Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return

Crazy so far. But I still enjoy it. Even the really slow sequences. Great music!

  • Au Revoir Simone - "Lark" (the Bird of Music (Bonus Track))
    typical David Lynch music, electronic, softly sung
  • Trouble - "Snake Eyes" (Snake Eyes)
    Great southern rock with saxophone!! must look into this.
  • Cigarettes After Sex - "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby" (I.)
    again, very David Lynch-y
  • Johnny Jewel - "Windswept" (Windswept)
    Saxophone, instrumental, nice, look into?

Session 9

Run-off-the-mill 90's horror film about a asbestos cleaning crew suffering from weird illusions in an abandoned madhouse. It was probably my own state of mind why this film actually got to me. It wasn't that good but there was a shift in my perception for a little while.

Monday, 26 June 2017

Logan (2016)

Amazing film that kept me in its grip from beginning to end. Not in the least because of its amazing soundtrack.

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Maceo Plex - "Polygon Pulse"

slow, electronic, female vocals, good stuff

Tuesday, 13 June 2017

The Keys - "From Tense To Loose To Slack"

Great surfy-twangy music, very melodic.

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Swans - "Lunacy" (The Seer)

Lunacy! Lunacy! Lunacy!

Aine Cahill - "Black Dahlia"

Very Florence & the Machine ish. Hints of Marina and the Diamon. No full album yet, it seems.

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Love in the Circus - "Trust me"

female vocals, lost saxophone, 3am stuff, Vaya Con Dios but less swing.

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Friday, 12 May 2017

Monday, 8 May 2017

Capsula - "I know that I know"

Very Shpongle like. With weird lyrics.

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Hooded Fang - Den Of Love (6 Music Session, 13 Feb 2012)

Nice twangy, then rock song.

Nice as well, though completely different: Nick Nicely - Ghostdream. Electronic.

Postrock! Phoenician Drive - "Two Coins"

Slade - Get Down and Get With It - Live in Paris 1972

Friday, 28 April 2017

Bad Parents - "You Can't Date A model"

Female vocals, rock in a light way.

Thursday, 27 April 2017

Fader - "Laundrette" (First Let)

Very soft spoken, near-parlando, like Japan's "Nightporter"

Unavailable everywhere, heard on bbc6. Awesome stuff.

Monday, 17 April 2017

The Lobster

Absurd and poignant film in a near future where people have to find a mate within 45 days or they will be turned into an animal. They hunt "loners", people who don't subscribe to that lifestyle and live in the woods, but who create just as strict and harsh rules for themselves. The need to find a common defect as a must for relationships is beautiful and painful.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Nice and at times quite funny story of a young orphan who treks through the bush after his guardian mom died and his gruffy guardian father has to put up with him. A bit over the top at the very end, the car chase, but thinking back to it, it basically showed the boy's point of view - he admitted getting carried away living the stux life, yo - of everything.

Sicario

Harsh story about the realities of anti drug agencies operating around (and across) the USA-Mexico border. Not just violence and action - although a fair amount - but some hard personal moments.

Saturday, 15 April 2017

Martin Seay - "The Mirror Thief"

I felt there was more to this book than I found. Three timelines, three generations of sorts. Strange motions in language and story. I wasn't enraptured, but kept curious, excepting magic realism, not really finding it. But there was a strange book that one of the characters does not understand, and as such keeps reading it, over and over again, until it makes sense.

Part of the settings, L.A. in the 60's, sounded very familiar.

Cixin Liu - "The Three-Body Problem"

Interesting enough by itself, about aliens who can for sure take over the earth, and communicate this, to a strange satellite post in the north of China.

Yet it failed to capture me. Too long ago to remember why, though.