So another day here at ++HQ and thanks to our international crew we bumped into this not-yet discovered gem! The band is called Kim Ki O and consists of two girls from Turkey. They have a Woody Allen-esque humour in their lyrics and their music is something like ambient-synth-pop with a hint of indie rock. [...]
Entries from November 2008
Kim Ki O - Diğerleri Nerde? ****
November 11th, 2008 by Tamir
→ No CommentsPosted in Music | Tags Digerli Nerde? · Jens Lekman · Kim Ki O
Gentrification 2.0
November 10th, 2008 by Andrew
Gentrification is something every nice neigborhood has to face at one point. It has nothing to do with Gentlemens or Genetics, but comes from the verb ‘to gentrify’ which means according to our friends at Oxford: 1. rennovate and improve so that it conforms to middle-class taste; 2. make more refined or dignified. We might [...]
→ 1 CommentPosted in Andrew McInteyre · Columns | Tags Amsterdam · Brooklyn · Gentrification · Remco de Ridder
Air France - No Way Down ****
November 7th, 2008 by plusplusmagazine
‘Bonjour Monsieur! Je voudrais le cool musique et plus de cool musique et un petit omelette du fromage avec une baguette! Ooh La La!’ So that’s what we thought ‘No Way Down’ by Air France was going to give us, but it turned out these French bastards were Swedish!! No baguettes, no monsieurs, but they [...]
→ No CommentsPosted in Music | Tags Air France · Music
Foals - Antidotes *****
November 7th, 2008 by plusplusmagazine
The best album of the month is here! So what that the album has been in stores for five months now?! So what that everybody has seen them live by now, since they’re performing on almost every festival in the world?! So what that they sound a lot like Cut Copy, The Infadels and a [...]
→ No CommentsPosted in Music | Tags Antidotes · Cassius · Foals
The Pain of Thinking
November 6th, 2008 by plusplusmagazine
Goddamn! Have you ever felt like a wannabe? A poser? A fraud? Somebody who wants to be something he just isn’t? Well, I feel like that everyday. I claim to be a positive guy and smile a lot to back that claim, but sometimes I just feel like a jealous bitch. A good friend of [...]
→ No CommentsPosted in Columns · Ilkin Yildiz · Philosophy | Tags Intellectual · Pain of Thinking · Smart · Thinking · Tired of thinking