Totems Flare

SPANISH SAHARA

Foals - Spanish Sahara

Ummmmm so looks like Foals did a total Primary Colours on this one, their new track Spanish Sahara proving that they can move beyond mathy hi-hat ravaging annoyance pretty expertly.

HEALTH

HEALTH

I think I’m still in shock from just how incredible this set was. Dripping with bizarre electronic tidal waves and monster machine sounds, I was soooo doubtful as to whether they could emulate their records live. Seriously. They didn’t just emulate the record, they reproduced and obliterated it.

CAMP REVIEWS

Camp reviews

Wow, how late are these?!!?!? Here is the first batch of report cards on acts from Campus A Low Hum, to be updated as my memory stops clouding over and I remember more of the acts that I saw.

GOOD ADVICE

Good advice

Straightforward, melancholic guitar pop meets an australian accent that comes on probably a little too strong, but the delivery is wayyy too earnest for anyone to get too hung up on the ‘Strayan vibes. CHECK.

WRITTEN ALL OVER YR FACE

Okay so my laptop has been pretty destroyed recently so posts will be sporadic, but in the meantime, here’s an autotuned, not-quite-right cover of Beyonce’s Halo, by Major Lazer.

TELEPATHE

BASS. Lots and lots of bass. It’s the most striking thing about Telepathe’s live show. Literally. SFBH shook so much during their closer of So Fine that collapse wouldn’t have seemed like too much of an impossibility.

CAMPUS REPORT CARD

There was this incredible moment during The Ruby Suns’ set (7pm Day 3), somewhere around when it became apparent that Oh Mojave was now a bona fide club banger, that three of my friends and I almost instinctively let off our party poppers at the same drop…

L8 CHILLIN: REST OF THE BEST

Here are the rest of my favourite releases of 2009! Already outdated though. Sad face.

TOMORROW, IN A YEAR

Woooooah so The Knife were already a pretty scary / good band, and that Fever Ray album was all kinds of stunning, but there’s something in their forthcoming Darwin-based fucking opera entitled Tomorrow, In A Year that has me superintrigued in them now.

ENFANTS FRAICHES

Oops, as it turns out, my internet at home went down for a few days, some hangover from Y2K or something. Anyway here’s some tracks from Auckland outfit Sidewalk Meese.