The Month In Pop: July

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

By the time we've recovered from our POPTIMISM* hangovers and Monday has rolled around, it'll be almost August! What delights have your ears heard this month o LJers?

[Poll #780171]

*TOMORROW @ SLAUGHTERED LAMB IN CLERKENWELL, FREE ENTRY INNIT

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Of course track 7 off the Lily album is the one that sounds like Dawn Penn. The rest of the album is grebt too, but I'd heard most of that before July!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

wait mine i heard first in june. er, that one klaxons song?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oooo lockedintheatti is there news on teh Lady Sov album?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

October 3rd, I believe. From the sound of the new single, she's getting better and better - have you heard it? I can't bloody wait.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet, no. Curse my restricted internet usage!

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

can you get YSIs?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Nope :-(

CSS

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

ooo - and when are Cansei De Ser Sexy coming to London - from the clips I've seen they're even better live than on record. I hope they do their mad cover of Madge's Hollywood.

Re: CSS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

8th and 10th of Sept I think.

Re: CSS

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

ARGH I AM ON BLOODY HOLIDAY. I've been waiting for them to come over here for aaaaages. Bloody typical

[mippy.livejournal.com]

For me it was a toss-up between the Peter, Bjorn and John record (an early-morning bus-ride over Millbank with whistling in my ears and sunshine) or the new Pet Shop Boys single. There's just something...stately about it. Dignified. It should sound dated, but it doesn't; I can hear bits of New Order in it; the pizzicato bit at the end is melancholy as lights going on over the dancefloor at the end of the night.

I've also rediscovered Lorraine this month. But it was hard to think of anything as I haven't really noticed July - any other month would have far too many suggestions :) Also, I am intrigued by what the new R.Williams single will sound like...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Did you hear the Robbie bit on the podcast? I like it a lot!

I have to say the new PSB single = disappointing. Right idea, poor execution.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Ah, I expected not to like it, but it's really crept up on me. It's, maybe, the 'light...and shade' bit, it just sums up the disco miserablism of Ver Pets so well it's almost a generic convention, and it just sounds so right.

God, I must have had too many jam tarts this afternoon.

What I like about PSBs though is for me it's always the little things - 'you leave home, and you don't go back' in King's Cross, the spoken word bit in the middle of Domino Dancing with the Spanish guitar...even 'Listen/As you call my name' in that Electronic record. And Minimal fits in so well. I was a bit disappointed by the singles off the last album so it made me happy.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The Robbie single is ace - I think it's doing a similar thing to the Justin single but better, which has kind of amazed me as I've always waaaaay preferred Justin to Robbie. First time I heard it in full I was a bit WTF? But lloved it second time round.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

what i've heard of the new Robbie on the Ppodcast sounds okay - nice in a way to hear him stealing from Sly & Robbie's 'Boops (Here To Go)'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I like how it's all gloopy, kinda like Robbie is singing from the middle of a chocolate factory...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

bit like 'SexyBack' in that respect

[juror8.livejournal.com]

http://www.myspace.com/saferide

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

http://www.myspace.com/davidford (http://www.myspace.com/davidford)