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Oppenheimer, The Weddoes and some site updates.
Friday, May 30th, 2008Discovered the Irish band Oppenheimer via last.fm recently. Downloaded their first album the other day, listened to the first few songs before getting straight onto Amazon to order it. They are an electronic indie band playing quirky pop songs with jangly guitars and analog synths, which is of course right up Stephens street. There seems to be just two of them in the group - a guitar player and a drummer, accompanied by lots of (mostly) retro sounding electronics. Me and Matt should stop waiting for a bass player to turn up from nowhere and start doing stuff on our own I reckon. Inspired now.
Also been listening to El Rey, the new Wedding Present cd. There were a few grumbles on the mailing list saying it wasn’t up the usual standard, but I think its pretty good. Expectations weren’t high to be honest, but they haven’t been for a while when it comes to the weddoes. Still enjoy their music. The album was produced by Steve Albini again - so is much more guitary and raw sounding than their last cd, and the guitars seem to have a more traditional Wedding Present feel to them.
Have made a few updates to the site recently - most noticable is the new music player that has found a home in the sidebar. The sidebar player has just a few random tracks in it - to listen to everything I have uploaded to this site, click the link under it to open the player in a separate window. This will also allow you to browse this site without having the player reload for each page, which could be annoying. Although I suppose you could always time your reading to coincide with the length of a particular track if you don’t like lots of separate windows floating around your desktop (and if you’re a bit strange).
Other updates include a feed I have added from my last.fm profile, so whatever music I am currently listening to is displayed nicely in the sidebar, and a clearer link to this websites rss feed in the header, for those that want to subscribe.
Hope all is well with you down…