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The Boy

♍ London indie DJ who ♥ Americana ♫ Playing alt. rock, indiefolk 'n electro ♬

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Posts tagged Titus Andronicus

Jan 26 '12

iambrianabbott:

I asked for an autograph and I received a passage from the Walt Whitman poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”. This is why I love Patrick Stickles & Titus Andronicus!

This is so, so cool! He’s a good guy. If I ever get to autograph anything (really, anything) I’m really going to town on it

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Jan 16 '12
THE BOY - Club Fandango @ the Buffalo Bar - 12.01.12 This was great, my first set of 2012! If I did it all over again I would probably play a few things in a different order but it was good to play new Sleigh Bells, I really like that Lykke Li remix and I haven’t played Titus Andronicus in a while. It was fun to dig up some classics as well to mix things up a bit- For Tomorrow by Blur, Lipgloss by Pulp and Cemetry Gates by The Smiths then lots more at the end of the night.  One unusual highlight was as the 3rd band, Foxes, tuned up. I played Race For The Prize by The Flaming Lips and the keyboardist onstage started playing along. Then their bassist got into it and joined in. So I turned it up and messed around with some effects. They played the whole song as the others got ready then started their set on the last note of Flaming Lips so there was no gap. Very classy! The Boy

THE BOY - Club Fandango @ the Buffalo Bar - 12.01.12

This was great, my first set of 2012! If I did it all over again I would probably play a few things in a different order but it was good to play new Sleigh Bells, I really like that Lykke Li remix and I haven’t played Titus Andronicus in a while.

It was fun to dig up some classics as well to mix things up a bit- For Tomorrow by Blur, Lipgloss by Pulp and Cemetry Gates by The Smiths then lots more at the end of the night. 

One unusual highlight was as the 3rd band, Foxes, tuned up. I played Race For The Prize by The Flaming Lips and the keyboardist onstage started playing along. Then their bassist got into it and joined in. So I turned it up and messed around with some effects. They played the whole song as the others got ready then started their set on the last note of Flaming Lips so there was no gap. Very classy!

The Boy

1 note Tags: Dj The Boy Sleigh Bells Titus Andronicus buffalo bar club fandango dj flaming lips lykke lykke li the boy the flaming lips pulp blur the smiths indie

Dec 30 '10

The Boy’s best albums of 2010 

I’ve waited until the last minute to write this and really thought about it a lot… I’ve tried to ignore how bands sounded live and just judge the records on their own merit. Also records had to have been released in the UK this year. So here we are:

  1. Total Life Forever - Foals
  2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
  3. Treats - Sleigh Bells

  4. Brothers - the Black Keys
  5. Astro Coast - Surfer Blood
  6. All Day - Girl Talk
  7. Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene
  8. Sea of Cowards - Dead Weather
  9. Odd Blood - Yeasayer
  10. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
  11. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
  12. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
  13. The Fool - Warpaint
  14. High Violet - The National
  15. We Can’t Fly - Aeroplane

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  16. Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
  17. Transference - Spoon
  18. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
  19. Big Echo - the Morning Benders
  20. Gemini - Wild Nothing
  21. One Life Stand - Hot Chip
  22. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
  23. Admiral Fell Promises - Sun Kil Moon
  24. Crazy For You - Best Coast
  25. Everything in Between - No Age

- The main point is that the Foals, Arcade Fire and Sleigh Bells albums were all pretty much 5* and I keep switching which should come first… so take your pick. Around half of my favourite songs of the year are on just these three.

- Tier two albums were pretty solid all the way through- the new Black Keys, Surfer Blood and Girl Talk albums in particular were excellent and I could listen to them again and again. Those three in particular blew me away.

- Tier three albums had great moments (if not consistency) and were definitely worth a listen. The Morning Benders, Avi Buffalo and Two Door Cinema Club records were such great additions and I want to hear more.

I know a lot is missing from this- Kanye, LCD Soundsystem, Grinderman (sorry mate) and even Ryan Adams- but I think this year was defined by quantity. There were ALOT of 3* and 4* albums so it was pretty easy to fill a top 25. Despite this quantity my top 7, and in particular the top 3, stand apart.

So now I get to look out for all those I missed… got any suggestions?

The Boy

3 notes Tags: Best of 2010 Albums Foals Arcade Fire Sleigh Bells Black Keys Girl Talk Surfer Blood Broken Social Scene Dead Weather Yeasayer Deerhunter Titus Andronicus Warpaint The Boy