music is not lost).

In the promo bin I found a film called Blitz, a 3-star thriller that was surprising only for the way Jason Statham kept his shirt on. Blitz was also the name of a post-punk night in the dearly departed Shades (which is soon reopening as Mama Africa - no news on the carpet) that me and three other people used to attend on Tuesdays. Shades was just around the corner from Sounds OK. Told you it was tenuous.

Anyway I used to request this track most nights. Quite frankly I'm baffled I haven't posted it before.


[Right-click and "Download Document" for an mp3 of Delta 5's Mind Your Own Business]

Release The Secret Beast

Do you ever feel like everybody knows something you don't? I felt it this week when Andrew Collins played this on 6Music...

We need a new word because Daft Punk did more than sample this for Robot Rock.