Hello. Sorry for the lack of preparation here, but Homegame rather fucked with my ability to get anything done in an orderly and organised fashion this week.
Listen to us! We’re super duper and we have the very very lovely Love. Stop.Repeat with us for some post Homegame fun….
1. Matthew and The Atlas – Deadwood
2. Trips and Falls – We Were Like Strangers Today
3. Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
4. Love.Stop.Repeat – Song For Mary (live in session)
5. Mimicking Birds – Cabin Fever
6. Love.Stop.Repeat – Tail Lights (live in session)
7. Au Revoir Simone – We Are Here
8. Love.Stop.Repeat – Storm Song (live in session)
9. Jonnie Common – hand-to-hand
10. Fanfarlo – Finish Line
11. Sparklehorse – Maria’s Little Elbows
12. Love.Stop.Repeat – Pillow (live in session)
13. Cold Seeds – Perfume of Mexican Birds
In case any of you wondered what it really means being an independent record label, it is shown in these pictures (click to enlarge). This is the Trips and Falls album He Was Such a Quiet Boy carpeting our floors. We hand print two colours onto the sleeves, apply two different stickers to the front, then fold up the box and insert the CD and the inlay card. Then we do it again, two hundred and ninety-nine more times.
Still, looks fucking lovely doesn’t it. Chris from Meursault and his brother Mike did the artwork under the guise of their new graphic art powerhouse-in-indie-slippers enterprise The Brothers Grimm. They also did the artwork for the new Meursault album, which is looking fantastic as well, so a big thanks to them both.
It’s times like this that being a record label is really fucking cool. You can pre-order the album from here, if you want – out on 22nd March.
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Well I am Ruthless and bandless to begin this term’s broadcasts, so you’ll have to wait until next week for the first Toadly Fresh Air Session I’m afraid.
Having said that, however, I have a shiteload of excellent and very shiny new material to play tonight, so people wanting the pop hits are likely to be rather disappointed as there are few old favourites and lots of new demos which I am very much hoping will end up on albums before the end of the year.
Ruth will be back with me as of next week, but she’s currently nursing Michael H. Foxx, who is in hospital with the nasties. So best wishes to both of them, but we’ll be back in the normal swing of things from next Monday onwards.
Incidentally, if you know anyone who you would recommend for a live session, just get in touch in the comments or by email (see the contact page above).
This evening’s tracklisting (updated live):
1. Django Django – Storm
2. Liars – No Barrier Fun
3. Gobble Gobble – Lawn Knives
4. Robin Grey – I Love Leonard Cohen
5. Leonard Cohen – Avalanche
6. REM – First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen Cover)
7. The Burns Unit – Since We’ve Fallen Out
8. The Van Allen Belt – The Way You Look
9. Trips and Falls – That is a Big Door!
10. Sarah Lowes – Night Time
11. Findo Gask – Full Five (Demo)
12. Yusuf Azak – Eastern Sun (Demo)
13. Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
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Today rocks. It’s freezing cold, even Edinburgh has a little snow, and the Water of Leith has completely frozen over outside our office. Basically, this is a proper Winter and, as you might have guessed from my last post, I am loving it.
My hair froze on the way into work this morning, which is something I haven’t experienced since I was about seventeen. I went skiing for a day with my Dad this Christmas which, rather sadly, is something we haven’t done for nearly ten years. Christ it was perilous on the first few runs down!
So yes, basically I am loving it, it’s like regressing to childhood again, at least as nostalgic as the Elton John song I put in your Friday selection. Yes. Yes I did. Elton John. Suck it up, bitches (as he presumably must have said to Wham at one stage).
This weekend I will be sorting out video and audio from the New Year’s House Gig, making a start on the eagleowl Toad Session, getting a couple of our new releases sorted out and generally being an efficient little weasel. I think I work harder in my free time at the moment than I do at my actual job – I’m certainly far more organised, there’s no doubt about that.
I was mocked yesterday for constantly carrying about a a big (and very pretty and colourful) chart of the Song, by Toad Records release schedule for the year. Fair point and all, but between the timeline and the actual cost figures I have in there, it’s a pretty important chart to have. Yay admin! Whoever thought it could be so sexy.
1. Name one plan/resolution/Very Important Decision you have made for the new year.
2. Have you done any Extremely Fun Snow Stuff yet? And if not, WHY NOT?
3. Favourite snowy bit in a film (NOT Hoth-related because that’s too easy).
4. Coldest you’ve ever experienced.
5. Favourite warming up beverage for freezing cold days.
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I do try and avoid shilling for the label on this blog, because no-one wants to read a twice-daily sales pitch, but I reckon it’s okay to have a look forward at what we’ve got planned for the year. That’s what the new year is for, really, isn’t it?
