A Sweet Unrest

Valley of the jeep beats

Back in 1991 Terminator X of Public Enemy released his own album.  I don't remember this single getting a lot of play on the radio - I bought it (unfortunately on the dreaded cassette single, a financial necessity) after seeing the video.  This track was produced by Hank Shocklee of Bomb Squad and has that layered funky mayhem they were so good at creating and it features Chuck D so we really aren't too far from it being a Public Enemy track and like the best of those it stirs up a familiar tension in me: where do I head first, a protest march or the dance floor?  This also features the debut of a very shouty Sistah Souljah - you may develop a sudden urge to sit up straight, wash behind your ears and get right.

Termnator X - Buck Whylin'

Here's the clip:

Something smells like burning

   

The past couple weeks have been full: (repeatedly) feverish babes, a semi - disastrous return to the stage, coming to grips with the final Kurt Wallander novel (*weep*, as Colin might say).  But my lovely inbox comes to the rescue with this shimmering indiepop gem of an album, all rueful wit and bruised charm and bittersweet sparkle.  

Tiny Birds - Still

It was hard to pick a track because I like all eight of them a whole lot.  But it doesn't matter all that much because they are giving the entire album, Hymns for the Careless, away for free at their website.  Free as in FREE.  And of course I am not a real music blogger, only a humble, grateful fangirl but is it too far off to say the overall sound reminds me of Allo Darlin' (though with a fellow singing rather than a Harriet-esque young lady) with splash of The Pogues?  Anyway, highly recommended x.