Animal Collective..................

[Tagliatella]

Where is it pop headed ? I think Animal Collective would tell you a lot about it...I am listening to Sung Tongs, their new album, and I just can't stop doing it............................ ........................

[KaOz]

yeah its awesome... they live show was wierd... i heard them 3 weeks ago...

they was opener for múm live in heidelberg

i really love who could win a rabbit =D

[KaOz]

mouth wooed her is also bad ass

[V Knid esq]

The last double album on FatCat was amazing too. When they're not doing Black Dice style sound FX wankoffs, their psychedelic pop is absolutely fucking SOARING, like what I always hoped Radiohead could sound like.

Apparently they've made an album with acid folk legend Vashti Bunyan which is incredible though I've not heard that yet.

The whole psychedelic / acid / folk / jazz / improv / tronica thing is really cooking on gas at the moment.

[Tagliatella]

Oh yess, 'Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished’, great title, great record, not inferior to Sung Tongs.
Do you know smth more about this album with Bunyan? Any suggestion on any seminal Bunyan record?
Cheers Knid

[Orang Utan]

Hi Tagliatella - how do you pronounce your name? I hope you do it right

[V Knid esq]

Well, Tagliatella, I only have one album called 'Another Diamond Day', and I really like that one - be warned, it really is pure folk. But it's her voice that is mind blowing, so pure, soooooo cool.

For other more modern psych-folk stuff, definitely look out for anything by Devendra Barnhart, who was discovered by Swans' Michael Gira, and makes the maddest, most lo-fi (but with incredible songwriting) snippets of song. He can be hard going cos it's laced with madness and stuff, but it's worth it. Definitely seek out a new album by a duo called Cocorosie - it's two sisters with the most beautiful voices, kind of like a high-pitched Billie Holliday meets Joni Mitchell, with freaky lo fi electronics and beatbox under their folkiness. Also the Memory Band have 2 EPs out, but wait for their album which has all those tracks and more... that is pure "E folk", like blissful, euphoric, modern but ancient and all round fucking lovely. Also keep an eye out for anything by Kathryn Williams, particularly her new album which is all cover versions of everything from Byrds to Nirvana, and her 'Demons In Cases' EP with Pedro on Moshi Moshi, which is the one record ever made that REALLY deserves the term 'folktronica'...

mmmmm, sounds like i could play that to my mum and she would be A ok with it. I like blissfull music, the kinda music u put on, kick back and chill out. Kinda like when i got some herbal remedy to make my head go boing like zebedy. Combine, that eith glitchy, lo fi electro cushion, and oim s down. Where im from in LA, we have the cute little french joint that plays aphex throught this real sweet little thir world wind up radio.mmm im kinda digging Tagliatella.

[V Knid esq]

Yo so what's your hit for bliss out there in the city of angels, Mr T? Vikes? Xanax? Oxy?

hell, LA is such a big place nowadays, i like to imagine the clouds moving across the sky, when im kicking back with some paint and
pencils. hey, seems like only 3 minutes pass and i got a new musical sandwich on my plate. im licking the cream of my chillout comp at the mo' mixed bag...yeah..but like soo what, it like a gentleman of all seasons..if ya with me..i gotta get my itunes up to sync..put a bit of joni mitchell in.mmmm smooth and silky, im there, 2 years ago. back to the future, michael j foxed, if u can ride with my style...

[Tagliatella]

Wow, what a tip! I'm sure it will be illuminating, let you know when I get the chance to listen to them...
Thank you V Knid esq