Shut Up And Drive

Earlier today we had Low's Hatchet (Optimimi version). Low can be very quiet (see their three sides of vinyl Things We Lost In The Fire album), very lovely (the aforementioned Just Like Christmas) and very cool (see the also aforementioned Hatchet). Low can be also dark, noisy and menacing too. This is Monkey from their The Great Destroyer album. Bleak and dark and dark and bleak. I guess winter in Minnesota goes on for a while.

'Tonight the monkey dies'

monkey.mp3

I Know You Got A Thing For Ordinary Guys

I was going to post Low's Just Like Christmas, a wonderful, spine-tingling record but Davy H at the Ghost Of Electricity blog beat me to it (and if you haven't heard it get over there and get listening), but it led me back to this. In 2007 Minnesota's best slowcore trio released the bleak but brilliant Guns And Drums album. Initial quantities came with a free 7" single, a re-modelling of that album's song Hatchet. Hatchet is a tale of making up-

'You be my Charlie
And I will be your George
Let's bury the hatchet
Like The Beatles and The Stones'

and later on...

'So you'll be my Marianne
And I'll be your Yoko
Let's bury the hatchet
Like The Beatles
The Beatles and The Stones'

The version on the 7" is sung by Mimi and features some lovely 60's style pop organ and sounds like a lost gem. Which it is.

hatchet optimimiversion.mp3