Izal - Prueba y Error

Mañana estarán en el Café La Palma de Madrid, Izal, el grupo liderado por Mikel Izal que el 12 de marzo de este mismo año han sacado su primer disco Magia y efectos especiales, una grata sorpresa en este gran año musical que llevamos. Ya habían hecho cosillas juntos anteriormente, en el 2010 presentaron Teletransporte un EP que presentaron en más de 60 ciudades españolas y que acabó con la actuación en la pasada edición del Sonorama Ribera.

Aunque este album ya tiene primer single (el que da título al disco) hoy dejo Prueba y Error el, a mi juicio, mejor tema del album.

Juramos no volver a tocar el barro,
sin poder evitar pisar en falso.
saluda al coronel, te esta mirando
tomando nota de cada fallo.

Ha vuelto a pasar, volverá a ocurrir
esperando que si caemos lo suficiente
a base de caer y levantarnos
podamos recordar los pasos que nos llevaron a perder el centro
que nos prometen una y otra vez
que esta sera la ultima
que esta es la ultima

darte cuenta del patrón
sera el factor más importante
para ser capaz de imaginar y adelantar
al próximo revés para evitar así el desastre
o al menos intentarlo
o al menos intentarlo

Ya esta aqui otra vez (..X5)

Ha vuelto a pasar, volverá a ocurrir
esperando que si caemos lo suficiente
a base de caer y levantarnos
podamos recordar los pasos que nos llevaron a perder el centro
que nos prometen una y otra vez
que esta sera la ultima vez
que esta es la ultima

Aaron Wright - Go on Yourself

Que buena manera de comenzar el lunes escuchando el disco de Aaron Wright con este tema como bandera del primer trabajo del inglés. La verdad es que poco sé de este joven cantante de 23 años que comenzó su carrera como cantante hace un par de años con Behold A Pale Horse un EP de cinco temas y que ya ha participado en festivales como Glastonbury o el FIB aqui en España.

Hoy Go On Yourself, incluida también en su anterior EP y que es el segundo single tras Trampoline de su disco homónimo., gracias a Javi por la canción! Feliz lunes! :)

There's a simple explanation for those who refuse to win,
There's a carnival collector who just won't let me in,
There's a silence beneath her street light, there's a whisper in the wind
you took me in, you took me in, you took me in
don't know where i've been

There's a carpenter in your classroom he's been screaming at the scribe,
There's an undeserving teacher who no one knew had died
well a poet, who's friend was a painter, yet a hero was left unsung
They took me in, they took me in, they took me in
don't know where i've been

Half of the time you know you're asking why,
thinking the things that don't feel quite right
go on yourself, go on yourself

Half of the nights you know we sleep ok
so think of the things I don't know quite what to say
go on yourself, go on yourself

Never claimed to see the future well I barely had a past
so we went to see a psychic she said that nothing really lasts
so i'll stop pokin' at them coals now i'm off to start a fire
you took me in, you took me in, you took me in
don't know where i've been

Half of the time you know you're asking why,
thinking the things that don't feel quite right
go on yourself, go on yourself

Half of the nights you know we sleep ok
so think of the things I don't know quite what to say
go on yourself, go on yourself

Half of the time you know you're asking why,
thinking the things that don't feel quite right
go on yourself, go on yourself

Half of the nights you know we sleep ok
so think of the things I don't know quite what to say
go on yourself, go on yourself

Belle & Sebastian - The Model

Sol y sonando en bucle Belle & Sebastian. Del grupo poco hay que decir que no haya dicho ya en anteriores entradas... lo último que sabemos es el lanzamiento de NightLateTales un disco con algunas interesantes versiones, entre otras Crash de The Primitives (buen y agradable último disco por cierto, ya pondré algo) con un muy simpático videoclip.

Bueno, al lio, The Model, tema del disco Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant el cuarto del grupo escocés sacado en el 2000. Aunque hoy dejo la última versión, la que grabaron en directo para el doble disco The BBC Sessions donde también se encuentra la versión de Here come the sun.

