The Facebook experiment...part three...

The HITC Facebook page sure looks more and more like an experiment rather than something that will eventually turn into a success. A stunning 2 additional "likes" since Monday is not exactly something that will make you go wow! But it doesn't change that it is easier, faster and in every way imaginable far more convenient than this blogger thing! So get used to it...

A quick Facebook summary:

J.A. (he's still around and will certainly continue to influence the Facebook updates like he influenced hundreds of blog posts) recommends this one by UK trio Violet Hours.


New superb dreamy guitar pop sog by Night Flowers.


Want to shout from the highest mountain top how truly, truly fabulous Morning Phase is.

And a new catchy track from New Zeeland one man project Junica.


Cool video and cool song from Withered Hand. "Did you put a horseshoe in my glove?"

1-2-3...

Ved jo kun alt for godt, at jeg spiller den samme plade igen og igen, men min ryg er i ubehagelig grad ved at tage livet af mig. Samtidig er panikken så småt ved at få frit løb, for fredag kører bilen sydpå og lige nu magter jeg 5 minutter i siddende stilling før smerterne tager magten. Så trods en sygelig angst for nåle er utænkeligt midler taget i brug, så akupunktur blev forsøgt her i morges (i kyndige hænder så klart). Endvidere er min ryg plasteret til med Jin Si Gao Hydrogel klister stads, som køler dejligt, men også hyler mig ind i en hørm af mentol, som vækker associationer om en alkoholiker, der forsøger at kamuflere spiritusdunsten? Om det virker er for tidligt at vurdere, men så længe der er håb...

Har nævnt en-mands projektet Junica utallige gange før og nu har den New Zealandske popsmed skrevet nummeret Cherry World med undertitlen (written for Katy Perry or Pink to sing), samt via et tweet rakt hånden ud mod førstnævnte af de to popsild. Man kan jo så kun håbe, at der kommer et tilfredsstillende udbytte ud af besværet for nummeret har da så bestemt hit potentiale. Og bør hverken forskrække radiolyttere, teenagere eller andre med angst for musikalske forandringer! Døm selv...


De superfine skottere Bubblegum Lemonade har en ny superfin (hvad ellers?) single på trapperne og den udkommer selvfølgelig på Matinée Recordings (ingen over og ingen ved siden af). Og vanen tro i disse tider udkommer Have You Seen Faith? som god gammeldaws 7 tommer single, hvor der kun trykkes 500 eksemplarer. Håndnummererede selvfølgelig og på pink tyggegummi vinyl, hvad dælen der så måtte menes med det? Men altså sådan en rigtig samler ting for nørder og andet godt folk. Nummeret er ikke så overraskende en pragtfuld omgang guitar pop med melankolsk undertone. Skønt!


Svært heldigt...stod (kan jo ikke sidde i øjeblikke) og små sov lidt, da jeg var færdig med at lytte til Bubblegum Lemonade, hvorefter SoundCloud fortsatte ufortrødent til den her lille pop perle fra Champs. Kan vel bedst beskrives som noget, der meget vel kunne udgives på førnævnte Matinée Recordings...og det er nok det bedste kvalitetsstempel, som kan tildeles...tror jeg!

You're my sun...

Ny video fra New Zealandske Junica. Vel efterhånden trættende at jeg igen og igen prøver at hype dette band (en-mands-projekt), men da de er leveringsdygtige i popperler på stribe (lyder vel lidt henad The Lightning Seeds, da de var som bedst i midt 90'erne), er det sgu svært at lade være. Så skal det selvfølgelig lige nævnes, at Mike Edwards fra Jesus Jones medvirker med vokal (selvom det skisme godt nok er svært at høre) og guitar på nummeret...

Cherish Junica...

Fra afdelingen af coverversionen som verden vel nøgternt set nok kunne leve foruden, kommer Junicas fortolkning af Madonna nummeret Cherish...selvom "konverteringen" af nummeret til Junicas egen sound vel egentlig lykkes meget godt, venter jeg alligevel i 4 minutter på af blive ramt af en eller anden sitrende danse-popfølelse (som når man lytter til originalen), der (desværre) aldrig kommer. Men nu er Junica jo generelt leveringsdygtige i fine popsange og da dette formentlig blot er et lille fornøjeligt pauseeksperiment, må vi håbe at coverflirten kan virke inspirerende på nye lyttere, så de får lyst til at give bandets (eller en-mands-projektet som det rettelig er) egne numre et lyt eller fem...så tjener det hele ligesom et højere formål!

