if it be your will: January 2011

Jan 29, 2011

Covers & Compilations - OnE [2011]

So many covers from great artists out there, cutting them down to a few handfuls is hardly fair... THEREFORE, OnE is the first in a series of covers from some of the most brilliant musicians. Enjoy - TrY OnE

Jan 28, 2011

Porch Songs: Dreaming of Summer

A little bit of snow has fallen EVER day over the past 30, covering the landscape with a wintery chill. These songs have reminded me of the heart ache of the more difficult months - like now; and the relief once winter finally breaks. Those first warm days when the sun once again wakes the skin. This mix will bridge today with then for now. Enjoy. TrY

Jan 6, 2011

The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt

The camera never moves!

LACROSSE - WE ARE KIDS [2009]

A human music machine. Good Scandinavian band.

dEUS - Roses (from In A Bar, Under The Sea)

This video is crazy good...

Jay Jay Pistolet - Holly Live - 2007

Jan 4, 2011

Song Writers Supreme - Mix 2

Another small offering from a music library that never seems to end... I have selected a few really amazing songwriters for sampling. Their music and words are among my favourite - the two just seem to work well as compositions. Enjoy! TrY...

World of Fox ep [2011]

Genre: Indie Folk Pop

TrY / BuY

JEANE is a stripped down waltz take on the This Charming Man b-side

I KNOW VERY WELL HOW I GOT MY NAME originally the flip of Suedehead, and now with a lovely uke, and Clair Horton vocal

splendid, splendid... i hope the rest of your year is as good as these tracks... and tell your friends..

Jan 3, 2011

Active Child performing "I'm In Your Church At Night" on KCRW

The Sleepy Trees

Girl Talk - Feed the Animals [2008]

Genre: Mixed Up Classics

MySpace / TrY / BuY

If you have never heard of Girl Talk consider this your education. GT compose excellent dance mixes with so much great music from all different styles all held together with beats and samples all mixing together in some kinda mish-mash songs. If you love old music and the dance feel that often don't meet, welcome to Girl Talk.

Sleeping At Last -Yearbook: January [2011]

Genre: Indie Pop

Enjoy!

Sleeping At Last - Yearbook: November [2010]

Genre: Indie Piano Pop Sweetness

MySpace / TrY / BuY

Deciding to start a year long journey of EPs for every month of the year seems to be right up the music industry’s alley of bite-sized releases at the moment. Sleeping at Last’s latest ops, November, reminds me of exactly why I fell in love with their previous album, Storyboards a year ago.

January on the way ;-)

The Narcoleptic Dancers - Not Evident [2010]

Genre: Indie Pop

MySpace / TrY / BuY

Hailing from France and the Netherlands, Anton Louis Jr and Melody Van Kappers play soft, cutesy acoustic folk ditties as The Narcoleptic Dancers. The French-Dutch duo’s relationship is shrouded in mystery, apparently naming the band after the nickname of their famous footballer father the two may or may not be brother and sister. Either way the hazy, electro tinged folk melodies offered up on their debut Not Evident EP are kooky and hauntingly infectious. TLOBF

Jan 2, 2011

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes [2009]

Genre: Hipster Pop Rock

MySpace / TrY / BuY

This albums gonna be high on my list for a while for sure. Best heard at high volume with a cold beer. Preferrably with flower children dancing around in a field of wheat right in front of you, that will add to the ambiance of the album. Seriously, check em out, you'll love it!

Bart and Friends - Make You Blush [2010]

Genre: Romantic Indie Pop

MySpace/TrY /BuY

LOST AND LONESOME RECORDS Indiepop purists rejoice! Bart Cummings has reunited with his former Shapiros bandmate Pam Berry and Bart & Friends friend Mark Monnone to help out on his first recordings since I Was Lonely ‘Til I Found You (2001, Library Records). And having mastered the art of stripping back the nonessentials to reveal life’s true detail, these new songs are more than worthy entries in the Bart canon. New friends Louis Richter and Stanley Paulzen drop by to lend a hand, and the resulting eight songs on Make You Blush are perfect sleepy-eyed vignettes, not a million miles away from the quintessential indiepop Bart was making with bands like The Cat’s Miaow in the mid-90s. TPills

Mix of Music for 2011

Genre: Indie Pop, Folk, Rock

TrY

To start the year off on an excellent note, I have assembled a small offering to help you through the new days of 2011. The snow is almost all gone and the spaces outside that would normally be occupied with sliding and skating are now robbed from us once again by mother nature.

