Cool Covers On Youtube

These are few  covers I stumbled upon, on Youtube.
Hope you like them too (:

1) Wonderwall & Stir It Up -Cover by Vincie Irie

I love the reggae twist to the song. Makes it so peppy.

2)   Read My Mind - Cover by Catfish And The Bottlemen.

Hands down, Van McCann just owned that song. The spontaneous 'Ignition' part at the end is my favourite.

3) Ignition -  Cover by James Dalby

I wasn't familiar with the song Ignition by R Kelly, until I had watched the previous cover by CATB, and loved the acoustic version performed by Van. So I looked up on Youtube, and found James Dalby's cover, and since then it's been my morning jam.

4) The Scientist -Cover by Holly Henry

I. SIMPLY. LOVE. HER. VOICE.. It's so sweet-sounding and so pleasing to the ear; that you'd play her songs on repeat. (I was utterly disappointed when she lost the battle rounds in The Voice.)

5) The Blower's Daughter - Cover by Matt McAndrew.

His voice hits you right in the feels. Period.

Melancholy, My Friend.

Trying my hand at poetry.

Muse: Sylvia Plath 

Melancholy, my friend

Melancholy, my friend

Where have you been?

I only meet you when it's past eleven.

Together we sing rhapsodies of memories,

Of people,places and things we've never seen.

When dawn creeps in, you are soon forgotten.

Melancholy, my friend

Melancholy, my friend

Will I see you again?

Image : flavorwire.com

Catfish And The Bottlemen

I've been insanely hooked onto this band called "Catfish And The Bottlemen", that I've discovered lately. They are a British quartet , with Van McCann on the lead vocals and guitar , Johnny Bond on guitar, Benji Blakeway on bass and Bob Hall on drums.

The first thing that caught my attention was the name of the band, "Catfish And The Bottlemen", which sounds quite vague. So I decided to do some research (a.k.a watching a lot of band interviews on Youtube). And in many interviews Van McCann was asked the same question :

What's with the name Catfish And The Bottlemen?

As a kid, Van spent his first two years in Australia, travelling with his mum and dad, and his first memory of music was sitting outside this cafe watching this busker perform, who had these washing lines with beer bottles hung on it, named 'Catfish And The Bottlemen' , and Van thought the name would be apt for the band.

Catfish And The Bottlemen have released their album titled " The Balcony ", last September, comprising of  11 songs.
1) Homesick
2) Kathleen
3) Cocoon
4) Fallout
5) Pacifier
6) Hourglass
7) Business
8) 26
9) Rango
10) Sidewinder
11) Tyrants

(Fallout, Kathleen, Pacifier and Cocoon are my personal favourites)

I also loved the illustration for the album cover. It's quite simple yet artistic.
In one of the interviews, Van said that it was done by an artist from New York, thus making it more American than British.

And I absolutely love their cover of " Read My Mind". The Ignition part at the end, is the best.

I hope you check this band out, and fall in love with their music.

Oh and do follow them on twitter @thebottlemen 

For more tweets related to music or random rants, follow me on twitter @comfortablylazy

Thanks.

1st June - The 1975

And The 1975 have disappeared into oblivion with this tweet on twitter:

For what I can comprehend from this cryptic post, is that it is all about a CHANGE.

The band's undergoing a transformation or  transfiguration as Matty would call it.

It's a change, maybe in terms of their ideology, style and music (hopefully not the latter, I love it the way it is for now). 

The comic strip covers the fanbase's reaction, which so far has been quite accurate. 

The old Matty, dressed in black, a colour symbolizing mystery, defines one as a cold, pale, intricate person. However, that's the "Old Matty".

The "New Matty" is all drenched in the colour Pink.

Pink, the universal colour to love oneself as well as others.

The colour that represents affection, warmth and compassion.

(Even Matty Healy's Twitter Account's Header And Icon Was The Colour Pink For A Long Time)

The 1975 may no longer be the dark grunge band, we all fell in love with. 

Maybe it was time for them to change, change their perspective due to various events and happenings around the world that must have have influenced their new music too. (I'm a 1000% percent confident, they're releasing a new album)

Cleverly summing it up with Walt Whitman's quote from "The Open Road", The 1975 are surely upto something that is going to awe us.

All change is inevitable, and this one is undoubtedly for the best.

The 1975 Will Always Be My Most Dearest Band.

P.S: I also see an indirect jibe at NME in the picture tweeted.

(Typical Matty)