Possibly one of the most important albums to be released in the mid 90′s. The second, and last final, album “All Disco Must End In Broken Bones” is equally impressive.

You can pick up copies of both, and some of the CD singles with extra tracks on ebay. But you knew that.

Whale – “Pay For Me” from the album “We Care”

Whale – “Four Big Speakers – Live” from the album “All Disco Must End In Broken Bones”

More cool YouTube clips:

“Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe” from the album “We Care”

“Kickin” from the album “We Care”

The GoWhale website has been down for over a year. I miss them.

No, she isn’t the Lily Allen clone that everyone thinks. The same fake estate inflection maybe, but very different to Lily. Her live act has more references to Regina Spektor in my opinion.

Whatever… we will all have our own references to any artist. I take Kate as she is, in her own right. The first disc from her is great fun, emotional, deep and totally stands on its own.

Nice one Kate, thanks darlin’

Kate Nash – “Foundation” (Live @ Jools) from the album “Made of Bricks”
(sign up to her website to see the proper vid for this track and get a free track to… WooHoo!)

http://www.katenash.co.uk/

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Angus & Julia Stone – “Bella” from the album “A Book Like This”

A very delicate, fragile even, vocal brother and sister duo, although Julia does go a bit Miss Li now and again. The two EP’s and the album from them so far are excellent. The new EP “The Beast” is out now from Rough Trade Records.

WARNING: I gave up trying to find it on the Rough Trade website after 10 minutes… Shame really. You are probably better off phoning them.

Angus & Julia Stone – “What You Wanted” from the EP “Heart Full Of Wine”

http://www.angusandjuliastone.com

A cute little website. However, yet another site where the audio is set to autoplay… When will they learn…

Kazu Makino has a voice that some find a bit grating.
I fucking love it.
Excuse my language, but it does it for me.

Lovely work from the boys on the beats as well.

Blonde Redhead – “23” from the album “23”

“tween tee fwee…” and the drum kicks in the last movement… outstanding.
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Blonde Redhead – “Elephant Woman” from the album “Misery is a Butterfly”

http://www.blonde-redhead.com