Another few weeks gone by, another Jookbox up here. And usurping the general rule that sequels are never as good as the original, this selection of tracks is perhaps my favourite of the series. I’ve almost played to death about five of these already.
But I can’t take all the credit. As per usual, Jookbox #4 was compiled with help from bPm, Don’t Die Wondering, No Conclusion, No Pain In Pop, Transparent, and Tough Love (that’s me – I guess I helped myself).
You can download all of the tracks in the zip file below, except the Sepalcure and Pursuit Grooves songs, which are only available for streaming. Maybe you could go out and buy them if you really like them? Novel idea.
DOWNLOAD HERE – JOOKBOX #4 (RIGHT CLICK, SAVE AS)
DOM – “Burn Bridges”
Beau Bridges, make yourself an islet, just for Given, and for Geffen, that’s all four ladders
Sing the words as loud and as wrong as you want, because summer is coming and we’re all gonna Tan Tropez so hard it don’t matter if you’re dumb and tone deaf. In fact, the more so the better.
(chosen by Platform/Tough Love)
Korallreven – “The Truest Faith”
What with Kisses and Delorean and Pallers and a billion others, it sounds a lot like it’s not only lo-fi Dalstonites/Brooklynites who are obsessed with the sun and surf and summer right now. I guess everybody likes those things. The irony is though, while all this blog-friendly house is evocative of the beach, it’s all endorsed by guys (always guys) too busy glued to their laptops indoors with the curtains closed to even get a ray of sun on their pallid skin.
(PS: Hot on the heels of “Round and Round”, this is the song of the year so far.)
Korallreven – “The Truest Faith”
(chosen by No Pain In Pop)
The Proper Ornaments – “Are You Going Blind?”
I was blind, but now I can see, just about, squinting through the hazy fog of vanilla cigarettes into the half light of Anton Newcombe’s mind’s eye. Then suddenly through time lapse and meditative will, all the way back to a dimly lit paisley back room just off the King’s Road in 1964.
Then somebody spoke and I drifted into a dream…
The Proper Ornaments – “Are You Going Blind”
(chosen by Platform/Tough Love)
Sepalcure – “Love Pressure”
Love in a bathysphere, descending deep to dreams of underwater dancefloors in a haunted Atlantis, as ears pop, vessels expand and the bends takes hold.
(chosen by bPm)
oOoOO – “Hearts”
In terms of influence, there’s two big hitters presiding imperiously over new music right now: Suicide and Italians Do It Better. Have a wild stab which one oOoOO are channelling?
(chosen by No Conclusion)
Dirty Beaches – “Golden Desert Sand”
And as if to prove a point, here’s Dirty Beaches all revved up on Suicide, a doom encrusted sun and dystopian futures.
Dirty Beaches – “Golden Desert Sun”
(chosen by Italian Beach Babes)
Pursuit Grooves – “Start Somethin’”
Fight song. Music to enter the ring to, with Missy in your corner. Nokia your face right off, taking the roof and floor with it. Million dollar, baby.
Pursuit Grooves – “Start Somethin’”
(chosen by bPm)
Myles Cooper - “Gonna Find Boyfriends Today”
Beamed straight from open access TV into our unsuspecting homes, “Gonna Find Boyfriends Today” is where the weirdos convene to address the world with wild eyes and strange intentions, sashaying through the night with their hands on your boyfriend’s hips and pet rabbits boiling on the stove.
Myles Cooper – “Gonna Find Boyfriends Today”
(chosen by Transparent)
Silver Ripples – “Hi, It’s Laura”
Laura sounds like the kind of girl who can ruin a weekend; you’re waiting on that return call, re-reading that text for the billionth time, imagining all kinds of morbid reasons as to why she hasn’t got back to you. But there’s no drama, there’s just her games, playing out a ritual as old as sex itself.
Your phone rings three days later. Your heart skips a beat. Then the fun and anxiety really starts.
Silver Ripples – “Hi, It’s Laura”
(chosen by Don’t Die Wondering)
Teen Daze - “Shine On, You Crazy White Cap”
It’s time to get away. Drive faster, drive further, drive harder. If not, then why bother?
Teen Daze – “Shine On, You Crazy White Cap”
(chosen by Platform/Tough Love)
