Such a great big dumb fucking universe

October's been probably the busiest month of my life, as far as I can remember, and that's why I haven't been around here much. However, that doesn't mean I haven't been hearing lots and lots of new fantastic things! Since it's Sunday and I'm enjoying some very welcomed downtime, I thought I'd play catch-up a little bit this week with a few records I love personally, but have yet to love publicly!


The Lil' Hospital

First up, the record that has kept me dancing on the bed more than any other this month is The Lil' Hospital's Universe Sucks EP, which will be out soon enough on Hugpatch Records. Universe Sucks (no "The") is the first – and possibly final – collection of post-D.C., post-Philly Lil' Hospital recordings and I'd say they're some of Kevin's finest songs to date. The back-to-back total fucking jams on the A-side – "Universe" and "Nothing Like A Car Crash" – have been a getting a bit more play than the flip-side, but being that they are total jams, I trust you can, for now, understand why. However, ignoring the B-side would be a total shame because you'd miss such wonders as "Kips Is A Dick", a charming ode to everyone's good pal Kip Pains and "The T-Rex", a song as good as it's title. I think I used to be better at describing music in technical and flowery terms, but these days I feel like the best i can say is THIS RECORD IS FUCKING GREAT, BUY IT AND LISTEN TO IT ASAP.

Like I said, it'll be out on soon-ish on Hugpatch Records. I don't see it listed on the website yet, but hopefully it'll be up there pretty soon, so you can order the crap out of it!! Yay!

The Lil' Hospital on MySpace!

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Lil Hospital & The Specific Heats in Boston, Friday!

Hey friends! The life-affirming tunes of The Lil Hospital and The Specific Heats can be heard this Friday – 9/12 – in Boston! They will be playing along with two other bands at Brookline High School in Boston, MA. It is open to the public! So be there or be mathematically square! The Lil Hospital will be playing songs from their soon-to-be-released new 7" called "Universe Sucks" on Hugpatch Records. The Specific Heats will also be playing new 60s garage influenced jams with enough electric organ to make your head explode. And man, these two other bands with be playing whatever music it is they play, I bet! So don't miss it! I'm not 100% whether I'll be square or not, but I'm hoping I can make it, and if I do, I hope I'll see you there!

Details!
115 Greenough Street/ Right by the Brookline Hills T-Stop / on the 3rd floor in the auditorium. Doors at 7pm. Bands start at 7:30pm. Also, no substances, please. Bring your friends, bring your mom and dad, bring your favorite snack!

Lil Hospital on MySpace!
The Specific Heats on MySpace!
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The Lil' Hospital: New songs on WBAR

The Lil' Hospital

Last Wednesday Kevin stopped by our friend Caitlin's show on WBAR Radio to play a little acoustic set. He played some songs from last year's Heavy Metal, and a couple new ones, too. Due to some problem the show ended up not being archived, but thanks to Caitlin we do have recordings of the two new songs that Kevin played. The first one's a catchy little song called "Universe" and the second one is a funny song about Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, which Kevin has charmingly titled "Kip Is A Dick." Haha. Enjoy!

[MP3]: The Lil' Hospital :: Universe
[MP3]: The Lil' Hospital :: Kip Is A Dick

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New Lil' Hospital Tracks!

Frank, Kevin, and Mat, purging paper throw-up.

Wow, I haven't done anything here for over a week! I've been busier than expected with school and work, but I'm gonna try to keep up here as best I can. Welly well well, let's get right back into it then.

The Lil' Hospital is a super excellent indiepop band originally from Philly, now calling Brooklyn, NY home. BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT. Unless you DIDN'T, in which case you DO now. They released a fantastic album last year on Total Gaylord Records called Heavy Metal, that you could imagine sounds nothing like the name implies. Infact the band draws it's influences more from folks like The Television Personalities and early My Bloody Valentine. Anyway, Kevin's been slaving away on new stuff for the past year or so and he's kindly allowed me to preview two of the freshly recorded tracks here on Skatterbrain.

[MP3]: The Lil' Hospital :: She Goes With Satan Now (Highly Recommended!!)
[MP3]: The Lil' Hospital :: Saddest Things (Highly Recommended, too!)
These new songs seem to be following the Lil' Hospital guidelines pretty well, and then some. There's the jangly, sometimes twinkly guitar; then you've got the bouncy bassline; and Kevin's great lyrics are still great (and funny, as usual): "There's this girl from work that I am interested in, but word on the street is that she's into satan." I love the direction both of these songs are headed in, though. There's no HUGE changes in style, but the subtle changes are apparent and I'm liking them. The songs appear to sound a bit noisier and where most of Heavy Metal hovered around picked, twinkly area, these songs have got a big more garage-y feel to them. That should make sense, I think, once you hear the new songs. I'm so excited to hear more, and I'll let you know when I do!

The Lil Hospital on MySpace!

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