So I’ve got a nice big release schedule drawn up, just like real record labels do, and honestly it scares the shite out of me. I can pretty much plan out my free time for the whole of the next twelve months just looking at it, but there are some great releases in there.
By the end of 2010 we are going to have a back catalogue to be bloody proud of, honestly, especially when you consider that we had only been a record label for about a month at this time last year.
That picture, incidentally, is a somewhat butchered (sorry Annie) version of one of four gorgeous photos on this blog taken of the two new Meursault 7″s.
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01. Trips and Falls – We Were Like Strangers Today (05.30)
02. Maxwell Panther – My Ex-Identity (09.02)
03. Cold Seeds – Leave Me to Lie Alone in the Ground (17.19)
04. Jesus H. Foxx – This is Not a Rental Car (26.43)
05. Animal Magic Tricks – Smallish Hooves (29.35)
06. The Savings and Loan – Virgin’s Lullaby (36.36)
07. Inspector Tapehead – Sugar on Your Sheets (40.02)
08. Loch Lomond – Holiday (48.25)
09. Meursault – What You Don’t Have (Live on Fresh Air Radio) (58.34)
10. Nightjar – Sweet Annie Lee (66.56)
Get it – Festive Fiddy! Oh I do crack myself up sometimes, I really do.
So here endeth the Festive Fifty for this year. As anyone who has compiled this kind of list will know, the whole process is more than a little arbitrary, and were I to start from scratch tomorrow I would probably end up somewhere notably different.
The interesting thing for me personally is to note how strongly the advantages and disadvantages of nepotism have made themselves known.
The advantages are obvious – would there be so much Withered Hand, Meursault, FOUND and all the rest so high on this list if I didn’t have a much closer personal relationship with their music than most other music? Well I doubt it. I am being a hundred percent sincere when I say that these are my favourite songs this year, but I do know that being as close to music as I am does change how you feel about it, so I have to acknowledge that.
On the downside, bands like Broken Records, Sparrow & the Workshop, Withered Hand and even Meursault to a degree have suffered from how early I became familiar with certain songs. I have a demo version, a Religious Songs EP version and an album version of New Dawn, for example. So while under normal circumstances songs like that, Devil Song by Sparrow, Eilert Loveborg by Broken Records and even Nothing Broke by Meursault would normally have figured very prominently indeed on this list, I already expressed my enthusiasm for them at least a year ago and consequently they are on other lists and I don’t really feel I can put them on this one.
And before anyone complains about Trips and Falls being another Song, by Toad Records band on this list, remember that, as with Meursault last year, it’s not that they’re on this list because they’re a Song, by Toad Records band, it’s that they’re a Song, by Toad Records band because they’re on this list.
01.Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Shampoo
There just something about the rhythm of this song which I cannot get away from. When I first played it on my Fresh Air Radio show Dylan commented that it had a sort of cocky swagger to it, and it really, really does. Then there’s the deep, foreboding harmonies which break in at the end. There’s strut to the rhythm, a crack to his voice, belligerence and tragedy in the mood of it all – it’s just a fucking special, special song.
02.Meursault – William Henry Miller Pt.2 (Single Version)
When Neil first played us this apparently he though ‘Fuck, I’ve finally written a song they don’t like’. Mrs. Toad now plays this single at least once a day in our house, and if ever there was a song to break your speakers for it’s this one. The cello is gut-shaking, the piano is chiming and gorgeous and those vocals are just about the most heart-wrenching I’ve heard anywhere, ever. So if he wants to write a song we don’t like he may have to try a little harder.
03.Navigator – Work is Done
This sensitive, emotional song interrupts an album which is basically an onslaught of overloaded mics and distortion and when this suddenly appears it hits you right between the eyes, largely because you’re so unprepared. It doesn’t depend on its surroundings though, because even in isolation this is every bit as heartbreaking a song.
04.Trips and Falls – And In Real Life He Wears Corduroy Pants
This was one of those moments where the very first second you listen to something you know for certain that you are hearing something a bit special. This is a genius combination of massively infectious pop song and really peculiar atmosphere. There’s something just plain creepy about this album, even the sugar-sweet Prelude to a Shark Attack, but this song perhaps embodies that better than any. And it really is one to be played loud as well.
05.FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session)
I remember sitting there while they were recording this and thinking ‘What the fucking hell is going on here, this is amaaaazing!’ The gently rolling guitar refrain, the simple heartfelt chorus (if you can call it that) and Tommy’s phenomenal backing vocals – there’s just so little actually there, and even that is used with such economy. Brilliant.
