Beach House – Norway

We’ll sail to Norway on a boat. The troubling waters will threaten to derail us from our dreams, our music will suffer subtle slips and go slightly off tune, but we will navigate by faith and stay on course. We will sit and talk for hours about nothing in particular until our limbs become numb. [...]

If you can only move for 3 minutes

 
I suggest you get your hands on Tokyo Jihen’s latest single “Noudouteki Sanpunkan” (losely translated as “you can only move for 3 minutes” ) , transfer it into your IPOD, and hit replay for eternality. The new song is so good that its almost paralysing, like dark chocolate, the really shiok kind. After listening to [...]

Everything is illuminated.

It’s somewhat calming and fulfilling to watch things fall from a great height. Fabrics forming crazy illustrations in the sky as they descend haphazardously. Debris from an opened suitcase shooting upwards like confetti in early celebration of its eventual demise. Everything looks more dignified in slow motion. For a moment there, [...]

Here’s me, two timing myself

My review for Crowd Lu’s “7 days” has been published at Knox Road!
Come take a look!
Check out their other reviews as well, those guys are too good to be true.
I’d wished I had used a more flashy pen name instead of my real name. Like Halloween Lin. Or Edward Cullen Lin. Or Lightsaber Lin. The last [...]

perilous fumes of melancholy

The XX consists of 4  twenty-somethings from London and they’ve cooked up a critically acclaimed self titled debut by adding as much doom and gloom to cast a shadow on their glorious youth.
The album begins bright, like in VCR, but in a very swift turn of events, the lights are dimmed and a veil descends, until you are left [...]

Man, I feel like chain-smoking too.

I’m very tempted to write a one word review for this album, but because the music itself is not that bad,  I’ll attempt to elaborate my lack of feelings for the New Moon soundtrack.
Unlike most albums, this one comes with an expiry date, by which I mean you should wire it with C-4 explosives to [...]

Julian Casablancas is no longer relevent, but thank god dancing still is.

Its sad news when Pitchfork proudly declares that you are no longer relevant, but my guess is that Julian Casablancas is not gonna shed any tears for that.
I had somewhat expected Phrazes for the Young to be a disappointment, and though I was not proven wrong, I’m really liking the way “11th dimension” is making me [...]

Happy Halloween ! (aka DAMN YOU WRITER’S BLOCK)

SOLVED!Now you know why they’re called Vampire Weekend

Because if you’d ask how their weekend went, like me, their reply would always be the same:
IT SUCKED!
Did you find this nugget useful? Haha I’m happy if you did, but seriously, most people wouldn’t give 2 shits about it.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I’m sure by now, you’ve heard from somewhere or someone, raving reviews of Declaration of Dependence. The new album from the folks who’ve been missing for a little more than 5 years sounds exactly like where they left off a little more than 5 years ago. If you’re a long time fan like me, it’s [...]