in no particular order.

Ghosts Of Television - Forsaken Empire (Magnetic Recording Council)
Ghosts Of Television continue to sound like nobody else in Sydney/Australia/the world on this, their first and apparently last LP. The sheer breadth of disparate influences evident here has to be heard to be believed. For instance, although GOTV are ( Read more... )

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Crouching 80s Hidden Acronym - K.M.W.Y.M.O.
continually amazed at what these kids come up with.
their newest uploaded song, K.M.W.Y.M.O., somehow manages to sound like  early bloc party, 90s midwestern emo, minus the bear, a ska band, and the B-52s, all at the same time. an incredibly well put together song. somebody give them some time in a decent ( Read more... )

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thought i'd paid all the medical bills associated with my nose-job (ha).
wrong. $436 for the anaesthetist.
and i expect the ambo's bill to be coming in shortly now i think of it.

really very excited about the band. nothing much else is going on. played lounge room recording of abdicate to a few people and they were impressed, so that's good. am ( Read more... )

very LOUD excerpt from rehearsals (the outro of our song called Abdicate) up on the micepace here.

revise previous estimate: i have a broken nose + deviated septum. breathing fine though, so unless the ear nose and throat specialist wants to fix it, i've got a slightly crooked/curved nose now. you can hardly notice ( Read more... )

1. we may have found our drummer!
2. my train to BFC's party was 45 minutes late.
3. i got beaten up on Abercrombie Street. mildly concussed, but otherwise no damage - all teeth present and accounted for, no bones broken, etc.

I guess it goes without saying that all these tracks will stick with me for personal reasons. It's been that kind of year.

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

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How much you like Vampire Weekend seems to be inversely proportional to how serious you are about your class hatred - that they're rich upper class kids from upstate New York, or something, and make ( Read more... )