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EPL Talk Podcast - Odds and Sods

Listen to me and two people who know more than me babble about the soccer. EPL TALK Podcast

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EPL Talk Podcast - International Vacation!

Heated debating on the EPL TALK

EPL Talk Podcast - Derby Day

Listen as yer buddy JW babbles on about Football (Soccer).  

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IYS: THUNDERCAT

Every review i’ve read about the new Thundercat album is that it sounds like Erykah Badu. Almost every review about this album is comparing this work to every genre (jazz/London broken beat/trip hop) and artist (Badu/Miles Davis/Mouse on Mars) that the writers are tripping over themselves flexing their skills in pinning down who this sounds like.

The truth is that The Golden Age of the Apocalypse sounds like robots playing soul music. That Sade type soul—the type of stuff that you may hear in certain places where older men and women try and meet and hook up. Thundercat (and Flying Lotus) produced a sound evoking robots playing soul music, just slightly too weird for old people meat markets.

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Playing The Beautiful Game by Jag Shoker: Book Review

In viewing soccer, I’ve always gotten the sense that the game we’re watching represents some bigger metaphor for the life we lead. Two clubs, batting inch for inch up the pitch, each tiny battle won or lost, a portion of a bigger picture. It’s why when a goal occurs it is such a cause for celebration; the goal is the reward for the long battle held.

Author Jag Shoker’s “Playing the Beautiful Game” is a series of quotations, or “verses” as Shoker calls them that are to assist us in maneuvering through our life using football as the metaphor. As Shoker describes in the introduction, “Life, sport and business are all at times, games. Your success within the game depends so much upon the clarity, strength and purpose with which you play the game.”

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LUKE TEMPLE: DON’T ACT LIKE YOU DON’T CARE

Luke Temple, he of proud amounts of hype and press from his outfit, Here We Go Magic, has released a side of a side project in Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care. In reality, Temple had originally started work on this album before HWGM’s 2009 debut. After the release of the self titled album, Temple shelved this one until well, now.

Originally called The Country Record, Temple’s latest album has a lot of the usual singer/songwriter effects you see with new bands/artists who want to go into folk. It feels like a drive on a country road, and you immediately picture the singer sitting on something out in the open, guitar in hand while the open road lies before him.

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IYS Review: KINCH: THE INCANDENZA

Kinch is a band from Phoenix, Arizona and The Incandenza was, in their words, influenced by “Lux coffee, Boss Orange distortion pedals, Steinway B’s, David Foster Wallace, SampleMoog, anxiety, acid reflux and downstrokes.”

Kinch is best described as very upbeat sounding pop music with retro overtones (especially in the choruses) and lyrics that give off a stark contrast with their despair. It’s really a close reflection to Sub Pop post-grunge era, with bands like the Posies and Sunny Day Real Estate. There’s a lot of bounce all over, and when you see them live I presume a lot of the audience does the head-bob dance where you act like you’re going to jump but never really leave your feet.

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