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Holy cow do the new Unrecorded songs sound good.

You're all going to want to spend hundreds of pounds on their new EP, I can absolutely guarantee it.

You can already pick up their debut album here for the bargain price of whatever you want.

I LOVE this band

Why is it...

that I still can't even see a photo of you without my stomach clenching and feeling a complete panic.

I need this to end

XKCD - All The Girls

I'm working on erasing you

The masters of heartbreak, Frightened Rabbit.

i'm working on my backwards walk
walking with no shoes or socks
and the time rewinds to the end of may
i wish we'd never met then met today

i'm working on my faults and cracks
filling in the blanks and gaps
and when i write them out they don't make sense
i need you to pencil in the rest

i'm working on drawing a straight line
and i'll draw until i get one right
it's bold and dark girl, can't you see
i done drawn a line between you and me

i'm working on erasing you
just don't have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there's no way i'm forgetting this

i'm working hard on walking out
shoes keep sticking to the ground
my clothes won't let me close the door
these trousers seem to love your floor

i been working on my backwards walk
there's nowhere else for me to go
except back to you just one last time
say yes before i change my mind

say yes before i...
you're the shit and i'm knee-deep in it

Everyday, when I wake. I was expecting you to leave...

For those that for some reason only read this blog and don't listen to the music I post, you'll have missed out on The Winchell Riots and more fool you (also because the music is so much better than my writing ever will be).

Making cinematic indie-pop, they have a great sound incorporating lots of delay, anthemic songs and a singer with brilliant pronunciation and diction (you'll see what I mean).

Fell City Girl wrote some cracking tunes but Winchell Riots have retained all the great elements of FCG as has already been proved in the Histories EP and on Kandahar Road. I FINALLY got to see them back in May time and though I was front and centre with just one other person, it was basically perfect.

A new EP is on it's way and though it's being touted as their debut EP, in my opinion Histories is more than suitable as a debut, despite the sizeable time between releases.

So, make sure you buy their new EP when it comes out and check out their brilliantly choral version of Nice Dream by Radiohead too.

Big Chill roundup pt.2 - Mr Scruff

Playing a mammoth 3 hour DJ set on the Saturday night, Mr Scruff played a great set mixing some great funky soul records with Scruff classics and new tunes.

Check out the extremely funky new Scruff song Pickled Spider

Big Chill roundup

So, Big Chill was smashing. Lots of great bands, some incredible extra stuff [big ups to the orbs, thank you for a great Friday night ;-)] and in general a great weekend with top notch company.

Everyday this week I'm going to feature a song from a band that I saw at Big Chill and implore you to check out.

So, to kick us off is Martina Topley Bird. Singer with Massive Attack as well as reasonably prolific in her own right, Martina Topley Bird was my first band of the weekend and was breathtaking. I've never heard her work outside Massive Attack before and was suitably impressed by her and her ninja drummer.

Standout track of the performance and her work for me is Poison, originally released in 2008, Poison has been reworked for her new album and is a stunner.

Check out this thumping remix too, already in my next PA set (whenever that may be)

There's a scary beauty in the burial albums that I'm yet to hear anywhere else.

As im sitting on a packed commuter train, he transports me to another world with music that almost audibly breathes, there is so much space, so much suggestion and so little imposition to his work that it could be misconstrued as plain.

In fact, that craft of not smothering sounds and letting your mind fill in the gaps is something special.

I'll never stop being fascinated with the exceptional craft on display in all of his work and trying to explain the remarkable feelings I get as I listen.

Stupidly pretty

and what a brilliant, brilliant voice

Fitting..

..that my 200th post on Boy With A Coin is not only a Bloc Party one but saying things I'm not great at saying. This whole blog has been marred with me struggling with the right words at the right time, not that this is the right time to be saying what he says (was there ever a right time?).

Anyway, here's hoping the next 200 posts go up from here, apologies for the somewhat dreary mood around here lately.

If you're cold and you're alone
And you don't know where to go
You can call me anytime
Nothing's changed, I am still here

If you're running out of breath
And your building's burning down
You can jump, I will catch you
Nothing's changed, I am still here

With heavy hands and an absent mind
Did I blow your candle out?
With shortened words and a lack of time
Am I ever on your mind?

Was I cruel and never there?
Nothing to rely on
Was our romance a black hole?
You kept the better half than me

Well if you really wanted to know
Well no the earth's not moved for me since
I wish I could've given you lightness
The lightness that you deserve

And they say time is a healer
And time will look after you
I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait
Come over

Come over

Why don't you come over?

Well if you really wanted to know
Well no the earth's not moved for me since
I wish I could've given you lightness
The lightness that you deserve

And they say time is a healer
And time will look after you
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Come over

And I stole you that ring
'Cause I wanted you to have it
And it wasn't about me, I just wanted you to have it
Your smile, baby your smile, baby I come alive

I feel so naked, like before we met
Last night I was so close to just calling you up
They say it takes time to heal the wounds
I can't wait, I can't wait
Come over