IM ALSO EXCITED ABOUT MUSIC

I've been buying some music recently. In fact, it's all i've done this week.
My favourite albums for right now, which will no doubt carry on into next week and soundtrack my trip as we head out to Texas through the skies:

FS Blumm - Zweite Meer - sort of lovely Sea & Cake type guitar loveliness. Great!
F'd Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life - arrived late to this party. This is incredibly rocking!
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike - just dead good indie rock. Sounds like Buffalo Tom to me haha!
Sholi - Sholi - This one is astonishing, i can't get my head around it!
Hermit Thrushes - Benaki - Kinda weird. And therefore good!
Little Wings - Light Green Leaves - Lo-fi folk guitar pump. Amazing!
Sinebag - Près De La Lisière - Very minimal bird noise and guitar plops! Nice!
Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes - More great female-fronted indie rock!
Danielson - Fetch The Compass Kids - Eccentric indie pop yaaaas!
Dutch Uncles - Dutch Uncles - Guitar pop wizardry of the highest order!
Copy Haho - Bred For Skills & Magic - Ditto, but noisier!
Favours For Sailors - Furious Sons - Ditto, but scruffier!

Seriously really chuffed that so much lovely music exists for my giant ears to eat up this week. And especially so many great UK releases too! (Well, we could do with loads more great records coming out of Scotland, or at least ones i know about, but that's a different story.) I'm on holiday and i've done nothing but listen to music, eat Asda Orange Cables and do email interviews or pieces for magazines. Exactly. It's magic! So yeah, anyone found out about any nice little amazing bands recently that they would like to share? Post a comment if there's something i should check out. I might actually go to a gig soon too! Australian band Crayon Fields are playing in Glasgow soon. I love them! They sound like The Zombies and are dead good.

Check out the new blog idea we started as well: http://awesome-pals.blogspot.com
It's a great idea. Hopefully it will grow with goodness and all you guys, as well as all the fans of the other bands collaborating, will have a great central location to find loads of informative and funny stuff.

I'M EXCITED ABOUT MUSIC!

MUSIC IS EXCITING, ISN'T IT?

Being on tour for a while makes you forget how fantastic music is. Going to your own shows becomes a strange ritual where you are flung head-first into a vat of Groundhog Day familiarity, emerging a few hours later with a glaze of confusable goo lining the inside of your clothing.
So, last week I went to some 'live gigs' and listened to some records, and rediscovered musical bliss in it's purest form. It was awesome, and I'd like to publicly announce that Sky Larkin's album 'The Golden Spike' is fucking amazing and everyone should get out of the internet and buy it, then listen to it.
Also (finally!) got to see Fucked Up - twice! The bruises are still planted firmly on my hips, arms and legs.

In other news, my Dad's ringtone is our song 'The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash'. I'm thinking of creating a furry CGI character to accompany it and putting it "on the telly" for a few quick buck$. Bye now!