Deez just wanna have fun
Spaghetti-limbed singer, dancer, lover, philosopher, rapper and alleged tap enthusiast Darwin Smith sits piled under a tree on a hillside in Oxfordshire, balancing a dictaphone on his elbow. He’s talking animatedly about a new mini-project he’s working on, a rap concept album. “It’s all sampled from the original Willy Wonka movie,” he smiles. “Someone said Lil Wayne had done it already, I’m gonna check that out on Wikipedia and if he’s done it already it’ll be a bummer because I’m four songs in!”
Future Islands are making the year’s best pop songs a reality
A quick chat with Future Islands front man Samuel Herring could easily turn into a 3 hour discussion about what it means to be making DIY music today. Jumping between topics without pausing for breath, he explains how bands can go on world tours but still come home with no cash, laughs wickedly about how he wants bands to devise an acappella version of their album (just to fuck with people of course) and talks at length about the merits of “being taken seriously”. Like any good rock star, somewhere along the way he nips out to his car to get a cigarette. At another he disappears completely.
Snipe MPfrees: August 2010
Here you go, dear readers: all 23 Daily MPfrees posted during August 2010, in one handy playlist. All yours for free. No need to thank us. No, honestly. Unless you really want to, you know. And there’s a comments section for that.
Daily MPfree: The Empty Set
“Portia, I Dreamt You Were a Princes” is beautiful little electronic postscript on a delicate lo-fi folk album by Manchester’s The Empty Set. The album, “Neat As a New Pin”, is well worth checking out. This track has a few seconds of silence at the start… stick with it!
The Empty Set – Portia, I Dreamt You Were a Princess by snipelondon
Last Night in LDN: Mountain Man / Clock Opera
Mountain Man at St Giles-in-the-Fields. Photo by Anika Mottershaw
Clock Opera at Barfly. Photo by Paul Bridgewater
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