The Maccabees - Can You Give It

Very much enjoying the live videos they've been posting lately. Now if I could only remember the album release date.

In a semi-related note, The Rakes new album, Klang, is out today.

The Maccabees - Love You Better

Love You Better - Live


Surely, all this live instrumentation is going to cost them their record deal.
::rolls eyes in the general direction of music executives::

The Maccabees - No Kind Words

They're back!!!

This song sounds to me as if they're desperately fighting pressure to cave in and go semi-electronic like every other band in the UK has in the last year and a half (you know who you are).

FIGHT IT!!! There is so much friggin' electro shit out there these days, it's taking all the fun out of it. Music in 2009 is starting to sound like a cartoon from the 60's/70's when they looked into "the future" and music was nothing but a series of robotic bleeps and bloops.

Now...don't get me confused and think I don't absolutely love a good bloop every now and then. Hell, you read the blog, you already know . . .but DAMN, can we restore a little balance?!

The Maccabees

Why?

Because I somehow forgot how great Colour It In was, and because I'm VERY excited that they're back in the studio.

Yes . . .I am aware of the irony of this post considering it's the first full day of Hanukkah. It wasn't deliberate, but it did make me laugh for a few seconds