Exciting times yesterday as a site I’ve been working on for a-pop-alyptic rockers Viva Machine was launched to co-inside with the premiere of their video for Earthquakers and Loveshakers. The video is truly excellent and features the band in their dressing room whilst an earthquake rages around them. It was directed by Adam Linzey (Panjabi MC, XO Man, Kinny) for New Treatment in what I believe was his first non “urban” video production. The video was shot in an old old peoples home which is about to be turned into apartments.
Whilst we’re still populating the website with content it’s pretty much in its completed form and can be viewed by heading here. If you have any feedback or spot a mistake let me know in the comments below. You can pre-order the album and get a free mp3 by going here.
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Bank holidays and laziness means that I’m only just bring a very small hand-full of albums to the fore.
Maccabees and Horrors album covers...
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Directed and illustrated by the very talented David Wilson this music video shows the cyclical nature of life through the spinning of an animation printed onto a record. It really is all kinds of awesome. The making of video is a much watch as well because that’s when you realise just how much effort this project took. There’s no computer trickery ehre just amazing creativity, patience and nifty camera angles.
Click to see the making of Moray McLaren's We Got Time Music video
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Some of you, hopefully all of you 
noticed that the site was down for a bit over the last two days. My hosting had come to an end with one hosting company and I took the opportunity to move hosts because my old host’s speed was described as being “like it was hosted on someones ADSL connection”; rubbish in other words. However transferring a site was a bit beyond my skills so the guys at Clook sorted it for me. However once my nameservers were pointing in the right direction I was, and you will have been also, confronted by a mysterious white screen. The problem according to the tech guys was:
It was the paths stored in the database and one file for advanced cache. You’d have thought WordPress would have basic error reporting by default rather than a blank page which could be anything! 
So anyway a bit thanks to them for sorting it all out. Business can return to normal now.
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Cool new video from White Light Parade. It’s clearly done on a limited budget and that makes it all the more endearing.
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I’m not feeling great today (aww poor me) so this is just a super quick round up. Not entirely sure how I feel about the Damien Hurst work for the cover of the Hours record; it’s not awful but is that the best I can say for it? Can anyway say better; tell me why it’s a good cover? Probably not.
The Monks and Juan Maclean...
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Steve Rose contacted me to say I should be checking out the artwork for the Young Widows’ album Old Wounds. As you can see it’s a pretty trippy hand illustrated and painted skull heavily influenced by tribal face paint and Mexican wrestling masks. It’s illustrated by David Cook and the rest of his illustrative work, although not band related, is well worth checking out. He seems to be a favourite among guys looking for very distinctive, very cool tattoos.
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A little late this week and rather short because no-one in their right mind releases an album hoping to chart well on a 6 day week.
With that said the Super Furry Animals have released a great new album with super artwork by the ever ace Pete Fowler (above).
See Bill Callahan and Paper Cuts albums covers...
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There is such a wealth of awful rubbish out this week that it actually hurt my eyes browsing amazon etc to find the new releases. Deep digging of the virtual crates found some great artwork however and more than usual so all is not lost. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ album It’s Blitz is my favourite this week as it’s so evocative. It’s a very sexy image at first glance but there’s actually something kinda gross about crushing an egg.
Click to see more by the Doves, J-Dilla,
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This is such a bleak and traumatic image. The woman’s face appears so pained and the addition of hand drawn angular illustration accentuates the anguish by obscuring parts of the woman’s face distorting her features into an even more pained expression. I love it.
Click to see the video for Epilepsy Is Dancing
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