Graines d'Etoile, Perry Blake (feat. Emile Simon)

Perry Blake was one of my youth favourite singers, dark, frail and moody. When I came across with the livelier a-la Divine Comedy album California, I was surprised but the songs grew in me little by little and the last one with the mellow voice of Emile Simon drove me back to my youth.

Emilie Simon, Perry Blake - Graines d'Etoile sur wat.tv

Occupied, The Radio Dept

Buried, Shlohmo

Funeral, Angels Dust

"So what time is my funeral..."

The Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

"But let me tell you I have a plan..."

Morning Side, Four Tet

20 minutes of bliss...

Aurora, Veruca Salt

The sheer simplicity of this little song still moves me time after time no matter how many years go by.

 

Fall in Love, Phantogram

Super Connected, Belly

(From the Guilty Pleasures series) Another great tune from the far away 90s.

Stofnar Falla, Samaris

Lemonade, Coco Rosie

Sea Creatures, Soak

Bled to death, Daughn Gibson

I don't want to, La casa al mare

The opening track on the debut album by La casa al Mare takes us immediately to My Bloody Valentine and that is always a good path to follow.

Miniskirt, Braids

Anyone Else But You, Moldy Peaches

"You're a part time lover and a full time friend..."

Please stop dancing, The Magnetic Fields

Zyx, Eedl

Boy from B-612, Marine Life

Sometimes the only thing you need is a good pop tune to cheer your day up.

Believe, Nocturnal Sunshine

"Patience ain't no virtue of mine..."

Dakota Background Day, Luap

New Alhambra, Elvis Depressedly

The all-mighty happy sadness

My smile is a rifle, John Frusciante

Mockingbird, Papercuts

Challenger, Burning Star Core

The Bar is a beautiful place, Ryan Adams

"Despite anything I might've said before... the bar is a beautiful place..."

Grace, Jeff Buckley

"My fading voice sings of love..."

12:51, The Strokes

Hustle, Tunng

Psycho Killer, Talking Heads

You, Gold Panda

Hard Drive (Baby I'm Bored), Evan Dando

"This is the face I make when I'm sad..."

Magic, Tujiko Noriko

From a few years back, but still powerful and intriguing.

Benvingut als pirineus, Pau Vallvé

Is she really going out with him?, Joe Jackson

Today, a guilty pleasure of mine...

Alison's starting to happen, Lemonheads

The Three Sides of Audrey, Nicolas Jaar

And today, not only one but two songs: those comprising Nicolas Jaar's new EP.

Brumaria 03, dot tape dot

Recover, Chvrches

And yet another interesting band from Scotland

Turn around, Mikal Cronin

Running up that hill, Mika Vainio

Bela Lugosi's Dead, Bauhaus

Cigarettes, Russian Red

Sometimes the only thing that you need the most is just a cigarette, or just even the stubs you left on the floor...

Angels, The XX

Two years ago, The XX were a glimpse of hope on a decaying year... are they still so?

Stay the Same, Bonobo

Ancient Ways, Interpol

After their incredible debut album, Turn on the Bright lights, Interpol seem to have been back on track with El Pintor

 

No rest for the wicked, Likke Li

One of last year's best song and still strong in 2015

Roads, Portishead

Still so painfully beautiful...

Sparks, Martin Rev

Suicide's frontman embracing the future

La Superbe, Benjamin Biolay

Das Modell, Kraftwerk

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space, Spiritualized

And we are all still floating in space...

We're from Barcelona, I'm from Barcelona

When beyond tacky becomes a thing...

Electric Child, Guedeon Della

From a sold out album almost impossible to find, one of their best songs:

http://elefant.com/album/939/sideral-picacandy#

Sabbath, Jenny Hval

Stutter, Elastica

Still a great album to listen to on the car...

Live in San Antón Part 5, Scratoa!

Marc Nguyen (from Colder) and Guillaume Ollendorff (The Mainstream ensembles) joined efforts in Alicante for this sort of concrete music experimentation. As they say in their bio: "Experiencing Scratoa! will probably not cure any disease nor it will help you improve some social skills either. But listening to this first session may however be recommended for all these tiny moments of your life when all you fancy is just a good old fix of primitive poetry."
So let's enjoy this "fix of primitive poetry."

Wrong Baby, Colder

Stating the obvious: Joy Division's legacy was never so well reproduced

Let it Happen, Tame Impala

Yes... "so let it happen..."

Music for Steamed Rocks, Oneohtrix Point Never

Renaissance! San Fermin

Full hints of Bill Callahan, Madrugada and The National, a good effort for a band who has just released their second album with a great first track and a combination of tunes unable to reach it. A pity.

