Pet Politics and some Fun

After some great loss, the issues with my mail have been sorted (ha!) and I can again e-purchase with abandon. I was able to recover, with help, some of the things I was sent but never received, like Pet Politics Spring EP.

Magnus Larsson's singing voice, honeyed and sweetly accented, sounds close-by, but the music is seemingly from a different time. It's all familiar, the bright instrumentation and the benign melody, which gives it a refreshingly complete feel. "Life Goes On" closes the EP with a slow push, perfect for an afternoon's languor.

Pet Politics - Life Goes On [mp3]

buy Pet Politics' Spring EP from Catbird Records for a measly $3.50

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Make Your Own (Halloween) Mash-Up!

Yesterday while sat at the piano, a friend noted that the Pipettes' "Pull Shapes"' melody is so ubiquitous, especially in songs of the era they're mining, that it could be mashed up with any number of absurd songs. His suggestion? "Monster Mash." It's more fun to mash up "live," by singing the Graveyard Smash over the Pipettes. Also, because I have no idea how to mash up a song.

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes [mp3]

buy the Pipettes' self-titled album here

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Did you enter the Walkmen contest? It's still going on, FYI.

Don't any of you music bloggers want to join me, Goose and others in the fantasy basketball league?