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Track: Boski – Give it Up
I don’t really feel like dancing this morning. In fact, to be perfectly fair I don’t feel like dancing most of the time, unless its been a really long night. But if anything were to get me out of my seat right now, it would be Boski’s ‘Give It Up’. The London DJ is beginning …
Track: Solander – The Woods Are Gone (plus name your price download)
Wintery sadness, gorgeously delivered. The rhythm is the perfect rendition of walking through snow – always trying to go faster, but caught by the weight of the drifts, the sadness, the longing. The shimmering snare shivers under the song like skirring flakes pelting across your eyes in moonlight and bitter winds. On top the guitar …
See: King Krule releases new video for A Lizard State
King Krule videos have always nosedived into the surreal. ‘Rock Bottom’ s visual accompaniment transfigured the desolation-induced lyrics into a beautifully contorted mess of Lynchian, Kafkaesque and beat generation reference work, with sparse industrial landscapes, cockroach wallpapers, black lodge diners, cactus women and a pack of brutish ‘city boys’ summoning a real sense of dread, …
Track: Ty – Kick Snare and an Idea Part 3
New year, new music from Ty. And it’s something we’re looking forward to a lot, following parts 1 & 2 of the London rappers ‘Kick Snare and an Idea’ series. It’s been heightened further by the inclusion of a remix from the NYC DJ and producer DJ Spinna. Out on 20th January on Tru Thoughts, …
Aan – I Don’t Need Love
Consider this a precursor. Early next year we’re expecting Aan‘s debut album so this is just to tide you over… Yes, yes, yes, they’re ANOTHER band from Portland, Oregon. It isn’t my fault that they keep on making them over there. ‘I Don’t Need Love’ is a huge slice of experimental indie rock. This is …
Track: Cleo T releases new single ‘I love me, I love me not’, plus album news
If I had any command whatsoever of the French language I would probably be able to write an article full of cleverly gauge, quoting French phrases and words to confirm my admiration for French chan…..chant, singer Cleo T. Sadly apart from ordering beer and (randomly) being able to ask the whereabouts if the tourist information …
Track: Röyksopp – something in my heart
There always one of those iconic dance records that comes along envy so often, that’s so good, it gets people who aren’t, or weren’t into that sort of music to take it on board, to give it another chance, to allow themselves to be converted, if you like. Your me, it was A Guy Called …
Track: Housewives debut new track Medicine Bottle, taken from debut EP
Oh my. When I heard this I didn’t know whether to roll around on the floor or pull my hair out. Born out of the influence of composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, dosed up with no/new wave, and dragged through Cecil Taylor backwards, Medicine Bottle, taken from South London’s Housewives debut self …
See: Gogol Bordello – Lost Innocent World video, plus UK tour dates
There’s some words that don’t seem to look right, but actually work brilliantly. A bit like Peter Kay and his Garlic? Bread?, so putting the words Gypsy and Punk together (never mind making music that fits into that description) look…odd, but work brilliantly. The worlds foremost Gypsy Punk band is New York’s Gogol Bordello. Fresh …
New Music: Pompeya – 90 (Fred Falke Remix), plus US tour dates
I’m in a good mood this morning and its due to 90 – a combined effort from Moscow’s Pompeya and remixed by French super-producer Fred Falke. The Russian band; Daniil Brod, Denis Agafonov, Sasha Lipskiy and Nairi Simonian, make this sort of disco infused indie rock, showered with harmonies and these synth lines that worm …