Mozart Would Not Enjoy This

Haters of Made In Chelsea look away now. No, I'm kidding. Please don't! I used to be a hater myself, but my housemates forced it upon me once and... well, you can probably guess the rest. However, I'm safe in the knowledge that I'm not obsessed with it, like so many are. I just find it fascinating to see how these people live. Craziness. Anyway, MIC (as it's affectionately known)'s redeeming quality for myself and many others is the music, chosen by a lady called Andrea Madden. Nice work Andrea! In one of the episodes was a song called "Nova" by this band.  Click here  for the Spotify link. It's a great song, so I looked for them on Spotify, and found this song, "All Eyes".

I normally like to start my posts off with a little bit of background about each artist. I feel like it helps us get to know them a bit better. Context always helps. But I can't actually find very much on this band at all. They're from London (obvs), their names are Hannah Reid, Dot Major and Dan Rothman, and they played a very well received gig at Electrowerkz a couple of weeks ago, but apart from that there's not that much. Nothing is really given away on their facebook page, twitter or even on their own website. Maybe that's what they're going for though, they want to be elusive and aloof... Maybe not. Anyway.

The thought of a band made up of family members used to fill me with a sickening sense of worry; visions of the Osmonds, the Von Trapps and the Cheeky Girls flooding my brain. But then I remember the coolness of Kings of Leon, the cutesie Jackson 5 and Irish group The Corrs (yeah I went there). So it was better for this band that I heard the song before I heard who it was by and that they were sisters. Obviously I wouldn't have been so silly as to reject it based on the fact that they're related, but at least I went into it with a clear mind. Haim (like the Corrs, Jackson 5 and Hanson) are named after themselves; Haim being their collective surname. (According to Wikipedia, the name Haim rhymes with rhyme. I know you've been wondering too.) These three sisters are from a musical, LA-based family and grew up listening to 70's and 80's music, which kind of explains the band's musical style.

I was in H&M yesterday when this song came on through the speakers. I've got a Shazam type thing built into the phone, so I went for it. Casually stood with my phone in the air. How does that even work anyway? How can it possibly recognise songs that way? Anyway, I got home and listened, and it struck me that the vocalist sounded very similar to someone I had heard already, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. A few hours later and I searched the band, only to find that the singer was only José bloody González! If you dunno who that is,  listen to this . I'm thinking you'll probably recognise it. So this Swedish band are returning from a 5 year hiatus with a new, self-titled album that is due to come out next month, with this song being track numero uno.

So this is the first of the HMV albums that I bought to go through. I've picked out the stand out tracks for me, but if you think that another song should was better, please comment at the bottom of the post. Bat For Lashes is the stage name of Natasha Khan. Her sound is very kind of mythical, and ethereal. This album, "Two Suns", came out in 2009 and is her second album. Courtesy of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loveleeannette/508397794/

If you look back through old posts, you'll see that I love me a bit of Ben Howard (ok a LOT of), and I'm also a bit partial to Everything Everything (not to be confused with the Kevin Bacon phone network). This is a masterful combination of the two. Old Pine is track numero uno from the album "Every Kingdom". Great track, great introduction to the album, sets the scene nicely.  Click here  for the youtube link, and  click here  for the Spotify link. Ben Howard's is the type of music you might listen to were you up for a nice chilling out session, it's acoustic, almost folk music.  See here  for my thoughts on "Only Love", same album as "Old Pine". Courtesy of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thequeenshall/6899514215/in/photostream/ Which brings me to Everything Everything. They are completely NOT chilled out. They're incredibly eclectic. Check out  my thoughts on their song "Final Form" from album Man Alive. They're ...

It's been a while since I found a song that I literally wanted to listen to on repeat. All day. For a week. But here it is! Lucy Rose Parton lives somewhere in Warwickshire, and is the youngest of various musically talented sisters. She's featured in a lot of other people's songs, for example she sang on both of Bombay Bicycle Club's albums, "Flaws" and "A Different Kind Of Fix". She also did a lot of UK festivals last year and this year, and is touring Europe and the US. She's doing pretty well I'd say! This song is from the album "Like I Used To", which was released September 2012.