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meant to say: got this on Monday, and it's great! Lurve the Martin C story with the whiny music journalists going to a dubstep rave instead of a grime one for fear of being shot and then having their mag explode!

a very good question. I was actually thinking of posting a similar thread! As gek and zhao point out, there's really a wide range of ways that a group can be influenced. You've got something like a spectrum from the total name-drop for cred to the "transcoding" of scott walker What's...

Used to love... Sigur Ros... now, I couldn't listen to them. Perhaps it was that tom cruise preening vehicle that finally turned me off. The whole thing is just too disney? As for Gang gang dance, I'll definitely defend them, despite the earth mother bizness. I used to worry about that aspect...

the dancehall rhythmic cues are even stornger (SO MUCH STRONGER) live, it's incredible. I just got the new EP, and I'm still processing it. More connection with grimey/dubsteppy sonix, but not quite as well done. I think they're struggling to figure out what they want to sound like atm.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/39627364a61283/

(thread derail) Just who is Dusk anyway? Sometimes Blackdown will mention he and Dusk driving out somewhere after producing or something, but I don't think I've ever heard of him/her/it outside the context of "Blackdown and Dusk"!

no need.. more curious then needing to have a downloaded copy. (interesting that there's the spectrum from having to have a real copy > having to have a downloaded copy > occasional YouTube listen)

of course! youtube! it's eerie how much I use youtube to find music now. makes no sense at all!

cool, I'll probably get to it tonight.

I can't seem to find a recording anywhere of the original "Jimmy".. can anyone point me in the right direction?

well, this is at least as interesting as their last couple albums, I'll say. I'll be one of those idiots pre-ordering the mps, but fuck me if I'm spending 80 bucks on the records. Obviously they could only do this from their ultra-privileged position, but to see it from their pov, it's kinda a...

thanks!!! downloading...

second the Paris Concert recommendation. Funny that you mention Mehldau, Jenks. I just dug up his first solo LP "Elegiac Cycle" this week, and have been playing it a bunch. It occasionally veers into the sententious, but definitely has many lovely moments. I just downloaded a pretty rad...

chooooon! (always wanted to say that)

oh, actually, I forgot the other british writer who is (is course) massively read and who (of course) my friend loathes: Nick Hornby.

Yeah, I think that's pretty much where my friend's coming from, and that's pretty much my response to it all. Of course, we come from the weird perspective of Canadian Lit, which is a whole little world unto itself and quite removed from GAN aspirations. In fact, big grand novels by Canadian...

hmmm... not so sure. In general, while some European popular musics might have gone with the Oom PAH accent on the upbeat, European classical music in general has the strongest accent on the one, and a secondary on the three (in 4/4 at least); ONE two Three four. The tyranny of the strong...

Second hand! I know many people who picked up atonement and couldn't get through it....

you might be right on that - there's no detective or nothing. But definitely has some of the snappy dialogue, the dark atmosphere, everyone out for themselves. MUST SEE!

I'm no expert, but I LOVED "Sweet Smell of Success". Burt Lancaster KILLS as J. J. Hunsecker.