Kate Bush is releasing an album and everyone is getting very, very excited. It’ll be out in November and will be called 50 Words For Snow. A Christmas album no less. How very, very thrilling.
That said, it may as well be called ’50 Words For Lazy’ as Kate isn’t exactly known to have a particularly good work ethic.
After a run of LPs in the late 70s and 80s, Kate put her feet up and released 4 albums (including this new one) in nearly 20 years. That’s impressively bone idle. And so, this got us thinking: Who are the laziest people in music? Which bands are so workshy that they can’t even be bothered to release music to their adoring fans?
After a few weeks of seemingly pissing people off with music from both ends of the extreme spectrum, we’re back to offer something more accessible. Oh, it’s also bloody fantastic to if we don’t mind speaking too soon.
We don’t really like people sending us messages telling us how awesome a band’s friends think they are. Usually a band’s mates have been bribed with jelly sweets to win their praise. Even if they’re shit. So when we got a mini message from a band called Trifonic saying we’d like them because we were fans of Four Tet, we naturally took a listen. And we liked what we heard so much, we thought we’d share it with you.
As some of you probably know, trip-hop sloths Portishead have finally got round to squeaking out their third album in, like, 400 years or something, entitled Third.
To help promote it, Portishead recently debuted seven songs from Third on Current TV in a 35-minute special. And Current TV being what it is, the entire performance went on the internet. And the internet being what it is, we’ve pinched it so you can watch it all here.
It’s actually pretty good, especially if you like music that sounds like an asthmatic having a panic attack at the bottom of a well. Enjoy.
Kate Bush is releasing an album and everyone is getting very, very excited. It’ll be out in November and will be called 50 Words For Snow. A Christmas album no less. How very, very thrilling.
