Taking a quick break from my neverending second birthday guest blogging celebrations ('The Two Year Itch'), I decided to rustle up a quick podcast. Although I really hesitate to use the word podcast here. There is no speakyspeaky here. Which a lot of bloggers still consider as perfectly acceptable as a podcast but I think it's probably more accurately, a mixtape. But with the popularity of [Muxtape], this may be a turn for the better? It's meant to be about the music and not me, anyway.
Keep Hope Inside Podcast#8 (30mb, 32.49mins)
Intro (created with samples by Michael Oster)
1) Super Tennis - Super Tennis Theme Song
A bizzarely thrilling concotion of screamo, math and indie pop.
[mp3]//[MySpace]
2) Eugene Francis Jr - Beginners
Hypnotic Beck-like pop.
Buy his debut album 'The Golden Beatle' from his [MySpace]
3) Skyhorse - Don't Open Up
Joining fellow London teenagers White Lies in reflecting a dynamically moody eighties sound but with a more pleasing, anthemic vibe.
[MySpace]
4) The Winchell Riots - Histories
An intense track signalling their triumphant rise from the ashes of Fell City Girl.
Order the 'Histories EP' from their [MySpace]
5) The Satin Peaches - Wash It Away
Like Billy Corgan fronted Tokyo Police Club; this brings back joyful memories of Zwan.
[MySpace]
6) Sportsday Megaphone - Young Lust
A modern day love song from Hugh 'laptoptronica' Frost.
[MySpace]
7) Fear Of Music - Ropes Out Of Sheets
Epic, sweeping soundscapes a la Muse.
[MySpace]
8) The xx - Teardrops
A captivatingly Womack & Womack cover from these hotly tipped Londoners. Smooth.
[mp3]//[MySpace]
9) Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman (Zane Lowe Mix)
Zane Lowe adds his dreamy take to DLSvsSP's poppiest song
[MySpace]//The debut album 'Angles' is out now.
10) Rose Kemp - Nanny's World
If Regina Spektor woke up thinking she was Bjork and Portishead. At the same time.
[mp3]//[MySpace]
Tracks used with permission or made freely available on the internet by the artist at the time.
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