SUNDAY ELECTRIC DANCE !

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WE ARE TREES... THE HYPEWORTHY !

We are Trees. Yes...I don't understand the name either and trust me I have tried to find explanations for it.. in vain. But again, let's just look further.

Guys...The band is just genuinely gifted. They aren't doing any major indie tunes, they aren't using any keyboard to produce some sort of fake electric sound that at the end of the day we all love. No, "We are Trees" are different, we'll say they're "Hypeworthy". They're also Lo-fi, folk, indi-ish but not too much. Just a right dose of all three.

The members come from Brooklyn and creates the type of songs that  manage to make you feel in some sort of blissful weightlessness. And eventhough the lead singer James Richard Nee sounds a lot like Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen, you can still tell there is something unique about them.

A violon, an acoustic guitar and some percussion is apparently all you need to produce the most enchanting EP. It's also weird how most of the tracks are a bit spastic but somehow so prestine that you'll want to analyse every bits of the songs and listen to them again and again.

I just fell in love with them and hopefully you will as well. "We are Trees" are just a beautiful mess.

Other True Outsiders to follow.

Enjoy their tune "Sunrise Sunset" that recently became my new morning pill.

ELLIOTT, COMING BACK FROM THE GRAVES .

He was probably one of the most depressed man I have heard singing. Just by listening to few of his songs you realise how Elliott Smith must feel sad in his life. He could probably make himself cry with his tunes.

The ultimate 90's melo folk songwriter. He was deep, he was anxious, he was sad but most of all he lived for love.

Most of his songs are about some girl who destroyed his heart, some other girl he made love to and left him hurt in the morning, the way he forgets by drinking and the way music releases him. You listen to Elliott Smith and you understand him, or yourself. 

He died in 2003, at only 34. People say he killed himself. I always wonder how such brilliant artists that have so much to offer could kill themselves. We need more from them, we need their songs in our lives. We need them to make us think, we need them to make us love and hate. It wasn't his time... or maybe it was.

Maybe he gave us all he had to give. All he could mentally and physically give.

Well apparently not. In 1997, Smith arrived at the University of Maryland to tape a session at the student run radio. Before the session began he warmed up with an unreleased tune: "Misery let me down".

A two minute folk lovely song, typical to the guy. The recording had mysteriously disappeared before surfacing from nowhere few days ago. Only the Washington Post has the track.

Click on the link and check it out it's perfect  --> Elliott's exclusive track from the graves

Anything else you would like to tell us Elliott?

More of this TrUe OuTsIdEr :

METRIC covers Elliott's tune "Between the Bars".

SHUFFLE SURPRISE

It came on shuffle on the Ipod and I just couldnt' resist. The fact that it's a Sunday shouldn't stop people from dancing like a Satuday night, specially when A track's remix of "Heads Will Roll" by the New Yorkers Yeah Yeah Yeahs is on.

Dance my friends, dance.

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GHOSTPOET WILL HYPNOTIZE YOU !

It wont be the huge eyes behind the glasses that will hypnotize you. It also wont be the brightness of that much red cardigan. This edgy, jazzman look is hiding the creator of a new genre. A mixture of acid jazz + electric blues + slow beats+ meaningful lyrics and the most hypnotizing voice ever. This is Obaro Ejimiwe better known as Ghostpoet and one of the nominees for 2011 Mercury Prize.

The picture can actually make you think he's under hypnoze himself. I am pretty sure that if you look at him for quite a long time you might feel sleepy or a bit dizzy like those Youtube videos can do to you.

Ghostpoet does more than just writing what he thinks about women and what happens in his dreams, he takes you somewhere else. Listening to his songs for an hour, non stop, can make you reach some sort of weird musical melo climax. You get lost in his words and beats.

The music speaks for itself and tells you straight away that there is some anxiety going on in his mind. It's the perfect sound for that melo-dramatic atmosphere most of the people create around them without even noticing.

He is some sort of minimalist Dizee Rascal, that probably smokes a certain amount of weed and dreams about nightmarish scenarios before making a song out of them. (Which is, I beleive, by a very good idea)  Now you tell me how can that not be amazing to listen to?!

He dreams about losing his girlfriend, she left him, she ran away. He wakes up in the morning and writes the song Run Run Run where he sings. " Runaway, be a real woman and fight another day, I heard that in a TV programme so it must be right...right?"

Second great idea he had while walking in the streets of its London hometown was remixing the famous 1990's track "Electric Relaxation" by Q TIP and calling it Love Confusion. Another tune that tells you how much his love life can suck sometimes.

The success came when he started supporting Metronomy and Jamie Woon in few festivals.His first single "Cash and Carry me Home" was released in Janauary 2011 followed by his debut album on 7 February 2011, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam.

Let's just say it, the 28 year old man has actually created Peanut Butter Blues. Peanut butter Blues that just tastes amazing.

Enjoy the power of this TrUe OuTsIdEr !

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No need of pictures really...



WHY YOU'LL END UP BY LIKING LANA DEL RAY !

If having a silicone mouth wasn't enough, Elizabeth Grant better known for Lana Del Ray also decided to invade our ears with her pop / sadcore genre and her Hollywood outfits.

I really thought she couldn't have done more for my ears and my eyes but she actually did! She called herself "the gangsta Nancy Sinitra"

Well, Well Lana Del Ray, isn't that a bit pretencious?

That was way too much for me. I hadn't even been able to say anything about the girl yet that I had been surrounded by some sort of scary fans crowd. In other words, my friends were addicted. Addicted in a frightening way. What was it that was making them so crazy about the girl?

I had been listening to few songs but I wasn't too keen. Now I will nevever claim my voice and opinion is the right one, as it is, like I have just said, only my opinion but I thought Lana Del Ray was more of a mounor than an actual singer.

Pardone me there Lana, being "melo" is a great thing in music. But having a "melo" melody, a "melo" voice and a "melo" but I have to admit interesting video for a song called Blue Jeans, well... let's just say it still wasn't making it for me. The best way of dragging me in a depressing spiral that would make me think about the issues of my life, knowing I already do that in the bath anyway is to create this sort of major melo-dramatic atmosphere.
But then it hit me ! Isn't that what I actually like? depressing songs that bring out the melancholy inside you. Well Yes Amy, you f****** do . + My friends have literally been harassing me to listen to her album.

So here it goes. I am sat in my room and I'm listening to Elizabeth again and again. Her tunes are on repeat. I need to find out what it is about her.

I listen to Video Games and there it is. The real power of a pop sadcore melody. She's still mumbling but now, it fits with the melody and actually give a  great song you want to listen to over and over.

The album isn't so bad really and you can still find some sort of cheering happy melodie she created. It still talks about murdering some guy though.

But my point is, don't judge so quickly. It might take you to listen to a song a couple of times to really figure out what is good about it. Obviously, liking a song the first time we hearing it is what we're all aiming for and when i say listening few times to the song, I don't mean hearing it on the radio and being brainwashed into thinking that the song is amazing ( aka Lady Gaga, who you hear a hundred times and end up by singing along the songs without noticing) it's more about discovering every bits of the song as you listen to it and enjoying it more and more.

So pardon me for judging too fast, you and your music have this amazing quality: depressing people in a certainly blissful way.

Your turn to judge if you haven't yet.

TODAY'S PILL

Hide and Seek by The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Enjoy xx