November 2009
5 posts
J Dilla #1
If you don’t really know who Dilla was, I’ll spare my gushing and geeky introduction and direct you to his wikipedia.
He is almost probably my favourite artist ever, certainly my most played, and I’m still finding gems amongst the ~2 days worth of his production I have amassed over the past 5 years.
I’ve numbered this post, as I will no doubt want to blog about him...
Isle Of Men
This post is about the band ‘Men’. I’ll give you a minute to digest the funny play on words in the blog title.
Good, right? Yeah, so are the band!
They feature two members of Pennines, but are considerably more gruff and indie-rock. I’m putting that down to the beards.
My favourite song of theirs adds some ‘Phil Collins’ sounding synths to their sound - it...
Midwest Pen Pals
Midwest Pen Pals are now deceased, their myspace was created in June, and their farewell blog was posted in October. In those 4 months they created a seriously solid emo EP, ‘Leaving Songs’.
Download: Midwest Pen Pals - Leaving Songs EP Best song: Movies Like Juno
From what I gather from public arguments they had on a last.fm forum (yeah, I know), the guys were pretty young...
