Cold War Kids : Audience Of One

They're back. As posted last month, the Cold War Kids are releasing an E.P. in January. This is the first leak from the coming E.P. and it is good to hear the Kids back in form.
The song is straight ahead soulful. The middle eight is especially good. I think this song more than makes up for their repetitive ramblings of something not being right [with them].

To those of you who are reading this and know what 'an audience of one' implies: good for you. And for those of you who don't, here is a list of comprehensive search engines that might help you figure it out before you decide to leave a smart-ass comment on my blog:

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And here's the track:

Cold War Kids : Audience of One

Owl City : Fireflies . . . Ha Ha

I stumbled across this great review of Owl City's hit single, Fireflies.

Reviewed by Pitchfork, the single received a gracious rating of 1. That's right, less than two and a bit more than nothing (though not much).

To summarize the review, I've selected this passage to highlight the essence of Fireflies:

"Like most 'brought to you by...' attempts to connect with the disaffected, it's delivered in an emasculated, cloying wheeze that serves as a cutesy defense mechanism for a guy who's trying so hard to be sincere, he forgets to say what he actually means"

Read the review in its entirety. It is intensely gratifying. I promise.

November 24

Moby : Wait For Me Deluxe Album/Version/Edition

I got pretty excited over the June 30th release of Moby's album, Wait For Me. However, this deluxe release has me ecstatic.

A three disc release.

The first disc is the entire original album, plus two unreleased bonus tracks.
The second disc is an ambient version of the original album, with new interpretations of each of the 16 tracks, re-recorded and re-interpreted by Moby himself. No funky remix album in sight.
And the third disc is a video DVD including live performances, music videos and of course, what we all know and love, more Little Idiot animated shorts for each of the tracks on Wait For Me.

Korg X3

I used to play one of these.

The Korg X3. I remember this thing having wonderful string and piano sounds. A nice cello patch. While it didn't have much to boast about in the way of knobs and tweaking cutting-edge sounds, its sound banks were huge.

January 19

The Cold War Kids are planning on releasing a 4 song EP entitled, "Behave Yourself," on January 19th. New material is currently being worked on for the upcoming album, following the release of the EP. Also, here's a little promo video they put together for the whole thing. LA bands. *Puh.*

Moby and his drum machines

Moby talks about his gear, shows us his drum machine collection and rants about the nerds in electronic music. This is a submersion into Moby's home studio in New York. This is SO COOL.

If the vid doesn't work, check out the interview HERE.

New Sea Wolf album

Released September 22.

How did I miss this?


Here's a free download (enter your email to acquire) of a bonus track off of the album, entitled Stanislaus. I've listened to it a few times now. It has that bohemian-gypsy-thing going again. It's melodramatic. However, it's tastefully melodramatic. Nonetheless, I am anticipating picking up White Water, White Bloom. It seems Alex Brown Church, lead singer of Sea Wolf, "couldn’t have known beforehand what the next record would sound like, but I did know I wanted it to be bigger, with a band feel, rather than another series of intimate confessionals.”

With this crisp Autumn weather at hand, Sea Wolf seems fitting to be listening to.