If justice prevailed, the surviving members of Television should be on dollar bills in the USA. This album is a masterpiece. I could have posted any song above. OK, fuck it:
Tom Verlaine, the main mind behind Television, took his stage name from Paul Verlaine which kind of says a lot about the music. But the music is North American. There's jazz. There's guitars played like Coltrane, to paraphrase what Verlaine wanted.
I love how we can clearly hear the instruments and voice all cleanly separated in the mix. This is wonderful music. The lyrics aren't the sharpest tool in the box, but what the fuck, that's partly why they're perfect.
What I want
I want now
And it's a whole lot more
Than “anyhow”
I wanna fly, fly a fountain
I wanna jump, jump, jump, a-jump
On a mountain
In a few months, it's election time in Sweden. The Tidö parties are probably going to lose, which is the best thing for anyone. They're a pack of xenophobic power-hungry political parties that engage in power, disguising their desires as ideology.
Tomma Intet are a Swedish indie-rock collective. Imagine a Californian sect that've been forced to sing choral hymns and gorge themselves only on music by The Radio Dept. Here you are. This song is sweet and dreamy. Kind of like something that George Harrison would have made and added a prog drive.
The chorus goes like this:
Själlösa jävla parasiter
ni kan dra åt helvete
...which translates to something like this; translation by yours truly:
Wow! What a fresh breath of air. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro is a Galician band that's clearly into a lot of indie and alternative rock. I mean, their band name is 'Bizarre Love Triangle' in Spanish.
Just listen to the first two tracks: from the low-intensity-to-gothic-blow-up style of 'SMT en el Palacio Real' to the Alvvays-sounding indie-rock melodicisms of 'Diosas Adolescentes'.
Yep, the album even has strings (perhaps most strongly heard on the song 'Pat e trenca', a track that owes a lot to Nirvana's song 'Something in the Way').
This is lovely to listen to. There's variety in a kind of indie-rock circus way, meaning you get what you expect to get from listening to bands like The Las, The Smiths, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. but there's a lot of ideas floating around here. Buy the album!
