Friday 17th December 2010
BEST OF 2010 – PART III
The last of the list.
And the year’s almost over.
Goodbye to permitted dilettantism, bloodless nostalgia and competitive hyperbole. Hello to the end of the world.
1. BLANK & KYTT – “WHO YOU ARE”
Internet evangelists are wrong. Location is still everything. Who an artist actually is remains significant. You see, Blank & Kytt could have been from anywhere. But they’re not. They’re from Coventry. And that’s a fact that turns my knees to reflections of knees in water. Anyone who has felt Coventry’s sludge of indifference and television screen gray nightlife will understand. They’ll know the romance in geographic transcendence. Location is still everything when you’re running away from it. I can’t wait to see where Blank & Kytt end up.
DOWNLOAD:
Blank & Kytt – “Who You Are”
2. WELCOME BACK SAILORS – “LOVE’S THE ANSWER, BLAME IT”
Why is it always assumed that love is a good thing? I only ever remember it ruining everything forever. Because love a second time around is a prisoner of its past. A welcome back sign in inverted commas.
DOWNLOAD:
Welcome Back Sailors – “Love’s The Answer, Blame It”
3. PRIZE PETS – “NEW WEIRDOS”
Prize Pets have no triangle or owl tattoos. Prize Pets bite where others bark. Prize Pets can spot a cunt a mile off and it’s probably you.
DOWNLOAD:
Prize Pets – “New Weirdos”
4. WEIRD DREAMS – “LITTLE GIRL”
This song is about The Matrix. I just worked it out.
DOWNLOAD:
Weird Dreams – “Little Girl”
5 .RADIO DEPT. – “HEAVEN’S ON FIRE”
An ode to not forgetting. To creeping back in. To believing in the face of it all. To self worth. To hating the world and somehow, inexplicably, having it love you back in spite of itself. Outnumbered, but still Radio Dept knew they needed no-one else.
DOWNLOAD:
Radio Dept. – “Heaven’s On Fire”
6. EMERALDS – “NOW YOU SEE ME”
Step through TV screens onto rain flecked suburban petrol station forecourts. Stand in the freezing half light under neon technology. Stare into the kaleidoscope of oily water refracting forever amongst the pull of parallel dimensions. Wait for the car to start. Shut your mouth and drive. Lay me down. Take me to another world. Feel the elemental rush of consciousness. Feel yourself fade into nothingness.
DOWNLOAD:
Emeralds – “Now You See Me”
7. HYPE WILLIAMS – “DIOR EP”
Yes, all of it. The best thing about Hype Williams is that they make everyone look like a dick head, if you get what I mean.
DOWNLOAD:
Hype Williams – “Dior EP”
8. SPECTRALS – “I RAN WITH LOVE, BUT I COULDN’T KEEP UP”
His life was marred with tragedy, including the death of his first wife and two of his children in separate accidents.
DOWNLOAD:
Spectrals – “I Ran With Love But I Couldn’t Keep Up”
9. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER FEAT. ANTONY – “RETURNAL”
I never thought I’d hear Antony Hegarty say the word ‘internet’. That word wasn’t meant for that mouth, but on “Returnal” it made sense. The exact point where the inertia of technology dissolved into human form, Antony somehow, paradoxically, the face of post-humanism; an avatar of a utopian future in which people still ache like people even when they no longer look like them.
DOWNLOAD:
Oneohtrix Point Never feat. Antony – “Returnal”
10. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS – “OBSESSIONS (oOoOO REMIX)”
And to think all this time I thought Marina was vacuous. I was wrong. She’s cavernous.
DOWNLOAD:
Marina and the Diamonds – “Obsessions (oOoOO RMX)”
(Photo: Stamina)
