Counting Down the Hours

I am raaaaaaaather excited about Ted Leo playing Bramleys in Canterbury on December 15th. This is going to be wayyyy better than the best gigs I've been to in Canterbury so far; we're talking Lightspeed Champion, Elephants, Casio Kids, Sky Larkin, Black Kids in that sort of order I guess.

I may even forgive Bramleys for the time they turned me away because I threw on the first thing which just so happened to be a football shirt.

I am a yobbo.

Oh. My. God.

These New Puritans - We Want War is one of THE greatest songs I have heard in a long time. It is absolutely massive. Every thing in this song is huge, especially the drums. I'm talking huger than the drums in Brother Sport by Animal Collective.

On their website, TNPS did state they were using huge Japanese drums on the album. Now I really cannot wait until January for their album to drop. I am already anticipating one of the best albums of next year.

I am genuinely breathtaken by the fact a band this amazing and inventive has come out of Southend. Their debut album is fantastic and all, but in comparison to We Want War it seems like a simple indie pop album. The loops and electronics seem to have taken a back seat as they genuinely get tribal. The sound of the song fits the name so well and if the rest of the album is anything like We Want War it is going to get a trillion plays and may even outshine The Knife's upcoming material. Fancy that.

Everyone needs to hear this band for real.

Those were the best years of my life...

Ok, so I have embarked upon the great task that is creating the (not so) shortlist for my top 100 musical longplaying discs of the decade.

In order to make sure I don't miss anything I will not decide anything properly until the last week of December because otherwise it's only going to bite me in the arse when people say 'aw but why is Kid A not in the list but Spirit is?'

So far I have 134 albums on the list which means there is a lot more albums to listen to.

All this and still no dissertation work. But I do want to be a bigshot music guy after all.