Forplay’s special delivery

This track was last posted on 9 months ago and since then the search to own it has been long and never ending. The album is only available in the iTunes UK store, amazon with its currency converter doesn’t have the Deluxe version of the album, and the band’s website doesn’t have a shopping cart.

Finally had to reach out to a mate across the pond and have it sent over. And all this because this song is good in the sad times, pleasant in the good times, and necessary in the chill times.

Sounds Like: Seabear, Badly Drawn Boy, The Phoenix Foundation

Goodie Bag
The Sand Band - Friend of a Friend (Analog Astronaut Mix) (Left-Click)

Forplay’s latest obsession

Haven’t listened to anything else in the last three days. At this point, retracting what I said in a previous post, I would totally attend a Kinnie the Explorer concert. Might even carry some underwear to throw on stage.

Sounds Like:Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros

Goodie Bag
Kinnie the Explorer - Scissor Dance (Left-Click)

Forplay wonders what comes post post-rock

Kinnie the Explorer while good music - is better suited for couches than concerts. Which makes me wonder - was the rise of Post-Rock some Occupy Wall Street type protest against concert enthusiasm? It seems that the entire genre has traded panties and bras littered on stage for “air concertos” (it is crazy what instruments people are willing to air play) in the crowd.

Sounds Like: Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros

Forplay could use a lullaby right now

When you haven’t drank too much to be hung over, but enough to want to catch 15 second naps - this song is great for sleep walking through the day.

Forplay’s tradition - A Wild Beasts post

Setting aside The xx and their 45 minute show of their 38 minute album, Wild Beasts might have the shortest set list. So short in fact that at 10PM I was told I had shown up for the encore - which the bouncer thought wasn’t worth letting me in for.

Note to self - Next time Wild Beasts are in town, forego the Dos Toros.

Goodie Bag
Wild Beasts - Thankless Thing (Left-Click)

A recent addition to Forplay’s guide to surviving hipsteria (trademark pending) on a 12:30am Brooklyn subway ride.

Goodie Bag
Little Wings - Black Grass (Left-Click)
Little Wings - Mr. Natural (Left-Click)

Wild Beasts have set their third album release date for May 9th in the UK, and 10th here in the US. The 20 second trailer for Smother that is sprawling the internet gives no indication of where the Beasts took the forthcoming album, so might as well use the opportunity to showcase some of the brilliance from Two Dancers.

Goodie Bag
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers II (Left Click)

Here’s my money, iTunes

Hooting and Howling//Wild Beasts

Few albums have deserved recognition this year. Love 2 barely survived a listen through - it was plagued with mistakes such as ‘Tropical Disease’ and ‘Night Hunter.’ Yeah Ghost fell victim to experimental urges, Kid Cudi got lost somewhere between trying to establish his hipster status, and wanting to be Kanye and Jay-Z showed us that too many architects spoil the blueprint (3).

However, Two Dancers is a refreshing sound in a genre (indie) that is rapidly growing bland and unimaginative. I don’t know if it is the convincing falsetto of leader singer Hayden Thorpe, or  the addictive metronomic grooves - but the album has dominated the headphones and car stereo alike.

Goodie Bag
Wild Beasts - Hooting and Howling (Right-Click)

Music Made for an 8mm

* The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction *

If the film ‘500 Days of Summer’ needed an addition to its soundtrack, this would be it. An homage to the 80’s, the band delivers a sound that is reminiscent of the decade’s pop with traces of contemporary indie sub-genres. (think: Peter, Bjorn & John)

The band just released Higher than the Stars, their most recent EP, today. Tracks like ‘Higher than the Stars’ and ‘Falling Over,’ in keeping with the tradition of the genre, appeal to the part of you which is still 16 and sorting through complication in an otherwise simple life - as opposed to finding simplicity in an otherwise complex life.