justin warfield : the return journey from planet 9

so there i am feeling chuffed to have cleared out a few of the current pile when today brings even more stuff.

most of it was not giving me any thrills and my heart sank. then all of a sudden everything changed. 3 singles from the memphis industries label have reenergised my passion. new stuff by the pipettes, field music and absentee are totally wonderful. the pipettes at last make the single that we all knew, and hoped they would. cheeky humour, massive motown/phil spector styled production and a song that just clicks perfectly for its 2.5 minutes, absentee do their rolling tom waits rock far better than anything they have ever done before and make me smile a lot, whereas field music prove that they have a lot more excellence to come following their initially awkward album of last year  (the band have played to their strength with straight forward song structures as opposed to the disjointed styles on the album). hurray.

then when i though the day couldn't get any better. i received word re she wants revenge.

and the reason for my buzz : justin warfield is involved

you see, justin has been one of the characters on the fringe of the mainstream for years that always makes me interested, he dabbles in every style of music i love, yet never seems to get the recognition due his chop and change style.

after all its not easy loving his work. first up his debut, 'my field trip to planet 9', was all prince paul produced psychedelic hip hop and made a lot people rather excited to hear more, so naturally he followed up with his southern rock band 'the justin warfield supernaut' (not a great album to be honest), before dropping the ultimate dark-n-broody one inch punch album, 'tao of theone inch punch', which managed to combine my bloody valentine/underground guitar noise with the deepest and most raw hip hop beats. as well as his guest appearances on tracks by placebo, lhb, cornershop and of course the drop dead classic bugpowder dust by bomb the bass.

after which all went quiet for a while. sort of. he was experimenting with a band called 'tape'. slow drawn out drone rock music that, well, it rocked hard, but never got past the demo-available-via-website kinda groove (a shame as there were some great tracks).

perhaps then this media unfriendly, genre hopscotch means that i am probably the only person to be pleased to see/hear of his return as a homage to all thing bauhaus and goth pop under the guise of 'she wants revenge'

within moments of the tipoff, i am immediately on the case, when i tap into the bands myspace area i find out that they have amassed over 24,000 friends.

and i knew nothing. how is it i had not heard.

damn.

expect to hear/read more on this ongoing trip.

onwards

mark e

ireallylovemusic