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London, a song by Candy Says on Spotify

FF18 #1 Candy Says - London

And this is the one you can’t actually listen to. Sorry about that. I’m just going to leave you with the review from Oxford’s premier monthly music rag, Nightshift (cheers Ronan!), just because I couldn’t write it any better myself:

“There’s a moment in ‘London’, the lead track on Candy Says’ comeback EP where Julia Walker soars above the clockwork clutter of benignly haunted toys and buzzing electropop, pure and plaintive, a simple line, “Oh, I need air,” and you think: “that is really something special.” The song is a work of art, it really is. And you know what – it’s not even the best track on the EP.”

(It is, actually).

Oh. Also contains these sublime lines:

“I spent the whole day, thinking about you Now when you kissed me, I stayed kissed Oh what would I give you To remember this?”

I’m sure it will be online eventually, but in the meantime, it’s all mine, bitches.

(DM me if you want the .mp3 …. shhhhh)

[2019 edit - now on Spotify]

#mvff18 candy says oxford music

Listen to ‘re:member’ https://MKX.lnk.to/rememberID "I am so happy to finally share some new music with you! There is much more to come, but here is the firs...

FF18 #2 Ólafur Arnalds - re:member

There's a moment, at 4:10 when the drums come in (that's a Fall reference, everyone - "I am Damo Suzuki", look it up; the drums come in at 0:43), and you're not expecting it, and well, the drums come in.

Probably Ólafur Arnalds most consistently beautiful album.

Ah, but man, when those drums come in.

No idea what this video is about, but the drums are in and all around it.

March, we're seeing him, I believe?

#mvff18 #olafur arnalds #drums

Kaleidoscope, a song by Nils Frahm on Spotify

FF18 #3 Nils Frahm - Kaleidoscope

Y'all must be getting really bored of me putting his music up here every year by now. But you know what, when he stops making such incredibly unique music, I will.

Definitely my stand out gig this year. I've seen the man many, many times. In many different scenarios. This was at the Hammersmith Odeon on December 4 this year. Everyone, including me, just walked out looking shell-shocked.

This gets nowhere near capturing it.

But it's all I got.

#mvff18 #nils frahm

Go, a song by Tracey Thorn on Spotify

FF18 #4 Tracey Thorn - Go

The parallels to this song are weird. I first heard of Tracey Thorn through Peel, when she was in the Marine Girls and operating out of Brighton. Then Everything But the Girl. She's roughly my age, too, and making the most wonderful music of her career. Tracey Thorn, disco diva. I can't recommend this album too much.

I'm going to admit, this song makes me weep buckets. And sometimes, I play it for exactly that reason.

It's about that moment you wave your first-born off to University (or wherever, really). And remembering all those huge little times that got you there.

"From time to time I miss, your little body next to mine I see the shape upon the pillow that you used to make Oh but that was then and that can't come again I resign myself to time and what's no longer mine ...

This is what it all was for To wave you out the door It's what my love was for"

#mvff18 #tracey thorn

Underworld & Iggy Pop Bells & Circles Listen here: Underworld: https://underworld.lnk.to/BAC Iggy Pop: https://IggyPopOfficial.lnk.to/BAC - - - - - - - - - -...

FF18 #5 Underworld & Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles

7:30 of utter mad genius. In which James Newell Osterberg, Jr. collabs with Underworld at teatime and discusses the glory of old-school air-travel. I guess you had to be there.

"Once I was flying from New York to DC, I didn't have much time And the stewardess was smoking She was a dusky tall American beauty And I put down my tray table, snorted a gram of cocaine Till I got up my courage to say, "Can I have your phone number?" And she gave me the number, that was the good news The bad news was I got too stoned and I lost the number The stewardess would've been better than the cocaine

I made an error in judgement"

#mvff18 #iggy pop #underworld

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FF18 #6 Lost Under Heaven - Post Millennial Tension

Early next year, we'll get the fullness of "Love Hates What You Become". Ellery James Roberts and Ebony Hoorn continue to produce beautiful, painful music which rails against what we perceive to be "it all".

Music for some generation which ain't mine. We just fucked it up for them.

"The first crash should have been a warning To the new dark age that was dawning Incandescant we sing

I never found the words To a life affirming love song

We couldn't work it out And we'd sooner live in doubt

Everybody sing FUCK THE WORLD Close your eyes we'll be all right

My generation's burning Still we sing our love songs"

Those are outtakes. Just outtakes. Can't believe I have to put this at #6.

#mvff18 #lost under heaven

logos, a song by Dos Santos on Spotify

FF18 #7 Dos Santos - Logos

Being a Chicago-based jazzish quintet who go off on all sorts of tangents. This is an astonishingly pulsating piece of work. With a guitar solo hidden away in the middle.

"Cuéntame en palabras que aún conozco Mírame los ojos, háblame a el oído"

#mvff18 #dos santos

My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark, a song by Sons Of Kemet on Spotify

FF18 #8 Sons of Kemet - My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark

Much as I love Wolf Alice, it was a bit of a travesty that "Your Queen Is a Reptile" didn't win the Mercury Prize. Heavily politicised - what? Jazz? That's the closest word for it I guess. Saxophone, tuba (yes, tuba - basically acting as the bass instrument) and 2 drummers. Not your traditional setup.

