Gomez es otro descubrimiento de este festival: una banda inglesa de indie rock, que fusiona el blues y rock echando unas gotitas de country (por ejemplo en esta canción). Como no podía ser de otra manera con ese título, esta melodía formó parte de la banda sonora de Anatomía de Grey , así como de otras tantas series.

Calm down
And get straight
It’s not our eyes
It’s how we operate

A little joy
A little sorrow
And a little pride so we won’t have to borrow

Wherever you lead, I’ll follow

[estribillo]
Turn me inside out
and upside down
And try to see things my way
Turn a new page,
tear the old one out
And I’ll try to see things your way

Please come here
Please come on over
There is no line that you can’t step right over
Without you well I’m left hollow
So can we decide to try a little joy tomorrow
‘Cos baby tonight I’ll follow

[estribillo]

The way that we’ve been speaking now
I swear that we’d be friends, I swear
‘Cos all these little deals go down with
little consequences, we share, we share

[estribillo]

And I’m gonna love you anyway
Try to see things your way
Try to see things your way
Try to see things your way

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. L.A. – Crystal Clear
2. Broken Bells – The High Road
3. Editors – Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors

Daremos el pistoletazo de salida con una gran descubrimiento: la banda escocesa Biffy Clyro. El directo fue impecable. Mucha fuerza de la mano de Simon Neil y lo que se valora en un concierto de rock: una compensación estupenda entre voz y música (es muy usual que los bafles cargados de riffs se coman las palabras, que se vuelven en algo indistinguible entre las notas).

Su último disco (el quinto ya) está cargado de potencia (Only Revolutions, 2009). Pero, como era de esperar por mi nivel de ñoñez, yo me decanto por un baladón (todo grupo de rock que se precie tiene que tener una ). Seguro que se pasan más canciones por aquí de esta banda, porque tiene auténticas joyas (Bubbles, The Captain, …).

Letra:

You say: I love you boy
I know you lie
I trust you all the same
I don’t know why

‘Cause when my back is turned
My bruises shine
Our broken fairy tale
So hard to hide

[estribillo]
I still believe
it’s you and me ‘til the end of time
When we collide we come together
If we don’t we’ll always be apart
I’ll take a bruise I know you’re worth it
When you hit me hit me hard

Sitting in a wishin’ hole
Hoping it stays dry
Feet cast in solid stone
I’ve got Gilligan’s eyes

[estribillo]

You said love was letting us go against what
Our future is for…
Many of horror
our future is for…
many of horror

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Gomez – How We Operate
2. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
3. The Black Keys – Tighten Up

El videoclip no tiene desperdicio . Como curiosidad, sacaron una versión previa con un dinosaurio por protagonista:

Letra:

I wanted love, I needed love
Most of all, most of all, …
Someone said “True Love” was dead
but I’m bound to fall
Bound to fall for you

Oh what can I do?

Take my badge, but my heart remains
Loving you, baby child, …
Tighten up on your reigns, you’re running wild.
Running wild, it’s true.

Sick for days, so many ways
I’m aching now, I’m aching now
It’s times like these, I need relief.
Please show me how, oh show me how..
To get right
Yeah it’s all the side

When I was young, and moving fast,
Nothing slowed me down, oh slowed me down.
Now I let the others pass
I’ve come around, oh come around.
Cause I found.

Living just to keep going
Going just to be sane.
All the while I know
It’s such a shame
I don’t need to get steady
I know just what to feel.
Telling me to be ready, my dear

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Broken Bells – The High Road
2. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
3. Lou Reed – Walk On the Wild Side

En 2005 se sacaron de la manga un estupendo álbum (Takk…) y con él este emocionante single, más conocido en Reino Unido por ser seleccionado para un anuncio de la serie de la BBC Planet Earth de Sir David Attenborough. Una prueba indudable de que la música no entiende de idiomas sino de sentimientos.

Letra:

Brosandi
Hendumst í hringi
Höldumst í hendur
Allur heimurinn óskýr
Nema þú stendur

Rennblautur
Allur rennvotur
Engin gúmmístígvél
Hlaupandi inn í okkur
Vill springa út úr skel

Vindurinn
Og útilykt af hárinu þínu
Eg lamdi eins fast og ég get
Með nefinu mínu

Hoppípolla
I engum stígvélum
Allur rennvotur (rennblautur)
I engum stígvélum

Og ég fæ blóðnasir
En ég stend alltaf upp
(Hopelandic)

Og ég fæ blóðnasir
Og ég stend alltaf upp
(Hopelandic)

Traducción al inglés

Jumpin’ Puddles

Smiling
Spinning ’round and ’round
Holding hands
The whole world a blur
But you are standing

Soaked
Completely drenched
No rubber boots
Running in us
Want to erupt from a shell

Wind in
Aand outdoor smell of your hair
I hit as fast as I could
With my nose

Hopping into puddles
Completely drenched
Soaked
With no boots on

And I get nosebleed
But I always get up
(Hopelandic)

And I get nosebleed
But I always get up

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No hay silencios parecidos a éste.

