Noah and the Whale and their new album The First Days Of Spring seems like it’s going to be a winner as evidenced by “Blue Skies” a self proclaimed “song for anyone with a broken heart”. It looks as if the sparkle and cheeriness has been slightly swept away for a more dramatic, stunning, and shall we say mature sound. “Our Window” has the same vibe but mellows it our even more and actually takes a refrain from “Blue Skies” at the end of the track. NATW’s earlier material always reminded me of Sgt. Peppers era Beatles pop, but now the smiles, giggles, and first love infatuation seem to have subsided and their real relationship with music, with all it’s sonic highs and lows, are taking shape – and it’s great to hear.
mp3: Noah And The Whale – Blues Skies
mp3: Noah And The Whale – Our Window
Our pal Sheena Beaston also has some super fantabulosa remixes of “Blue Skies” by Death To The Throne and Yacht. Head here to check them out…meanwhile here’s some Death To Throne and Yacht just for the hell of it:
mp3: Chromeo – Fancy Footwork (Death To The Throne Remix)
mp3: The Blow – Hock It (YACHT Remix)
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Ooh, I like how the URLs on Sheena Beaston are encoded, so I don’t have to escape them. For example,
http://fakepennycomics.com/blog/THBLW_HockIt(YACHTRemix).mp3
is problematic for my shell (because of the parenthesis), but
Noah and the Whale – Blue Skies (Yacht remix)
comes out
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/7/15/2510004/Noah%20and%20the%20Whale%20-%20Blue%20Skies%20%28Yacht%20remix%29.mp3
so I can download it directly, without worrying about putting parentheses or anything. I wonder if pasta could do that…
Never knew that to be a problem, but I can make the adjustment in the future
It’s not a big deal, so please don’t go to too much trouble. But that would be great for folks like me, if you did!
I typically download a URL from the command line, by typing
wget URL
But if the URL has any spaces or parens or anything that my shell uses for its own purposes, I have to escape them. Or just put quotes around the whole thing
wget ‘URL’
If I forget the quotes (or simply don’t notice that it needs them), then it just gives an error and I have to redo it. Like I said, it’s no big deal (and most of your readers undoubtedly just click on the links, so don’t care). But escaping everything like Sheena Beaston does means I can just do it the first way without thinking about it.
i had a feeling these guys would keep getting better and better. yayyyyyy