Dada like these

Sunset Rubdown are releasing another album on Jagjaguwar, called Dragonheart. I've asked Clash if I can review it, but I haven't had an answer from them yet. However, I did get sent this by Jagjaguwar's PR guy, Manish:

Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart

It's a pretty good track. For anyone unfamiliar with Sunset Rubdown, they are a side project of Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug, who also plays in the "indie supergroup" Swan Lake. Heather pointed out that Idiot Heart sounds like an Interpol track, and I agree, although I wouldn't say it's necessarily a bad thing... Maybe a little bit bad. Not that I have anything against Interpol, but I'd rather other bands didn't sound like them, because Interpol themselves already sound like a few other bands (Spoon, Modest Mouse... Wolf Parade, etc).

Anyway, hopefully I'll get the album for free and I'll be able to judge it as a whole.

The sink got blocked last night and I fixed it. We also might be starting a podcast station. That makes me one of these:



We were also listening to a lot of soul/funk/disco last night, after watching a rubbish programme about 70s music. Here's a classic soul hit, followed by a kind of reworking by Alan Hawkshaw's band of session musicians, The Mohawks:

Otis Redding - Tramp

The Mohawks - The Champ

Funkaliscious!