SEVEN NOISES

I introduced you to Boy Friend some months ago, just after some weeks of formation when they released a digital download only 4 track EP you can still get in here. From the ashes of the former Sleep Over as a trio (now is just one of the original members with some outside help) Christa and Sarah left to form Boy Friend a similar sounding project that, although it's just months in the working, they already released their first physical single this week, the haunting and delicate Lovedropper on Hell, Yes!, accompanied on the B side by a re-working of the first EP song D'Arrest. For the A side of the single they've prepared a day-glo video that is meant to be seen vertical. I mean, instead of the normal horizontal landscape view, Boy Friend asked Amanda Joy to make a video and they decided vertical was the way to go, taking into consideration the video would only be seen on-line, where anything is possible as TV screens are no longer the place to watch music videos anymore and the web is a more free way of exploring new possibilities and formats for what is already a quite old form of art.

Yesterday I was meant to see The Fresh & Onlys, who were playing with Deerhunter, for the first time. Thanks to the fact that some gig promoters think that putting the first band at 7.30 is normal, I missed it completely, and missed half of Deerhunter's set as well. So sad about it, I was really looking forward to it.
At least I managed to get to the merchandising table by the end and I got this one-sided 7" from Hell Yes! called Witchy Woman. The fact that's a one-sided and only one song record can put you out of the fact of getting it. It's not particularly cheap and still don't know why but Hell Yes! specializes doing this, which I quite don't understand. Specially with The Fresh & Onlys that have a new single out every couple of weeks and probably plenty of songs to put on them. Anyway, the song starts a bit like The Doors' When the Music's Over minus the annoying keyboard and it's probably the longest song they've ever done, reaching 5.11 minutes and also more psychedelic than the songs on their last EP for Captured Tracks, still my favourite stuff from them.