I will confess to you
Because you made me think about the times
You turn the picture on to me and I'll turn over
The vision was a masterpiece of comic timing
But you wouldn't laugh at all
And I wonder what the boy was thinking
The picture was an old collage of something classical
The model with a tragic air
Because without a doubt he'd given up the fight
The ghost of somebody at his side

I will confess to you
Because I didn't think about the message
As I walked down the alleyway it was a sunday
And all my friends deserted me because you painted me
As the fraud I really was
And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad
'cause lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold
When she knew she had been bad
She met another blind kid at a fancy dress
It was the best sex she ever had

I'll send a dress to you
Because it's needing badly taken in
But I was so embarressed when I missed your party
It was me that paid for it eventually
Because you know how much I wanted
To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
The dream of all the bowlie boys that hang around here
And I'm no different from the rest
I'm not too proud to say that I'm okay with
The girl next door who's famous for showing her breasts

You're not impressed by me
But it's a funny way for you to tell me
A whisper in a choir stall
The man was talking about you simultaneously
Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter
Because I have been sleeping badly lately
I know you were historical from all the books I've read
But I thought you could be bluffing
And with this chance I've missed I feel remiss
It's days and months before I see you again

Love of Lesbian - Belice

Menuda semana de estrenos que llevamos, si el lunes fue el día de escuchar el disco de Regina (el disco sale el 28), ayer estrenaban discos dos pesos pesados de nuestro pop, Supersubmarina con Santa Cruz y Love of Lesbian. Aún es pronto para entrar en valoraciones sobre los dos discos (bueno los tres, el disco de LoL es doble) asi que hoy sólo me limitaré a poner una de las canciones del grupo barcelonés que más me ha llamado la atención durante las primeras escuchas, Belice.

Un doble disco el de los catalanes con un total de 18 temas nuevos, eso si algunos ya conocidos gracias a sus adelantos durante estas semanas y a sus directos. La verdad es que, como esperaba, creo que no llega al nivel de 1999 (era muuy dificil igualarlo) aunque ya os digo que me faltan muchas escuchas.

Recuerdo que LoL estarán hoy en la FNAC de Callao en Madrid firmando discos y que esta semana los podreis ver presentando La noche eterna. Los días no vividos en Terrasa el día 25 y en Mataró el 26. Después Pamplona, A Coruña, Madrid... etc. Todas las fechas están publicadas en Blogoflesbian.

No, no evitarás,
que quiera largarme cuanto antes,
si cada vez, que me quiero ocultar,
tú me conviertes en gigante.
Me has llevado por corrientes de agua
que van a tus redes.
Y tus ojos son dos prismas devolviendo oscuridad.
No pretendas defenderte.
Te diré que no, no me convences.
Me quiero evaporar, entre la gente.

No, lo vas a negar.
Algunas bases no resisten.
Y un pulgar puede asfixiar.
Y a quien madruga… Díos no existe.
Ya puedes preguntar,
preguntar por ahí, o a los tuyos.
Si una gota colma el vaso,
Otras veces ya es el mar.
Y es el mar esta vez, ¿lo entiendes?
¿No ves que ya no, no me convences?
Me quiero evaporar, entre la gente.

Un día me iré, me iré de verdad.
No sé si me ves, del todo capaz.
De cambiar, nombre y edad, y si me encuentras decirte:
“¿De quién me estás hablando?”
No, no, no, no lo haré, jamás.
Me falta valor, o fuerza vital.
¿De qué me sirve salir de esta inmensa ciudad,
si de quien pretendo huir, seguirá dentro de mí, y eres tú?
Eres tú. Si puedo escapar, es con la mente.

Dean & Britta - Friday I'm in love

Por fin viernes y qué mejor que el mítico tema de The Cure aunque esta vez algo diferente, hoy versionado por Dean & Britta el duo americano que surgió de las cenizas de Luna, grupo dream-pop de los 90.

Seguramente sereis más la versión original (suele pasar) pero hoy os dejo con algo diferente a ver que tal, a mi me gusta mucho... Por cierto que la canción pertenece a Just Like Heaven, el disco tributo al grupo ingles liderado por Robert Smith que se grabó en el 2009.

Friday I'm in love, feliz finde!

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate...

I don't care if Mondays black
Tuesday, Wednesday - heart attack
Thursday, never looking back
It's Friday, I'm in love

Monday, you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday - watch the walls instead
It's Friday, I'm in love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate...

Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a sheik
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's Friday, I'm in love

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love

SoKo - First love never dies

First love never dies, es un tema de la francesa Stéphanie Sokolinski más conocida como SoKo que este mismo año sacaba I thought I was an alien su primer y recomendado album. Esta joven de Burdeos de 26 años, es más conocida en su país por su faceta de atriz, habiendo participado en nueve películas francesas.

