You wanna get with Poptones in September listen to these albums....

01/09/06

Viking Moses - Werewolves in the City - Impossibly good track from the viking himself.  Werewolves in the City starts off with a New Orderish drum beat before leading off into a spasm of gothic horror with Brendon howling at the moon with lyrics such as ‘Werewolves in the City Are A Big Problem/Why don’t you get out of the sky and stop them/Tearing Up Children, Children in the night/Last night I found a kid’s head on my bike.’ Anyone ready for the Buffy the Vampire revival?

To get his Poptones’ debut of Crosses please click here.

Souls She Said - Tastefaker and demos - Don Devore is the mainman behind Souls She Said—the Icarus Line sister band—and we’ve been playing the demos that he has sent in for the new Souls album pretty much non-stop.  But not only that—we’ve got the forthcoming release of As Templar Nites coming up on Poptones.  Its fucking genius.

To order your own copy of Souls She Said (out on the 9th of October) please click here. To check out selections of their album why not go to their myspace.com.

The Meat Puppets - Like a Viking Moses of twenty years ago, we’ve been listening to Meat Puppets II album around Poptones Recording Corporation’s offices non-stop.  Why?  Maybe it could be the Nirvana Unplugged covers of Plateau, Lake of Fire and Oh Me.  Or it could be the fact that its songwriting genius is pretty much untouchable.  I mean the howl of ‘Where do bad folks go when they die ... see them again on the 4th of July’ is seriously good drugged up americana.  So good its scary.

Vincent Black Shadow - Watch their myspace— Vincent Black Shadow.

The Beach Boys - In Concert - Sweet happy music twisted and turned out by years of cocaine abuse and 70s beards and clothes.  You need this.

Stone Roses - Made of Stone - The only band to rip off the Byrds and do it with style and panache.  I’ve pulled out this album lately because it was and still is a perfect—I mean its so perfect that you can almost, just almost forget about all the terrible, really terrible solo albums and output.  Almost…

Wolf Eyes - Stabbed in the Face—C’mon, its called Stabbed in the Face ... STABBED IN THE FACE… do you really need an explaination to listen to a song called STABBED IN THE FACE?  ‘Sides that—Cherrystones toured with them.  Cherrystones and Wolf Eyes—that is an excursion into sound.

Nuggets - V/A - Its a fiver down at FOPP.  And its Nuggets—The Standells, The Electric Prunes, The Seeds, the Remains, The Strangeloves ... just do your record collection a favour and go and buy it.  Now.

Bert Jansch - Birthday Blues - Come Sing Me A Happy Song To Prove That We All Can Get Along The Lumpy, Bumpy, Long and Dustry Road, song title aside, this is actually a snapshot of folk music --- his second solo album recorded during the Pentangle era of Jansch’ solo work, Birthday Blues is a demonstrative show of true talent. 

The Melvinis - Bullhead - WTF and LOL at Poptones listening to nothing but stoner-rock but its true we do love it.  Kyuss, Queen of the Stone Age, Sleep ... its all good.

Dandy Warhols - Come Down - I love the Dandy Warhols for this album alone.  I think DIG justifies Dandy and Brian Jonestown love but Come Down is weirdly perfect.  I don’t think they have hit those heights since then but Good Morning, Not If You Were The Last Junkie ..., Boys Better, weird giddy heights of psychedelic stoner pop that were never equalled.

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