So in all my bed-bound no-morning crawling inertia of late I've overslept on a few things that I meant to post about a little while ago. Mainly though this can be condensed neatly in my saying just how good the new No Pain In Pop compilation is. Throw a fiver on it here . One of the many stand out tracks on the disc and forthcoming NPIP single is "Strangling Good Guys", the first offering from shadow found London outfit Trailer Trash Tracys . The song is a strange flowering freak-pop fantasia that sees [...]
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As if he's not busy enough providing some really quite popular songs about Peter Gabriel and the nuisance nuances of English grammar with all sorts of prim and properly awesome orchestral licks as part of his nine-to-five in Vampire Weekend, Rostam Batmanglij has taken some time out the hood (moved his moms out the hood) to loosen his collar a little and get his hands a little dirtier as half of Discovery . The combination of "Orange Shirt"'s synth-strong 808 onslaught and weirdly courteous vocals conjures an image of Prince Harry undoing the top button on his [...]
The smokingly awesome new video for Jellybean from Video Nasties , featuring our very own Jack Shankly amongst the bright lights in a rare public appearence. They've let us have the roaring Kaiser from their forthcoming album 'On All Fours' which you can find in its full scuzzed-up glory here . Video Nasties - Kaiser
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The whole blog furore surrounding Little Boots somehow managed to pass us right by. I guess we had a bad day at the office when it was all going down but we've got our swag on now. Prior to his single release on Transparent, Emil & Friends has done a mad remix/reworking of Victoria Hesketh's first single 'New In Town'. He thrusts and stretches her pop perfect voice through a vocoder, unleashes punching synth breakdowns and pummels it into the sweaty dancefloor version. Little Boots - New In Town [...]
That shrill sound of high pitched boy-screams can only mean one thing: Patrick Wolf is back. Vulture is the first single on the new self-released album and it's as dark as you'd expect a collaboration between the man and Alec Empire would be in a world recession. This remix comes from Singleton and Kill Em All resident Stopmakingme . It takes the original even further down that murky alleyway into a world of Berlin-inspired techno which, we're told, sounds better at 5am whilst gangster tripping on Pro Plus. [...]
Between scoffing down Ferro Rocher Easter eggs and religously following Westwood's Twitter we've been letting our ears feast on the new Suckers EP. We blogged about the Brooklyn boys way back when we were still wet behind the ears and they were but a glint in the eyes of Niki and Paul at IAMSOUND Records . Since then, they've been working on the magic with Yeasayer's Anand Wilder to conjure up the sky high sounds and sweeping group harmonies in the patient ascent of '...Body [...]
Transparent DJ set + Phantom playing live.
Some banks are getting smashed up around the corner by a baying mob who have probably all taken the day off sick, so I'm not going to do any work either. Instead I'm going to lie back and listen to my two new favourite albums; by California's That Ghost and New York's Cymbals Eat Guitars . Young Fridays is the incredibly charming living, breathing sound that Ryan Schmale and his alias That Ghost rolled together during sunny bedroom sessions. On 'Never Have Fun', he becomes the lo-fi pop revival's newest Commander [...]
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Avicii – Two Million
Scissor Sisters’ “Baby Come Home” Video: Watch The Band Get Animated
Yellow Magic Orchestra edit from Chrome Canyon
Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
