http://versesfromtheabstract.wordpress.com

Because wordpress beats blogger!
http://versesfromtheabstract.wordpress.com

all my old posts are on there as well.
Read more...

Jack Penate's second album is awesome and The XX made one of the debut's of the year. The two come together on Jamie from the XX's remix of the new Penate single "Pull my Heart Away", one of the highlights of the new album. He adds in that lo-fi sound which is commonplace on "The XX" as well as some great subtle bass. One of the best remixes i've heard in a while. DL below.

Jack Peñate-Pull my Heart Away (Jamie XX Remix)

Read more...

Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and New Orleans unite on this huuuge track. The internet has been going crazy for this, especially Eminem's verse which is outstanding. If Relapse 2 is more The Warning/his verse here than Relapse 1 we are in for a treat. Kanye is brilliant, as he has been all year and Drake holds his own well. Lil' Wayne has been pretty heavily criticised for his verse on here, but I think it's good. He only sounds substandard because the other 3 do so well. The ridiculous amount of material he is on kinda makes it fair enough if he sounds a little tired now and again...wiki says he has featured on 38 tracks so far this year. Fuck.

This track is brilliant. DL below



Forever feat. Kanye West, Lil' Wayne and Eminem-Drake

Read more...

After pulling out of V last weekend, rumours of internal divisons and fights between the brothers were widespread. Last night the band were due to play Rock en Seine in Paris but pulled out after an alleged altercation between the brothers involving smashed guitars. Then Noel posted this on the bands website last night:
"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight," he said. "People will write and say what they like but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer. Apologies to all the people who bought tickets to the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan."

So Noel is out pending a make up. Which means Oasis are pretty much over. Admittedly the band have not made an album close to Definately Maybe or What's the Story since the 90s, but the band still have a vast array of brilliant indie-rock songs. I guess it's good they split now, rather than carry on and sound more and more like a far inferior version of themselves 10 years ago...Catch one of my favourite Oasis tracks after the jump.

Oasis-Slide Away

Read more...

I have wanted to watch this for quite a while (since Sarah Chalke was in it) and now it is finally getting a proper showing in the UK. Aparently it was on fiver and bbc2 at some point but out of sync hmmm. How I Met Your Mother is being billed by E4 as a replacement for Friends (so was The Class though ahem...). I hope its half as good. Season 1 aired in the US in 2005, but will premiere on September 4th at 7.30pm on E4. Season 1 will be shown every weekday from then on. Not sure if they have the rights to anything further, very exciting anyways.
Read more...

So i havent really posted in 15 days, but I was away for 7 of them! In Madrid! Which is amazing, as is the above 7 floor superclub Kapital...a bit of a catchup of what I missed back home below...

Jay-Z reveals official tracklisting; 2 Blueprint 3 songs leak
So a couple of weeks ago I was misisnformed that this would be the official tracklisting for the Blueprint 3. I was pretty grossly wrong. The album will have 15 tracks and is much less Kanye biased than I originally thought.
Kanye features on 2 tracks and produced 7.
Timbaland produced 3.
The Neptunes produced 1 (very good news).
No.ID produced 5.
Swizz Beatz produced 1 and features on it.
The Inkredibles and Al Shuz produced 1 track each.

Features will include the above, Drake, Kid cudi, Alicia Keys, Young Jeezy, Pharrell, Mr hudson, J Cole and luke Steele from Empire of the Sun! No MGMT or Nas though! Full tracklisting on wiki.
The Drake feature produced by timbaland has leaked and it is amazing. The beat is so good, Jay kills it. "Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls, its 2010 not 1864". no Drake verse but hey maybe we'll see a collab on Drake's album. Listen here
A less good track Reminder has also leaked, also produced by Timbaland. Listen here
This album is going to be so gooooood.

Arctic Monkeys release Crying Lightning, get reviewed by Pitchfork
So I'm still undecided on Humbug. Sure its a good album, but doesn't grab me the way both of their first 2 did. I think Pitchfork's review captures my feelings pretty perfectly, read here. Crying Lightning also got released physically, with an exclusive vinyl being sold through Oxfam, pretty cool!! Here is one of the bsides, a Nick Cave cover, Red Right Hand.
Arctic Monkeys-Red Right Hand

The Very Best's Warm Heart of Africa leaks and its amazing
I'm not even on it for African music, not even when I spent 10 weeks there this year, but this album is really something. I think its the clear Western influence (provided by Radioclit) in tandem with the Malawian vocals and sound of Esau Mwamwaya that really make this what it is, a contender for album of the year. The title track feat. Ezra Koenig has long been available, and on Rain Dance M.I.A. shows she can spit on pretty much any type of beat and sound amazing. Below is Chalo which sounds like it samples the theme tune to "Fun House"!!!!
The Very Best-Chalo

Good Shoes return; thank me for naming this blog after one their songs
Well...not the second bit...but the Mordeners have returned with a song that sounds pretty similar to their debut, but thats by no means a bad thing. Listen on their myspace now. The band tour this autumn, they are great live, you should go see them!

The XX release the XX
The XX have been hyped like a bitch by the blogosphere over the last couple of months, but for once it turns out the hype should be believed. The XX is a really good, very lo-fi album. The band play Leeds/Reading this weekend before supporting Florence and the Machine this autumn.
The XX-VCR

Simian Mobile Disco release Temporary Pleasure
I got myself pretty hypd for this so I guess I'm pretty disappointed overall. its a decent album but quite a bit is filler; here is one of the highlights.
Simian Mobile Disco-1000 Horses Can't Be Wrong

Frank Turner's Poetry of the Deed leaks very early.
...and its pretty great...except (as with his first 2 albums) the quality does slide towards the end...(excluding TBOMAMF). Sons of Liberty is truely a piece of genius, as are Live Fast Die Old and Try this at Home. I'm not posting any tracks because I'm scared of his record label, so here is a hypem link, there a few newbies there

Read more...

I dont even watch the show, but randomly saw it last night. This guy has serious talent. Danyl to win!!
Read more...

huge...i thought it was new but aparently (according to wiki) it was on a 2006 mixtape. Bside to his new single Hard Night Out, also big.
Read more...

Someone's looking for a number 1.

Not exactly the direction I was looking for Kano to take, but its not bad...seems like Kano has jumped on the autotune bandwagon just as it is about to die out, or at least in the form he uses here....
Read more...

LA X
Thats LA X
NOT LAX
Take note

Read more...