Demons, The National

While we eagerly await for their new album to arrive (will it be soon?), just one of the many great tracks on Trouble will find me.

Another brick in the wall, Pink Floyd

"We don't need no education..."

Do you realize? The Flaming Lips

"Do you realize that hapinness makes you cry?"

Step out, José González

New York Morning, Elbow

Untouchable face, Ani Difranco

"So fuck you..."

Just like honey, The Jesus and Mary Chain

From 1985 and it still as good as it gets.

Double Locked, Smiling Disease

Alison, Slowdive

Back in 1993, Slowdive released the majestic album Souvlaki and most of us have not been able to recover yet...

Clouds so far, Aloa Input

A much darker Postal Service; a less experimental Notwist... an interesting proposal.

On Fire, Sebadoh

"It complicates the complication..."

Can you feel it too?, Fun Home

John Taylor's month away, King Creosote & John Hopkins

Venter, Ben Frost

Heroes, David Bowie

Sometimes, it is necessary to look back in order to move forward.

What we don't see, A Place to Bury Strangers

Reverb-love

Pretty in a Panic, My Latest Novel

"Beat and Broken..."

Whodunnit, The Reindeer Section

"I felt in love again today..."

Patience, Micah P. Hinson

"I'm running out of patience to be fucking with this now 
you better believe me when I say this now 
I'm packing up my nightmares and I'll be on my way 
you better find me some time when you have more to say"

Seneca, Tortoise

Past sounds from a distant future

The Felt Sense, Tu Fawning

Rusty Nails, Moderat

A heart hidden behind the machine...

Flour, Menomena

From the incredible Under an Hour theatre performance, almost 19 minutes of pure emotions.

Steady Glazed Eyes, Living Hour

The neverending fascination of shoegazing and clever repetition.

We are Ghosts, Get Well Soon

Not Today, Flying Colours

A song you can/should listen over and over again...

Walking the Cow, Daniel Johnston

"I really don't know how I came here..."

Mr Noah, Panda Bear

Some Days are Better than Others, Eluvium

Yes, indeed, Some days are really better than others...

////////L, Moon Relay

A bit of Krautrock from Oslo.

Bluebird of Happiness, Mojave 3

"Gotta find a way back home..."

Lola, Alex Calder

El president, Drugstore

"I killed the president..."

Otitis, Mourn

Time to surrender to the new/old sounds of Mourn. Give them a couple of years and they can become something really big.

v

Age (excerpt), Huntsville

Let's walk together into the darker parts of this tangled path we call life...

Cheree, Suicide

Back in the 1970s, great post-post sounds that are still relevant today.

Realiti, Grimes

While awaiting for her new album...

When Love was the Law in Los Angeles, Tarwater

Between the bars, Elliott Smith

You don't know how lucky you are, Keaton Henson

Flesh War, Total Control

Synths, eighties, Joy Division... what can go wrong?

Trials, Troubles, Tribulations, Sounds of the South

First track from the compilation Music Now: 10 years with this superband formed by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver, Volcano Choir), Sharon Van Etten, Megafaun, Matthew E. White, and Fight the Big Bull.

Kolnidur, Jónsi

Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavelle, You missed my heart

When Mark Kozelek's broken voice teams up with Jimmy Lavelle's melodies... Sun Kil Moon become something else.

Piano Fire, Sparklehorse

"I got sunburnt waiting for the jets to land"

We are the Pigs, Suede

"We'll all watch them burn"

Knock on the wall of your womb, Aidan Moffat

Wave of Mutilation, Pixies

"Drive my car into the ocean..."

Hope there's someone, Antony and the Johnsons

Sleep, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Sometimes the word epic does not reach the magnitude of the sounds and emotions conveyed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

I sing I swim, Seabear

Browsing on the amazing Morr Music catalogue, hidden jewels galore.

Canada, Low

Rugla, Amiina

Sometimes, words become useless...

Clangour and Flutes, Sin Fang Bous

Mellow, Tunng-like track for a band worth listening to.

Underwear, FM Belfast

"We come from a place where we count the days until nothing, until nothing, until nothing..."

Continental Love, Borko

There's no better sound landscape than this.

Atmosphere, Joy Division

"Don't walk away..."

He war, Cat Power

Back then, when Cat Power was indeed Cat Power...

Farewell Transmission, Songs: Ohia

"The real truth about it is no one gets it right..."

Out There, Dinosaur Jr

I know you're out there... I really do.

Fuck the People, The Kills

There's always a good reason to say it, so "Fuck the people"!

Stella was a diver and she was always down, Interpol

Only Shallow, My Bloody Valentine

Para, Calexico

Southern sounds with a twist

Si el sol no calienta, Santiago Latorre

Delicacy, intimacy, warmth, cosiness, nostalgia... are just some of the emotions produced by Santiago Latorre in this great track.

