Christmas Advent #4 – Love is a Drug, and a Kiss is a Hit

Today’s door opens to reveal a treat from San Diego’s wonderful TV Girl. ‘Like We Planned’ is another perfect Pop mosaic cut from the dreamland of electronic samples and outsider Pop with the added gift of Madison Acid taking the scissors for a spin.

Life's Too Short For Lists...

Even with the endless time I have on my hands on the frosty riverbanks, between glorious battles with the Taff's Rainbow Trout, I find it hard to comprehend anything involving end of year lists, Dogging Tales just came on TV adding further discouragement to my already fragile willpower, but even so, there's a page that needs filling, and as the self proclaimed king of filler material, here’s a list with some of the music that shined like the stars on a crisp clear night through the murky fogs, shady shadows, and heaps of shit of 2013:



The All About - Suburban Heart (Bandcamp)

Cherry Glazerr - Papa Cremp (Bandcamp)

The Death of Pop (Bandcamp)

Ballboy - Merry Christmas To The Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers (Bandcamp)

Just Handshakes - Say It (Bleeding Gold Records / Bandcamp)

Major Leagues - Weird Seasons EP (RipeTV)

The Indelicates - Diseases of England (Corporate Records)

Flowers (Odd Box Records / Bandcamp)

Winter Villains - February (Barely Regal Records / Bandcamp)

I Like The Go GO (Bandcamp)

Makthaverskan - Makthaverskan II (Luxury / Bandcamp)

Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation (Fortuna POP!)

TV Girl - Lonely Women (Bandcamp)

The Courtneyes - The Courtneys - S/T (Hockey Dad Records / Bandcamp)

The Bobby McGee’s - Bon Bons (Je Vien Rechercher Mes) (Youtube)

The Spook School - Dress Up (Fortuna POP!)

Tyrannosaurus Dead - Pure // Apart + Bed Dread (Odd Box Records / Bleeding Gold Records / Bandcamp)

Laura Cantrell - No Way There from Here (Shoeshine Records)

Alpaca Sports (Bandcamp)

Eddie Argos and the Lo-Fi Punk Rock Motherfuckers - Volume 1 (Corporate Records)

Songs for Walter (Bandcamp)

Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums (Moshi Moshi)

Old Friends Are Older Now

Cold Winds Are Colder Now

1. We Are Nothing Alike - The Indelicates
2. Easier To Cry - TV Girl
3. Mosaic - Fear Of Men
4. Endless Drain - Major Leagues
5. Oyster Boy You're A Blast - Tyrannosaurus Dead
6. Nasty Habits - The Wild Ones
7. As Long As I Have You - Alpaca Sports
8. Surfing Cats - The Notes
9. Don't Hang Around - The Death Of Pop
10. Nick's Song - Songs For Walter
11. Heat Wave - The All About
12. Wish You Were Beer - The Great American Novel
13. BRAINS - Mega Emotion
14. Motherquake - DJ Freh & Diplo
15. Purge Your Inner Tory - Colour Me Wednesday
16. We Are All The Lo-Fi Kids - Helen Love
17. (Here's to) The Ghosts Of The Past - Dot Dash
18. This Town (Song For Karen) - The Thlyds

Hold My Hand As It All Slips Away...

... And we''ll wash up together on Arizona Bay!

1. Arizona Bay - Art Brut
2. She Smokes In Bed - TV Girl
3. Buried In The Ground - Tyrannosaurus Dead
4. Dig Up The Graves - Tullycraft
5. Stay A While - Beach Vacation
6. Alice - Dick Diver
7. Supermarket - Eddie Argos And The Lo Fi Punk Rock Motherfuckers
8. You Should Fall In Love With Me - Ballboy
9. Goat - French For Rabbits
10. Beautiful Despair - Comet Gain 
11. Bill Drummond - Wake The President
12. Moon / Two Out Of Ten - Songs For Walter 
13. Boat Song - Flowers
14. Lost For Days - The Notes
15. Cold Hands - Pants Yell!
16. Dovahkiin - The Indelicates 

Can I Always Dream with You?

 



































3am and I'm all alone / just a memory and a diet coke

1. Dead Dreamer - Glass Teeth
2. Stamping On Snails - Songs For Walter
3. Diet Coke - TV Girl
4. 1992 - Tynrannosaurus Dead
5. Dreaming - Seapony
6. Pale - Young Romance
7. You Held My Hand - Flowers
8. Buried Alive - Veronica Falls 
9. Welcome to Váxjó - Ballboy
10. Elks Lodge Riot - Tullycraft
11. Dead and Alice - Just Handshakes
12. Antabus - Makthaverskan 
13. The Ghost of Stephen Hawking's Legs - Baby Ghosts
14. Washington Weather - Beach Vacation
15. Fine Fine Fine - The Mentalettes
16. I Don't Want To Get Used To It - Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
17. Thorns - Winter Villains

I Guess Things Happen That Way

“It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”

The subtle sadness of a childhood ebbing endlessly away lingers evoking melancholic nostalgia. Suddenly it seems the people you used to see everyday on the streets and in the parks are not there anymore, people change, friends drift apart and go separate ways where the road splits, some will never meet again and not feel a thing, others will remain eternally connected even if they no longer know where to find one another. Kermit the frog had it on lockdown: “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it”. I don't like it, but i guess things happen that way.

Your Own Religion – TV Girl

In the Hearts of Men – First Aid Kit

The Peacock – Beirut

Holes – Mercury Rev

Guess Things Happen That Way – Johnny Cash

What Do We Do Now? – Just Joans

All My Friends (Are Dead) - Island Twins

Brothers – The War on Drugs

Dance Floor – The Apples in Stereo

Don’t See the Sorrow – Au Revoir Simone

Getting Over You – The Bats

Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me? – Ballboy

Don’t Be a Stranger – Esiotrot

When We Were Still Friends – Herman Dune

December 1986 – Lucky Delucci

The Way It Is – Laura Cantrell