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Monday, 5 January 2009 12:48 pmToday's Random Insight, brought about by a happy week crippling our bandwidth by following up all the music recommendations on the Scary-Go-Round best of the year list1: British Sea Power sounds like House of Love, particularly "No Lucifer"2. Remember House of Love? 80s/90s wimpy-alty-rocky wannabe-gothy-but-my-wrist's-too-limp. In other news, I'm completely sold on the Fleet Foxes, especially "White Winter Hymnal", for which I have conceived an addiction. Catchy male-voice part singing ftw. Also curiously reminiscent of the Shins.
Bits of this make me think of "Sumer Is Icumen In", which is possibly why I was lying in bed at 2am the other night and fuzzily lamenting the decline of canon singing. Can anyone think of any reasonably modern pop song which actually utilises a tune sung as a round? with or without a ground bass?
In other, other news I bought a Japanese Peace Lily for my office. This is an in-joke.
Bits of this make me think of "Sumer Is Icumen In", which is possibly why I was lying in bed at 2am the other night and fuzzily lamenting the decline of canon singing. Can anyone think of any reasonably modern pop song which actually utilises a tune sung as a round? with or without a ground bass?
In other, other news I bought a Japanese Peace Lily for my office. This is an in-joke.
1 I am charmed by the lateral music criticism of "Dr. Ladysounds". She describes the new Magnetic Fields album as being "performed in the style of early Jesus And Mary Chain (that is, on an imaginary motorbike with hair two feet high)". Memo to self, acquire more Magnetic Fields, there is a serious danger that I know at least two-thirds of the lyrics of 69 Love Songs by heart.
2 Which I persist in remembering as "I, Lucifer", thus exposing my Modesty Blaise fixation to the mocking world.
