Pero hoy he escuchado el avance de lo que será su nuevo trabajo, y llevo todo el día tarareando el estribillo de “Black White & Blue”, que se ha adelantado para estrenar la ficha de Ladyhawke aquí.

El 19 de marzo podremos disfrutar de su segundo álbum completo: Anxiety y pinta todo muy bonito.

Letra:

Time is never easy when you’re alone
Your mother, she always told you to hold your own
Cause this is real life, oh no
You can’t fight it, oh no
Cause this is real life

[estribillo]
On and on through the night and the milky way
It’s black and white & blue for you
Now and then when you cry It will always be black and white & blue for you

Life inside your head has come undone
Your soul descent to madness has just begun
But this is real life, oh no
You can’t fight it, oh no
Cause this is real life

[estribillo]

Waking from a strange dream
Spinning cause you had too much last night
No communication,
Wondering if you’ll ever feel alright
But this is real life, oh no
You can’t fight it, oh no
Cause this is real life

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
2. KT Tunstall – Black Horse And The Cherry Tree [Recomendación]
3. Chairlift – Bruises

Os dejo a la chica desempeñándose en directo en BBC Radio 1:

Letra:

Swinging in the backyard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name

Open up a beer
And you say get over here
And play a video game

I’m in his favorite sun dress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown

I say you the bestest
Lean in for a big kiss
Put his favorite perfume on

Go play a video game

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

Singing in the old bars
Swinging with the old stars
Living for the fame

Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Video games

He holds me in his big arms
Drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of

Watching all our friends fall
In and out of Old Paul’s
This is my idea of fun
Playing video games

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

(Now you do)

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Russian Red – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
2. Adele – Chasing Pavements
3. Lily Allen – The Fear

Birdy le aporta un toque de fragilidad extra a la canción. Esta chiquilla de apenas 15 años ganó el concurso de talentos Open Mic UK cuando tan sólo tenía 12. De hecho, lo hizo con otra versión: Skinny Love del grupo Bon Iver.

Letra:

I find shelter in this way
Under cover, hide away
Can you hear when I say
I have never felt this way

[estribillo]
Maybe I had said something that was wrong
Can I make it better with the lights turned on
Maybe I had said something that was wrong
Can I make it better with the lights turned on

Could I be, was I there
It felt so crystal in the air
I still want to drown whenever you leave
Please teach me gently how to breathe

And I’ll cross oceans like never before
So you can feel the way I feel it too

And I’ll send images back at you
So you can see the way I feel it too

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Starsailor – Tell Me It’s Not Over
2. Clare Bowditch – Fall At Your Feet
3. Travis – Turn

Ahora cada uno anda por su lado: Liam con el grupo Beady Eye y Noel con su proyecto en solitorio High Flying Birds. Pero si bien en ocasiones ocurre que cuando bandas se disuelven, los elementos resultantes de esa separación son iguales de buenos o mejores que la anterior banda, aquí hemos salido perdiendo. El pack Oasis es difícilmente superable y necesita de los dos hermanos. Aunque me temo que por mucho que necesiten dinero, no les volveremos a ver nunca más juntos. Así que disfrutemos de clásicos como este “Stop crying your heart out“, que viene que ni pintado para los tiempos que corren:

Letra:

Hold up
Hold on
Don’t be scared
You’ll never change what’s been and gone

May your smile
Shine on
Don’t be scared
Your destiny may keep you warm

[estribillo]
Because all of the stars
Are fading away
Just try not to worry
You’ll see them some day
Take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out

Get up
Come on
Why’re you scared? (I’m not scared)
You’ll never change what’s been and gone

[estribillo]

We’re all of us stars
We’re fading away
Just try not to worry
You’ll see us some day
Just take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out
Stop crying your heart out
Stop crying your heart out

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Embrace – Gravity
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird [Recomendación]
3. La semana de… Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now

Me encanta el guitarreo inicial y esta estrofa: “Take all the courage you have left wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head“. Y es que como decía mi abuelo, lo más difícil en esta vida es llevarse bien con uno mismo y que nuestros propios demonios no nos machaquen.

