Tuesday, May 24, 2005  1:02 pm 

20JFG goes sunny

JuanFunkGreats is going to Barcelona for this so besides some random tracks left hidden somewhere, this is all you’ll hear from him until next week, pray for his soul yada yada. Sorry the writing is a bit shite, but there wasn’t time for moe…

Oxford Collapse come from New York and manage to fuse, in this song from their forthcoming album, ‘A Good Ground’, out in Kanine Records, sunny californian almost Byrdish melodies and Gang of Four to the floor drum and bass rythms, they forget the spiky guitars which is good these days of urgh angular pop taking over the soundwaves.

Oxford Collapse- The Boys Go Home

They sound very indie not schmindy, incoherent and gloriously emotive and melodic, thus becoming the band least likely to be liked by me that I like after the Futureheads and M83. That Appalachian edge to the melody in this track kills me.

If we didn’t smoke cigarrettes and we drank more orange juice our lifes would be like this, all gorgeous glitch loungepop overloaded with kitsch melodies and cute singing, we would go down to the plaza prancing merrily with a huge ‘We Love Retrofuturism‘ placard and it would always be sunny and nice.

Nathan Michel- Suds

The rest of the album (released jointly by Skipp and Sonig Records) is equally lovely, like Stereolab in the kindergarten (wait, I already used that comparison for Deerhoof, oh well…), all brought to you by that nice looking Nathan Michel feller.

As Leesey would say, listening to this makes me happy…

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