Mistakes of my Youth, Eels

"I can't keep repeating, the mistakes of my youth..."

Bless, Kira Kira

Icelandic sounds to warm our hearts up.

Now is All We Have, Daniel Van Lion

Organic, evolving sounds ready to grow in you.

Now it's on, Grandaddy

Ingenue, Atoms for peace

Cont. dance routines galore for a great little tune.

Skinny Love, Bon Iver

"And I told you to be patient/ and I told you to be fine..."

Killers, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

Oblivion, Grimes

Eternal decayed youth

Winter Linn, Clark

Explosions in the dark, surrounded by mystery and a tinkling light at the very end of the tunnel...

I wanna be adored, The Stone Roses

Those were the times, and those were we.

Burnt, Kiasmos

Let this week burn itself away while we transcend into a new and better self: our weekend persona.

Dry the Rain, The Beta Band

"If there's something inside that you wanna say, say it out loud, it'll be okay"

Svefn-g-englar, Sigur Rós

Out of the amazing tunes they built when they were good (back in the 2000s), it is really hard to pick just one. So this one features here, but it could have easily been any other one.

Love and Other Planets, Adem

The gravity of feelings and emotions expressed in its most subtle and charming way...

Lay Your Head Down, Keren Ann

Soothing our way into this cold January Monday...

Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Locked somewhere in the middle of Russia, one of the strangest, yet übercool, party takes place with Nick Cave as the chair of the event, and renowned guests like Jarvis Cocker or Jason Donovan dancing feverishly to the rhythm of this ecstatic song. Great video for a greater song.

Bachelorette, Björk

Whilst examining the hidden places within her new album, Vulnicura, let's not forget she gave us heartbreaking songs like this one.

Move On, Lali Puna

Regardless of what they want us to believe, "things move on", and so do we.

Circassian, Fennesz

There are still no words to describe the overwhelming emotional power of this track. Thus, let the music talk!

You Burn, I break horses

There is an enigmatic, even mischievous, tone underlying the sweet voice and the naïve melodies. And that's what makes this track an interesting song.

The Quotidian Beasts, Phosphorescent

Open Eye Signal, John Hopkins

Eight minutes of bliss closely linked to The Chemical Brothers' Guitar Star sound.

Bodies, The Smashing Pumpkins

"Love is suicide"

Common People, Pulp

There was a time when we were all Different Class...

Peaceable Child, Inventions

From the collaboration between Mark Smith (Explosions in the Sky) and Matthew Cooper (Eluvium),  the perfect way to smooth the Friday away.

Requiem, Go-qualia

The chiming music box brings us memories from our childhood combined with the recollection of the beauty springing from the Amina songs. And then, the celebratory, euphoric voice comes in and nothing will ever be the same...

Tou Mei, Madegg

The young, yet extremely talented Komatsu Kazumichi (1992):

Continental Shelf, Viet Cong

Joy Division and The Stone Roses come immediately to mind on this great song by Viet Cong.

Nova, Four Tet + Burial

As a general rule, the combination of two great creative minds, will produce a greater product. This is obviously not an exception. The deep, dark yet mermaid-like voices of Burial blend perfectly with the optimistic beats of Four Tet and we feel that there can be light on the other side of the tunnel.

Sue's Last Ride, Dirty Three

Warren Ellis' violin conveying feral emotions and sweet melancholy from back in 1996, the same year he began to collaborate with Nick Cave.

Landlocked Blues, Bright Eyes

"I found a liquid cure for my landlocked blues..."

Friday I'm in Love, The Cure

"I don't care if Monday's blue..." Another feel-good anthem from the 1990s.

The Circus is leaving Town, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

From the 2006 album Ballad of the Broken Seas, Lanegan's voice at its deeper and best to bring us this low americana song full of memories and nostalgic recollections.

My name is pony, Arbol

Out from their brilliant album She read the wrong Book (Spa.RK 2012), one of their finest songs.

Vital, Grouper

Sometimes, you feel there's still hope for emotion in music. Vital is the perfect combination of sweet melancholy and tender, fragile, vitality. A depiction of pure beauty.

Calx, LCC

Experimental sounds from their new album D/evolution.


LCC - 'Calx' from LCC on Vimeo.

One too many mornings, The Chemical Brothers

The 1995 dawn anthem by The Chemical Brothers. After a long night partying, let the music soothe your pains away.

Soft Focus, Miners

The reverberating excellences of shoegazing.

Civil War Correspondent, PJ Harvey

"I shout but he don't hear"
19 years later, it still is one hell of a song.

Carissa, Sun Kil Moon

"Carissa was 35. You don't just raise two kids then take your trash out and die"