Broadfield Marchers

Today’s another election, the 3rd straight time where we’ve had and early dissolution from minority governments. I like minority governments, everyone has different beliefs and it should be properly represented in a system where it’s still flawed and some votes aren’t represented (which was the reason for some people agreeing to trade ballots). I’m personally voting for the NDP this time around, while the Conservatives and Liberals screw themselves in the butts with their smear campaigns, it’s clear the NDP is right choice from a political stand point. From the fledgling economy (which Conservatives are supposed to be good at managing) to the Ad-Scandals, a few things have kept getting worse (including healthcare – a big one having put at home for a good 8 weeks).

Anyway here is the playlist before I rant anymore:
Minority by Green Day
Over Soon by Broadcast 2000 (only 37 days to campaign, and I missed a lot of the debates)
The Switch and The Spur by The Raconteurs (switching ballots is legal but how do they do it? seems odd when asking for ID’s etc).
Breaking It Up by Lykke Li (dissolutions are fun, but apparently costly)
Pioneers by Bloc Party (Look for the Bloc Part aka Bloc Quebecois to continue their stronghold)
Mr. Orange by Dengue Fever (for Jack Layton, hopefully the orange tide is as strong as ever)
Harper Road by Sun Kil Moon (for the Prime Minister)
Morning Heat Leader by Broadfield Marchers (yeah that’s all I got for Dion)
Hard Times by Run DMC (hard times are spreadin’ like the flu!)

Week In Review – August 25-31

Another week has passed and it’s the last day of August…shit where has my summer gone. Week 5 out Week 10 until I should be cleared to play sports again…

School starts on Wednesday and look for the website to go into some sort of limbo, I’m terrible at time managing. Without further ado here are the week’s posts and whatever else is going on around the blogosphere.

Welcome our 3 new writers, Matt, Coko and Lu.

Stereolab – Chemical Chords by Matt- put this on my list of albums to check out
The Virgins – Coko questions their band name, from band pictures it looks like more of truthful confession
Endeverater – Kiss or Kill by Lu

Reviews:
Broadfield Marchers – The Invitable Continuing
London Zoo by The Bug – I gave it a 5/5 (am I giving out too many?), it is really is worthy of its critical acclaim
The Faint – Fasciinatiion – What’s with the I’s?
Island’s Arm Way
Mothlite – The Flax of Reverie – hopefully we can get an interview going Jess
The Sleeping Years – We’re Becoming Islands One by One

Other:
Cutting Edge Music Fest Pt. 2
Hamlet 2 Review and Mini-Playlist – save your $$
Tropic Thunder Playlist and Review – Hilarious but offensive movie. I’m shameless when it comes to these playlists.
Joe reviews The Final Riot tour with headliners, Paramore.
The Microsoft Zune is Gangsta – Screw The Ipod – srsly
Ghalib reviews the Woodhands and Lioness show he saw last weekend.

News around the internet:
F Yeah Fest guys got beat up by Radiohead security with the cops watching. They recorded security beating up a patron excessively and security ran and beat them up for it.

The man behind AntiQuiet (or one of the writers) had his house stormed by FBI and he was formerly charged for posting tracks of Chinese Democracy. Chinese Democracy is the long awaited Guns n’ Roses album that has cost a reported 10 million or so. He faces a LONG prison sentence, releasing copyrighted work before it’s formerly released is really the problem. He did have it coming, especially living in the states. Slash isn’t rooting for him.

Some good discussion at the Elbo.ws forum. Way to hold us bloggers to standards Under the Dog.

Pitchfork ended the hype of Bloc Party’s Intimacy with a predicted 5.0-something score.

Broadfield Marchers – The Invevitable Continuing

The Broadfield Marchers are a band out of Louisville, Kentucky who were previously on the label Secretly Canadian with their past release “When the Lifted Connive”, this time with Rainbow Quartz a much less recognizable record label, it seems as they are a band without much fanfare at the moment (11K myspace views). Despite this, their latest album The Inevitable Continuing contains a whopping 19 tracks. The amount of tracks is a bit misleading as there are only 3 tracks over the 3 minute mark.

It’s a bit of different approach, writing 19 pop songs and showing off your creativity in these tiny tracks is definitely a less popular strategy compared to few songs that are super long. It’s not a bad idea in my opinion, aren’t more and more people getting ADHD from all the constant things thrown at us and multitasking? I know it suits me well then 12 minute tracks.

The Broadfield Marchers like to move on the next thing quickly, almost too quickly. There are a lot of quality songs on this album and I personally wish some tracks were longer then around 2 minutes. A lot of songs feel like they are uncompleted and in that sense I am shedding a tear. They are very talented, they have a great sense of what works and can forge a great short pop song. They know how to work with simplicity and not overdoing it (ehh) mixed with great vocals.

At the end of the day, I really like the Broadfield Marchers but instead of being all over the place, they would be served in concentrating on “finishing” some songs because a lot of the songs have massive potential. I undoubtedly believe they have the talent to do so.

It’s just painful to see that some of my favorite songs aren’t even 2 minute longs and I’m sure I would like them if they extended the rest of the album as a lot of the songs I whole heartedly dig.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5
I really like the Broadfield Marchers even if this gets an average score. Until they focus their energy on lesser songs, I don’t know if many people will take them seriously. They are great nonetheless and enjoyed listened to the album the past week.

Eagles Prevail by Broadfield Marchers

Amazing Wheels by Broadfield Marchers

When Cowards Stall by Broadfield Marchers

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