Top Five Songs of the Week

White Denim - Heart of Us All
White Denim - Sitting
Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
Animal Collective - My Girls
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

Not many updates as of late. University's finishing and im fooking busy. I will be back on track asap!

Chaos Days - Under The Weather E.P

Oh, treading on dangerous ground with this one. I'm not the most accomplished fountain of knowledge when it comes to the chirpy musical thrill of pop-punk but i've been grabbed my the gonads with this little sucker.

Occasionally a paradoxical genre of sorts, walking the line of cheesy and cringing - I believe i stand corrected with Chaos Days' first four track e.p. The Uckfield/ Brighton/General South coast band have created something of an eponymous record with this well produced recital of young love's comical angst.

From the vivacious hop-stomp of the prostitute inspired scuzzy-melodic squeeze of "I'm Yours" to the prodigal "Under the weather", it demonstrates some seriously metaphorically adapted and well polished song writing. The Hardcore influences are there, if not so obvious, and so are the more obvious ones, yet Chaos Days have managed to cook up their very own individual aura of happy-yet-fuck-you pop punk.

Love Like Fire

Oh lordy. I think Love Like Fire might just be on to something here. Shadowy early-to-mid 90's grunge aesthetics poke out of "William" and "Signs" like a hormonal teenage boy in a girls changing room.

Ann Yu's gloom clad Karen O-like lazy vocals are set free to cascade above a bellowing shoegaze-y canvas of My Bloody Valentine echoes and not-so-heavy lightish-Nirvana squeals . Yu's alluring voice has a distinct beauty to it, but at the same time it seems hard to deny that there isn't any distress or desolation behind the young woman whose strict regimental upbringing forced classical music upon her poorself and nothing else.

This could be an overdue teenage uprising - door slamming loud music to piss your parents off, given the chance... A young woman's revolt to all those times she was forced to chose Beethoven over Beastie Boys, Violins over Velvet Underground and Pavarotti over Pearl Jam.

For more chack out...http://www.myspace.com/lovelikefire

The Shoes vs Primary 1 - Ho Lord

The slowly formulating relationship between The Shoes and Primary 1 seems to be well underway with new single, "Ho Lord" - a record that uncompromisingly displays an unbarred and totally engrossed scrappy jazzy-disco relationship.

The dialectal echo of a very ooh-la-la Parisian slur that appears early on sounds a little like a regional parody on the first listen but bare with it and you will be reaping the rewards in no time. Dropping beats like a European Justice provides the ridiculously hard-hitting spacey drum bounce with the galaxical bleep-tweak that is required to make this record completely over the top, outrageously enterprising and utterly electronically filthy. Love it.