06.Withered Hand – No Cigarettes
The first time I heard this I remember a grin slowly spreading over my face. Dan’s songs can often be about little in particular other than a weird sense of something really not being right, and this seems to be one of those – describing a general sense of malaise with such simple music and a deft turn of phrase, you can’t help but let this get to you.
07.Auld Lang Syne – Where My Fortune Lies
This is as rousing and uplifting as any church music could ever be, and has even more impact for shrinking back into such quiet in the middle. Some fucking voice as well.
08.The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
The album may have disappointed, but this is stunning. It’s that voice, the slow piano, the… just the sheer sadness of it all. It sounds like the demoralisation of someone coming out the other end of a midlife crisis and surveying the wreckage of their lives, although it may not be about that exactly, it does feel that way to me I have to confess.
09.Navigator – Blood
This embodies Navigator’s brilliant album Bad Children, for me. It’s a song which is full of pain, but is angry and belligerent with it. There’s an underlying aggression to it which really batters out at you from within the noise, and prevents the song, or indeed the album, sounding at all self-pitying or maudlin. He’s hurting and he’s fucking angry, and the resulting music is absolutely superb.
10.Alela Diane – Age Old Blue
Age Old Blue may be from another album I wasn’t that keen on overall, but this duet with friend Michael Hurley is beautiful. I remember seeing them perform it for the first time after her performance at the Bongo Club a couple of years ago and having no real expectations when they took the stage, only to have my jaw drop at the combination of his nasal, grizzled accompaniment to her gorgeous voice.
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21.FOUND – Enough About Human Rights
I’m not sure if anyone, not even the band themselves, likes Enough About Human Rights best from their excellent Let Fidelity Break EP, but I do. There’s just something unexpected about this song, for some reason. The fact that it is in fact a Moondog cover probably has a lot to do with that, but the hectic, percussive energy FOUND pile into their version just makes me grin every time I hear it.
22.Timber Timbre – Demon Host
The ‘ohs’ in this song take the spectral folk of Timber Timbre and give it a pleading, forlorn quality which imbues it with just a little more pathos than some of the others on the album, and this makes it extra special, in my view.
23.FOUND – You’re No Vincent Gallo – Toad Session
Honestly, I could put pretty much their entire session in the top ten of this list quite easily. It was one of the best things I have ever seen, I think it’s fair to say. Without all the stuff added by the full band I found myself so much more impressed with Ziggy’s voice, with the gorgeous tones he got from his banjo… with pretty much all of it, honestly. Gorgeous.
24.Broken Records – Lessons Never Learnt
This may have been on an earlier release, but it was on this year’s(ish) Out on the Water EP, so I am putting my foot down and saying that it counts. In any case, a really surprising song to come from a band like this, and I think that little down-up of the cello absolutely makes it.
25.Trips and Falls – Breaking Up With My Mormon Missionaries
These guys were pretty much the revelation of the year for me, in all honesty. So much so that we’ve offered to release He Was Such a Quiet Boy on Song, by Toad Records, and it should be coming out in early March. Their music is just fucking creepy, to be honest, and the male/female vocal interplay on this track in particular really is odd. Add that repetitive descent on the strings and this really is an unsettling song. And a brilliant one.
26.Jesus H. Foxx – Elegy For the Good Times
It didn’t grab me as my favourite track from Jesus H. Foxx’ debut EP Matter right off the bat, but I think it is. The cornet, the harmonies, and that simple, repetitive rhythmic underpinning for the whole thing… it all just works incredibly well together, and there’s a sophistication to it which never ceases to surprise me when I think that this is the band’s first release, with their current lineup that is.
27.The Pictish Trail – You Covered the Earth With Your Thumb (Toad Session)
I love the Toad Sessions. They really can provide some amazing recordings, and with Neil so kindly recording and mixing all of the ones we’ve done so far this year we really have had some incredible stuff. Johnny Pictish is about the nicest guy ever to set foot in our house, and his session really was good. The slow build of this, and the prominence of his vocal really are gorgeous.
28.Navigator – Change
An oddly melodic tune from one of the most belligerently low-fi albums I think I have ever heard. It took a while for the sense of ‘whoooah, what the fuck?’ to subside when I first heard this record, but it is absolutely brilliant. Fuzz or not, this is just a stone-cold pop gem and one of the most catchy riffs of the year.
29.The Builders and The Butchers – Golden And Green
Mental and ferocious brilliance. When these guys hit their stride their ramshackle old jalopy threatens to shake loose its wheels altogether and crash into a ditch, and those are almost without fail their greatest songs. This is just like that.
