The Ordinary

I apologise for the lack of posts. It's just that the GCE O' levels are drawing nearer and nearer (It's in 3 months) and I don't really have the time for this.

But anyways...


The Ordinary.
Based in : New York.
Genre : Garage Punk

MYSPACE
PUREVOLUME

Sorry friends, only one song up for download.

Sweet Rotten Apples

If you like what you hear...

More songs available for download on their myspace and purevolume.

The Analog Girl.

The Analog Girl performing at Paris.

(Is it weird to post consecutively for 2 days? But it's more great music for you right?)

I like The Analog Girl for 2 reasons. She is good. Armed with only her vocals and her laptop, this bedroom electronicist creates music that literally sends you on a trip. It's a concoction of distorted vocals and hypnotic beats, and she's one of those performers that you either like her, or you don't. I personally loved her the moment I hear a couple of her tracks being used in a indie short film I was watching (local production, intriguing, but I won't go on too much.)

Another reason's she's from singapore, which makes me happy..? I'm not entirely confident in singapore bands after seeing (and hearing) enough to stereotype them, so Analog Girl's definitely something different. She's been compared with the likes of Bjork and maybe the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but I'm not so sure about that. The Analog Girl's performed in both singapore and overseas, and had performed with Astreal, which is another great local band.

Drop

Flowers On My Lips

Someone Else

Falling

Something In The Air

Listen to her when you're feeling down and gritty, or recovering from a big one. I listen to her as chill out music. Ha.

If you like their music, support them by purchasing their album, The TV Is On, through their website http://www.analog-girl.net/, or you could just buy the songs you like.

Stay in school!

Monday Afternoons.

Missy Higgins performing.

I caught Missy Higgins' performing on recently, well quite recently. I was flipping through tv channels and watched Live Earth for a while. I wasn't planning to, because a 24 hour concert to me is suicidal to my sleep pattern. Anyways, Missy Higgins was performing and I was hooked. Mainly because I was trying to figure out her accent. And she's got good vocals and plays the piano. I watched till she's done performing and everything. Bloody hell, she's Australian! lol. And I think the term down under is just... overused.

I try to get myself to look up on her but I keep forgetting till now. Apparently she's been performing for like 3 years? And I guess she's pretty popular is Australia, with all the hit singles and stuff. I would say she's a pop-ish Regina Spektor armed with an acoustic guitar, but I really won't be trusting my own judgement anytime. Listen to her as a guilty pleasure. =)

The Wrong Girl

Sugarcane

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Finally Friday.

Greetings to all. How was your week?

Mine sucked. You see, school just started and the week was pretty hectic, what with undone holiday assignments and getting back to the routine of waking up at 6am every weekday.

And I haven't started with how bad the weather is.

It has been very very hot.

So anyways, I was thinking. For everyone out there, you're most likely to spend your Friday nights partying after a hard week of school or work...or... staying at home and resting with a book and good music probably.

Yeah, you could probably watch movies or something. But ....whatever.

Here's some tunes to unwind to.

The Rakes - Work Work Work (Pub Club Sleep)

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

The Slip -Children of December

Slow runner - Break Your Mama's Back

The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy

Syntax - Pride

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Oregon Girl

South - Supercede

Stereophonics - Dakota

Goodbye for now.

Zee French!

(I typed 'french' into deviantart's search and I got french fries, french maid, and french kiss? Har har. I think I better stick to polaroids.)

The french always sounds sexy to me. As cliche as it is. And here are the songs y'all!

BB Brunes - Mr Hyde

Extremely good french rock.

Les Breatfeeders - Funny Funiculaire

And canadians! Singing french! Apparently from Montreal. Whoopee.

Prototypes - Danse Sur La Merde

Real frenchies doing rock and the occasional commercial songs. (Their songs were just used.)

Stereo Total - Touche Moi

French-German duo based in Berlin. Besides french, they sing in english, german, japanese, spanish, or turkish. Good luck in finding their turkish song, if what wiki says is true.

Call Me Poupee - Singapore Slang

This song. Don't ask. I have no effing idea either. *shrugs*

Eux Autres - Ecoutez Bien

French song by a US duo.

And apparently zee french are all pretty happy people, so no Emo Song of the Week today! How sad..?

I'll work hard on the damn-I-should-feature-a-band instead of doing the just-randomly-putting-together-songs-that-have-just-one-similarity thing too often. =)

Rooney

Rooney.

Their second album Calling The World will be out in July.

Rooney released their debut album in 2002 when the median age of the band was 19 years old. I think they're really talented. First caught them on the first season of The OC (guilty pleasure) and I was happy I found another awesome band. They have even toured with the likes of 'The Strokes' & 'Travis' and have been compared to 'The Beatles' and 'Blur'.

Lead singer Robert Schwartzman wrote all of the songs on "Calling the World" after searching for a sound that would at once rock and "also make people dance."

He definitely accomplished that with the first single from Calling The World "Where Did Your Heart Go Missing" - an immensely catchy song with an infectious chorus. Let's hope the rest of the album acheives the same mood.

Where Did Your Heart Go Missing

& something from their debut album...

Sorry Sorry

And something else totally unrelated that i'm so hooked on.

Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone [Via I Am Fuel, You Are Friends]

The song above is highly recommended. 5 Stars.

the devil wears prada

I turned sixteen 13 days ago :)

So, my summer break has started. I rewatched the devil wears prada. I love that movie! The clothes are nice and so's the music. The only lousy thing about it was the blatant un-goodlookingness of two of the guys; Nate and Christian :( Even minor characters Tom Holt and Andrea's gay friend (not the runway one) looked nicer. Ah wellz.

City Of Blinding Lights by U2 is my first song. It's on when footage of a beautiful paris is shown. It's so exciting! Fast and slightly chafing.

Next is Sleep by Azure Ray, which is on one of the previous posts by sharon. I'll just reputup a link. Check it out. It's slightly depressing and very soft.

Then there's Tres Tres Chic by Mocean Worker. I really like this one, I've been listening to it on repeat all day! Sure, the whole song comprises of one stanza repeated over and over in almost exactly the same way to an exotic tune. It sounds like a soft version of something you'd hear in a club. but it is wonderful anyway.

And finally, Suddenly I see by KT Tunstall. This song isn't on the OST despite the fact that it was the background music of the start of the movie. It's bouncy, it's happy, it's PERFECT!

The other songs in the film are almost as good, but I preferred these most (and acquired them accordingly). So I shan't talk about them, since it's 257am and I should be sleeping now.

love from chia lynn