Friday, February 23, 2007

Etchings 23/2

Some random things for this immediately pre-weekend day.

Gotye continues his annus mirabilis as Like Drawing Blood is reviewed on Pitchfork. It's a generally favourable 6.8 for those who can't be bothered to click through, mostly talking it up but acknowledging the album's flaws. Good exposure for Wally de B, if that thing takes off any more he'll have to dump those other Basics.

Also in music reviews on canonical websites, one of my favourite releases of last year, Faux Pas's Entropy Begins at Home gets a writeup at PopMatters. It all sounds very favourable but then the summary is 6, so make of that what you will. For what it's worth, it's a much better album than that, if you like funky/ambient sample-based electronica, you need to get this album.

(A good occasion to post a link to a new-ish Faux Pas-ish track:
[mp3] Aleks and the Ramps - Pisces vs Aquarius (Faux Pas remix)
As discussed on Tim Faux's blog.)

And some touring news. According to Tiny Mix Tapes, newish Matador signees Love of Diagrams are spending two-and-a-half months doing 40 dates across the US, some with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists; so I guess a big US indie label is pretty handy to have in your corner.

My Disco doing some dates around the country in April including some regional shows. The Melbourne show's at The East on the 14th of April, the full list of dates is at Mess+Noise.

The night before that show shapes as interesting, also at The East. It's Melbs' own angry and eclectic Ground Components playing with Queensland's Operator Please, tipped around the traps (including by Craig Mathieson on Mess+Noise today) to be one of the next Very Big Things. They've barely had a release and have hit paydirt on JJJ so one to keep an eye on.

Also important, while I remember, is the Art of Fighting album, Runaways, coming out in early March (dates vary). The launch isn't until May 12th at The Corner, possibly because they're playing The Dirty Three's All Tomorrow's Parties in April, along with some Japan shows on the way home. Make or break for these guys this time round - as Sodastream have shown, nothing lasts forever, so make the most of it while you got it.

And, lastly but not leasterly, Who Made Who have just announced a Melbourne show at The Prince next Sunday (March 4th). They were here about six months ago and obviously liked it. It's a wacky electro show with lots of bouncing; think Midnight Juggernauts in animal suits. Lots of fun.

Now have, a weekend!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Art Of Fighting's album Runaways is out March 10. Fact.

8:25 pm  
Blogger Dave said:

Hmmm. My mum always taught me to ignore "facts" propounded by anonymous people on the innernet. Who are you, special person with facts?

After all, the front page on the AoF site says March 07 whereas JB Online reckons March 12th. It's all so confusing.

10:39 am  

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