Happy New Year

Top 20 Albums of 2010

So another year comes to an end, and here at bolachas we like to reflect on the pass twelve months and look at some of the diamonds in the mine... If you have enjoyed the posts this year I believe you might get into the songs that were seen as the best of 2010 according to me! Enjoy the songs, make a new playlist, listen back over the year in tunes while cooking your roast beast. I have included a few tracks that are just too good not to listen to at least once in this reflective period of the year. TrY

I'm In Your Church at Night - Active Child
Come On, Let's Talk About Our Feelings - Fight Like Apes
Rabbit Hole - James
I Wrote a Song - Pascal Pinon
Calling Out Your Name Again - Darren Hayman & The Secondary Moderns
Never Listen To Me - The Thermals
Veronica Sawyer - Summer Camp
Landslide - Sin Fang
Strong Swimmers - Said the Whale
You Don't Know Anything - Stornoway
The Attic - Smile Smile
You Are One - Fanfarlo
The Ghost Of Rockschool - Belle And Sebastian
Not in Love (feat. Robert Smith) - Crystal Castles
Bagatelle - Young Rebel Set
Natural Light - Sun Kil Moon
I Know What You Mean Billy Pilgrim - The Sleepy Trees
And This Is What We Call Progress - The Besnard Lakes
Julien - Bear Hands
Slow River - a Singer of Songs
Hermit - The Wilderness of Manitoba
Early Christmas Present - Kate Nash
In a Dream - Skybox
Half Ton Load - Icarus Himself
Dropout Jr. - French Films
Work - The Bewitched Hands
Real Life - Tanlines
Heartbreaker - Girls
Good Company - Comaneci
Honey Moon - Monster Rally
We're All Gonna Die (Have Fun) - The Candle Thieves
Block After Block - Matt & Kim
Barnacle - Lovers
Zero With A Bullet - David Dondero
Animal Arithmetic - Jónsi
Drive On - Avalanche City
Set Your Arms Down - Warpaint
The Wurlitzer Prize - Venice Is Sinking
Slowest Romance - Herzog
Biting Your Tail - Iron & Wine
My Girl the Horse - Fences
Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
Running On - Villa Nah
Coming Back Home - Zachary Lucky
Mirror, Mirror - Dr. Dog
Orange - Yoyoyo Acapulco
Dear Headlights - Radar Brothers
Indie Rock Freestyle - Jason Lytle
Everybody Loves A Showtune - Math and Physics Club
Darlin' I can see you fallin' - Florian Horwath

Top 20 Albums of 2010

On the eve of 2011 I sit in a reflective mode looking at the year in music that was... I liked it! I found many great albums that occupied the space in between something and nothing. Again, you will find no "big" albums here, rather indie style albums that caught my attention and represent excellent albums as a whole, from start to finish. To make the list I was looking at a few choice conditions; firstly highly melodic in essence, secondly outstanding compositions, and finally lyrical albums that said something real or just funny. I would like to wish all bolachas followers a superb 2011, and thank you for your time spent at bolachas, I hope that we have a great 2011 together yet again. All the Best :-)

1. Pascal Pinon - s/t

2. The Bewitched Hands - Birds and Drums

3. The Thermals - Personal Life

4. Belle and Sebastian - Write about Love

5. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame

6. Icaus Himself - Mexico

7. The Candle Thieves - Sunshine and other Misfortunes

8. Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Essex Arms

9. Fanfarlo - You are One (ep).... too awesome to not include

10. Fight like Apes - The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner

11. Jonsi - Go Live

12. Math and Physics Club - I Shouldn't Look As Good As I Do