30.Titus Andronicus – Fear And Loathing In Mahwah, NJ
I don’t know whether I just like how raucous this song gets, or whether I like how quiet it is half the time, compared to how raucous it gets when it cuts loose. Either way, this is one of the best play it loud soungs of the year.
31.Sparrow & the Workshop – Into the Wild
I heard this EP so close to doing this list that Horse’s Grin could as easily have been here instead, but such is the slightly arbitrary nature of these things that you’re getting this one. Maybe it’s something about the storming ending which gets me – Nick is getting to really have a right bloody go on his guitars these days, and Jill is proving that her voice is easily powerful enough to step up and match it. This is full on rock ‘n’ roll, and it’s superb.
32.Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (I)
Yes, more Wild Beasts. I don’t know how this happened – it wasn’t exactly deliberate, I just kept ordering and re-ordering my list and their songs kept on sticking in there, often at the expense of stuff I thought I liked better. This one’s more downbeat, but again that guitar sound and gorgeous voice produce something atmospheric and yet still insidiously infectious.
33.Alela Diane & Alina Hardin – I Have Returned
This whole EP is simple and absolutely gorgeous. Again, I could have picked pretty much any of the songs from it, but there’s something about this one which seems to have captivated me just that little bit more. The vocal interplay between the two is as lovely as with any song on the EP, but maybe there’s something in the roll of the verses which does it. Then again, maybe it’s just arbitrary and I might pick a different one this time next week.
34.Meursault – Nothing Broke
A different version of this was on the band’s MySpace page the first time I ever heard them and it made a really strong impression on me. They recorded it for their Toad Session back in August last year, and now this gorgeous piano and harmonium version for the truly stunning Nothing Broke EP. If anything, the only reason this song is so low on this list is down to the fact that it’s so familiar by now.
35.Timber Timbre – Lay Down in the Tall Grass
This song shows just how simple most of this album is – the barest hint of percussion doing nothing very complex, a simple organ riff repeating throughout the song, and vocals. There’s other stuff there too, but really very little of it, and that kind of subtle touch is what makes this such a special album.
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It’s Fresh Air time again, and once again Ruth and I have a splendid live session. We might even have Ruth’s voice back, just to make matters even more special.
This week The Pineapple Chunks are going to play live in session for us. And instead of being sensible and doing it acoustically we are going to end up having the full band in the studio and are going to just have to try and find some way of arranging the mics so that we pick it all up. Basically, I think we are going to just have to have two room mics and ‘mix’ the sound by having people move closer or further away from them, much like the way everything was recorded in the olden days!
So, for too-many-people-in-a-tiny-little-studio mayhem, tune in from seven and see how we get on. You can always point and laugh if it goes horribly wrong.
Here is this week’s tracklisting, which will be updated live as we go along. Feel free to heckle in the comments section.
1. The Strokes – The Modern Age
2. Interpol – PDA
3. The Pineapple Chunks – Gyroscope + Look Back in Horror (Live in Session)
4. Deerhoof – Snoopy Waves
5. Stephen Malkmus – Walk Into the Mirror
6. Erik Gundel – Lake On My Roof
7. The Pineapple Chunks – The Diagonal (Live in Session)
8. Khaya – Duet (Single Version)
9. Sparrow & the Workshop – Into the Wild
10. The Maxwell Cult – Sound is a Place
11. Trips and Falls – How Do You Do
12. The Pineapple Chunks – Man Love (Live in Session)
13. Huey Lewis & the News – Trouble in Paradise (Live)
14. The Pineapple Chunks – Art Storage (Live in Session)
Last week’s session was with the occasionally mental, occasionally hilarious and occasionally joyous Japanese War Effort. Interview podcast, downloadable session tracks and videos are all after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a while since we had an update on exactly what on Earth is going on at Song, by Toad Records, so I thought I might let you all know what our plans are for the rest of the year. Partly for shits and giggles, partly because I am really excited, and partly as a desperate marketing ploy to wear you down by constant repetition into accepting that everything we ever release will be the best thing you have ever heard in the world.
It will be, you know.
