Kid Canaveral - "Good Morning". A song for fence-jumping, for completely clearing that thing, all the way over, past the border and down the hill, fields streaming, skies blueing, heart high in your chest. Glockenspiel is as much liability as asset these days, but a Scottish accent will never go out of fashion; nor charmed, short downstrokes of guitar, a refrain that's something we all ask ourselves, from time to time. Do you know something that I don't know? Clearly, you do.

[Scotland's Fence Records is splitting in two; Kid Canaveral will allegedly follow Pictish Trail to find whatever comes next / buy Shouting at Wildlife]

Colour Me Wednesday - "Shut". Throwback guitar-pop, galloping, sometimes chugging, like a lost single by the Lucksmiths or maybe Jale. Neat drums, ska-borrowed horns, but more important than anything is the sweetness of the chorus: fully-formed and bittersweet, the sort of five-second swoon you'd listen to any number of verses for the chance to hear again. Colour Me Wednesday say they make FEMINIST LEFT-WING ETC. DIY PUNK AND SKA AND POP FROM WEST LONDON. More important is that they make hooks, pull them up from the Thames like discoveries in silver fishes' mouths.

[buy/thanks Hamza]

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Elsewhere:

If you have been enjoying the slowed down version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene", may I suggest that you spend some time with the original version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You"?

If you love SappyFest, as I do, please donate to their fundraising campaign.

Ned Zimmerman, who created Said the Gramophone's jquery audio widget, has released the software as a Wordpress plugin.

(photo by Todd)