Pero hoy he escuchado el avance de lo que será su nuevo trabajo, y llevo todo el día tarareando el estribillo de “Black White & Blue”, que se ha adelantado para estrenar la ficha de Ladyhawke aquí.

El 19 de marzo podremos disfrutar de su segundo álbum completo: Anxiety y pinta todo muy bonito.

Letra:

Time is never easy when you’re alone
Your mother, she always told you to hold your own
Cause this is real life, oh no
You can’t fight it, oh no
Cause this is real life

[estribillo]
On and on through the night and the milky way
It’s black and white & blue for you
Now and then when you cry It will always be black and white & blue for you

Life inside your head has come undone
Your soul descent to madness has just begun
But this is real life, oh no
You can’t fight it, oh no
Cause this is real life

[estribillo]

Waking from a strange dream
Spinning cause you had too much last night
No communication,
Wondering if you’ll ever feel alright
But this is real life, oh no
You can’t fight it, oh no
Cause this is real life

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
2. KT Tunstall – Black Horse And The Cherry Tree [Recomendación]
3. Chairlift – Bruises

Esta banda neozelandesa (¿alguna vez os he dicho que es mi destino soñado?) se hizo un hueco en el mercado musical con el segundo single de su álbum debut Passive Me, Aggressive You (2010).

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”:

Letra:

We’re only young and naive still
We require certain skills
The mood it changes like the wind
Hard to control when it begins

[estribillo]
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Can’t help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate

We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky

[estribillo]

As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
As you shiver
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before it’s too late
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runaway
2. The Killers – Human
3. The National – Afraid of Everyone

Canción que ha servido de banda sonora para anuncios y series (los que sigáis en la HBO How to Make It in America, quizás os suene ) y primer single de su último disco Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011).

Atención al videoclip, que es como un cortometraje:

Letra:

Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow

Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs

Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight

Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Kasabian – Underdog
2. Belle & Sebastian – I Want The World To Stop
3. Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place

Y luego la parte 2 de esta misma canción, con la voz de todo-lo-que-toco-lo-convierto-en-oro Chris Martin (por cierto… ojalá se cumplan los rumores de Coldplay en el BBK Live 2011…¡a ver si anuncian ya algún triste grupo!):

Letra:

I slipped away last night
Took me away from sight and the place I know.
All crushed upon my skin
This mess I put you in and the punch I threw.

It was a strange reaction
for someone like you to remain on side
And in a chain reaction
I was down and calling for a place to hide.

I saw a broken arm
Machines will all break down in the way I know.

Mended and all made clean
I saw up on the screen all the stones I throw.

It was a strange reaction
for someone like you to remain so sure
And in a chain reaction
I dissolve and break and then away I crawl.
Then away I crawl.

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Crystal Castles & Robert Smith – Not In Love
2. David Gray – The One I Love
3. Coldplay – Warning Sign

Y la banda sonora ideal para acompañar a esa asincronía son canciones como las que fabrica Kasabian. Sonidos sucios, caóticos y con un punto electrónico logrado con esos característicos rasgueos de guitarras.

Os dejo pues con Underdog, tercer single del álbum West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009). Que este tren se pare, que yo me bajo.

Letra:

[estribillo]
Kill me if you dare,
hold my head up everywhere
Keep myself right on this train
I’m the underdog, live my life on a lullaby
Keep myself riding on this train
Keep myself riding on this train

Love in Technicolor sprayed out on walls
Well, I’ve been pounding at the pavement till there’s nothing at all
I got my cloak and dagger in a bar room brawl
See the local loves a fighter, loves a winner to fall

Feels like I’m lost in a moment
I’m always losing to win
Can’t get away from the moment
Seems like it’s time to begin

[estribillo]

It don’t matter, I won’t do what you say
You’ve got the money and the power, I won’t go your way
I can’t take from the people, they don’t matter at all
I’ll be waiting in the shadows till the day that you fall

Feels like I’m lost in a moment
I’m always losing to win
Can’t get away from the moment
Seems like it’s time to begin

[estribillo]

Tell me if you’re down, throw your weapons to the ground
Keep myself right on this train
Hey bird you’re on the wire, sold yourself for another one
Keep myself riding on this train
Keep myself riding on this train

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Orson – No Tomorrow
2. Atomic Tom – Take Me Out
3. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

Hands se ha vuelto una canción rompe-pistas de baile, así como radiofórmulas varias. Y también nos marca un cambio de estilo: del indie rock electrónico al electropop ochentero (al menos en esta primera canción). Tiene ni se sabe ya cuántos remixes. De hecho, los han puesto para la libre descarga desde su página web.

Es innegable que saben meter el ritmo en todo lo que hacen. Pero hoy vengo con la versión acústica que se cascaron para la BBC. Todo un lujazo disfrutar de su arte a capela (aún así no os perdáis el vídeoclip oficial que tiene un cierto aire a Metrópolis):

Letra:

Two hands
I wanna play the piano with two hands
Should’ve learned
Two hands come in handy, It’s the way of the world

Boy you’re not being good to me
You gave me a piano with all 88 keys

But two hands
Whats a girl to do
With two hands
To make the money like the richest of man
Whats a guy to do
With two hands
I can make you be so good to me
Give me all the love with my sexuality

[estribillo]
So clap your hands if you’re working too hard
Clap your hands if you’re working too hard
Clap your hands if you’re working too hard
And the beat’s so hard, you’re working working

Two hands
What you’re supposed to do with two hands
To get the life of the richest of man
Where you’re supposed to go with two hands
I could have been somewhere in between
When I’m breaking my back and I’m on my knees

[estribillo]

