... about major humanitarian disasters is the fact that it inspires bands to do charity stuff. Such as Radiohead, who played a Haiti-benefit gig at the Jane Fonda the other day, and has put it up for grabs online! Check it out here! It includes the seldom heard live 'A Wolf At The Door', which is a real treat, alongside a beautiful version of 'All I Need', and, ta-daa, a new song. Now, I haven't been exceedingly positive on the stuff we've heard from Radiohead post In Rainbows, such as 'These Are My Twisted Words', and the Harry Patch-one. And not this new new one either. Let's hope their unimpressiveness is the exact reason they're not on the forthcoming Radiohead-album, which is due late this year, and which will be released only in bundles dropped by parachute randomly across the globe (kidding).It's Wednesday, which means new names for Roskilde. Today's release includes a Danish and two Norwegian acts, none of which really excite me, although Efterklang did play a really massive gig in 2008. Hopefully this time around they've grown to a slot where they can be undisturbed by the bass-happy hip-hop posse that does swing by Orange now and then. In the Roskilde-department, recently announced Icelandic act FM Belfast got alright reviews of their debut record How To Make Friends (Danish review only at the time, sorry.)
English We Have Band are rotating their single 'Honey Trap' off their quasi-eponymous debut record WHB these days. It reminds me of a crossbreed between Goose, Friendly Fires and (perhaps not so favorable) New Young Pony Club. Speaking of clubs, Two Door Cinema Club still rock my world with 'I Can Talk'. Their debut, Tourist History, is out soon, and I might, just might, get a hold of it. Finally, I also got tipped onto Peter Broderick, who actually used to play with the above mentioned Danish outfit Efterklang, and who is a very talented musician. Try 'Not At Home'.
That's about it for now. There'll be a number of posts these next few days on some of the records I bought recently, some more on new stuff and on Bloc Party.
