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Well when you're sittin back, in your rose pink Cadillac Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day, I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon. And another girl to take my pain away -Jagger/Richards

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Islands- Return to the Sea

Heard about Islands from Antickpix (they are really awesome dude).

I thought I was exaggerating when I said that a lot of mind-blowing music these days was being made in basements. I was not.

A substantial part of Return to the Sea, the band's debut album, was in fact made in Jaimee Thompson's(a band member) bedroom.

And this album is pure fun.

What is happening in Canada? Looks like Montreal will be called the Athens of this decade.

P.S: Antick, "Rough Gem" & "Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby" are awesome man.

10 Comments:

At 3:43 PM, Blogger antickpix said...

yay, a convert!

indeed...rough gem is frikkin' awesome. where there's a will there's a whalebone and jogging gorgeous summer too..well, more or less the entire album.

i've taken a shine to the hidden track too...bucky little wing (i think it is)

 
At 3:44 PM, Blogger antickpix said...

oh, and look up the unicorns if you haven't..the band whose remnants from which the islands were formed.

 
At 3:50 PM, Blogger whitelight said...

i found this album after a long time thru google. i can't use p2p or torrents (blocked) in my office(man we have a v-sat connection), so i use google tricks to search for music.

been looking for a while but cant find the unicorns (thru google that is).

 
At 3:52 PM, Blogger whitelight said...

hell yes the entire album is mind blowing

 
At 5:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow. I was just coming over to your blog to ask about Islands and what they are like, but I guess I know now. The important qs is though, will they steady me? Everything is blocked in my office but I use proxy servers hehe. However, my IT guy is getting wise to my shenanigans now.

 
At 6:04 PM, Blogger whitelight said...

Devilled: Go download right now. I think "Rough Gem" would be enough to steady you.

 
At 6:06 PM, Blogger whitelight said...

btw what has happened to your blog?

 
At 6:20 PM, Blogger whitelight said...

it took exactly 8 mins to download the album.

 
At 8:22 PM, Blogger antickpix said...

whoa...8 minutes...that is quick!

random aside...couple of days back during strawberry fields (the NLS rock show), i met this woman who listens to deerhoof! it was so random, and she didn't expect to find another deerhoof listener either.

realized then how happy such trivialities make me.

 
At 12:46 PM, Blogger whitelight said...

We recently upgraded to high-speed satellite connection in our office. Man what fun downloading has become. Average speed is in excess of 150 kbps!!! Zooom it goes.

Wow... you really met someone who was into Deerhoof!!!! I have not met anyone (in flesh & blood) recently who has even heard of Wilco, let alone Deerhoof. But when I was in Delhi 4 years ago I used to know a guy who was into these 80s & early 90s indie stuff like JMC, Galaxie, Pylon, R.E.M, Napalm Death, Fugazi, Minor Threat,etc (my first brush with indie. We lost touch.

Yes, it must be a happy feeling.

 

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