How do you stand out in an over-saturated market? The Recommender is a music blog seemingly among billions of others out there. What makes our music blog so different? What makes you return to our pages and selections, and what is it that stops you from repeatedly visiting other music blogs? It's an interesting thought, and in all honesty, it's a point that you could perhaps answer better than we ever could. We imagine it might be the fact that we research our subjects as thoroughly as possible. Perhaps it's the quality of the selections, what with us being such [...]
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i have to be this absolute if i'm ever to make a man of you, you should know i never sleep, when i'm sleeping with you ♫ Cocknbullkid - I'm Not Sorry Who: Anita Blay What : Genre, like Little Boots, Janelle Monae, Where : London, UK + Facebook / Amazon When : The Adolescence mixtape is out and free . [...]
So, apparently the genius that is Anita Blay aka CocknBullKid recorded this record, prior to her debut last year, Adulthood . She released several of these songs overseas but it never really crossed over the pond. Last week her 'real debut' record titled, Adolescence leaked and it features those early songs that were never available before. Anita herself tweeted below about it, which makes me think she might have given it a green-light, or this is a label ploy. Either way grab it now, [...]
Cocknbullkid was supposed to be working hard on her upcoming sophomore album after she made some waves with Adulthood . But, she has all these tracks under her belt and felt it right to give it our to all of us at once. Yes, the new release is aptly titled Adolescence and its made available for free by the singer herself! Get it and pick from it! Click here to download it! Filed under: Beats , Brit Brit Brit Tagged: Adolescence , Adulthood [...]
Just before Christmas, CocknBullKid 's as-yet-unreleased album "Adolescence" surreptitiously surfaced online. I would not even have known, if the British popstrel herself hadn't pointed it out on her Twitter, and basically condoned her fans for seeking it out. Presumably the prequel to her excellent debut album "Adulthood" , "Adolescence" consists of songs recorded back when she went by her old moniker Thecocknbullkid. Apparently this album was scrapped, but later supposedly planned for a possible release. Her old sound was certainly different then - clashing, clanging, odd but danceable electro-pop with more of a rough edge, paired [...]
CocknBullKid relança "Shake" - produzida por Joe Mount, do Metronomy - e demais músicas do primeiro EP de sua carreira Anita Blay , a moçoila por trás do CocknBullKid , entrou 2012 relançando as músicas do primeiro EP de sua carreira, Querelle . O pack foi rebatizado como Adolescence e traz uma [...]
It's a path that occurs way too often in pop. A promising young artist gets noticed for their idiosyncratic take on pop and then proceeds to be stripped of each interesting trait until nothing but a sanitised blandness remains. Back in 2009, Anita Blay aka CocknBullKid impressed with a series of singles ('I'm Not Sorry', 'Boys And Girls', 'There's A Mother In Our Bed'). Then last year's debut album Adulthood was released and followed the above law. It was... a bit crap.So another album leaked last week called Adolescence that features those early [...]
As we close in on New Years Eve, a must-download collection of totally free, infectious jams from Anita Blay's CocknBullKid project has landed. Following up this summer's Adulthood , Anita was going to release Adolescence – which includes twelve early tracks and demos – in 2012, but for whatever reason, decided to give it all away, and we love her for it. Get started with the Metronomy -produced "Shake", before spearing for that zip file. CocknBullKid [...]
A cantora britânica decidiu oferecer um álbum com demos, de nome "Adolescence". Anita iria lançar o álbum em 2012 mas, devido a leaks, decidiu oferecer agora totalmente de graça. Download grátis Tracklist: 1 - Attention 2 - Black 3 - Boys and Girls 4 - I'm Not Sorry 5 - Hands 6 - On My Own 7 - Shake 8 - K.I.S.S 9 - I Like You 10 - Roses 11 - Sinners 12 - There's A Mother In [...]
Cocknbullkid was going to release her early demos/songs as a package titled Adolescence next year but due to a leak and the festivities of Christmas and New Year, she decided to give it all away for free. If you're as big as a fan of Anita Blay's take on pop as I am you've probably heard most of these tracks already, but there are some previously unheard tracks to be found in Adolesence as well. Grab it below; the Joe from Metronomy-produced Shake will convince you for sure. 01 Attention 02 [...]
