We blame ourselves. We came up with this genre name, indexia, and it was a shit name for a genre and it was an ill defined genre at that. I mean, it made sense and it was all well and good and indexia is an averagely decent play on words but it's not the right type of word for a genre. Indie remixes is what we were trying to mention but, to be ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 28th May 2006This week's twenty is a great one. Having no money to spend on new music and having got up to dates with reviews and stuff we basically just went through the archive and picked out albums we should be reviewing along with a few we should really have spent more time with first 'time round. Which brings us this lot. Plus a ( Read more... )

I don't hate Paul Oakenfold. I really don't. I don't hate house music, I think that type of thing is well known. Trance, sure, I'm happy with my utter and complete blind prejudice against trance. For music calling itself trance to be good it has to Not Be Trance. So, Paul Oakenfold then. He's doing the latest Editors remix, this time for Camera. A ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 21st May 2006Great. Windows Media Player has just hung on me, meaning I can't actually listen to any of the songs while talking about them. Well, no, I can, except I can only listen to the number one in the chart which is a bit pointless since I tend to go from bottom to top. However, it is a good, well compiled chart this week so I'm ( Read more... )

It was bound to happen sooner or later but, it's happened now. I've lost my first piece of music. If you look around my desks now it's just awash with CDs and HMV bags. Twelve inches, seven inches the odd ten inch, receipts for orders and other things that need to be put in places that are currently blocked of with receipts. So. I've lost the ( Read more... )

Mystery Jets are an awkward bunch to judge. It took us a while to get into Zoo Time then suddenly it was great, then the follow up single wasn't so great and then neither was Zoo Time and then it was again and now we're just not sure. Anyway, they're re-releasing You Can't Fool Me Dennis one of their most, hmmm.., middle class songs. Yeah, I know, ( Read more... )

Didn't buy much this Monday. Payday was Tuesday and I was late for work at the time anyway. All we got was a Mystery Jets single and a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah single. Neither was amazing. Maybe they'll grow on me, both the singles and, more specifically, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (everyone loves them, right?). It just sounds weak and weedy to me, ( Read more... )

Oh. Just in case I seem unnecessarily slating and Down With Small Music in that last post, I wish The Cutters all the success in the world. Just, by success, I mean I hope they evolve into a good, forward thinking band and then go on to get the recognition they therefore deserve. Not. I hope their completely risk free brand of songwriting gets them ( Read more... )

I do respect Jacques Le Cont. Even if I didn't enjoy Zoot Woman a great deal I still think he's a good guy. Especially since Jacques Your Body was an amazing tune (you may remember it ten years after the fact soundtracking the advert where the car turns into a robot, yeah). Anyway, today's standalone purchase was Juliet's Avalon. Juliet is an ( Read more... )