There are many musical discoveries that made January a great month for me, from the slick & soulful to the overblown and ridiculous. Here are some highlights in an easy-to-digest list format:
1) With the country in a meteorologically enforced lockdown, I found the best way to avoid the constant sound of bones shattering on pavement was to turn up Waajeed's remix of Mayer Hawthorne's Green Eyed Love. Within seconds, the only ice on my mind was bobbing around in a glass of gin and tonic next to my keyboard. Which is how it should be, sled freaks!
2) So many of the bands championed on music blogs leave me feeling slightly underwhelmed, in no small part due to the hype which accompanies their every parp and mewl. It's not that the bands in question aren't any good, it's just that having been told that a record is objectively the best of the year, I automatically start imagining some weird post-dubstep hybrid of Sgt Pepper's and Dark Side of the Moon (with a touch of Neutral Milk Hotel). Consequently, I have not yet been able to summon up the same level of excitement as the best part of the online music cogniscenti for The Hold Steady, Phoenix, Gaslight Anthem, Battles, The xx, Grizzly Bear, The Big Pink, Tapes 'n' Tapes...and many more.
That said, I have developed a soft spot for The Drums, in particular the following track, despite this being the taste consensus:
This is, in so small part, due to my current weakness for anything with an overt Beach Boys influence. See also:
...a weakness which, by and large, doesn't extend to the Beach Boys themselves.
3) Anyway, enough of this obsession with taste. I was going to post a video of The Muppets covering Queen, but apparently that's not an option in this instance. So you'll have to make do with a link. The original was of course, equally ludicrous but this version has the advantage of being knowingly and humorously so.
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