Little Boots: Nocturnes - You can practically see the dust kicking up on a lost midnight highway as a young heroine white knuckles to her new life as the first few bars of Little Boots ' second LP Nocturnes . "Together we can make our great escape..." she sings on the first track, 'Motorway'. Her whole career is a story of making a "great escape"; After a brush with near fame in an all-girl indietronica band a few years back, Little Boots (Victoria Hesketh) said fuck it and went solo, pursuing loftier pop ambitions, casting [...]
Her 2009 debut, Hands , might have launched Victoria Hesketh to global acclaim, but she's been hard at work building the Little Boots sound ever since. Darker, deeper, and more polished, the follow-up, Nocturnes , carves bold synth-pop from a unique palette of sound. The album stomps through '70s disco, '90s house, and everything in between, but it's never disorienting. Instead, Little Boots meticulously threads together each of her influences. Nocturnes might be steeped in electronics, but Little Boots makes sure to keep one [...]
Frank Yang Things move quickly these days; this I know and understand, and yet it still manages to astound me sometimes. The ascent of London's Daughter , for example. It wasn't much over a year ago that the trio was still largely unknown, only getting on my radar by old-fashioned word of mouth and becoming one of my favourite discoveries of SXSW 2012 . When they came around to make their Toronto debut last October - still a ways off from releasing their debut album or making any real promotional push - they still [...]
photos by Amanda Hatfield Little Boots @ MHOW 5/7/2013 Hesketh and her backing band (which included a live drummer and a pair of synth players) performed nine of "Nocturnes'" 10 songs. There was even a surprise performance of the bubbly non-album track "Headphones" ("I wear my headphones at the disco and nobody ever has to know!") that got a better-than-usual reception for a non-album track. It all culminated with the back-to-basics synth banger "Shake," which closed the encore beneath a sea of [...]
La bellísima Victoria Christina Hesketh , más conocida en el ambiente musical como Little Boots, no es de esas que se hicieron famosas y quedaron en un primer disco. En realidad podría haber pasado, porque lo único que habíamos escuchado de ella hasta ahora era Hands , una producción que fue presentada en el 2009 y que tuvo un buzz espectacular. Sea como sea, la nueva producción, que lleva el nombre de Nocturnes . Hoy hablaré justamente de ello. Esta es la reseña del nuevo disco de Little Boots. [...]
By Rob Crozier May 08, 2013 Little Boots returns with her second album Nocturnes and fresh from her successful collaboration with DJ Shadow . This new album is unapologetic intelligent dance pop. Intelligent in its subtlety and use of classic bass lines and simplistic in its obvious love of disco and house music and for that reason it is a mini-triumph. Little Boots' lazy hazy vocals move sinuously through the album as she attempts to carve out space alongside deep funky house bass lines. Her sound reminds us [...]
I reviewed Little Boots ' amazing new album, Nocturnes , for Idolator . Here's how it begins... The media narrative on Victoria “Little Boots” Hesketh ’s sophomore album, the one in which an artist gets pushed down by the heavy hand of the modern music industry…that story ends here. Because it doesn’t matter. In a year, no one will remember the delays or the lengths to which Hesketh went to make sure she realized her own vision. What they will remember [...]
by MIRANDA THOMPSON There’s one pub quiz question I always get right. Where was the first motorway opened in Britain? That’s the Preston by-pass in Lancashire, Northern England where it forms part of the M6. I get bonus points, right? I thought about the M6 when I first listened to Little Boots’s, aka Victoria Hesketh, second album, Nocturnes . Because, like me, she grew up in Lancashire (it’s a good, strong Lancastrian name, Hesketh). And I wondered, did she think of that same stretch of road when she penned album [...]
The sophomore LP by this talented British singer finds Little Boots exploring the vast possibilities of the electropop genre.
