by kevin diamond As the heat burns us and boils our insides, we need a run through the sprinklers, or a bucket of ice water over the head to remind us that we're human and we're attached to this earth. The hype filter this week is designed to be that ice cold bath you are looking for. We start with Nude Beach's self-titled single, a slow burn of drum machine bass and snare, and reverb-laden vocals, with a singular guitar line fleshing out the [...]
Denim Owl - Fantasy Dog Sled With A Man's Head The music on this track shifts beneath Janita Foley's vocals, stretching and looping to accomodate her mood swings. The lyrics feel less like the words to a song than short accounts of, y'know, interesting stuff that's happened to her set to a soundtrack: "I bought two plain baguettes / And you wore them as shoes." It's a weird feeling, listening to these well-enunciated, coolly-delivered anecdotes and adding them up in your head and realising that they don't really make much sense. But they sound [...]