Each song is named after an influential woman of colour (Mamie Phipps Clark was an American social scientist who focussed her studies on African American children; and yes, obviously I googled that).

This one is a skronking piece of ska/dub.

#mvff18 #sons of kemet

Singer’s No Star, a song by Waxahatchee on Spotify

FF18 #9 Waxahatchee - Singer’s No Star

Katie Crutchfield casually dropped a new EP - "Great Thunder" back in September. Rather than a full band set, this is just guitar and/or piano, and shows off her voice so well.

"Shoop, shoop-eh-doop, shoop-eh-doop, shoop-eh-doop-eh-doop Shoop, shoop-eh-doop, shoop-eh-doop, shoop-eh-doop-eh-doop"

#mvff18 #waxahatchee

I Can See Through, a song by Low Island on Spotify

FF18 #10 Low Island - I Can See Through

Another great year for Oxford's Low Island. A couple of EPs, all of their EPs collected toegther as an album and released on vinyl; some great festivals performances and intimate shows. Their set at Kongs as part of this year's sŵn went down great guns.

This song is a lot more low key than some of their other output. And quite beautiful it is too.

“And in the midst of it all I can see through”

#mvff18 #low island #oxford music #sŵn

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FF18 #11 IDLES - Never Fight A Man With A Perm

Another band who make a massive racket. IDLES make intelligent, noisy, tuneful punk rock. And allegedly are the nicest men in English music. Maybe it's a Bristol thing.

From the wonderfully titled "Joy as an Act of Resistance".

"Me, oh me, oh my, Roy You look like a walking thyroid You're not a man, you're a gland You're one big neck with sausage hands You are a Topshop tyrant Even your haircut's violent"

#mvff18 #idles

“Two boys, two girls. Pop. Punk. Perfection" - Truck Festival 2018 Check out the video for our new single, 1,000,000 MPH. Support local idiots and stream/save this song to your Spotify playlists...

FF18 #12 Self Help - 1,000,000 mph

From the "Organic Noise Kitchen" EP, the launch of which is I was at the Bully for on Friday. Self Help are a garage punk band from Oxford. They make a right old racket, particularly the lead guitarist. As witnessed on this ebullient little number.

#mvff18 #self help #oxford music

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FF18 #13 Dream Wife - Somebody

A bit of a conundrum, Dream Wife. And I guess that's exactly what they want to be. They played a ridiculoulsy small venue at sŵn this year (Kongs, not that small, but everyone was trying to get in. Blagging is good, friends - and props to Kathryn Walton for doing exactly that).

"I am not by body, I am somebody" is such a terrible line. I get the point, but it's still bad. They do rock though. Rakel Mjöll manages to sound Iceland and Yorkshire at the same time. Not that strange, if you think about it, I suppose.

And number 13 they are, this year.

"I spy with my little eye bad bitches". Different song. Different day.

#mvff18 #dream wife #sŵn

Jon Hopkins - "Emerald Rush (Edit)" from 'Singularity’, out now on Domino Record Co. Listen to the full-length version of "Emerald Rush": http://smarturl.it/...

FF18 #14 Jon Hopkins - Emerald Rush

From the very lovely “Singularity”. Scary to think it’s 5 years since “Immunity” was released. That album was a bit of a revelation to me, and although this time, I kinda knew what to expect, it is still astonishingly good and unique. Another of those “if you get the chance to see him play live” posts…

Lay back. Pour a stiff one. Turn it up. And tap your little toes.

The version here is an edit, and I feel psychedelics may have been used in the making of the video. Full version on the Spotify playlist.

#mvff18 #jon hopkins

You Without End, a song by Deafheaven on Spotify

FF18 #15 Deafheaven - You Without End

There really isn't anyone who sounds anything remotely like Deafheaven. They use such a wide palette of sounds in such a confined space. Must be messy in there.

I didn't know which song from "Ordinary Corrupt Human Love" to put on here. (Go find a bad review of it out there...). It doesn't have the consistent brutal beauty of "New Bermuda", but by god it comes close.

So here's one. It has piano, slide guitar, riffs up to its ears and lots of screaming. You'll either turn it off halfway through or press repeat.

#mvff18 #deafheaven

Falling Into Me, a song by Let's Eat Grandma on Spotify

FF18 #16 Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me

Ridiculously talented teenagers who don't really understand where pop music starts and where it ends. And quite rightly too.

This song is catchy AF. If you ever get the chance to watch them, please do. Both multi-instrumentalists, plus a drummer. This is such a joyous song, particularly at... 1:55 ...

"We got this You. Me. This."

Indeed they do.

#mvff18 #lets eat grandma #the great escape

Three piece garage rock band making infectious and ferocious garage-punk tunes. Enjoy Gaffa Tape Sandy's latest single, 'Meat Head' exclusively for Pirate Li...

FF18 #17 Gaffa Tape Sandy - Meat Head

Probably the most fun thing ever to come out of Bury St. Edmunds, almost excusing the execrable output of the evil brewer, Greene King.

Also, probably the most fun band I saw this year, and this one goes out to the venue I saw them at - Sticky Mike's Frog Bar in Brighton. Another independent music venue set to close due to greedy landlords - Gwdihŵ in Cardiff being another. I can't count the number of great gigs I've seen in those two dumps.

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/…/sticky-mikes-frog-ba…/

#mvff18 #gaffa tape sandy #the great escape

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