Au Revoir

I'm going back to Manchester tomorrow, where I'll have no internet, and then shortly after I'm heading to Spain, so I'm going to leave you for a while, with this cover version as a parting gift. Incase you haven't noticed, I love La Roux. I want to marry Elly and have androgynous children with hair that doesn't obey gravity (I don't know about her, but mine does that naturally every morning). I'm less certain about how I feel about White Lies, but this version of Farewell to the Fairground is far cooler than the original.

La Roux - Farewell to the Fairground

Here's the news from the BBC

I saw Fangs supporting Sons and Daughters in Manchester Club Academy once. After I left, I saw the members drinking out of a big bottle of Strongbow on a bench outside. I knew I shouldn't have been impressed, but they managed to do common with style. I hadn't really given them a second thought in the past two years, and now I find them recording really super cool music. I love their attitude, I love that the singer calls herself "The Queen", and I love this song. I like to think they're still swigging cider outside venues.

FANGS - S.I.C.K.O

(I actually bought this with my money, so you should too.)

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions

audrey tautou

Circumstances kept me in Manchester for longer than anticipated but I'm back in Runcorn's cold embrace for a few days now, with that fibre optic broadband we've all been hearing so much about. Samuel L Jackson wouldn't lie to us.

I stumbled across this gem pretty quickly. I've tried desperately to get into Architecture In Helsinki, I listen to them for hours but I just tend to go through passionate love affairs with one track at a time. Whilst my time with Do The Whirlwind has long passed, this Yacht remix has me dancing at the family computer desk.

Architecture In Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind (Yacht Remix)

Also everyone should go and see Coco Avant Chanel when it comes out next week. Il est très beau.

We've been holding this moment for you

Giulieta Masina

I've just done a big long post, but this track deserves it's own one, it's so adorable and bright. I wake up with it in my head.

Yacht - Psychic City

I'm moving back home for a while so expect little posts more frequently.

These are a few of my favourite things

The only thing in the world at the moment that is cooler than me and my bffl, who will be hitting my favourite Manchester dancefloor with me tonight, is Kitsune. I know, I state the obvious, but their 7th Kitsune Maison compilation is crazy cool and as I've already blogged about my favourite track from it, I'll go for my second favourite by NY duo The Golden Filter (I just love a good male/female duo). It's electronic music at it's sexiest, breathy female vocals listing her "favourite things", a list straight off the facebook pages of the coolest vintage clad dancefloor kids. It's music for kissing strangers in the darkest corners of clubs to.

The Golden Filter - Favourite Things

Isn't it lovely when you a support act puts the headliner to shame? I went to see AutoKratz last night and Chew Lips really outdid them, though given the quality of AutoKratz's performance, it wasn't that difficult. The singer was adorable and simultatiously full of attitude, she had brilliant stage presense. With the influx of brilliant female fronted electropop acts in the charts they're bound to get much bigger very quickly.

Chew Lips - Solo (from Kitsuné Maison Compilation 7) (buy it on itunes)

Summertime

So I've finished my exams, and I'm going headfirst into summer with this beautiful remix of a Bombay Bicycle Club track. It builds up into the most blissful thing. It's so perfect for warm summer heartbroken nights.

Expect me to actually write things over summer. I have 4 months with no university, and music always sounds better in the summer.

Always Like This (James Rutledge Remix)

As seen filling up my entire recently played on last.fm

Mourning

It's a sad affair when a band you like splits up. It's been months since Elle S'appelle left us, but it's something I'm still not quite over. I was lucky to see them as much as I did - they were everything fun and joyous about music.

I really loved that band.



That's all.

You Better Run

Anyone who's met me could probably guess that I would like Florence and The Machine. I try to work against my own stereotypes, but in the end this just leaves me months behind everyone else when I begrudgingly admit that I do like most female artists.

Whilst most people fell for Florence and The Machine when Kiss With A Fist was used in an advertising campaign for 4Music, it was The Dog Days Are Over that did it for me. It's such an uplifting piece of music, the cute little mandolin at the start is just the beginning. The lyrics are so imaginative and full of wonderful images, you can almost see horses. I'm still not that fussed about anything else she's done, but this really is a masterpiece.

Did I ever tell you I been struck by lightning seven times?

I know it's nice for a film to have a moral, but does it really need to be spelled out in a montage at the end of the film? I was thoroughly enjoying The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and was getting abit weepy at the end, when I was bombarded with messages. And why was it set during Hurricane Katrina? It just seemed completely irrelevant.

Other than that, it's an excellent film. Wonderfully acted and beautifully shot.