Alex's Albums of 2010

I know the concept of year end music lists is a bit pointless and nerdy but because I read too much online music journalism and because VH1 was the only music channel that came free with my parents cable package when I was a kid and because the inside of my brain is basically just a series of graphs I think about this stuff quite a lot. Also how can it be a bad idea to share a bunch of stuff that you like?

So, with that disclaimer covered,  here are the albums that I loved the most in 2010.

1. How to Dress Well - Love Remains
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
4. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
5. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
6. Caribou - Swim
7. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
8. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
9. Das Racist - Sit Down Man
10. Drake - Thank Me Later

It's difficult not to give the top spot to Kanye but he gets enough love from Pitchfork. The sound of the How to Dress Well record still feels like a revelation to me and I still listen to it most days so I've decided it is the winner EVEN THOUGH Kanye has this year proven himself to be the greatest pop star of our generation.

So there you go.

We're playing at the Enterprise in Camden on Sunday. We're on at 8.20. Get down.

Alex

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

Thank you to Jon Hillcock for playing "Ride The Waves" on his BBC Radio 6 show last night. Listen to it on iplayer for the next week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wkksb

New News

Photos from our gig at the George Tavern.

Neu Magazine have done a nice article about our song Ride the Waves, check it: http://www.neumagazine.co.uk/bands/article/breathe-out

We have 2 more gigs to announce, Dec 19th at the Enterprise in Camden and Jan 5th at the Comedy in Picadilly. More details soon.

Also, we'll have a new track up here soon.

Alex

OUR FIRST LONDON GIG IS THIS FRIDAY

We are playing our first London gig this Friday (26th) at the George Tavern in Whitechapel. We're on first, probably about 8.30.
The other bands playing are really good too. Check em.

Horse & Condor -http://www.myspace.com/horseandcondor
Left Leg -http://leftleg.tumblr.com/
Way Through -http://www.myspace.com/wearewaythrough
Private Trousers -http://www.myspace.com/privatetrousers

Uberstompf is one of the best nights in town, Jon always puts on great bands and not just the usual stuff you might expect. Get down.

In other news, Kanye West's new album is out today and it is an instant classic. See: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/
I'm particularly loving Lost In The World. Massive tune.

SOUND SAVERS SPECIAL OPENING OFFER!!!!!!!

Announcing the grand opening of Sound Savers, a new recording studio in Bow, East London, ran by myself and Mark Jasper.
We have been slaving away for the past couple of months sound proofing and treating and painting and polishing and the studio is now ready to go.

We have a special opening offer to spread the word. For a limited time only recording and/or mixing will be £50 PER DAY.
That's pretty cheap! For once it pays to be an early adopter.

If you are interested in recording at Sound Savers email alex_clegg@hotmail.co.uk or markjohnjasper@googlemail.com

 

Last of the bedroom sessions

Here's a double A side. Francis Meanie and Ride the Waves. Click the down arrow on the player to download an mp3.

Francis Meanie by Breathe Out

Ride the Waves by Breathe Out



First person to correctly tab out the guitar solo in Francis Meanie wins a steak dinner with me and James.


We hope you like the tracks.


Alex

Our first video...

So here's a video made for our song 'Elite/Corrigans' which we recorded in April this year.

The song was originally demoed in the summer of 2008.

I shot this footage in Brompton hospital, London, May 2010.

It was directed and edited by our good friends Harry Fisher and James Eyre

We think they did a nice job,

We hope you do too.

Good night,

James.