{"id":1285,"date":"2009-09-07T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:25:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T20:25:58","slug":"strike-a-counter-records-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"strike ! : a counter records sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a tried and tested formula.<\/p>\n<p>set up record label. <\/p>\n<p>release some cracking tunes.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>a few months down the road, compile a set of the best bits and release in budget form.<\/p>\n<p>and so it is that the <u>ninja tune<\/u> affiliated label, <u>counter records<\/u> have come to this cracking compilation that&#8217;s destined for your pocket money crowd (i think the compilation will be going for &#163;2.99)<\/p>\n<p>comprising of 12 tracks, the compilation takes the twisted rock-n-roll blueprint that has becomes the labels trademark and makes for a fine way to catch up on recent happenings.<\/p>\n<p>across the set we get :&#160; up and at em garage <strong>pop levi<\/strong>, excellent future chart stomping action swamped out blues from <strong>the heavy<\/strong>, attention seeking tantrum throwing cap wearing rockers, <strong>the death set<\/strong>, modern psyche from <strong>cougar <\/strong>and<strong>&#160; ape school,<\/strong> intense post rock vibes (via the crowd pleasing euphoria of <strong>the arcade fire<\/strong>) by <strong>spokes, <\/strong>and gorgeous late night piano moody blues by <strong>john matthias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>summary : well worth a shot.<\/p>\n<p><u>track listing :<\/u> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">01. the heavy &#8211; oh no! not you again!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">02. pop levi &#8211; police $ign<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">03. the death set &#8211; around the world<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">04. cougar &#8211; stay famous<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">05. spokes &#8211; torn up in praise<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">06. pop levi &#8211; blue honey<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">07. the heavy &#8211; that kind of man<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">08. the death set &#8211; paranoia<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">09. ape school &#8211; wail to god<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">10. cougar &#8211; rhinelander<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">11. spokes &#8211; we like to dance and steal things<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">12. john matthias &#8211; stockwell road<\/font><\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterrecords.com\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a tried and tested formula. set up record label. release some cracking tunes.&#160; a few months down the road, compile a set of the best bits and release in budget form. and so it is that the ninja tune affiliated label, counter records have come to this cracking compilation that&#8217;s destined for your pocket money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}