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Mornin'14.11.09(you can see it bigger on YouTube actually, but if we make it bigger here the whole text and video extend over the allotted border of the "stuff" section and suddenly it looks like the phychedlia within the song has actually taken over my entire website .. but here's the link if you want a bit more of a cinematic VIBE) but yeah . .i LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about this song and video. It's my new have-to-listen-to / watch all the time thing. . . i remember the first time i heard Merriweather Postman Pat or whatever it's called, the latest Animal Collective album, i was fairly disappointed - though to be fair i was cooking at the same time and i think especially with a record like this you have to give it your full attention .. . but it really really creeps up on you until you realise that actually every song has really simple, beautiful melodies. but it's the feeling they provoke more than anything else .. . not many other bands give me such a feeling of freedom . .don't know what it is about them. i love it when the harmonies come in in the verse of this too - reminds me of Revolver-era Beatles. Anyway, you could read me spurting on about them or just watch the video. I would watch the video. Which is amazing in its own right. In fact I'm going to try tracking down the directors NOW. I need to know more people that can make things look like this. Sorry for the outpouring the other day. Will try to put things up here more frequently and less insanely. Wore earplugs for maybe half the rehearsal the other day anyway, for anyone interested in my ear saga. Wasn't too bad actually. Think i can deal with wearing them at least some of the time when we're rehearsing, so i guess that's a start. Part of me thinks I should stop fretting and ignore the whole issue, but then i want to be making the most mental, assultive music of my career when i'm 90, if i live that long. So keeping my hearing is pretty important. But yes, perspective. Not my strong point. But we had a great play on Thursday anyway. We have another new one now, with a working title of "Save Me" (!) . .it's a dark horse this one. Seems really moody in the verse - the NME-journo description would maybe be "The Cure playing in the Sahara Desert in the dead of night, with Robert Smith shifted to keyboard duties and replaced by a wannabe Frank Sinatra on vocals".. but then suddenly clatters into a really up and catchy chorus but without, i think, being too bouncy bouncy Annie Let's Not Wait-y. .. (it has to be said that's maybe not Guillemots favourite Guillemots song) .. And there's another one we found from a couple of weeks back with this real hypnotic slow gospel-y / r'n'b sort of beat and a constant held chord my Magrao through the whole song that sounds like an organ. We're going to work on that one next week. I'm in love this one not just because of the way it sounds but also because i don't even play anything in the first minute of the song, i just sing. .. i so rarely get to sing live without playing an instrument, so it's something i relish with childish glee whenever i get the chance, and inevitably, however hard i try to not be a cock, end up pulling some sort of rock star poses and imagining our South Bermondsey rehearsal space is actually the main stage at Glastonbury, at 11 at night. Well, maybe one day.. X |
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