Coconut Records, Returns

Jason Schwartzman, The uncrowned king* of Indie, this year will be releasing his first movie with writer/director Wes Anderson since The Darjeeling Limited. which is certainly enough to be happy about. But until Fantastic Mr. Fox surfaces what can we entertain ourselves with? Well it seems that Jason has thought of that and has release a second album under the band name Coconut Records.




It's called Davy and (if you didn't read my post last week) you can download it on iTunes. It's a pretty good little album.
compared to the first album here isn't as much diversity in the songs. With the first, when a song ended you have no idea what was coming next and it could have been a homage to stadium rock or an intimate acoustic track. Davy is more consistent with the genre. This means that when listening to the album there isn't a track the stands out to much or catches your attention.

All in all a good album, but maybe not as good as the first

and if i was to rate it... 66%

*i'm going to say king because as an indie person i believe that democracy decides the most mediocre of things and until i can think of something better than monarchy thats how it's going to be

Living the Indie Dream

Listening to indie music and watching indie films are the corner stone of what makes me better than the average rabble. Arguably it could be said that the only thing that could make me even more Indie would be if I had some part in creating either the indie movies or music which keeps safe and sound in my pretentious bubble. But it's crazy to think that someone could have enough Indie juices flowing around them to be able to produce consistent indie gold through two different mediums, unless of course your name is Jason Schwartzman, and you look like this:



This guy has shown up in some of the most loved indie movies in the last 10 years. like Rushmore (1998), I Heart Huckabees (2004) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). He also showed up in an episode of Freaks and Geeks, A show that was tragically cancelled after it's first season (WHY, why do the best shows die so young).
If this quality indie material wasn't enough to make him an Indie God then his indie rock band Coconut Records is probably enough to push him into Deity territory. The band (which is more or less him with the odd celebrity friend thrown in) released their first album Nighttiming last year and it's really good example of what a good indie rock album should sound like, give it a listen on it's last.fm page.
What a guy...