Day 34: Crystal Castles - Untrust Us

Last weekend my friend Jeroen told me that I really should see this band on Lowlands.He thought that this was amazing. And so the good stuff comes from Canada, as I present you a Canadian band again. Crystal Castles (formed in 2003), a duo formed by producer Ethan Kath and singer Alice Glass, makes electronic music by using samples from videogames from the eigthies.

And that's what I like; these funky/ happy samples, combined with his ongoing walking electronic beat and some vague singing. It keeps me moving and makes me smile. Perfect to survive an average Tuesday.

Day 33: Destroyer - Kaputt

Today a song I heard for the first time yesterday while recovering from an amazing WTTF festival and today I thought that I really needed to share this one with you.

Destroyer is a Canadian indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar. Kaputt is their newest single, released in january, from the album Kaput. I compare it to David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, Sade..

It has an eigthies pop feeling makes me feel totally relaxt. A perfect song for chilling on the couch with a nice drink, or while driving home from a sunny day at the beach.. And the good things is that it even lasts for 6:19 minutes. (On Lowlands in the Lima tent on friday @ 15:00, so a relaxt start of your LL weekend)

Day 32: Fink - This is the thing

I've got this song in my sunday-morning-raining-outside-I-prefer-to-stay-in-bed playlist for a while now and it still a song I really enjoy listening to. "Things that keep us apart, keep me alive.. Things that keep me alive, keep me alone " I has a dark sound (as it is written in minor key) and makes you think. Just with a guitar this singer perfectly knows how the translate the message... It gives me goosebumps...(on Lowlands on sunday, India, 11:30, so perfectly to wake up with).

Day 31: Paul Kalkbrenner - Platscher

I keep it short today..

I come from nowhere
And lead to nowhere
I am a wave
in the ocean of time

I do exist
I breathe
and yet I don't

I search nothing
and I find
nothing more or less
than thoughts, dreams and fantasies..

Day 30: Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

One of the best songs of Fleet Foxes (US 2008) from one of the greates Indie bands in the world. Often compared to bands like Croshby Stills & Nash, Beach Boys or Animal Collective, which they absolutely deserve..

It's a song from their second album Sun Giant and it perfectly fits todays crappy weather as it says to me something like: it is good to dream away and think about the things that matter in life, about where I come from, where I am right now and where the bus, I'm driving, is going...

Brilliant songwriting as well as there's just so much in it: a friendship gone wrong, drug addiction, accepting of what happens to you, greek mythodology and more..

Day 29: Noah and the Whale - Give a little love

The English indie folk band Noah and the Whale, formed in 2006, will be performing on the Grolsch stage on friday evenening. They make songs about life, stories about the things that matter in life, about the good and bad things that happen to all of us.

In their most recent songs, lead-singer Charlie Fink, sings about his break-up with former band member Laura Marling, who left the band in 2008. This brought them finally their long desired breakthrough with songs like "5 years time" and "L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N", which is played on the dutch radio quite often.

I just wanted to present you a song from one their first album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down. It's a song called "Give a little love" and it think it's just great. Both the feeling that it gives me and the lyrics, especially the last part of the song:

Well if you are (what you love)
And you do (what you love)
I will always be the sun and moon to you
And if you share (with your heart)
Yeah, you give (with your heart)
What you share with the world is what it keeps of you

Day 28: Happy Camper - Born with a bothered mind (feat. Bouke Zoete)

Ok people, I cheated. I didn't posted a song for two days. I was away for the weekend and didn't have internet acces so I wasn't really able to post a song. I'll make it up to you this week by posting two additional tracks somewhere during this week.

Lowlands festival announced its so called "Blokkenschema" last week. And because of that, the coming weeks, I'll be posting songs related to Lowlands artist of this years festival

Today a song that just makes me happy, nothing more, nothing less. It'is from a dutch collective called Happy Camper, founded by Job Roggeveen and his friends, who are making poppy songs with film, chanson and balkan influences (and supported by dutch artist like Janna Schra, Tim Knol, Ricky Koole and others). Just fun to listen to and I am expecting a wonderfull afternoon on Sunday in the Lima tent.

Enjoy their song called "Born with a bothered mind". (and watch the amazing videoclip as well)