Aug 21 - Kult Kyss

The problem when I have no time is I feel bad about not writing. And then when I have lots of time, like yesterday, I forget to write. Whoops. And now I'm too tired to actually write something long. I'm in Malaysia and slept on a plane last night and am now exhausted, so I just want to sleep. Also my plane was delayed like 3 hours, so I got more sleep than I should have, but also I was stuck on a plane forever, missed my connection, and got stuck in Singapore for a bit also. I could have literally flown from China to America in less time than it took me to get to Malaysia today.

Luckly I just heard some cool music, compliments of the excellent French record label Kitsune. That makes me less upset. But not less tired. But at least I'm awake enough to write about it so I don't forget about it. So anyway. I follow a Kitsune playlist on Spotify, and this band Kult Kyss's newest single Water Baby was at the top of the the list this week. And now I know why. It's very good.




All I've found out about them is that they are a duo from Melbourne who apparently both made electronic music in some form or another before joining teams to create Kult Kyss. And so far I'm a fan. Here's another one of their singles, Get Up Boy.

Aug 19 - Radiohead / Arcade Fire

I don't think I'm going to have much time to write today, because I'm going to the gym and then this bbq and will probably be too drunk after that. So I'm gonna just leave some quick music here.

First is nothing new, but something that has been stuck in my head all week. Well, maybe not stuck in my head actually. Basically, I decided to listen to a bit of Radiohead the other day (always a good decision). I wanted to listen to Videotape because of this video I watched about it a couple weeks ago, and so I just went ahead and listened to the full In Rainbows album. I know a lot of people weren't fans of that album, but I totally love it. There are some amazing songs on there, and one of my favorites is Reckoner. And guess what? It still is. So I listened to it like 6 times in a row. Then a bit more later that day. And then the next day. And so on and so forth. So it deserves to be here.





I also finally got a chance to listen to the new Arcade Fire album this week. Everything Now came out a couple weeks ago, but while I was traveling I did not have a chance to listen. But now I have, and I kind of like it. My sister didn't, but honestly I'm not sure why. She thinks it's all kind of poppy and the same. I get the sameness, I guess. I don't think it's amazing or anything, and I don't think it's up to the standard of their early work, but I quite like it. Enough to buy it anyway. I think my favorite song on it is Creature Comfort, which apparently was one of the singles before the album came out, but I don't think I heard it until I heard the album.





The other favorite is probably Electric Blue. It was one of the earlier singles, and was definitely my favorite when it came out. And I still like it a lot. I really don't have much else to say about it, but I just want it on my blog playlist, so here it is.

Aug 16 - Fink / Daughter

Man that was a crazy vacation. I just got back from 3 weeks at home and in Mexico, which I should probably find time to write about this weekend. But let's just say I had literally zero time to sit in front of a computer and listen to new music, let along write about music. So that's why there were no blogs. And the last couple days have been pretty busy since I got back.

It was a pretty good time to not be paying attention to music, because none of the albums I was really looking forward to came out. So that was good. But there were plenty of new singles from some of those albums, like The National, Grizzly Bear and Moses Sumney. Not to mention new teases from Meshell Ndegeocello, Other Lives and Bon Iver on Istagram. But that still isn't new music. There was some very notable new music, though. Two very notable items, specifically. The first one came from Fink, who released Cracks Appear, the first album off his next album Resurgam, which will be out in September. And it's a good one. Back to what we're used to from him, after a slight (but good) departure on Fink's Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1 from earlier this year. Nice to be back to what I love about him, though.





And then there was a new song from Daughter, called Burn It Down. Burn It Down is actually the first single off a video game soundtrack, which Daughter apparently scored. All the articles use the word scored, which would imply instrumental music, but then this single is basically just a Daughter track. So I'm not sure if the soundtrack will basically be a Daughter album, or if it'll be an instrumental Daughter album with some vocal songs also or what. I guess we just have to wait and see. The soundtrack is called Music From Before The Storm and is also out in September, so at least we don't have to wait so long to find out.