Listen Up 2013! / Jan Report

One month in and the music weather report looks good.

Concerts attended thus far:

3rd Jan, Beach House, Enmore Theatre

11st Jan, Django Django, The Metro

21st Jan, Dirty Projectors, Sydney Opera House

27th Jan, Perfume Genius, The Famous Spiegeltent

Released in Jan:

Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai
Solange - True EP
Everything Everything - Arc
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Christopher Owens - Lysandre
I Am Kloot - Let It All In
Radar Bros. - Eight
Local Natives - Hummingbird
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
My Bloody Valentine - MBV

Upcoming Releases:

5 Feb
Bjork - Bastards
Eels - Wonderful, Glorious
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God

11 Feb
Foals - Holy Fire

18 Feb
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

19 Feb
Major Lazer - Free the Universe

26 Feb
Atoms for Peace - AMOK
Woodpigeon - Thumbtacks + Glue

5 Mar
Son Volt - Honky Tonk
They Might Be Giants - Nanobots

12 Mar
David Bowie - The Next Day
Devendra Banhart - Mala

19 Mar
Low - The Invisible Way
Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz

26 Mar
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
The Strokes - Comedown Machine
Wavves - Afraid of Heights

2 Apr
The Flaming Lips - The Terror

9 Apr
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Villagers - {Awayland}

16 Apr
Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

30 Apr
!!! - THR!!!ER
Akron/Family - Sub Verses

7 May
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

14 May
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Videos

 Ready for more.

Father John Misty - Fear Fun (2012)

Little did I know that this year's Fleet Foxes concert @ Sydney Opera House (02/01/2012) was more momentous than I'd thought - It was to be my first and last Fleet Foxes concert.


Although performances were at times spine-tingling moving; there was something amiss, perhaps in part suggested by their momentum-breaking between songs tunings...


First off the ranks is Joshua Tillman (Better known as J. Tillman). Whilst no stranger to solo albums; this is his first under moniker Father John Misty. Fleet Foxes members Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott formed Poor Moon and are also signed to Sub Pop.  Wonder if Robin Pecknold is going to (or has the right to) continue Fleet Foxes with entirely new members like James Mercer did with The Shins...

Imagery used is steeped in psychedelic voodoo mysticism,
but J. Tillman at times sounds a dead ringer of John Grant.
Indeed, the song "Nancy From Now On" seems a page off Grant's songbook.

Whilst there's the inescapable Fleet Foxes moments; the album is, arguably, wider in scope.
More technicolour than his former band's sepia-tones.
 Jonathan Wilson who co-produces imbues the Laurel Canyon feel.

Thre's even a cod Michael McDonald moment on "Nancy.. ". 
Although filled with melancholy, the album isn't shy of it's tongue-in-cheek dark humour.

Videos are NSFW.
(Domiatrix, Purgatory Pizza, Gun Violence

His concert's on @ The Oxford Art Factory 27/05/2012.

Mostly Hypothetical Mountains Blog.


  8.6 / 10