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Sep. 6th, 2011 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sirona_ficsSo The Mercury Prize 2011 is happening tonight in London, and when I got into work I found the BBC News article, which I'd missed yesterday when it was published. And so I had a nosey through the nominees, recognising a few familiar names and fistpumping when I realised that Katy B's On a Mission is nominated. You may remember me flailing about her single Katy On a Mission, which is one of the best club(bing) songs I've heard this year. So yay and good luck, Katie!!
But then, among all those interesting artists, there's also this guy that I'd never heard of before. His name is James Blake, and he is the most exciting thing I have heard in ages. His music is strange, haunting, bizarre, complex, experimental, a bit weird, and I am completely in love with it. There is something irresistibly compelling about it, and as soon as I got hold of the (self-titled) album, I could not stop listening to it.
Here, have a go. I am quite awed by him and his talent and his sound.
But then, among all those interesting artists, there's also this guy that I'd never heard of before. His name is James Blake, and he is the most exciting thing I have heard in ages. His music is strange, haunting, bizarre, complex, experimental, a bit weird, and I am completely in love with it. There is something irresistibly compelling about it, and as soon as I got hold of the (self-titled) album, I could not stop listening to it.
Here, have a go. I am quite awed by him and his talent and his sound.
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Date: 2011-09-07 04:21 am (UTC)Do I get points for catching the title reference? :D I think I should get points. Can't for the life of me figure out what the heck this song has to do with the Wilhelm Scream, though.
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Date: 2011-09-07 04:53 am (UTC)I suppose you do, since I'm completely lost about it. Apparently it features a lyric from his old man's song of ages ago. What it has to do with the title is anyone's guess, though.
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:01 am (UTC)Wilhelm scream on Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia page even mentions James Blake! :D
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...In other news, omg you must watch The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant. It's a 2005 Australian two-part miniseries about Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the Australian penal colony at Botany Bay. Alex O'Loughlin is in it, and he is ADORABLE, and at the risk of spoiling you, he looks mighty fine in period clothing, let me just say.
DOES THIS NOT MAKE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE?
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:14 am (UTC)jaskfhasjfghfgh HOLY FUCK YES. LOOK AT HIM. OH MY GOD. *________* I literally jaw-dropped so hard thay my jaw popped! :D I MUST LOCATE AND WATCH THAT FORTHWITH.
OT: I found this on the Doctor Who comm this morning, and... it's kind of made my day. :D :D :D
"Eccleston was a tiger and Tennant was, well, Tigger. Smith [is] an uncoordinated housecat who pretends that he meant to do that after falling off a piece of furniture." - Lynne M. Thomas
How was your hike?? Did you have allll the fun?
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:29 am (UTC)Hahahahahahahaha that is the most perfect description of them EVER.
HIKE WAS AMAZING, I keep meaning to do über-megapost with all of the pictures and stuff but when we came down the mountain we were EXHAUSTED and then work and then still exhausted and Mary Bryant and a;dhslgsklfjs sleep should probably happen, argh. It may not be until later in the week.
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Date: 2011-09-07 01:10 pm (UTC)MOST PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF THEM EVER.
I look forward to reading that post and looking at the preeetty!!
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Date: 2011-09-07 09:06 am (UTC)(I get the Wilhelm Scream reference too, but only because I was reading the trivia page for Shaun of the Dead the other day... Heheh. ^^)
Thanks for reccing this!
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:34 am (UTC)