So, in chronological order, here’s an brief outline of our release schedule for the rest of the year, although some of it is still a little undefined and a couple of things are still being negotiated. We’ll be popping a label sampler in the Avalanche album club soon, so anyone subscribed to that will get a nice CD taster of what we’re planning to get up to between now and Christmas. For the rest of you, that taste will come in digital form, below:
We are planning a release party for their Matter EP on the re-opening of the Bowery in mid-September, but I told you all about this quite recently, so that’s all I’ll put in here. Jesus H. Foxx – Trying to Be Good.mp3
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This is being released in partnership with Matt from Bladen County Records. We love both these bands anyway, and they were the most amazingly lovely people to hang out with when we were in Portland last year, and even offered to allow us to release this over here. The muppets never sent me the artwork though, so I’ve used one of my own drawings, which I also really like. And it’s our first vinyl release, which is just fucking exciting in itself. The vinyl itself is just being made now, so it will be out in a month or so. Loch Lomond – Elephants & Little Girls
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Maxwell’s recordings are rough as hell, but his songwriting is bloody great. I genuinely don’t know what people are going to make of this, but I love it, so I decided not to second-guess myself too much. I like it, so it’s being released. Maxwell Panther – Tip of the Tongue (The Quiet One)
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We’re releasing two double a-side singles on white vinyl in the Autumn, with William Henry Miller Parts 1 and 2 paired with The Furnace and The Dirt & the Roots respectively. The band are just putting the finishing touches to the new versions of the Williams Henry Miller, and we’re looking at release dates in October for these. Meursault vinyl. Fucking yes!
The Savings and Loan are my friend Martin Donnelly and former De Rosa pianist Andrew Bush, and they self-released an EP of gloomy Scottish Winter music last year. Currently they’re fleshing it out into a full album, and have specifically decided to release it in mid-November as that’s the season they think it suits the best. And I think they’re right. The Savings and Loan – The Virgin’s Lullaby
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The band are still working on this, but Jonnie has news to deliver when he plays his Trampoline gig on Saturday – which is where I first heard Inspector Tapehead, funnily enough, and Meursault come to think of it. They don’t exactly work at pace, these lads, but I love the results so I don’t really care how it all comes to pass. I can’t tell you much about artwork or release dates or anything like that, but I reckon this should be out by the end of the year too, hopefully. Inspector Tapehead – I am Your Pedigree (There are supposed to be naughty words in this song. Where have they gone, boys, eh?)
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This is far from certain just yet, and I don’t want to jinx anything, but I am talking to Jacob and the band about a UK release for what is pretty much my favourite album of 2009 so far, give or take a best guess here and there. We’ll see what they say, but I would be fucking chuffed if they wanted to release this on Song, by Toad because I think it’s weird and brilliant. Trips & Falls – How Do You Do
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Cammy is erratic, I suppose, and I don’t love everything he does, but I do love a fuck of a lot of it. In general though I reckon the moments of clarity far outweigh the times it doesn’t quite come together, and anyone who’s prepared to let the times when they don’t quite get it pass them by and wait a little for it to click is going to be rewarded. As with Trips & Falls, this is hardly a done deal, but I’ve told Cammy I’d love to release the next album he wants to really put out there, so I just have to wait and hope he takes me up on it. Enfant Bastard – Landscape Painting is Easy
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Nah don’t be daft, of course it doesn’t. Friday loves you. It loves your Mum too. Does your Mum have great tits? I reckon she probably does.
Today technology is King. I remember my first few days being properly employed and how far away the things we take for granted really are. I was working on concepts for this kind of stuff years ago, and it may not have ever come into production, but it’s amazingly exciting to see the future actually happen, right before your eyes. Honestly, we would sit and have meetings on just how feasible video calling was and how much the ubiquitous ‘do-it-all PDA’ would be able to do for you. It’s odd to look back on because now, pretty much all of it is here.
Yesterday I saw my silly old folks on Skype. I have an iPhone too, which means that despite the mild embarrassment of being an iPhone person, I can always reach people. It’s downright bizarre – basically technology has overtaken the popular imagination in the last few years, and now all these things which seemed downright stupid a year or so ago now seem kind of sensible. And many of them exist already.
Had it not been for technology like email and SMS messages Mrs. Toad and I might not be together at all. For the first two and a half years of our relationship I lived in London and she in Edinburgh, so texts and emails pretty much held us together during the week, as we waited for the chance to travel 400 miles on the weekend to see one another. I know social networking sites have their critics (mostly idiots) but their capabilities are pretty amazing, when you think where technology was even just five years ago.
So, erm, good luck with the rest of your lives and hopefully this week’s technology-based five will be up your street:
1. Name your favourite scientific theory. Or just name one – any one.
2. Favourite gadget.
3. Do you know what the term ‘anecdotal evidence’ means? Why the FUCK NOT?
4. Most Star Trekky bit of technology in common use today.
5. Which technology on the ‘coming soon’ list are you most looking forward to?
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Hello. Sorry for the lack of preparation here, but Homegame rather fucked with my ability to get anything done in an orderly and organised fashion this week.
It’s Fresh Air time again, and once again Ruth and I have a splendid live session. We might even have Ruth’s voice back, just to make matters even more special.
