can nights render us subaltern, rise to what no one remembers - waiting for the coup de foudre or grâce...

Aliya commented that she wanted some Benoît Pioulard, we struck a deal, and now i have to do my part... which isnt really that much of a labour as i have been wanting to make a mix of his (google him if you want to find out more about the enigmatic portland via michigan artists) stuff for some time... i've been a big fan of his tangled lyrics and railway track strumming since the album precis (triggering back is one of my favourite all time songs), and really hope to get a chance to see one of the few shows a year he plays sometimes... anyway, his music is like drifting through the city at night - a dérive - ambling through through the atmosphere, a movement through space, encountering ambiance in the archetecture of the everyday...

In no particular order:

1. Benoît Pioulard - Fir (Fir 7")
   
2. Benoît Pioulard - La Guerre de Sept Ans (Précis)
   
3. Benoît Pioulard - Maginot (Flocks ep)
   
4. Benoît Pioulard - Ragged Tint (Temper)
   
5. Benoît Pioulard - Kids Are Getting Younger (Enge ep)
   
6. Benoît Pioulard - Sunol (Fir 7")
7. Benoît Pioulard - Together & Down (Précis)
   
8. Benoît Pioulard - Ext. Leslie Park (Précis)
   
9. Benoît Pioulard - Forming At The Mouth (Fir 7")
10. Benoît Pioulard & Praveen - Embers (Songs Spun Simla)
    
11. Benoît Pioulard - Golden Grin (Temper)
12. Benoît Pioulard - Sparrowfield (Enge ep)
13. Benoît Pioulard - Triggering Back (Précis)
    
14. Benoît Pioulard - Palimend (Précis)
    
15. Benoît Pioulard - Idyll (Temper)
16. Benoît Pioulard - Brown Bees (Temper)
17. Benoît Pioulard - A Woolgathering Exodus (Temper)
18. Benoît Pioulard - Sous la Plage (Précis)
    
19. Benoît Pioulard & Praveen - At A Loss (The 'Gum Drop: Volume LXVII)
    
20. Benoît Pioulard - The Seedling (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Cover)
    

Download link:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y1RwM25IcVhoMlYzZUE9PQ

Also if anyone has the 'Lee 7"' ripped, the B-side (alaska lashes) for the 'Flock ep', or the 'Songs Spun Simla' album with Praveen I would apreciate a link...
I also have the 'Dakota/House ep' and 'Rain in May's...' mixtape if anyone wants it upped... more drone and ambient stuff than that above...

All images are polaroid by Benoît Pioulard , go to his website ( http://pioulard.com/ ) and check them out and by his albums, they are well worth it...

rabbit skeletons in the closet...

i've got some first world problems:

• i burnt the tandoori hashbrowns this morning because the wireless i steal from my neighbours was at one bar and it took me a long time to get through the bbc news
• the polaris music prize short list is a farce (seems it is quickly following in the steps of the mercury music prize) choosen by a bunch of want to be scenester hacks who are in their mid to late 30's and have put on a little to much weight... luckly they still have their designer thick brimmed glasses and ironic facial hair... seriously, im going to stop but what the fuck is that list
• i find it very hard to find good avocado's in this city, sigh...
• my eyes hurt from reading to much but my visine is at the office and i don't feel like getting up and walking over there (my car is low on gas so i would drive but i dont want to go out to the canadian tire on bath because its a little out of the way)
• there is a unreleased women track floating around somewhere with a really nice cello backing but i can't remember where i streamed it or found it...
• highlife seems to have changed thier band name to real eyes... this is not the problem, the problem is i can't stop listening to the track tuareg dancehall but can't find it anywhere to download so i have to listen to it off the myspace (seriously go listen it sounds like a stoned destroyer with an african/animal collective backing band http://www.myspace.com/highlifehighlife )
• some people i know did an online recipe exchange and i wasnt included, fucking culinary terrorists
• i saw three young men who, judging by the shirts i see them wearing almost every day, must be lumberjacks... yet, i cannot figure out how they can cut down trees when they are manorexic... fucking d-bag small town hipsters...
  
• i wish my thesis was moving quicker, i havnt been able to play guitar for more than an hour a day in weeks
• i miss playing croquette and drinking beer with friends back home, double sigh

these are my first world problems at the moment














here is some stuff i've been listening to lately, not all of it is new, but some of it is i guess:

1. the skygreen leopards - gorgeous johnny
2. spoon - got nuffin'
   
3. soy un caballo - robin (off a split ep with tunng)
   
4. emily loizeau - la dernière pluie
5. fleet foxes - blue spotted tail (live)
6. yim yames - all things must pass (george harrison cover from the guy who sings for my morning jacket)
7. the gaslight anthem - the weight (live cover of the band's classic)
8. the woods - rain on the radio (off a new 7")
9. the dodos - acorn factory
10. mount eerie - ancient questions
11. jj - ecstacy
12. kurt vile - overnite religion (off his forthcoming album which i can't fucking wait for)
13. forest swords - miarches
    
14. atlas sounds - walkabouts (with animal collective's noah lennox)

download link: https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y1RxakluQzNlM1IzZUE9PQ

Forest Swords - Miarches from the battle on Vimeo.

and just for fun...

all images by the amazing julien pacaud: http://www.julienpacaud.com/