With the volume up and the windows down

It’s good to know words just aren’t enough sometimes. One of the absolute stand-out albums of last year, Leave Now For Adventure, had only eight words in it, and i can’t even remember them properly. i think that’s very telling, not when it comes to my occasionally lacklustre memory, but regarding the sharpest, shiniest, most potent noises. Some people are just better wordless.

The aforementioned Feedle long-player came out last year in a digital sense (£3, kids) on SVC Records, which, as eager mp3 aficionados may realise, is the imprint wing of masterful weblog Spoilt Victorian Child. (If you click on that link RIGHT NOW you’ll not only see a heart-warming-as-artery-cardigans photograph of Peelie and Gedge on ‘This Is Your Life’ but also a little bit of writing about The Greatest 7” Single Of All Time). However, this week saw the re-release of Leave Now For Adventure on Illicit Recordings, in a proper physical digipak look-you-can-get-it-in-the-shops(-if-you-ask-them-to-order-it) CD format and everything. You can buy for Not Much Monies at Norman Records, see?

If i controlled radio stations worldwide i’d make sure they played you this straight away.



Feedle – Song For Dogs

Worth getting if you think you’d like 65daysofstatic without the guitars, i think you’ll agree. There’s even a malicious rumour that Feedle used to be in 65dos which would make a lot of sense, but we do know that at the very least they are mutual admirers and keen buddies.

65daysofstatic – Aren’t We All Running? (Feedle remix)

Speaking of which! Not only does Feedle re-return, but a new 65daaaaaaaays album is due upon us. In the UK here, the rest of Europe over there and the US in the other direction, you’ll all have to wait until 30th April for ‘The Destruction Of Small Ideas’ on the marvellous Monotreme Records (you’ve got to admire a label that names itself after one of these little buggers). Japan get it a week earlier on Zankyo Records, which is nice, and if you can’t wait that long you can listen to them live in Austin if you visit the Lounge Acts page at Texan radio station WOXY.

AND (deep breath) the single ‘Don’t Go Down To Sorrow’ will precede the LP, which i’ve just noticed will include a remix of ‘The Major Cities Of The World Are Being Destroyed One By One By The Monsters’ on the b-side. Ace-o.



i’ve got a wealth of 65days stories, none of them particularly interesting to anyone but me i suspect. However, a word of advice, this goes down well in clubs:

65daysofstatic – born apart