{"id":1084,"date":"2004-04-15T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1084.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/04\/15\/new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New music"},"content":{"rendered":"

I splurged on music a bit at the weekend, branching out into some stuff that would normally be a little off my radar. I picked up Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots<\/i><\/a> by The Flaming Lips, Agaetis Byrjun<\/i><\/a> by Sigur Ros, Dear Catastrophe Waitress<\/i><\/a> by Belle and Sebastian, and Afterglow<\/i><\/a> by Sarah McLachlan. Okay, so the Sarah Mclachlan isn’t much of a branching-out for me, but I bought the CD as much for a challenge as anything else. It’s not a CD<\/a>, see.<\/p>\n

At first glance, iTunes didn’t have any problem recognising the disc as a music CD and ripping it to MP3. Upon listening to it all the way through, though, there are a couple of tracks that have a very short (a fraction of a second) burst of static at the start. I’ll try re-ripping to see if this was just a coincidence, and if that doesn’t work, it’ll be a job for the low-tech line out\/line in analog solution. Ho hum.<\/p>\n

First impressions of the albums: Afterglow<\/i> sounds like standard Sarah McLachlan at her most mellow. No immediate stand-out tracks. Yoshimi<\/i> seems to vary from the experimental to the meanderingly inane. Some good melodies, and a lovely drum-driven squelchy electronic cacophony in “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Part 2”. Agaetis Byrjun<\/i> is too slow and laid back for it to have fully registered on me yet. It may be a sleeper, but so far it’s just sleepy. Dead Catastrophe Waitress<\/i> makes me wonder why I’ve never sampled Belle and Sebastian before. They’ve got some delicious lightweight indy-pop going on here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I splurged on music a bit at the weekend, branching out into some stuff that would normally be a little off my radar. I picked up Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots<\/i><\/a> by The Flaming Lips, Agaetis Byrjun<\/i><\/a> by Sigur Ros, Dear Catastrophe Waitress<\/i><\/a> by Belle and Sebastian, and Afterglow<\/i><\/a> by Sarah McLachlan. Okay, so the Sarah Mclachlan isn’t much of a branching-out for me, but I bought the CD as much for a challenge as anything else. It’s not a CD<\/a>, see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}