And I, I cant escape from the work in LA
And I, I cant sleep in my bed in UK
And you clap your hands if your workin to hard
Clap your hands if you’re working to hard

You see life and its falling away
You slow down and the rest makes you pay
I see you looking up
You want to think about it

[estribillo]

And I can’t escape from the work in LA
And I cant sleep in my bed in UK
And clap your hands if you’re workin too hard
Clap your hands if you’re workin too hard

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go
2. Fuel – Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
3. Mando Diao – Dance With Somebody

Aunque debo confesar que no me gusta particularmente su sonido (excesivamente electrónico y sintético), la voz de The Cure (Robert Smith) hace que esta canción tome un cariz diferente. Sin duda, me quedo con esta colaboración y no con la del duo a secas. El hecho de que de tanto tratar la voz de Alice Glass, casi ni se la entienda, supongo que tendrá algo que ver… Igual hasta es la voz de Ethan Kath… Hagan sus apuestas . Por cierto, se trata de una versión de la original de Platinum Blonde (1984).

Sonido “vintage” para empezar a echarle un ojo al fin de semana.

Letra:

I saw your picture hangin’ on the back of my door
Won’t give you my heart no one lives there anymore
And we were lovers now we can’t be friends
Fascination ends
Here we go again

[estribillo]
Cause it’s cold outside, when you coming home
Cause it’s hot inside, isn’t that enough
I’m not in love
I’m not in love
I’m not in love

Could it be that time has taken it’s toll
Won’t take you so far, I am in control
And we were lovers and we can’t be friends
Fascination ends
Here we go again

[estribillo]

(and we can’t be friends, fascination ends
Here we go again ooooh)
(Cause it’s cold outside, when you coming home
Cause it’s hot inside, isn’t that enough)

I’m not in love
I’m not in love
I’m not in love
I’m not in love

We are not in love
We are not in love
We are not in love
We are not in love
We are not in love

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Crystal Fighters – Champion Sound
2. New Order – Crystal
3. L.A. – Crystal Clear

Bruises es el primer single de su segundo disco: Does You Inspire You (2008). Seguro que los amantes de la manzanita habrán reconocido rápidamente la canción porque fue usada en el anuncio del iPod Nano de cuarta generación. No os perdías esta versión con un violín eléctrico. Mañana empezaremos el lunes con otra cara .

Letra:

I tried to do handstands for you
I tried to do headstands for you
Everytime I fell you on yeah everytime I fell
I tried to do handstands for you
But everytime I fell for you
I’m permanently black and blue, permanently blue for
you

I tried to do handstands for you
I tried to do headstands for you
Everytime I fell on you yeah everytime I fell
I tried to do handstands but everytime I fell for you
I’m permanently black and blue, permanently blue for

[estribillo]
For you
For you
So black and blue
For you

I grabbed some frozen strawberries so I could ice your bruisy knees
But frozen things they all unfreeze and now I taste like
All those frozen strawberries I used to chill your bruisy knees,
Hot July ain’t good to me
I’m pink and black and blue

I got bruises on my knees for you
And grass stains on my knees for you
Got holes in my new jeans for you
Got pink and black and blue

Got bruises on my knees for you
And grass stains on my knees for you
Got holes in my new jeans for you
Got pink and black and blue for

[estribillo]

Do-doo-do-do-do
Do-doo-do-do-do
Do-doo-do-do-do
Do-doo-do-do-do
Do-doo-do-do-do

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Ladyhawke – Black White & Blue
2. The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go
3. The Ting Tings – Hands

Las notas iniciales son asombrosas. Nunca tan poco había tenido tanta personalidad. Así que al ver el anuncio, no necesité más de cinco segundos para reconocerla. Por cierto, el anuncio es tremendo… Genial combinación de imágenes de ajedrez, con la música y el poema de Omar Kayyam:

“Dijo el sabio: la vida es un tablero de ajedrez, de noches y días, donde Dios con hombres como piezas juega, mueve aquí y allí. Da jaque mate y mata. Y pieza por pieza vuelve a ponerlos en la caja, pues hay un destino para la pieza, para el jugador y para Dios. La partida empieza y termina”

Letra:

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Everything
Everything
Everything
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

I’ve got two colours in my head
I’ve got two colours in my head
What was that you tried to say?
What was that you tried to say?
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say

Everything in its right place…

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Radiohead – Creep
2. Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To
3. Radiohead – No Surprises

Pero yo me sigo quedando con el remix que hizo The Source junto a la voz de Candi Staton, una cantante soul que brilló con fuerza en la época de los 70 y que volvió a la escena en 1991 con esta canción. La versión original fue escrita en 1986 por Anthony B. Stephens, Arnecia Michelle Harris y John Bellamy. Un poco de ritmo para terminar la semana.

Letra:

Sometimes I feel like
Throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying
Lord I just don’t care
But you’ve got the love I need
To see me through

Sometimes it seems that
The going is just too rough
And things go wrong
No matter what I do
Now and then I feel
That life is just too much
But you’ve got the love
I need to see me through

Sometimes I feel like
Throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying
Lord I just don’t care
But you’ve got the love I need
To see me through

Time after time
I say oh Lord whats the use
Time after time
I say this just won’t do, but
Sooner or later in life the things you love you loose,
Just like before I know i’ll call on you

Occasionally
my thoughts are brave and friends are few
Occasionally
I cry out Lord what must I do
Occasionally
I call up Master make me new
You’ve got the love
I need to see me through

Sometimes I feel like
Throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying
Lord I just don’t care
But you’ve got the love I need
To see me through

You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
…

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird [Recomendación]
3. Crystal Castles & Robert Smith – Not In Love