TodayInFireworks: Tycho – A Walk (Live in London)

You may have heard me ranting and raving about the beauty of Tycho‘s music in the early hours of sober mornings if you’re unfortunate enough to follow me on Tumblr. Otherwise you may have heard of b through his ISO50 Blog (listed in the Friends of Fireworks section below). If not, you’re in for a real treat.

Last year, Detour Dates and Songkick brought Tycho to the UK for the first time and the solo project’s band played XOYO. Unfortunately I was not there, but this video and introductory interview (that cuts in between the music) is lovely enough to demonstrate Tycho’s sheer blissful qualities. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon. 

I highly recommend checking out Tycho’s album released last year entitled Dive. It’s on Spotify HERE but you can hear versions of the album tracks across YouTube. Highlights come in the form of A Walk and Daydream.

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Braden.

tgtf: Hot Chip – In Our Heads

I forgot to tell you, I reviewed the new Hot Chip record for ThereGoesTheFear
Spoiler; I was underwhelmed. Click the artwork to see why.

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Braden

 

tgtf: Bushstock Festival

Whilst everyone and their dog was being drowned at Field Day, I took solace in Shepherd’s Bush for a day of music. I described it as “endearing” twice, it was enjoyable to say the least. Click the picture of the FREE CUPCAKE (thanks Communion) to see what I said. Apologies for the images, my handheld Panasonic isn’t what it used to be, nor is it a DSLR.

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Braden

TodayInFireworks 14th June 2012

There’s a few things that have caught my attention in the last week that don’t really warrant a whole post to themselves or are kind of similar to other things I’ve posted of late, but they do deserve to be mentioned; here they are!

No sooner than I had posted my playlist of University Year 2 the other daty had The1975 finally launched the official audio for their single The City. They’re a favourite over at Hairy Mouth, be sure to check them and the HM out.

Kyla La Grange has announced that her debut album will finally be released on 30th July and will be called Ashes. It looks like the picture on the right and sounds like what happens when you click the picture.
The review of Festifeel which features a half hour set from Kyla will be online within the week and I hold out good hope for this record.

Crywank’s been busy. Having just completed a joint UK tour with his friends Feralus, he’s finally got himself a Bandcamp. This not only means that you can stream his (two free) albums, it means you can also download them and even give him a few quid if you like what you hear. If you remember, his debut James is Going to Die Soon made it into the Fireworks top albums of 2010 so I highly reccomend giving it a listen.

And finally, ISO50, already my favourite blog in the world, has had an upgrade of sort making it even nicer to visit and carouse. It’s the blog of designer and musician Scott Hansen who’s musical project Tycho is sublime and skills as a designer are equally as joyful. He’s joined by a team of other lovely and hugely talented folk to create one of the most interesting blogs around. Enjoy.

That should be all for now
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Braden

Year 2 of University: Passed

My second year at university has been over for a few weeks now, for longer if you don’t include the work experience month. As such, by the time this posts, I’ll be on a coach  from London’s worst station (Victoria. It’s only narrowly worse than KX) en route back to the grey hills of Yorkshire and Leeds/Harrogate.
To commemorate (did I really say commemorate?) this non-event, I’ve made a short playlist of tracks released in the last year (give or take a few months) that have soundtracked the last three terms at UCA. It’s missing The Streets, Brand New, Marvin Gaye, all of the Boat That Rocked soundtrack and anything from the end of the magazine project, but you get the idea. I’d post the reasoning behind everything, but it doesn’t really matter. Bonus points for spotting me in two of the videos.
SPOTIFY VERSION

Bombay Bicycle Club –How Do You Swallow So Much Sleep

Sigur Ros – Varúó

Lucy Rose – Middle of the Bed

Ben Howard – Only Love

Los Campesinos! – By Your Hand

Scroobius Pip – Introdiction

Bon Iver – Calgary

Johnny Foreigner – You Vs Everything

The 1975 – S e x (not in Spotify)

So that’s that for another year. Summer comes now in which I need to locate finance through a job and selling my posessions and after that comes a move into the landscape that is South London and the third year of Music Journalism at UCA.

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Braden