1.-Ruido Rosa - "Consecuencias" 2.-Kopecky Family Band - "Heartbeat" 3.-Scorpions - "Raised On Rock" 4.-Steel Dragon - "Long Live Rock And Roll" 5.-She & Him - "Sunday Girl" 6.-Guns N' Roses - "You Could Be Mine" 7.-Van Halen - "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks Cover) 8.-Vampire Weekend - "Ya Hey" 9.-The Joy Formidable - [...]
Little Boots Nocturnes On Repeat, 2013 Calificación: 7.0 Cómprenlo en: iTunes Por: @rulobn Durante los cuatro años entre el disco debut de Little Boots y el 2013, Victoria Hesketh ha sabido cómo adentrarse un poco más en un mundo que vive de la mezcla del baile y la oscuridad. Nocturnes , el título de su nueva producción, le hace [...]
The London pair of Still Corners heads the first new music Tuesday of May. We're also pining to get our hands on more of She & HIm's new album as well as some inspirational, electronic from Holy Ghost!. Oh, Fitz ... Read More
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including new stuff from Mikal Cronin, She & Him, Tom O'dell, and the highly anticipated soundtrack for the Baz Luhrmann Film: The Great Gatsby . As always, be sure to visit Largehearted Boy for more new music. Deerhunter// Monomania web // facebook // shows // iTunes Mikal Cronin// MCII twitter // soundcloud //shows// bandcamp // iTunes [...]
This release week finds Deerhunter trading in their atmospheric pop for straight up rock and roll, but nobody's going to mind because it's still the same edgy, dark, brilliant Deerhunter underneath all the fuzz and crackle. Another veteran changing it up is none other than Patty Griffin , whose new record, American Kid , is her very first solely Americana effort. Savages is finally releasing their debut, which will knock you on your ass and then some with its no-nonsense, post-punk [...]
The media narrative on Victoria “Little Boots” Hesketh ’s sophomore album, the one in which an artist gets pushed down by the heavy hand of the modern music industry…that story ends here. Because it doesn’t matter. In a year, no one will remember the delays or the lengths to which Hesketh went to make sure she realized her own vision. What they will remember is simple: Nocturnes (out today, May 7 ) is a solid work of cinematic, nighttime disco. Album opener [...]
Matt Spalding At the risk of being overly literal, it probably goes without saying that a band called Editors would hardly be averse to making changes. But the Birmingham band's decision to push synthesizers to the fore on their third album, 20092s In This Light And On This Evening , might have been a little more stylistic revision than they or their fans bargained for. It didn't fare nearly as well, commercially-speaking, as either of its predecessors - fans apparently preferred them when they were aping Joy Division rather than New [...]
Little Boots marched onto the UK dance scene with a handful of singles that led to her 2009 debut album, Hands . The record, replete with disco-stitched synthpop, and its bubbly creator Victoria Christina Hesketh, built a nifty cache of critical praise and commercial success. It arrived at the tail end of a second wave of female pop artists, such as Lady Gaga, La Roux, and Lily Allen, who each used their talents and femininity to hurdle themselves past the likes of manufactured, Top 40 girl charm acts like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Mandy [...]
On a special Friday Popscene that went far into the night, all the way into the headliner's birthday, the crowd was treated to synth pop in different forms - the dark tinged variety, the choreographed kind, and finally the made-for-the-charts sugary pop of Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots. It was a fun night, although not [...] The post Show Review: Little Boots with Avan Lava and Feathers at Rickshaw Stop, 5/3/2013 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
On a special Friday Popscene that went far into the night, all the way into the headliner's birthday, the crowd was treated to synth pop in different forms - the dark tinged variety, the choreographed kind, and finally the made-for-the-charts sugary pop of Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots. It was a fun night, although not [...] The post Show Review: Little Boots with AVAN LAVA and Feathers at Rickshaw Stop, 5/3/2013 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
photos by Wei Shi Little Boots at Echoplex, 5/2/2013 As mentioned , Little Boots releases her new album, Nocturnes , this week. It's currently streaming over at Pitchfork . Her tour with Avan Lava and Feathers will hit NYC tomorrow (5/7) for a sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg . She's in town today, though, and will be performing live on WNYC's "Soundcheck" at 2PM [...]
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