...However, if you are planning to start 2012 without one of these in your music collection, then you have made something of a faux pas. 1. Yuksek 'Living On The Edge of Time' 2. Justice 'Audio Video Disco' 3. The Sound of Arrows 'Voyage' 4. CockNBullKid 'Adulthood' 5. Digitalism 'I Love You, Dude' 6. Pnau 'Soft Universe' 7. Apparat 'The Devil's Walk 8. Birdy 'Birdy' 9. Is Tropical 'Native To' 10. Jonsi 'We Bought A Zoo OST' 11. Chad Valley 'Eqatorial Ultravox' 12. Cut Copy 'Zonoscope' 13. Beni 'House Of Beni' 14. James Vincent McMorrow 'Early In The [...]
We like to reserve the pages of The Recommender for the future of music's Royalty and today's selection fits that bill perfectly. Throughout 2011 we've been watching the Queen Of Hearts slowly begin to position herself as the next Queen Of Pop . Traditional media, such as The Guardian , The Times and Q Magazine, alongside the online coverage by the likes of Pop Justice and The Line Of Best Fit , have all been waving their approval over her as if they were fanning her with palm leaves, so it seems like 2012 could [...]
It's a well-documented fact that British pop songstress CocknBullKid enjoys covering songs . During her live session on Radio 2 with Jo Whiley, the self-proclaimed All Saints fan chose to pay her tribute by contributing her own version of "Pure Shores" to the station's ongoing Great British Songbook project. And what a brilliant choice/sublime rendition it was! She totally breathed new life into the track. This is bringing back all the memories, bar the unpleasant reminder of how unbelievably shit the original music video was. That unfortunate setback couldn't [...]
The nice folks at audioscrobbling site last.fm are putting on a unique series of 'Last.fm Presents Live Friday' gigs to take place at London Garage on the first Friday of the month. Why are these gigs so unique? The artists who are chosen to play are determined by the last.fm hype charts, so therefore the bills are contingent on which last.fm listeners have been listening to. Democracy in action, I say! In the coming weeks, we'll be giving you a chance to win something very exciting: a pair of VIP [...]
Three months have passed since CocknBullKid 's solid debut album was released, and it continues to fly under the radar, much to my bewilderment. If my previous posts still haven't convinced you to try it out yet, maybe one more freebie wouldn't hurt? The penultimate track on the album, "Dumb" , is now being given away, and it is a stunning slow burner. Get a good pair of headphones, and listen to Anita Blay musing on heartache as layers of synths and strings unravel beautifully. A truly underrated gem, it is. [...]
Something for the weekend, sir? OK, here is a new artist that's gonna put the neon strips in your Saturday night. You're going to love this recommendation - if you don't you've lost your fun button - but there's an underlying discussion point that's something of an elephant in the room, so we may as well hit it straight on. This artist is only 16 years old! There. We. Said. It. That is exceptionally young by anyone's standards and it raises the question - can you be too young to be credible? Without intending to be in [...]
Fat! resident Foamo is playing Room 1 at Fabric tonight. He prepared this sterling mix for the occasion. 50 minutes of high energy originals, classic interludes and sneak previews of his forthcoming minialbum out on Fat! later this year. Download it here Tracklisting Cocknbullkid - Yellow (Greenmoney remix) Chaos in the CBD - Birthday Song [...]
We caught up with the brilliant, brilliant CocknBullKid at Latitude festival, to talk about her writing for popstars and her own album, Adulthood: Muso's Guide is working with Vodafone VIP across festival season, be it live-blogging, video-interviewing artists, Tweeting (we're at @musosguide ) or reviewing weekends in handy snapshot form. Vodafone VIP is part of the VIP programme for customers, and Muso's Guide is taking on official music blogger status at some of the summer's [...]
There's quite a few pop tracks being unleashed on the world this week, but only one that we're interested in spending any money on. In fact, we already have. In the interests of fairness, we're obliged to tell you about the others too, just in case your taste isn't as refined as ours. Remember X Factor girl group Belle Amie? Named after a porn site? Yes, now we're jogging your memory… Well, they're a member down since their stint on the show, but they now have a single called 'Girls Up' , which has a really good [...]
This weeks marks two momentous milestones. Firstly, the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, gets into full swing with it's first full week of events. Probably more earth shattering though is we at Muso's Guide welcome our new Singles Editor, Paul Brown (and wave adieu to departing Editor Russell Warfield). I'd imagine most of you don't care about either, so without further ado it's onto this weeks singles. Death Cab For Cutie Codes and Keys First this week is the title track from [...]
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