Albums Of 2007

Tis the season of good will & best of the year, so im jumping on the bandwagon to give my 2 cents.

1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible


2. Black Francis - BlueFinger


3. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank


4. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!


5. Battles - Mirrored


6. Manic Street Preachers - Send away The Tigers


7. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare


8. Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army


9. Thurston Moore- Trees Outside The Academy


10. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33

Honourable Mentions:

• Radiohead- In Rainbows


• Holy Fuck - LP


• 65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas


• Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated

45:33

Anyway on to music, LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 is just brilliant, i didn't really like them before this but listening to this album has retroactively made me appreciate their earlier work, i don't know how it just has. Very much recommended.
Also 45:33 is not the running time(although its very close to that) 45 & 33 represent the two most common rpm of records(if you don't know what a record is I'm not going pointing it out to you.)



p.s. check out the beatspeakie [karenpeakie], its an art blog, but don't worry its not shit.

For Cathal

who doesn't seem to understand that in the middle of my exams i should be allowed to not post for a week, those artists and their lack of exams, its like preparing them for later life and their lack of jobs.


That'll get me a smack.

Video of the Day

Battles - Tonto
Great song, Great Video.

Study Music

Its that time of year again, christmas, bringer of presents and exams.
So whilst I read up on hoare triples and Loop Invariants i keep myself calm and focused by listening to some Nick Drake, Joy Division & LCD Soundsystem.
The latter have really gained my respect since i started listening to 45:33.

And when im not studying im playing this Simple yet addictive game.

Manics @ The Ambassador, Friday 30th

I got to go to this on a spare ticket so i was well excited, i only found out last wednesaday. A great gig by a band consistently show why theyve been playing for over 16 years, their first dublin gig was in 1991 and was attended by a crowd of 20.

They Opened with Motorcycle emptiness and continued in style playing some stuff that i hadn't heard them do before, Slash n Burn, roses in the hospital & Yes. A false start on your love alone, starting motown junk with a cover of the cult's She Sells Sanctuary & nice two song acoustic interlude by james dean bradfield made it fell like one of the more cosy and friendly gigs ive been to.

Nicky wire was also nice enough to tell us that he co-wrote your love alone with richie on a spritual level. Great gig, and that has no almost defiently rounded off my gigs of 2007, roll on british sea power in january.