Trouble [MP3]
Since the debut of Mazzy Star in the early 90’s, Hope Sandoval has been a modern icon of psychedelic dream pop. “Trouble”, the fresh single from her upcoming album Through the Devil Softly (2009), features Hope’s hypnotic and soft vocals interwoven with hypnotizing ethereal arrangements. Hope Sandoval’s much anticipated full-length, her first in eight years, will be released via Nettwerk on September 29.
And a small reminder of why we are looking forward for this album so much:
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After saying all that I would like to say that Cheap Thrills is no masterpiece. Mistake not, this is a not a masterpiece. A masterpiece follows and ideal, Cheap Thrills is this idea in its purest form. Cheap Thrills, with Janis Joplin screaming with joy, is a an ideal in the sense Aristotle defined them to be, all the rest is just copies. Some are beautiful copies, but they are not Cheap Thrills. The just follow. Links: Big Brother and the Holding Company @ Wikipedia Janis Joplin @ Wikipedia
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Pop is a music genre just like any other. It’s not this radical sellout that we witness over the last few years, which is usually not even based in the fact that there was something to sellout at first. Pop started before Rock at it was made to be popular, but it was also made to be of high quality. The 
Queen Victoria on a horse is one funky lady. Drinking tea with the pinkie way up in the air (like a fearful soldier) is the utmost climax of funkadelica. Cricket is funky. The part where the rich aristocrats go and stomp on the grass in the middle of the cricket match – way cool. The Jubilee line in London – by far the tube with the most hype. Just look, can’t you see it? Well, if you can’t, then you just didn’t put the right glasses on. So stare into life, even if just for a few minutes, through the Shortwave Set’s music, and hocus pokus, gika docos – hail the queen and god save this trip, because if it could last forever, I would definitely build my castle on the outskirts of Buckingham palace and drink a morning tea with the queen every morning. I already can see how this castle of mine looks like. Can you? (just go and listen, you will see).