Hoy el primer single del disco, con un videoclip que dirige la propia SoKo junto a Matthew Gray Gubler. Feliz jueves!

i feel like walking
do you feel like coming
i feel like talking coz
it's been a long time

now your hair is long
and you look so thin
you're always so pale
but something has changed
you're almost a man

4 years and i still cry sometimes
first love never die
4 years and i still cry sometimes
first love never die

long time no see
long time wondering
what you were doing
who you were seeing
i wish i could go back to it

i feel like walking
do you feel like coming
i feel like talking coz
it's been a long time

4 years and i still cry sometimes
first love never die
4 years and i still cry sometimes
first love never die

can you feel the same
i will never love again

BOY - Little numbers

Vamos a comenzar la semana lo mejor que podemos de la mano de BOY, un grupo formado por la suiza Valeska Steiner y la alemana Sonja Glassque el pasado año sacaban Mutual friends su primer disco que les valió el premio al mejor disco de Alemania en los EBBA unos premios que reconocen a los mejores artistas del año de cada pais y que ya ganaron artistas como Damien Rice, Mumford & Sons, Zaz, Adele o Lykke Li (claro que también lo ganaron gente como Las ketchup, Bebe o Miguel Angel Muñoz, vamos que en España se le ha dado nula importancia).

Estan de gira pero no pasarán por España proximamente, esta noche estarán en Londres y pasarán por Amsterdam el 16, por Lille el 17 y por París el 18. Después vuelta a Alemania donde estarán girando hasta finales de Agosto.

Y atención al maravilloso videoclip de este Little numbers, dirigido por Meeto Grevsen y que nos muestra los mejores rincones de Barcelona.

Waited for your call, for the moon
To release me from the longest afternoon
I've re-arranged parts of my living room
But time is hard to kill since I met you

Looking at the cars that drive on by
While spring is making promise outside
Red cars are quite rare I realize
Then I wonder which color you'd like

Seven little numbers
Baby, they could be a start
Seven little numbers
Baby, I know yours by heart

Woo-oh, oh-oh, all the pretty things that we could be
Woo-oh, oh-oh, I feel you in every heartbeat
Woo-oh, oh-oh, travel in a dream that could come true
These numbers could be lucky for you

I watch the sky change to a darker blue
I can't think of another thing to do
And every song just makes me think of you
Because the singer sounds as if she was longing,
As if she was longing, too

Seven little numbers
Baby, they could be a start
Seven little numbers
Baby, I know yours by heart
Seven little numbers
Baby, they could make a change
Seven little numbers
Make a fire out of this flame

Woo-oh, oh-oh, all the pretty things that we could be
Woo-oh, oh-oh, I feel you in every heartbeat
Woo-oh, oh-oh, travel in a dream that could come true
These numbers could be lucky for you

I read your name on every wall, on every wall - tell me
Is there a cure for me at all, for me at all - tell me
I read your name on every wall, on every wall - tell me
Is there a cure for me at all, for me at all

Woo-oh, oh-oh, all the pretty things that we could be
Woo-oh, oh-oh, I feel you in every heartbeat
Woo-oh, oh-oh, travel in a dream that could come true
These numbers could be lucky for you

Woo-oh, oh-oh
Woo-oh, oh-oh
Woo-oh, oh-oh
These numbers could be lucky
These numbers could be lucky for you

Gotye - Somebody that used to know

Vaya con el temazo de hoy que ya me mandaron en su día @palabrastenues y Laura y al que he tenido abandonado un tiempo. Pero nunca es tarde para poner Somebody that used to know el hitazo de Gotye con la inestimable colaboración de Kimbra.

Un tema que se encuentra en Making Mirrors el último disco del belga-autraliano que anteriormente sacó otros dos, Boardface en 2003 y Like drawing blood, aunque la verdad que el pelotazo la ha dado con este tema.

Feliz caluroso sábado y gracias a las dos! :)

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[Kimbra:]
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
Part of me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

[Gotye:]
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[x2]
Somebody
(I used to know)
Somebody
(Now you're just somebody that I used to know)

(I used to know)
(That I used to know)
(I used to know)
Somebody

Marina and the diamonds - Homewrecker

Por fin viernes!, que largas son las semanas de cinco días, vamos a por el día de hoy con este temazo de Marina and the diamonds, tema incluido en su último disco Electra heart. A Marina ya la fichamos cuando hace dos años sacó The Family Jewels, buen disco aquel.

Este año la galesa ha vuelto a la carga con el nuevo trabajo, cambiando bastante la linea que seguia su predecesor. Hoy Homewrecker que me recuerda bastante a las canciones de Florence + the Machine.

Feliz finde!

