huzzah! Another new song up... go and listen.
'Phantoms' was my first attempt to get something good out of my newly beloved ukulele.
It already existed as a shouty ska rock belter. I had a major skanking dancehall thing going on for a while thanks to the 'London is the place for me' compilation albums. But my new love of uke-ular energy turned it into something altogether sweeter.
the last line turned out to be massively incorrect by the way.
I was going to give a copy of 'the ventriloquist' album to The Object Of My Wildly Misguided Affections, seeing as every bloody song is about us.
NOW just as I'm working up a way to casually drop in 'hey I made a new record, would you like to hear it?' the conversation goes something like this:
Not me: Have you heard that band, what they called, erm.. 'Noah and the Whale'
Me: Oh yeah, I quite li...
Not me: God they are shit, cutesey handclap pop god it makes me sick....
Me: ah oh I was ju...
Not me: In fact, listen to this, I did a song about how much I hate them...
*passes Iphone and proffers headphones*
song commences with depressingly accurate cutesy double bass and mandolin and hand claps and whistling and sha la la's. The lyrics are something like
'We really like money,
and we really hate music,
we want to be cute so we whistle and clap
we get real paid when we play it this way,
selling lo fi cuteness god awful crap...
and the chorus 'low fi cuteness... we're selling lo fi cuteness....'
*erm*
Not, perhaps, the best time to say 'Oh by the way heres my new album of ukulele, melodica, whistling, handclaps and bass clarinet and its all about how much you don't love me'
Is there actually ever a best time to say that?
Answers on a violently defaced valentine card please....
x
Mosley P
PS: There's also a new live demo video up on the front page, more lo fi cuteness for you all to enjoy. Or despise depending on how you feel about ukuleles. and me.