Happy New Year everyone! I admit, I've been absent for a while, ugh. But since nobody likes listening to poor excuses, let's rather start the musical year off on a rather...quirky note. The song is つけまつける (Tsukema Tsukeru) by teenage Japanese shooting... View full entry

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Tsukema Tsukeru

Dear Archinecteurs, the end is nigh, of 2011 that is, so let's all grab a glass of chilled bubbly and softly sway into this new year with the most beautiful sad Happy New Year song ever written. Happy 2012 everyone! View full entry

Abba - Happy New Year

It's Tuesday, time to pick up the pace already. Surprise Hotel by the extra sunny LA collective Fool's Gold should do the trick. View full entry

Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel

Whoa, apologies for slacking on the blog posts. Ugh. Guess I owe you a real good one today, eh? Alright, here's the extra dreamy "You Are All I See" by LA's Active Child. I'm currently obsessed with this act: Pat Grossi's angelesque choir boy voice over thick layers of pop synthies, borderline... View full entry

Active Child - You Are All I See

When it comes to spot-on style, Metronomy is surely earning plenty of brownie points these days. The Look, the band's second single from the 2011 album, The English Riviera, features a hypnotically looped organ hook, a bitter-sweet bass riff that sticks, one of those sentimental British guitars... View full entry

Metronomy - The Look (2011)