It's like moving house ...

Except it's really really not. But whatever, I'm on Wordpress now. And it's less of a music blog, more of a Dancing With The Stars/general one. I'll still write about music and stuff but let's face it, it's been a shit year for music so far and I don't really see it improving much. That's probably just me though.

Anyway I live here ....

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"My best friend Lesley said, she's just being Miley"

Is this the worst lyric ever?

Anyway here's something odd for your ears ... The Mae Shi covering said Miley Cyrus song.

This suddenly completes me, this suddenly completes me ...

I had my reservations about It's Blitz, the new LP from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. First single "Zero" is like nothing they've done previously, very very synthy and un-Yeah Yeah Yeahs like - it's taken a few listens for me to like it, but I now find it rather funking good (although weak as a leading single). "Heads Will Roll" is a whole other story, a frantic rollercoaster of a song which screams for the dancefloor - I can only imagine how it'd sound live. The middle three tracks are all beautiful - "Skeletons" makes me wish I still lived in Scotland, while "Dull Life" (my personal favourite from the album) is the most reminiscent of their past two albums sees the album at its rockiest point. "Shame and Fortune" follows to lead into the remainder of the album, which includes the beautiful "Hysteric", a song to outMaps Maps.

It's Blitz is almost Blondie-esque, mixed with the kinda indie dancefloor stuff which conquered last Summer and the soul of Karen O to keep you in the know that you're listening to a Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. There are some moments in the album where you miss Nick hammering away on the guitar and "Soft Shock"'s a bit shit but aside from this I have no complaints. It's not just Show Your Bones they've topped, in my opinion they've outshone Fever to Tell.

Album of the year so far.

The week

What happened this week? I got drunk a lot. Like, Thursday to Sunday? Pretty much spent it drunk. One of those nights consisted of seeing the NME Awards Tour thing, the night I wasn't drunk but walking through Cardiff I totally wished I was. Oh, student life.

But yes, NME Awards Tour. You may have already guessed that I didn't see Glasvegas, and you've probably guessed that my complete obsession with everything Florence-related escalated further (I was hoping for some sort of Florence encounter, but I probably would've just squeed and then died on the floor). Friendly Fires were surprisingly brilliant, White Lies were pretty lacklustre but Florence was just beautifully epic wonderfulness - I was in a fit of smiles for the duration of her set. She even kinda like, walked to the barrier but unfortunately I was in the row behind the barrier. Shame.

Also this week, the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song came onto my radar, Zero. Unfortunately rather a disappointment - I really hope the album doesn't continue along the same lines as the song.

AND A REMIX. Micachu's remix of Radio Ladio by Metronomy's pretty damn freakycool. I'm seeing Micachu next week and I have no idea what to expect, but if it's anything like this then it should be pretty cool.

Call cardiology.

You know how I was totally dissing new bands of this year? I don't know if this band are new or not, but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are definitely a band I want to hear more of. They sound kinda Ramones-ish mixed with hugs or something. UK dates plz?

The new surge in Christian Bale remixes is also providing so much entertainment today.