I’d avoided listening to Kasabian’s latest album, as it feels like every time I become fond of a new British rock band their music gets progressively less interesting and generally more shit the more records they release. Well, I got around to listening to West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum today, and despite not being able to remember the album title even after having seen it around 20-30 times, the music is pretty fuckin’ rockin’. It immediately sounds far more consistent a record than Empire, which had scattershot moments of greatness crowded and drowned by mediocre, faux-psychedelic bullshit. W.R.P.L.A. (that’s right, I’m resorting to acronym’s – it’s that hard to fucking remember!) retains very strong elements of psychedelia, but they feel so much less forced. It’s natural to listen to this record, where last time around it just felt like a band trying to recreate something; it sounded bitterly false and overproduced.

Anyway, have some music. I loved this song within 6 seconds of hearing it. It’s utterly badass…

So, I’ve been running this blog for a while, and haven’t actually posted any of my own work. This is some what odd, as the very purpose for me starting this blog was to do so. Well, here we go. A wallpaper I made for my Blackberry 8900, that I wanna share with the world. It’s shameless self-promotion, but it looks pretty, which makes everything okay.

So there’s this band from Canada. They’re called Japandroids. Their music will bust a musical nut in your ear’s mouth. It’s borderline criminal that a band like this doesn’t have more exposure as they’re a revelation, plain and simple. I’m gonna inform your audio glands something glorious with the track below. Enjoy.

http://www.myspace.com/japandroids