the big sleep

i've been kinda bored with music lately. and even more bored with blogging. although the guillemots' rave reviews were almost enough to get me started again - i actually listened to the their albums several times to try to figure out what i was missing and that supposedly makes their album so good. i never figured it out and except for a couple of decent pop songs i think the album is absolute shit. just had to get that out of my system. anyhow, i'm pretty excited about hearing the big sleep's forthcoming album son of the tiger. it seems like quite a few bands these days are inspired by late 80s-early 90s indie music with the great majority of them zoning in on my bloody valentine but unfortunately mostly ending up sounding like chapterhouse. with some exceptions, of course. the big sleep's influences are less obvious perhaps but i'm pretty sure their record collections/harddrives contain a fair amount of music from this period. they actually remind me quite a bit of the faith healers who, at least in my opinion, were somewhat underrated. at any rate, the big sleep shares the same driving, almost mechanical, beat, which also brings stereolab to (my) mind. at any rate, definately worth checking out. murder & you can't touch the untouchable.