The years have fallen away since ‘Mirrors’ came out and I put it on my Ipod. Feel like I’m older now and wiser; so much has happened in that time. Wonder if my ‘personal brand’ has changed? Wonder if deep down I’m still the same version of a different person?

New track seems pretty sweet but makes me want ice cream. Scared I might get diabetes if I listen to it too much.

Battles – Ice Cream

New album ‘Gloss Drop’ out June 7. Pretty excited (in a fairly phlegmatic way). Can’t believe I’m helping hype it on the blogosphere. Don’t know who I am any more…

-Do indie kids even buy albums any more or do they just download them from Google blogs?

-Do you want ice cream now that you heard this song?

-Is this song better than the ones on ‘Mirrored’?

-Am I a schmuck for promoting shit for free?

-What is the meaning of life? What am I trying to achieve with this dumb ass blog?

Been listening to white noise on my iPod touch. Can’t deal with the incessant chatter of the world around me, can’t handle the pain of familiar voices and unknown quirks of speech.

Want to pretend that I am all alone and safe in the world. Want to hide behind a wall of sound so that I can be alone with my thoughts and not have to listen to morons on their cellphones or idiots in the train carriage.  Want to sit in the coffee shop and work on my blog. Wanna walk around the supermarket and pretend I’m not there.

Thank you white noise, you have saved my life. I would probably have killed myself without you.

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Download 1 Glorious Hour of White Noise

Back in 1986, before men were allowed to cry or women were allowed to wear trousers, people used to dress their emotional effusion behind synthesisers, dual-layered harmonies and echo-reverb.? Though the music of the 80s may sound overly felicitous, or even crass in its gushing, a closer inspection leads us to think that, behind the specious happiness of the booming economies and abundance of the times, people’s hearts were still breaking, some went without and yet others had little in between.

As a child of the 80s I still feel that tingle down my spine when I hear the wail of a guitar against a synthesised wall of noise. I know it’s not cool to say that, but it’s true.? When I hear those empty keys of those piano melodies like soliloquy it transports me back to the solipsism of childhood bedrooms in front of old TV shows or the crackle and fuzz of a tape player. Most 80s music seemed to have a nostalgia for the future and, now that we’re living in it, that nostalgia can only be for some sort of dream world. We went off track somewhere.

The Hits 5 compilation is one that we used to have when I was a kid. It was released in 1986, meaning that I must have been around four when it came out. We had it on tape and used to listen to it in the car on long journeys.? I can remember listening to it on my first tape player, thinking that this is what the world was really like. Though this isn’t the full compilation (I couldn’t find all the tracks on the Internet), it has enough to give you the general gist of the thing and maybe help you remember a thing or two about where you might have come from.

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