Bombay Bicycle Club // Carry Me - Single

The new comeback from single, titled 'Carry Me', is as fantastic as it sounded during their magnificent Reading Festival set way back in 2012. It feels a long time coming, and their downtime is justified and well, well worth the wait.

This is one of my favourite shots of the band - Jack seems happy!

The production from Jack Steadman is clear to the ear, with his solo soundcloud work shining through from the very first sample. The double use of bass guitar is really neat work, an element they have always strived in - I always test earphones or bass with one of their songs, 'Evening/Morning'. This may just about replace that song.

This is joyous. If you have time, take a look on YouTube for other gems that are to feature on the album, such as 'It's Alright Now' and 'Feel'. They sound fabulous, but for now, listen to their latest effort below. It is worth a mention that the interactive video for this is ace, and can be found at carryme.tv

So, I am on the Burst radio, and The Verse // University

In an interesting turn of events, I am on the radio - with a yet to be decided air time and show name - and it is recorded and loads of fun. Look out for news on that in the next week or so.

Also, I am now (actively) writing for The Verse. It is a great paper with an equally great team. I've already had the chance to interview a what-I-call 'big band', Fenech Soler, and look forward to writing up an article based upon that. I will post links to my articles I post there on here, as well as continuing my multiple sites independent of my work for The Verse.

I cannot wait for the future.

H x

Little Comets // Violence Out Tonight - Lyrics

These lyrics, should mean so much to so many people. They carry a lot of meaning in a field of polluted lyrics:

So he offers her his coat
In return for her devotion
For he loves her like a boat
That he keeps out on the ocean
He says: I'll tell you lover
That I don't need no other's arms at all”
And as he fixes her a look
All the innocence that she mistook for charm
Dies in the vacuum of his startling deep emotion


There's violence out tonight
There's violence out tonight
There's violence out tonight, tonight
There's violence out tonight


As they step into the dark
Only moonlight hides his treason
And the shadows skip like sharks
Through the gasps of air between them
She says: Becalm your hands boy I thought
restraint was now your sentiment of choice?
But as his fingers strike her blouse
All the words that he espoused
Lie deftly scattered on the ground amidst
the buttons he's torn open


There's violence out tonight
There's violence out tonight, tonight
In every room, in every heart
In every moment you discard
There's violence out tonight, tonight


So she stalks the stolid streets debased
A tepid flickering of street-lights wipes the grief
Across her face
Since she wears upon her brow
The ragged gape of alienation
That will follow her around


And like for every victim
It seems the pain will not subtract or even calm
All this protracted by a state
In which the poor conviction rate for rape
Can often leave a woman feeling
More at blame than able


To talk about violence tonight
To talk about violence tonight, tonight
In every moment, every room
In every word that you consume
In every second, every chance
In every twisting of romance
In every momentary embrace
In every movement of your face
Is violence out tonight, tonight


Tell me something I don't know
Tell me something I can be proud of
Tell me something I don't know

Panic! At The Disco // Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! - Review

I have never been the biggest fan of Panic! All the palaver about removing the exclamation, and then readding it. Do I want to listen to a band that causes 'drama' over a simple grapheme?

Well, now I do. The two singles from their fourth album are absolutely atrociously catchy, and just cool. "This Is Gospel" kicks off the album with vocal prowess and lyrical genius: "This is gospel for the vagabonds, never-do-wells and insufferable bastards, confessing their apostasies, led away by imperfect impostors". And it doesn't stop there - the whole album is packed with memory lines. A marked improvement, as I feel they have been severely lacking in this area, in terms of going head to head with their record label owners band, Pete Wentz and Fall Out Boy.

After the two opening tracks, the previously mentioned "This Is Gospel" and the equally as good "Miss Jackson", the quality continues, for one more track. "Vegas Lights" is fantastically showbiz, with glitz right from the off and cliche fuelled bridges. In comparison, "Girl That You Love" is dreary, and Brendon just doesn't seem interested.

I hate writing reviews and just listing songs and saying "this is good, and this one, but not this one because of x", but this album needs it. "Nicotine" is, honestly, my song of the year so far. The bassist, his first appearance on their recordings, gives the funky beat to the bridge and chorus. "Life's a fucking drag", according to Brendon, but when you can come up songs and riffs like this, who cares?

"Girls/Girls/Boys" has a fantastically british synth to it. Garrish and appropriate at the same time. Which just about sums up this album. The opening to "Vegas Lights" features children chanting. Incredibly garrish, but it really does fit the song.

After all the band reshuffling, it is lovely to see them still going at it - and doing it wellllll.

8/10

H x

Fall Out Boy // My Songs... - Video

I am sure it has been noted before, but FOB are much rockier live at the moment. See below. Their new album is pretty awesome too, it must be said.