retro

Well folks, it has been a huge, ginormous, epic break from SC for me, to which I sincerely apologize. However, it is nice to see our site prospering! Soooo many good contributers….Sooo much good music to share…. It was a terrific year in music and I don’t think the SC crew missed even a bit of it.

With that, let me begin this weeks colossally foreign playlist!! These are some of my favorite tracks from bands the reside/formed outside of the YOU ESS of EH.

Possibly one of the most epic opening tracks in the last decade. Justice are, drum-roll please…… FRENCH!! Of course. Give two skinny french dudes some electric equipment and they will give you this. This track could NOT get you any more pumped to dive into the rest of the album, but dive with CAUTION. The disc only gets grungier and more tense.

The Avalanches- Frontier Psychiatrist

This duo resides in the land of diggery-doooooos and dingos and babies that get eaten by said animals. Melbourne, Austrailian dudes know how to sample some muzak.

Radiohead- The Amazing Sound of Orgy

These dudes are pretty good I guess. I thought I should probably include them. They’re from Abingdon, Oxfordshire. This song is off a B-side album which didn’t make the cut of the B-side of another album. Thats right, Amnesiac was the songs that didn’t make it on Kid A. This song didn’t even make it on that b-side. God they make so much good music, they don’t know what to do about it.

sino Cafe Tacuba- Tengo Todo

The song title means “I Have Everything”. These guys really do. Apparently these guys are the shizz in Mexico, where they are from. Started in Naucalpan, Mexico and blew up. Really fun band who know how to rock. Check em out!

bowie David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things

A man who needs no intro. All I’ll tell you is that is he from Brixton, London. One of my favorite tracks from him. Soooo poppy. Sooo good.

jens Jens Lekman- A Postcard to Nina

First time I heard Jens, who is from Angered, Sweden, I didn’t get him. But then I found myself humming and whistling these tunes. This song captures the feel of Night Falls Over Kortedala. Its playful storytelling which sounds almost as if some of the story is being lost in translation to English because of its simplisity. Really listen to the story Jens is telling about his friend Nina. I dare you not to giggle.

point Cornelius- Smoke

Keigo Oyamada from Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, the main dude behind Cornelius, is one of the most fun and entertaining musicians I know. He seems to take normal things from normal life and try to write music about them. Smoke, water, copy machines, etc. Either way, a band you should really check out.

verspertine Bjork- Undo

One of the most ridiculously gorgeous songs ever.com. Bjork, from Reykjavík, Iceland, just has sooo many amazing songs, that its tough to pick a favorite, but this one…..this one…. if you listen to it on headphones, and you don’t get chills, you’re just not doing it right.

So, I hope you all enjoyed your trip around the globe. Music is big. Its huge. Its global.