Thom Yorke// Crystal Castles// Ryan Jarman

More seems to have happened today than I usually get through in a week but here are a few more things to see you through the weekend. First up there is a brand new radio rip of the new Crystal Castles single 'Celestica' which sees Alice's torn vocals honeyed up and kicking out some nice melodies.(via Scottish Friction)



Next up is Ryan Jarman covering girlfriend Kate Nash's new single 'Doo-Wah-Do'. This reminds me of the song The Cribs recorded for their second album on Scarborough beach where I am from so it's all right by me (also I'm a shameless hit whore and Cribs fans are obsessive/ legion)



Finally 'Atoms For Peace' or as everyone will actually call them 'Thom Yorke's band' covered Love Will Tear Us Apart in LA last night. It sounded like this:

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Singles Of The Year 25-11

Same as yesterday, top 10 to follow shortly.

11. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s- Heads Will Roll
12. White Denim- Regina Holding Hands
13. Thom Yorke- Hearing Damage
14. The Drums- Let’s Go Surfing
15. Joy Orbison- Hyph Mngo
16. Metric- Sick Muse
17. Julian Casablancas- 11th Dimension
18. Lost Knives- Solstice
19. Pulled Apart By Horses- I Punched A Lion In The Throat
20. Grizzly Bear- Two Weeks
21. Everything Everything- Photoshop Handsome
22. HEALTH- Die Slow
23. Bon Iver- Blood Bank
24. Sky Larkin- Beeline
25. Favours For Sailors- I Dreamt That You Loved Me In Your Dreams

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Doom- 'Gazillion Ear' (Thom Yorke Remix)

Boo hoo, I didn't win at the ROTD Awards last night (Well done all at No Pain In Pop)- next year, if nominated, will see unprecedented levels of shameless vote grabbing. Victory will be mine!

To soothe my loss (and anyone who went to the 'do's sore head) have a listen to twitchy faced Thom Yorke's take on Doom's 'Gazillion Ear'.

Doom is pretty great but his promo pics are even better, who else can we say that about? New XL signing Giggs possibly.

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OCTOBER

The best albums/ downloads and Blog posts of the month of October are as follows.

Albums

Annie- 'Don't Stop' (Album Of The Month)
Karen O & The Kids- 'Where The Wild Things Are' (Review)
Cate Le Bon- 'Me Oh My' (Review)
Editors- 'In This Light and On This Evening' (Track by Track guide)
New Moon- OST (Track by Track guide)
Mumford & Sons- 'Sigh No More'
Johnny Foreigner- 'Grace and the Bigger Picture (Review)
Cymbals Eat Guitars- 'Why There Are Mountains'

Download

Annie- 'My Love Is Better'
Karen O & The Kids- 'All Is Love'
Cate Le Bon- 'Hollow Trees House Hounds'
Editors- 'Papillon'
Thom Yorke- 'Hearing Damage'
Mumford & Sons- 'Little Liar Man'
Johnny Foreigner- 'Choose Yr Side and Shut Up'
Cymbals Eat Guitars- '...And The Hazy Sea '

Spotify playlist to follow...

Blog Posts

Words with

• Graham Coxon,

• Girls

• No Age

New music from

• Lost Knives,

• Veronica Falls,

• Ellie Goulding

Gigs

• Vampire Weekend live @KCLSU

• The Big Pink live @Camden Ballroom

• The Dead Weather @Brixton Academy

Plus
All of The xx's remixxes

Finally-
I am nominated for a ROTD Award for 'Best Blog'. If you'd like to vote for me then please do by following this link HERE. Go on, make my day.

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Thom Yorke setlist from Latitude 2009.

Including between song quotes.

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