Fredags træt...

Gider ikke en skid i dag...ikke den fjerneste lille bitte prut! Udover at lade som om jeg arbejder, har jeg fordrevet tiden med at lytte til Junicas debut album The Celebration, som nu kan streames i sin helhed via The New Zealand Herald. Albummet lyder ganske som forventet fremragende, selvom det måske er lidt skuffende, at halvdelen af numrene tidligere har været tilgængelige via bandcamp. Altså det jeg forsøger at sige er, at det ville have været rart med lidt mere nyt under solen. Derfor risikerer albummet også at kunne blive en anelse ensformigt i længden (det fleste af numrene er skåret over den samme læst og overraskelserne udebliver), men det ændrer jo ikke en tøddel på, at Nik Brinkman skriver nogle helt fænomenalt iørefaldende popsange.




 

Lidt løst og fast...

Det er bedre at skrive på dansk. Meget bedre! Indholdet er forventeligt nok ikke forbedret en tøddel, men det her fungerer bare bedre (nemlig så!)!

Min mailbox er fortsat spændt til bristepunktet. Bliver interessant om sprogskiftet medfører en reduktion i antallet af indgående post. Håber det nok lidt!

Gisp, ryste osv. Apropos mails. Den første mail med den første julesang er allerede landet. Hader generelt julen og alt hvad den står for (tjek lige den svada her), men intet er som bekendt så skidt…og julesange (samt gløgg, æbleskiver, juleøl og -frokoster) er jo unægtelig traditioner, som det er svært ikke at holde af.

Er omsider hoppet med på Spotify vognen; hvilket vel sådan cirka er omtrent en mindre evighed siden alle andre gjorde det? Virker dumt for der er da unægtelig tale om kærlighed ved første blik!

Har blandt andet lyttet til en (perle-)række af Northern Portrait numre og fået abstinenser af allerværste slags. Hvorfor, HVORFOR, (og så med FED) HVORFOR skal vi vente så utilgiveligt længe på nyt materiale?


Imødeser det nye Junica album The Celebration med seriøs spænding. Der er en lille teaser video her og albummet kan forudbestilles på iTunes. Det fatter jeg så ikke lige det store af; hvorfor forudbestille et album som skal downloades? Ikke desto mindre skriver Nik Brinkman nogle helt fantastisk iørefaldende popsange, hvilket man ved selvsyn (eller hedder det selvhør?) kan konstatere ved at lytte til Junica debut ep’en eller albummet Infinity (som kan downloades kvit og frit) af duoen Psychic Powers, hvor Mr. Brinkman udgjorde den ene halvdel.


Skulle man kede sig lidt i aften, kan man jo altid slå et smut forbi Stengade og se Death Valley Sleepers. Dette kan kun anbefales. Bandet har for resten en ny video på trapperne, men den vender vi tilbage til når den dukker op (og napper én af ældre dato i stedet).

 

Let's go bowling...

I've already praised the new Junica single Let Me Go Out...now here's the video...




 

J.A. recommends...day III...

Here's the new track by New Zealand one-man project Junica. A super delicious uptempo electronic pop song and as expected it sticks to your brain like a piece of gum on the bottom of your shoe! If Facebook updates are to be trusted an album could be/should be out anytime soon...

Stay...

New video by Junica for the single Stay. According to a recent Facebook update, the debut album, following up last year's brilliant Junica EP, will be out in July.



Stay by junica

And it hurts...

Brand new video from Junica...great video and fantastic song (pop music doesn't get much better than this)!



And It Hurts by junica

And It Hurts...

Check out the new single by Junica. It's brilliant. Of course it is!

Shorties...

Boxstr continues being absolutely useless. Seems like it's (occasionally) possible to download songs previously uploaded, but for the past two/three weeks it hasn't been possible to upload anything. Happy I'm "only" paying for two accounts...

Has Champagne Riot called it quits? Looks like it I'm afraid. You'll be missed guys, though I'm pretty confident that we'll soon hear news from Caspar (at least)! Grab their latest (and last?) song Alcohol Kisses for a tweet.
 Alcohol Kisses (demo) by CHAMPAGNE RIOT

The Junica debut EP is out and now available through iTunes.
Living In My House by junica

According to the Matinée Recordings news page, Scottish duo Strawberry Whiplash plan to release their debut album later this summer...intriguingly the album will be called Hits In The Car...
Looking Out For Summer by Strawberry Whiplash

Delay Trees is expected to release a free-to-download EP called Before I Go Go some time during the summer. An unmastered version of the track All Black Left can be stream at SoundCloud (or below).
All Black Left by Delay Trees

The dream...