El principio de la canción despista un poco, pero luego, con las guitarras, gana cuerpo. Y como no, os dejo con un directo en el show de David Letterman (aquí tenéis el vídeoclip):

Go down to wait all night
She’s bound to run him out
The rest of the nothing of any how
To each his own

The garden is sorting out
She curls her lips on a bar
I don’t know if you’re dead or not
If you’re anyone

Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
It’s all being served in your hands
Your addled eyes
Come on and get to open yours
Collected at the borderlines
They want to get up in your hair

[estribillo]
Cause they know, so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour in your new life
Tell all of your friends getting warm

The dogs who ran all night
The son who hoped it would
Break from the warfare in your house
To each his own

The soldier is bailing out
And curled his lips on a bar
And I don’t know if the dead can talk
To anyone

Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
It’s all being served in your hands
Are you one of us

Come on and get to open yours
Collected at the borderlines
They want to get up in your hair

[estribillo]

It’s too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guid

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun
2. Gomez – How We Operate
3. L.A. – Crystal Clear

Han pasado más de catorce años desde que sacaran esta joya en su tercer álbum, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Y tiene una hermana gemela, es decir, una cara B acústica denominada Tonite Reprise. Ideal para irse a dormir con una sonrisa en la cara

Letra:

Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel

Believe, believe in me, believe
That life can change, that you’re not stuck in vain
We’re not the same, we’re different tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight

And you know you’re never sure
But you’re sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade in your city by the lake
The place where you were born

Believe, believe in me, believe
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there’s not a chance tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight

We’ll crucify the insincere tonight
We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight
We’ll find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Iggy Pop – The Passenger
2. Broken Bells – The High Road
3. Skunk Anansie – Hedonism

Una inyección de energía para terminar la semana.

Letra:

All the moments we lived here,
leave their mark as tattoos painted in our skin.
And we need more than one thousand years
to understand exactly what happens here.

[estribillo]
I see crystal clear.
This time its better here,
I see crystal clear.
I’m not trying to desapear.

I follow the road to go to heaven,
but believe me I’m not pretending to be free.
If I hold my breath to see what happens.
It’s the only way for me to let you feel.

[estribillo]
But it’s true, I’m driving on the streets.
It’s 4 a.m. and I’m so lonely there’s no one calling.
But I’m here, as far as you can see.
It’s all about this broken feelings…
Broken feelings…

But it’s true, I’m driving on the streets.
It’s 4 a.m. and I’m so lonely there’s no one calling.
But I’m here, as far as you can see.
It’s all about this broken feelings…
Broken feelings…

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. The Police – So Lonely
2. Broken Bells – The High Road
3. TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun

No conocía a esta banda norteamericana, pero desde que escuché por vez primera el single, no he podido quitármelo de la cabeza. Se nota que los componentes del grupo no sólo se dedican a la música, sino también a la animación (echadle un ojo al videoclip). Imprescindible también en acústico.

Letra:

Cross the street from your storefront cemetary
hear me hailing from inside and realize

I am the conscience clear
in pain or ecstacy
and we were all weaned my dear
upon the same fatigue

Staring at the sun
oh my own voice
cannot save me now
standing in the sea
it’s just
one more breath
and then
down I go

your mouth is open wide
the lover is inside
and all the tumults done
collided with the sign
you’re staring at the sun
you’re standing in the sea
your body’s over me

note the trees because
the dirt is temporary
more to mine than fact face
name and monetary

beat the skins and let the
loose lips kiss you clean
quietly pour out like light
like light, like answering the sun

you’re staring at the sun
you’re standing in the sea
your mouth is open wide
you’re trying hard to breathe
the water’s at your neck
there’s lightning in your teeth
your body’s over me

you’re staring at the sun
you’re standing in the sea

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Broken Bells – The High Road
2. Editors – Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
3. L.A. – Crystal Clear

Letra:

Sweet disposition
Never too soon
Oh reckless abandon,
Like no one’s watching you

[estribillo]
A moment, a love
A dream, a laugh
A kiss, a cry
Our rights, our wrongs
A moment, a love
A dream, a laugh
A moment, a love
A dream, a laugh
Just stay there
Cause I’ll be comin’ over
While our bloods still young
It’s so young, it runs
Won’t stop til it’s over
Won’t stop to surrender

Songs of desperation
I played them for you

[estribillo]

…
A moment, a love
A dream, a laugh
A moment, a love
A moment, a love (won’t stop to surrender)

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Nouvelle Vague – I Melt With You
2. The Black Keys – Tighten Up
3. Biffy Clyro – Many Of Horror