3-4-FREE - 20/01/11 - Girl Talk, Silk Flowers & Jon Dots

Hello and welcome to what, hopefully, marks the beginning of a regularly scheduled This Does Not Make Me A Journalist in 2011 with 3-4-FREE every Thursday and Lend Them Your Ears every Monday.

So lets kick off this 3-4-FREE...

GIRL TALK - TRIPLE DOUBLE
http://illegal-art.net/allday/



Whilst the above link gives you access to the entire Girl Talk album All Day (you are spoilt you know...) it is Triple Double, the 11th track on the record, that I keep playing at the moment - 6 and a half minutes of mash-up madness featuring Phoenix, Ludacris, The Rolling Stones and Willow Smith, amongst others. It is utterly barmy but also great fun, which is an approach TDMMAJ likes very much.

SILK FLOWERS - A BRUSH THROUGH THE DUST
http://stereogum.com/617602/band-to-watch-silk-flowers/franchises/band-to-watch/

Far from the chipper indie-pop I normally immerse myself in, this gothic, industrial, down in the mouth track from NYC's Silk Flowers caught me completely off-guard, as it turns out I really, really like it. There's a great deal going on in this song as Avarim Cohen's dark vocal is backed by some well-layered downbeat electro shenanigans. The band will be touring the USA and Canada in March.

JON DOTS - THE GREAT DICTATOR

And lastly, a fantastic track from Irish bedroom singer-songwriter-producer Jon Dots, The Great Dictator. Inspired by Charlie Chaplin's film of the same name, and promising to be the first of the artist's songs to be based on films, this is a catchy, twinkling shimmy of an electrio-indie track. Hopefully this guy will have a long career of making equalling interesting and listenable songs for our pleasure...

So there we go - 2 tracks and a whole album for you to enjoy! We'll be back on Monday for Lend Them Your Ears. Have a good weekend!