Mondegreens EP

Everything else suddenly ceases to register. Honeycomb guitar peaks dawn on the horizon, whipped sharply into screaming focus under deluge after deluge of driven bass and syncopated, feral drums. Every moment in every song building, building until finally delivered in a glorious maelstrom before serving you up, saturated, to a forgiving shoreline, woken by gentle melody lapping at your face.
To say Ctrlaltdelete are destined for great things seems redundant. The 'Mondegreens' EP passed somewhat under the radar, but it contained rough diamonds that should have graced any self-respecting music puublication.
Formed under the dawn of the new millennium, Ctrlaltdelete operate around the nucleus of Ben Maxwell and Laura Harrison. Though the Carlisle-based trio found themselves struggling through two previous drummers, founding member Chris Hewitt and, for the devotional 'Mondegreens' sessions, Simon Papaleo, the band have settled...
Scandinavian sticksman Robert Holmkvist to solidify them for the future, as they move towards the recording and release of their debut full length album. A future that has already found them making big waves in early 2006 picking up rave press and a kkkk review in Kerrang.
Ctrlaltdelete operate in that most unremitting of arenas, that of the instrumental band. Wringing emotive landscapes from their triumvirate limbs they can take you from morphine laced ethereal melody to fist to the face clarity in a heartbeat.
Songs such as ‘Patter, Chance And Menace’ and ‘Each Of These Innocents On The Streets Is Engulfed By A Terror Of Their Own Ordinariness’, both from the aforementioned EP, leapt forward from the debut ‘Epone’ cauterising the loose fibres and forging a cohesive whole that injects a collective pulse to every song.
The overriding factor in Ctrlaltdelete’s music is the passion that infects every moment, every note seems wrung from their instruments
as if their very lives depended on it. Taking experimental pointers from Sonic Youth through Scratch Acid and underpinning it with punk heart ballistics and timeless structure, they escape their surroundings and sidestep the consuming banality and self-inflicted melancholy of many similar bands.
In a genre where artists are easily sidelined to become outcast musical pariahs, Ctrlaltdelete make music to stand shoulder to shoulder with heavyweights such as Mogwai and Sigur Rós, truly earning a peerage amongst such names.
Signed to Motivesounds, whose ever-impressive roster keep churning out exquisite records, Ctrlaltdelete are making all the right noises with 2006's debut full-length, this is the time to get on board with one of Britain’s most innovative, intense and exciting bands as they embark on an ascendance that with any justice will find them at the zenith of modern music. Quite simply, they are stunning.

65daysofstatic - One Time for all Time
Compilation/Metalblade Records - Into the Pit - This is the new Hate

A

Aborted - Strychnine.213
Actarus - s/t
AFX - Chosen Lords
Alarma Man - s/t
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Amon Tobin - Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
Autechre - Quaristice

B

Bat for Lashes - Fur and gold
Bears of Winter - .darkbare
Bellavista - s/t
Bugge Wesseltoft - IM
Burial - Untrue

C

Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
Cazals - What of our Future
Chariot, The - The Fiancée
Chemical Brothers, The - Push the Button
Cinematic Orchestra, The - Ma Fleur
Coldworker - Rotting Paradise
Confuse the Cat - We can do it
Cryptopsy - The unspoken King
Ctrlaltedelete - Mondegreens

D

Daft Punk - Alive
Dead Boy Dreaming - A.L.C.P.
De Läb - D'Wourecht EP
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
Do Androids dream of electric Sheep? - Snapshot Lamento
Dredg - Catch without Arms

E

Electric President - s/t
Enemy, The - We'll live and die in these Towns
Eternal Tango - First Round at the Sissy Café
Everwaiting Serenade - The Caress
Ex Inferis - Hidjama

F

Fall of Troy, The - Doppelgänger
Fashion, The - s/t
Fast Friday - Gambling with the Truth
Fast Friday - The sweeter the Sin, the bitter the Taste
Father Ed - Samudra - Left & Right Hemisphere
Faust Again - Hope against Hope
Fear my Thoughts - Isolation
Feist - Let it die
Foals - Antidotes
Franz Ferdinand - You could have it so much better
From First to Last - Heroine
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

G

H

Head Automatica - Decadence
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

I

Ice in a Strainer - Communications and other Sources of Alert
Ida - Lovers Prayers
Inborn - Chef d'Oeuvre: A Reflection on the Status of Art in an Age of cultural Decline

J

Jaga Jazzist - What we must
Jennifer Rostock - Ins offene Messer
Josephine Collective - We are the Air

K

Kettcar - Von Spatzen und Tauben, Dächern und Händen
KYPCK - Cherno

L

La Fa Connected - Urban
Lampshade - Because Trees can fly
Lily Allen - Alright, still
Locust, The - New Erections

M

Madsen - s/t
Mansions - s/t
Maren Noel - The Groove is yours
Mesa Verde - In this Silence we will slow dance
Miaow Miaow - Summertime for a Lifetime
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Mutiny on the Bounty - Treasure Chest at the End of the Rainbow & Mutiny on the Bounty Split EP

N

Nasum - Doombringer

O

Origin - Antithesis

P

Paramore - RIOT!
Portishead - Third

Q

R

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Roma 79 - The great Dying

S

Sascha Funke - Mango
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Sigur Rós - Takk
Sleepercar - West Texas
Sofa Surfers - s/t
Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
Sunshine Underground, The - Raise the Alarm
Surkin - Action Replay

T

Terror - The damned, the shamed
Tomàn - Perhaps we should have smoked the Salmon first
Treasure Chest at the End of the Rainbow - Treasure Chest at the End of the Rainbow & Mutiny on the Bounty Split EP

U

Unspoken Logic - Sunshine between the Leaves

V

Vampire Weekend - s/t
Venomous Concept - Poisoned Apple

W

Warbringer - War without End
Wir sind Helden - Von hier an blind

X

Y

Z

It's pretty awesome.

I screwed up a bit and wasn't fully prepared, so I didn't end up being in the tournaments I wanted, but I've still played a lot of games (especially Starcraft, probably my all time favorite computer game, and the best RTS ever) and met some cool people, and all around it's been pretty awesome. But the best part of all? There's a client set up where everyone can share whatever they want, and I've currently downloaded about 200 gigs of music, movies, and all sorts of stuff. It's pretty awesome.

I'm really glad the RIAA didn't bust in there with machine guns and such.

But yeah, it's been cool.

Sorry I haven't been updating much, I suck, I know.

Also, Spring Break this week, whoo!

...och jag som alltid tidigare följt min egen devis: Gå aldrig tillbaka till ett ex...

Update:

#1
P vet att jag inte flyttar härifrån (jag skulle aldrig kunna leva utan mina barn och skulle heller aldrig ta dem från deras pappa). Däremot är P flyttbar. Det går att helgpendla också eftersom det inte är frågan om något längre avstånd.

#2
Barnen (både Ettan, Tvåan och hans J) går i första hand. Jag pratar ofta med barnen om saker och ting. Jag tycker inte att de verkar oharmoniska, utan snarare väldigt stabila. Vi brukar ligga och prata om allt möjligt om kvällarna när de är hos mig. Visst kan de, i synnerhet Ettan, få arg- och ledsenskov - men det verkar vara mycket förknippat med trötthet efter skola/fritids och sexårstrots i allmänhet. Båda två är väldigt duktiga på att öppna sig och säga vad de känner.

#3
Den som väntar på att få läsa något negativt om min ex-man kan sluta vänta. Jag tänker inte hänga ut varken honom eller mig här. Eventuella dispyter hör inte hemma här.