The Sleepy Jackson
‘Spaced-out pop maestro or Australia’s answer to Brian Wilson?’ Whatever. Luke Steele – aka The Sleepy Jackson – is a mythically talented songwriter with a stack of charisma and a headful of awkward, skewered melodies that latch ferociously onto the most basic of chord progressions and simply refuse to relent. ‘I like the peace and quiet which comes with living in Perth’, he says of his isolated surrounds. ‘I can walk down the main road and feel like I’m a professor. Then I can go back to my laboratory and conjure up some more potions’. All of which has resulted in the band’s second album – Personality – an album steeped in traditionalism and which shows off the country/pop chops of Australia’s most enigmatic frontman. It’s upbeat and cheery, and thanks to EMI we have ten copies to give away to random emailers with their favourite sleep-inducing tonic in the body of the message. And, yes, we like bribes. Things that go ‘ahhh’.
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Crimea X is the coming together of two offbeat, disparate characters, DJ Rocca (Ajello, Super Sonic Lovers, Maffia Sound System) and Jukka Reverberi from 90s Italian glam cult rockers, Giardini di Mirò, who have often have been compared with the sound of Mogwai, Arab Strap, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. We asked them about their favourite music and they started with The Smiths song, Ask [listen below] ‘I saw them playing live on Italian TV. It was during the 80s when I was extremely young, and I’ve never stopped listening to this song’. Read the rest of Crimea X’s Secret Playlist.
I love the curated selection of abandoned swimming pool photos on Feature Shoot today, featuring work by Carlo Van de Roer and Albert Jodar, amongst others.
Win a set of Sony personal audio prizes
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
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London-based mental-health nursing student Daryl Cunningham has posted a chapter on his blog from his forthcoming comic Psychiatric Tales addressing the realities and myths surrounding mental illness.
Cambodian born photographer Frederic Chaubin is the editor of French magazine Citizen K. His photo series on bizarre buildings built in the former Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s is absolutely fascinating. Read more
WeMe Creative has an awesome new female tee available called All About Me, featuring ‘pattern wrap over’ printing. Read more
Whoa. That was intense. I’ve just awoken from a dream whereby my big self somehow stumbles upon my five-year old self playing enthusiastically with a group of kids. Read more
Before MTV, MySpace, and viral marketing, album covers had the potential to make or break a band. First impressions count, and many a music geek have purchased albums on the cover artwork alone. So what these guys were thinking is simply beyond me. Although, if anyone has a spare copy of Devastating Dave the Turntable Slave then I know someone, ahem, who could take it off you. Read more
My favourite cartoon is Home Movies by Brendon Small. Read more
Korean-born Okkyung Lee, who has found a niche amongst the regulars at John Zorn’s The Stone, makes intricate cello improvisations based on her classical and jazz training, following a path forged by the likes of Tom Cora, but veering off into her own stranger, noisier directions.
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Charlie Immer’s pastel-pallete sometimes obfuscates the gory violence in his surreal images. At other times, it heightens the gut-wrenching and visceral effect of his work. Read more
Good thing Kris Kuksi channelled the trauma of growing up with an alcoholic stepfather, his disdain for ‘the typical American life and pop culture’, and his fascination with the macabre into obsessive, baroque assemblages, paintings, and drawings. Read more
Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
Trip out with Sparrow Vs Sparrow’s retro illustrations, I love their aesthetic, color use and sense of humor. Read more
Scanners’ new single Salvation
I love this track by London based rock group, Scanners, which is off their latest album, Submarine. Having toured with acts such as The Horrors, The Wedding Present, The Charlatans, Electric Six, and Juliette & The Licks, Scanners could well blow up in 2010. Figuratively speaking, not literally. No, that wouldn’t be fun.
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
These Prosperity earrings by Australian designer Karina Jean are cast in sterling silver, finished by hand and swing on hand-formed silver ear hooks. They are available for purchase through the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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Lost At E Minor: Music, illustration, art, photography - from Australia and beyond » Gentlemen take polaroids said | 23 August, 2006
[...] Darren Seltmann from Australian electro/hip pop group, The Avalanches, selects five of his favourite tracks to sample. ‘1. Kojak – David Rutter. This guy was so pissed off when Kojak got taken off the air that he wrote a song; 2. Tension – DJ Shadow. Better than Kojak, but without a concept it can’t be number one; 3. Rum Is Macho – Mighty Sparrow. The lyrics indicate that rum became uncool in the late 70s. Sparrow disagreed. 4. Fever – Lord Kitchener. Kitch singing that he’s sick and dying from dancing and singing; 5. Breakdown – Arrow. Everyone needs to breakdown’. [see also The Sleepy Jackson; Hot Chip; The Glimmers] [...]