The sixth and last song from the forthcoming Junica EP is now up for streaming at SoundCloud. EP of the year?

The Dream by junica

Girls tell you secrets...

I never got around to posting anything about Michael Møller’s performance at Charlottenborg (lack superlatives to describe the whole thing I guess), so here’s a picture instead. Had a pretty good seat me thinks!

Finns Delay Trees shares a third track from their self-titled debut album. Tarantula/Holding On differs quite a lot from the guitar pop sound of the two previous promo tracks, but absolutely brilliant nonetheless.
+ Tarantula/Holding On
+ About Brothers
+ Cassette 2012

Speaking of guitar pop. Check this track by Very Truly Yours from the band's forthcoming 7" single (to be released by Cloudberry Records).
+ Girls Tell You Secrets

Junica has posted this new track for streaming at SoundCloud. With the added news that an EP will be out at the end of the month!
Behind My Back by junica

Stay...House...Oceans...

New Zeeland one-man project Junica, which rapidly is turning into one of my favorite new acts, continues to produce stunningly brilliant songs. And newly published track Oceans, being a wonderful dreamy and electronic beauty, is nothing but. Unfortunately information on the project remains sparse, so I really have no idea where this is supposed to lead to. Some kind of official release would obviously be great. Somewhere to download the songs, along the way as they are released, would be pretty great too! But for now the four tracks produced so far are only available for streaming (via SoundCloud)…

Oceans by junica

Stay by junica

The Wrong House by junica

 Living In My House by junica

Stay...

Having the day off so just a short post to share my excitement over the new Junica song.

  Stay by junica

The wrong house...

Junica (the solo project of Psychic Powers bandmember Nik Brinkman) has a new track called The Wrong House streaming at Soundcloud. Taken from the band’s forthcoming EP (yet untitled, but a wild guess is that it will have "house" in the title), which should be out some time mid-June. The new track is not as uptempo dancelike as first song Living In My House, but instead closer related to the sound of Psychic Powers. One direction or the other is fine with me, as long as the music continues being this good!

The Wrong House by junica

 Living In My House by junica

Music...

This is just one of those ”this and that”, ”bits and bobs”, ”yada yada”, ”shorties”, whatever, etc. kind of posts.

The Boombox Hearts' downright excellent debut EP Monte Carlo is finally out and available through the usual suspects (bandcamp und so weiter).
+ Cover Me (Bruce Springsteen cover)

Watch how Martin Aamot of The Electric Pop Group crushes his opponents in Swedish quiz program Vem Vet Mest ("Who Knows Best"). Ouagadougou anyone?
+ I Could See The Lights

Wires in the Walls shares two new tracks. Download the brilliant The Ringer below, but if you want the second track Soft Shirt as well, you have to join the band’s mailing list.
+ The Ringer

Just added the track Darwinisme by Danish band Stærosaurus to my current favorite list. The band’s debut EP Alt Er Vigtigt ("everything’s important") can be streamed via Soundcloud.
+ Darwinisme

Yesterday I posted the video for the Junica debut single Living In My House. Here's a (so-so) remix of said song.
 Living In My House' Kids Of 88 (Blue Lagoon Remix) by junica

Morning coffee...

Have a cup (or two) and please enjoy these two...

Gavin Russom has remixed Cut Copy's Need You Now. Of course I prefer the original mix (I always do), but this is not bad at all!

Need You Now (Gavin Russom Remix) by cutcopymusic

Video for the debut single Living In My House by Junica. Remain stunned by how brilliant this song is!

One-liners...

Tried to listen to the new Glasvegas album Euphoric Heartbreak yesterday, but got so bored that I gave up half way through!

Unlike the abovementioned album the new album Raven in the Grave by The Raveonettes sounds very promising after just one listen.
+ Forget That You're Young

Frank (my favorite music blogger) wasn’t exactly impressed by Oh Land’s showcase at SXSW.
+ Sun of a Gun

The Entakt concert tonight in Aarhus is cancelled due to illness.

Once again sorry to all of you mailing and never getting a reply, a blog mention, anything!

Scottish indie poppers The Felt Tips will be at Huset on May 5.
+ Treat Me Gently

Really want to post how badly Myspace sucks, but I guess everyone knows that already?

Not sure what to make of this super short video by Junica, but the little music featured in it sure sounds great!