Kings of Carrot Flowers

When was the last time a band made you take a large swiss knife, cut out alphabets from an important document (like a printout of an airline ticket), arrange them on a silk souveneir brought from Sikkim and decorate them with your eight year old cousin's art?

When was the last time you felt like expressing music physically in a crude expression of pure joy?

For me it was when I heard Elephant and feverishly pasted Jack and Meg on the dirty plaster of my room. And now.

Neutral Milk Hotel. I don't know anything about them. I don't know where they are from, I don't know what they look like. All Tommy said was "They are this sort of cult band that influenced Franz Ferdinand and the likes". This was before he told me reproachfully "You never like any music I give you".

They are bloody brilliant. It music to stop and listen and jump and wave your arms to invisible orchestras and feel and fall and follow and free and fog and find and frown and frump and fox and fababadabadurticate to.

Nice to be back, Yohan, O brother where art thou.

Ok Go! won a grammy for best short video for Here it goes Again. Yippee. Yohan was the first person in whole wide world and all to find them and post them on Zonuts, you can find them here. Yes, I learnt how to hyperlink.

This is what Ok Go! looked like at the Grammy function.

Have to run to work now, but the Indie scene is back. God save the Bean.





Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers [mp3]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [mp3]



Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 [mp3]