Every boyfriend is the one, until otherwise proven
The good are never easy, the easy never good
And love it never happens like you think really should

Deception and perfection are wonderful traits
One will breed love, the other, hate
You'll me found me in the lonely hearts
Under "I'm after a brand new start"

And I don't belong to anyone
They call me homewrecker, homewrecker
They call me homewrecker, homewrecker

Girls and their curls and their gourmet vomit
Boys and their toys and their six inch rockets
We're all very lovely till we get to know each other as
We stop becoming friends and we start becoming lovers

And I don't belong to anyone
They call me homewrecker, homewrecker
(I'm only happy when I'm on the run)
They call me homewrecker, homewrecker
(I broke a million hearts just for fun)

They call me homewrecker, homewrecker
(I'm only happy when I'm on the run)
They call me homewrecker, homewrecker
(I broke a million hearts just for fun)

I'm only happy when I'm on the run
I break a million hearts just for fun
I don't belong to anyone

I guess you could say that my life's a mess
But I'm still looking pretty in this dress
I'm the image of deception

When everything is life and death
You may feel like there's nothing left
Instead of love and trust and laughter
What you get is happy never after

But deep down all you want is love
The pure kind we all dream of
But we cannot escape the past
So you and I will never last

'Cause I'm a homewrecker, homewrecker
(I'm only happy when I'm on the run)
'Cause I'm a homewrecker, homewrecker
(I broke a million hearts just for fun)

'Cause I'm a homewrecker, homewrecker
(I'm only happy when I'm on the run)
'Cause I'm a homewrecker, homewrecker
(I broke a million hearts just for fun)

'Cause I'm a homewrecker, homewrecker

Allo Darlin' - Northern Lights

Luego no digais que no avisé...que bonito es Europe, el nuevo disco de los británicos Allo Darlin' que ya apuntaban maneras cuando presentaron su primer disco homónimo hace dos años con temazos como Dreaming o Silver dollars. Este es el segundo trabajo del cuarteto y, aunque me faltan algunas escuchas más, tiene pinta de ser un digno sucesor al anterior LP, disco recomendadisimo.

Hace algo menos de un mes comenzaba su gira 2012 pero al contrario de lo que sucedió con la presentación de su primer trabajo, no pasará de momento por España. Tras una minigira por Inglaterra, ahora están en una enorme gira por Estados Unidos acompañados por The Wave Pictures. Volverán a Europa en junio ofreciendo 4 conciertos en Austria. Y después, de momento descanso aunque no hay que descartar nuevas fechas...

Hoy Northern Lights, feliz martes!

The Gift - The mother of my mother

No podia dejar escapar este día de la madre sin esta canción del grupo portugués The Gift, un tema dedicado a todas las madres que viene incluido en su penúltimo disco Explode del pasado año, este año sacaban Primavera, el quinto album de estudio del quinteto de Alcobaça.

Un poco tarde, pero para todas las madres, felicidades.

Regina Spektor - Small town moon

Ya era hora de actualizar un blog cada vez más abandonado y antes de irme de finde pues os dejo con el último tema de Regina Spektor, un tema muy distinto a su primer single All the rowboats y de su segundo avance Don't leave me (Ne me quittes pas) y donde se le da más protagonismo al su querido piano recordando a sus temazos de discos anteriores.

Recuerdo que está confirmado que la rusa estará en nuestro pais en la gira europea de este verano, será en Madrid el 9 de julio dentro del circulo de espectáculos Los veranos de la villa que cada verano se celebra en la capital y que este año será en teatro Circo Price y el 10 de julio en Barcelona en la sala Razzmatazz.

Escuchad que bien suena Small town moon, con la letra y todo. Feliz finde!

I must have left a thousand times
But every day begin the same
Cause there's a small town in my mind
How can leave without hurting every one who made me?
How can leave without hurting every one who made me?

Oh baby, baby it's all about the moon
I wish you wouldn't have broke my camera
Cause we're gonna get real old
Real soon

Today we're younger than we ever gonna be
Today we're younger than we ever gonna be
Today we're younger than we ever gonna be

Stop! Stop, what's the hurry?
Come on baby, don't you worry worry
Everybody not so nice nice
Everybody not so nice nice
Stop! Stop, what's the hurry?
Come on baby, don't you worry worry
Everybody not so nice nice
Everybody not so nice nice

Thought you ought to know by now
I thought you ought to know by now
Everybody not so nice nice
Everybody not so nice nice

Oh baby, baby, baby it's all about the moon

I must have left a thousand times
But there's a small town in my mind
How can I leave without hurting every one who made me?
How can I leave without hurting every one who made me?
How can I leave without hurting every one who made me?
How can I leave without hurting every one who made me?
How can I leave without hurting every one who made me?
How can I leave without hurting every one who made me?