Letra:

Weep for yourself, my man,
You’ll never be what is in your heart
Weep Little Lion Man,
You’re not as brave as you were at the start
Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head

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But it was not your fault but mine
And it was your heart on the line
I really fucked it up this time
Didn’t I, my dear?
Didn’t I, my…

Tremble for yourself, my man,
You know that you have seen this all before
Tremble Little Lion Man,
You’ll never settle any of your scores
Your grace is wasted in your face,
Your boldness stands alone among the wreck
Now learn from your mother or else spend your days biting your own neck

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Metric – Help I’m Alive
2. The Coral – Dreaming of You
3. The Zutons – Valerie

Y para celebrarlo, traigo a este rincón otra canción más de Radiohead. Clasicazo donde los haya que esperamos escuchar en directo y que viene que ni pintado para estas señaladas fechas donde muchas casas se llenan de fake plastic trees .

Os dejo con el videoclip, que fue dirigido por Jake Scott, hijo del director Ridley Scott:

Letra:

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth

That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns

He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

It wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love

But I can’t help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

It wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time

All the time…
All the time…

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Radiohead – No Surprises
2. Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) [Recomendación]
3. Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place

Banda joven, aunque éste es ya su segundo álbum (Sweet Champagne, 2011) y han tocado en sitios de envergadura como el Rock in Rio Brasil 2011. Recomendable verles y escucharles .

Y de puntillas empieza una nueva semana mientras otra termina.

Letra:

Traffic lights stop, start, and go
Shallow paths made of soft walls
Hide and run, where else to go?
Hit and fall my leaking soul
Silhouettes of thoughts
knocking on my door
Where my goals are set to blow

[estribillo]
Let me rekindle my throne
Trumpets will welcome me home
Dropping the walls and I’m gone
Come take me away
Here I go again

Crying morning
in my new rose garden
Sugar-coated sunlight
warming up my dreams
I’m dodging bright blue flowers
dancing ‘round my knees
While I start tip toeing in paradise

Shift the gear and go again
Left or right stoically mundane
Feeling the aim upon my chest
undo my knot and prepare to rest

[estribillo]

Traffic lights stop, start, and go
Hide and run, where else to go?

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Marlango – It’s All Right
2. Beirut – Goshen
3. Belle & Sebastian – I Want The World To Stop

Esta banda neozelandesa (¿alguna vez os he dicho que es mi destino soñado?) se hizo un hueco en el mercado musical con el segundo single de su álbum debut Passive Me, Aggressive You (2010).

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”:

Letra:

We’re only young and naive still
We require certain skills
The mood it changes like the wind
Hard to control when it begins

[estribillo]
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Can’t help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate

We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky

[estribillo]

As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
As you shiver
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before it’s too late
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runaway
2. The Killers – Human
3. The National – Afraid of Everyone

Para ello, he decidido invitar a este blog a los neoyorkinos The Walkmen que, con el single de su tercer álbum (Bows + Arrows, 2004), tocaron el cielo. Guitarreo puro y canción de las que se berrean con ganas a determinadas personas .

Atención a la raruna versión que hizo Florence + The Machine.

Letra:

You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor
You’ve got a nerve to be calling my number
I know we’ve been through this before
Can’t you hear me, I’m calling out your name?
Can’t you see me, I’m pounding on your door?

You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor
You’ve got a nerve to be calling my number
Can’t you hear me, I’m bleeding on the wall?
Can’t you see me, I’m pounding on your door?

Can’t you hear me when I’m calling out your name?

When I used to go out, I would know everyone that I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all

When I used to go out I’d know everyone I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all
When I used to go out I’d know everyone I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all

You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor
You’ve got a nerve to be calling my number
I’m sure we’ve been through this before
Can’t you hear me, I’m beating on your wall?
Can’t you see me, I’m pounding on your door?

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Jet – Look What You’ve Done
2. The Killers – Read My Mind
3. The Unfinished Sympathy – Spin In The Rye

Y Beirut, la banda liderada por Zach Condon, me recuerda enormemente a los de Denver. De su último álbum (The Rip Tide, 2011), me quedo con esta canción, la cara B de East Harlem. Yo prefiero Goshen a su cara A con diferencia .

No os perdáis esta actuación en directo:

Letra:

You’re on in five, it’s time you rise or fail.
They’ve gone before, stood by your door all day.
For what it’s worth, defend your kind from shame.
The lights are down, go on inside, they’ve paid.

You’re the face in stone,
through the land I own.
You never found it home.
You’re not the girl I used to know.

What would you hide from such a glow
If I had only told you so?

You’re on in five, it’s time you rise or fail.
They’ve gone before, stood by your door all day.

But you never found it home.
A fair price I’d pay to be alone.

What would you hide from such a glow
If I had only told you so?

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky
2. Ocean Colour Scene – Better Day
3. The Swell Season – Falling Slowly