2008 Preview: Panic At The Disco

Panic At The Disco (sans exclamation point) made a triumpthant return to the world of music on January 28th with their new, download-only (ugh) single “Nine In The Afternoon”, their first new material since 2005’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out which, despite certain labels placed upon the band (I’ll admit they do have a fondness for spikey fringes, eyeliner and a flair for drama), was one-half fun electro-rock, one-half bombastic baroque pop, and all great.

“Nine In The Afternoon” previews the band’s forthcoming album Pretty. Odd.,which is due to be released on March 25th and, if this song is anything to go by, the quartet have stopped moaning and quoting Chuck Palahniuk and sound positivley joyous on this song, and somewhat (later) Beatles-y! It seems they are taking the more orchestral pop route of the second half of Fever…, which is really for the best. Dunno what all the raven-haired 14-year-olds will make of it, mind.

Download “Nine In The Afternoon” (MySpace rip)

2008 Preview/Mixtape: Cut Copy

Mellow Australian electronic trio Cut Copy follow up 2004’s rather excellent, yet criminally overlooked Bright Like Neon Love with new album In Ghost Colours, which comes out (in Oz, at least) in March. So, as is becoming the norm other the past month, I has a preview trrrrrack (sorry, those Max Headroom trails on Channel 4 are getting to me), which is called “Lights And Music”, and is the aural exquivalent of going to a disco in the North Pole with the robots out of Battlestar Galactica. Or something.

Download “Lights And Music”

The trio have also put together a mixtape, obviously hoping to draw in the hardcore hip-hop audience for this album, called “So Cosmic”, which I also have for download. To see the group’s analysis of “So Cosmic”, why not take a look at their blog?

Tracklisting
1. Aphex Twin - On
2. Cut Copy - So Haunted (Knightlife End Edit)
3. Panda Bear - Bros
4. Popolice - (edit)
5. Delia & Gavin - Rise
6. Elitechnique - Fingerfood (Major Swellings Mix)
7. Nu Music - Warp
8. Panthers - Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Dub)
9. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Horizon
10. Bell x1 - Flame (Chicken Lips Dub)
11. Giorgio - Knights In White Saturn
12. Aeroplane - Aeroplane
13. Fleetwood Mac - Never Forget
14. Lifelike - So Electric
15. Saturn 5 - Oscillations
16. International Music System - Runaway (Edit)
17. Cut Copy - Lights & Music
18. Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe (Edit)
19. Harmonia - Deluxe (Drum Edit)
20. The Bells - Target Group (C90 mix)
21. Holy Ghost - Hold On
22. Bagraiders - Nil By Mouth
23. Space - Save your Love
24. Inflagranti - Additional Alpha Blocker
25. Oran Juice Jones - The Rain
26. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (a cappella)
27. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Joakim mix)

Download “So Cosmic”

Pre-order In Ghost Colours
Buy Bright Like Neon Love
Buy Fabriclive 29 - Cut Copy

Weekend Mix #5.5 - Tom’s Tape Of Wistful Melancholy (Side B)

The B Side to last week’s A side.

01. Gorillaz - Last Living Souls
02. Ennio Morricone - Il Tramonto
03. Johnny Cash - A Satisfied Mind
04. We Are Scientists - Can’t Lose
05. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
06. Kupek - Neither Here Nor There
07. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - 80’s Life
08. Jamie T - Calm Down Dearest
09. Lightspeed Champion - No Surprise
10. The White Stripes - Forever for Her (Is Over For Me)
11. Maximo Park - Going Missing
12. LCD Soundsystem - Never As Tired As When I’m Waking Up

Download it!