Something for the weekend

Well the weather this week has reflected the state of our government. Bloody awful. But do not fret readers! I may have found something which will make your weekend make up for all this rain and loud thunderous...thunder.

And it does not come in the form of several poorly written paragraphs by yours truly. It comes in the form of an album from a band that you probably won't have heard of. But as the music of the current day is so awful that it's causing me to turn to blues from the 70's and sit moodily in the middle of town nodding along and looking like someone who belongs in a lunatic asylum. It's these bands/artists that are shining at the moment.

As I just said, I'm currently into blues and as I didn't say, I also dig the folk scene. But you can't live on folk. That would be like living off of vanilla ice cream. You keep looking at the chocolate and strawberry sitting next to it, but you don't want to go there becuase it looks a bit unsafe and too red/brown for your liking. So you need balance, maybe a little bit of synth or emo.

Unfortunately emo/screamo/loudnoisescomingfrompubescentteenagerswithlongblackhair is awful and anyone who says different deserves to get their heads kicked in by the reanimated corpse of Marlon Brando. So that leaves you with synth. Or techno, electronic, indie...you get the point. But because we are currently under siege from bands like the Kooks and MGMT plagueing the indie and electronic scene, I like to sit comfortably in synth.

So what do you get when you throw some folk/blues into a puddle of synths? You get Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. A solo project from a chap in America. Imagine Fleet Foxes meets Deadmau5 and you're not far off. This chap uses casios from the 90's and synth boards from the 80's. This dude is old skool. He's gutsy as well. He thought he'd team up with Concern and slam some beats onto Born in the USA and Streets of Philadelphia. I'm still not sure on Born in the USA but my god, that man has done wonders to Streets of Philadelphia. Weirdly, I prefer it from the original. Sorry Bruce.

Everything else is pretty golden. White Corolla is my favorite track. With lyrics that a tripped out LSD junkie would be confused by. Bouncy melody and inventive use of the voicebox. Perhaps it's too short at 1 minute 57 seconds. But when you've got creepy indie artists releasing 20 second songs where they strum a guitar twice and then tell you that their shoes are covered in sand (thanks for that Interpol), you look at that and don't care. If CTftPA can do in 1:57 what Jamiroquai can't do in 5, then you won't complain there either.

I think they're on iTunes, and pretty sure that you amish folk can go to HMV and still buy it as well. Or if you don't want to pay this man the amount he deserves for this great music, then you can probably download it. Though please don't.

Have a good weekend.

Peace.