Eyemaylisten Music Blog

Sorry, this is a slight deviation from the norm for me and the dance/electro scene but I feel like I should mention it. For anyone that knows me well enough, I am and have been a big fan of Alkaline Trio for about 8/9 years now. I have to admit to preferring their older releases [...]

It’s been a long, anticipated wait for me, and when I heard that Yuksek‘s first LP was being released in February I was straight online with my payment details at the ready! It was released on the 9th in the UK ad of course I received my copy on that day! Influences apparent in his [...]

I do have to apologise about the lack of electro input over the last month – my lovely 6 month old iMac decided to fail on me, thus meaning I am now writing this on a dreaded PC. Anyway to business… Jean-Baptiste de Laubier – to me, one of the biggest influences on my music [...]

This is going to be a nice little packet of juicy musical jumble for you to pick apart and process… So much has been going on my only option was to shove it all neatly into one post. Enjoy.. If you haven’t already, check out Dan Black’s website. It’s pretty swish. You can also get [...]

The Rakes are set to release their new album; ‘Klang’ on 23rd March, but we have a sneaky preview… I have for your listening pleasure, the eighth track off the album. I love the track name, kill all the PCs!! Mac all the way! Raaa! Anyway, let me know what you think; MP3: The Rakes [...]

Two Door Cinema Club are the beautiful trio from Bangor/Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, who have been raping my itunes of late with a mere few tracks… With their electro pop sound, influences such as Bloc Party, Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade and a cute boy-faced image; its easy to see why. I am a sucker for [...]

And I offer you Marina And The Diamonds, a beautiful girl with a beautiful sound. Ever since hearing this girl she has been on the mind. She’s nothing less than awesome. I haven’t had a pet favorite for a while and she’s certainly filling the void. There isn’t much available out there in the way [...]

Well I feel that as I am posting this on the first day of the grand year that is Two Thousand and Nine I should put up some of my preferred music released in the last 12 months. Firstly, I’m afraid to say that I will be doing it in the clichéd way of naming [...]

Currently based in Aberdeen, Sabrepulse is a 22 year-old Yorkshire born laptop/chip musician. He was influenced by the 8/16bit videogame era and this is very apparent in his music – and indeed in the recently coined ‘chipbreak’ genre. He started producing music at the beginning of the decade after deciding to rewrite the soundtracks to [...]

Bloc Party have just released their new video for the third single from ‘Intimacy’ out on the 26th of January on Wichita Recordings…. check it out on youtube by clicking here. The animation is pretty immense, check it out. My apologies for the lack of posts, I haven’t forgotten about you all – keep the [...]