à toute!

LADIES + GENTS :

we're having a little breather.

Thank you for all your love+support.

We'll hopefully be back soon.

In the meantime,

RIP Whitney Houston, the only power ballad gal to truly make me dance.

mushroom clouds.

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"The perfect sound to Winter"




Halls - I Am Not Who You Want from The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing on Vimeo.

horses.

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a nice horse video.

just another?

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dark-pop.
what is that?
apparently it's Charli XCX, who can be seen as a mash of two of the smash hit girlies of the past few years - Lana Del Rey and Marina Diamondis.
It's kinda got something to it though. Upbeat witch house pop. ha!

haters gonna hate.

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woooah, Ke$ha, haters are gonna hate. But this cover of Bob Dylan's 'Don't think Twice, It's Alright' for Amnesty International has a beauty that you can't deny.

flashguns are signing off...

To all the fans,

We regret to tell you that we have decided to end Flashguns. After five years it's come to a point where we feel like we need to move on as musicians and people. We have loved every minute of it, but this feels like the right decision. We are sure many people will be disappointed, especially after the recent release of our debut album. All we can say is that when we started this band we wanted it to last forever, but unfortunately that is no longer possible. We hope you will continue to enjoy our music and thank you to all those who have supported us over the years. The Berlin show on February 4th 2012 will be our last.

Sam, Giles and Olly

how chillwave.

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the fake nostalgic undertones in this song ease me into a vague Christmas spirit, how chillwave:

Puro Instinct featuring Ariel Pink.

Christmas countdown

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And so Christmas descends,

but here's an alternative countdown courtesy of David's Lyre.

We'll be posting the whole series on the facebook face.

casa del mirto/class actress

ice-cold-chill-wave remix by casa del mirto:

listen/watch the original:

Islands In The Stream

another cover for you lover(s). this time a remake of dolly parton and kenny rogers' 1983 hit. seems like this cover was released all the way back in april 2008. i guess i missed that train, but i've lucky managed to find myself on the return leg. it's a nice collaboration between canadians; feist and constantines.

so i've mentioned dolly and kenny, but what most people don't know is that "islands in the stream" was actually written by the bee gees.

Download here.

florence says take care radio 1

here's florence on radio 1's live lounge performing a cover of drake and rihanna's take care, which was originally produced by jamie from the xx. the papz were apparently more interested in her "autumnal attire".

TED + TEED.

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hello.

have you been introduced?

this is Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

Yes, completely ridiculous name for a funkier James Blake type.

I don't actually know who predates who, and no, that's not a joke on his name.

All the same, here's his new track -

and this is the one that made me fall in love with him, in case you didn't already know each other -