Higher Ground....

Johnny Domino - Vocodamol
Great title, great track....
Lovely Stereolabesque analogue intro drifting into a circling little guitar line giving way to the vocals...
Singing about a mans loneliness... "Starved of conversation, forgotten by the phone", William builds himself a robot to keep himself company....
Sadly it doesn't work out for them though....
"Love does not compute"....
This track is taken from Johnny Domino's 4th album "Solid Ground", and it's full of great little tracks with varying feels, occasionally like The Pastels and the aforementioned Stereolab to Neu and Meat Puppets...
Other tracks of note on the album are Second Greatest and the wonderful instrumental TDKBASF, amongst others.
You can download some other of their tracks from their site and I'd recommend being nice and buying the album from them too.

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At Dusk - We Could Do Anything
This is taken from At Dusk's second long player "Heights", and a beauty it is too...
I'll let Greg do the introduction thing....
"Our music falls somewhere on the new and exciting "Indie Rock" spectrum influenced equally by Philip Glass, Sonic Youth, Romanian Gypsy Music (not a joke), Pavement, and The Byrds. For your amusement we shall now compare ourselves (somewhat seriously) to Mission of Burma, had they been from the West coast, fronted by a confused Colin Blunstone and Brian Wilson, with Jorge Ben, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the Pace Twins go-go dancing, clapping out a beat, and cheering from the wings of the stage. Beyond these semi-truths, however, is the sound of a band comprised of three friends-from-childhood who know each other -- as people, and as musicians -- very, very well."
I'd go along with all that, I would also like to add "Archers of Loaf" to that list... maybe not the punkiness, but certainly the angularity of "At Dusk" reminds me of them...
And that's certainly not a bad thing.
It's a corker of an album, and the nice guys will let you download it from their site...
Don't forget to say thank you though.

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Simon
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