Well, well, well. It's nearly the end of the year and like every single magazine and website out there I've been drawing together my favorite tracks of 2008. As with each poll there are those entries you wish you could have put in there but for certain reasons you couldn't. For me these are mostly acts that I knew about but didn't really get into until it was too late, like a couple of the tracks that I'll show you below that were actually released in 2007 but I just didn't get round to checking them out until 2008!
The other reason for them not making it into my tunes of the year is because I didn't get round to buying the cd in the end for one reason or another, let me assure you there were more than a couple purchased so I had to draw the line somewhere.
So then into the list of almost made it's, what better way to kick it off than with M.I.A and Paper Planes:
Did you see the Beastie Boys?? They're in there honest! If the chorus doesn't stick in your head for a couple of hours then there is something really quite wrong with you!
Next up is one of my bands of the last 12 months, Yeasayer, who I've had the luck to see live twice. they do a great line in 21st century twisted electronic folk music with awesome harmonies, weird tag to give a band I know but it'll make sense when you hit that play button. I've given you a link to a special performance they did for a French blog called LaBlogotheque and takes in 2 of their songs called "No Need To worry" and "Red Cave". Honestly, the French Metro has never sounded so good:
The end of the song gets me everytime and I just can't help but smile! Soppy I know but I don't care.
And just for good measure I'm going to give you a couple more clips of them, the first if taken from their performance on Later... In this one Vocalist Chris Keating really reminds me of David Byrne in his movements and performance during the song, plus you gotta love the drummer's tarzan outfit! :)
And then lastly is their other performance for LaBlogotheque:
It's well worth checking out the other post's LaBlogotheque have made as they always do amazing little candid live performance. I really love the ones they didn with Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki and I'm From Barcelona!!
Speaking of Architecture in Helsinki, they have just released a new single which I'm really loving at the moment, but alas it's only available in Australia at the moment and you can't get it over here until 2009! Check out, That Beep, it's got bouncy summer fun written all over it:
Finally, for now we have the supreme M83, who usually release an amazing line in etheral shimmering space pop, but this time for their album Saturdays=Youth they're turned to 80's pop for their inspiration and it's paid off, especially when you listen to songs like Graveyard Girl:
Is it just me of does that video reek of John Hughes and especially the Breakfast club, Ally Sheedy's character springs to mind straight away, only with more graveyards, booze and giant floating dogs heads in space!
anyway that's enough of that I shall return at some point with a full run down of my tracks of the year and let you know why i chose them!
So until then people:
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