Something fantastic that good EPs do is to very slightly piss around with rhythms in a way that is slowly exciting but also sounds good. This EP by Swedish artist Döden is one of those good EPs. Elephant EP ( buy ) was released 4 days ago on Dance label 12-3 Recordings . It's 3 songs to keep you awake when you're not sober and you don't want to sleep. 3 faultless instances of techno to motivate your resolutely optimistic [...]
There's something addictive about quiet sullen mornings succeeding hectic evenings. Mornings of slight activity, fresh cold damp air. Being outside in the morning after an evening inside. There's something addictive about that. Open white space, opportunity to walk around, distances, the frantic mind-drunk claustrophobia of the evening before like a howling wind remembered, a previous world of hasty energy and emotion. The morning lets us recollect our thoughts, reality, composure. The coaxing folk music of Little Children gets this, steady tempo, calm sad sweeping singing, soft [...]
Carl-Marcus Gidlöf of Despotz records turned me onto this track via twitter and my god i'm grateful. This song has an excellent sense of drama from the vocals to the violins. It is intense, quick-paced and melodic. The arrangements remind me of Kate Bush and Julia Spada's vocals are sharp and expressive. The lyrics are delivered with feeling, it sounds like an unusually banal thing to point out but there are plenty of tracks you can listen to where it doesn't seem the vocalist believes in the words they are singing...This is one of the [...]
With Spring barely coming to life it's all felt a bit dark and down recently. With this recent cloudiness and from feeling a bit stressed, I've been listening to some more laid back and relaxing music. I haven't listened to much new music over the last week, but after glancing at my SoundCloud likes, I was reminded of Potensia . Manuel Pfeiffer aka Potensia creates some truly beautiful and well crafted songs. I found his music through having a look a at Tim Toh's SoundCloud, [...]
With Spring barely coming to life it's all felt a bit dark and down recently. With this recent cloudiness and from feeling a bit stressed, I've been listening to some more laid back and relaxing music. I haven't listened to much new music over the last week, but after glancing at my SoundCloud likes, I was reminded of Potensia . Manuel Pfeiffer aka Potensia creates some truly beautiful and well crafted songs. I found his music through having a look a at Tim Toh's SoundCloud, [...]
Was sitting on a bus when... ...suddenly Jason became 4300000000000000000000000000 metres tall, 46 billion light years tall, about the same distance as it is from Earth to the edge of the observable Universe, jason got confused, we were engulfed as units of Jason's material, instantly spaced out, flying around in chaos, 10 billion human bodies collected as 1, our attraction and repulsion to each-other made the whole thing work, kept Jason alive, we were confused, but attraction to another enabled us to have conversations together, to acknowledge and understand what one day happened in a [...]
Sometimes you tell certain people you like the blues and they look at you like you're at worst a tosser and at best a philistine...you seethe and imagine them listening to some shitty electro records while taking pictures of their food. We can all be guilty of such gross generalizations, Walk are one of those bands that show why we shouldn't generalize. Part Blues Part Electro, they combine classic blues riffing with a dash of sequencer, its not gimmicky either. It gives their songs a sort of skip and energy a lightness of foot uncommon to the blues, they haven't [...]
I had a dream that your chin slowly sunk down, enlarged, swelled like a bullfrog's; I dreamt you slowly changed from 'normal-you' to 'disfigured-you', your chin turned from 'chin-like' to a bulging pulsating big sack of fat. And I stared at you as your distorted lump swung from side to side: weighing down your diseased, wrinkled, struggling old face. Your cold eyes. Questioning eyes, struggling eyes reflecting a struggling mind. And I'm fascinated, I'm terrified, I struggle to think, I think, I think in deafening cries, What Are You? How The Fuck Do You Feel When You Wake Up? It [...]
The cool band Everyone Everywhere are slowly living up to their name. Two of their number have made some tunes with Scotty Leitch ( a.k.a. Pirouette ) under the banner of Gleek. But not this Gleek . Or this one . Surprisingly there are a great number of Gleek named things. Who would have thought. This , however, is the very tasty demo which they've put up on bandcamp. It's a mumbled indie rock four track affair, the highlight of which is So Damn Sick (below). It is a really simple song, but it's [...]
Beneath is the interview with indie-pop daydream balladeer Sami The Great, she tells us about how the future might be crowdfunding, the relevance of spacemen and her love for Abbey Road (something which we share). Her music is exuberant and playful, powerful melodies which remind me of 602s girl groups and the same charm as Regina Spektor. If this sounds like your cup of joe then there is a link to her latest track 'Dresser Drawer' after the interview. [...]
The Sunday School. from APocketFullOfSeeds on 8tracks Radio . You were left mixless last week so here's a new one, I think it might just be the best one yet. Let me take you through the tracks. Colin Stetson-All The Days I've Missed You . This track captures that slightly somber but equally momentous journey out of bed..you'll feel like you're in an Attenborough documentary. Beck-Lost Cause. Sea Change is quite simply one of [...]
I've become pretty obsessed with wolves in the last 6 months. As part of my course I've looked at ancient Italian interactions with these liminal creatures and wondered why Rome has such a close bond with them. Seriously, images of wolves in Rome are everywhere, but in flesh and blood they are nowhere. They are metaphors for the taming of the wilderness surrounding the Eternal City, but they also encapsulate the tragic industrialisation which has driven them out of their ancestral home: they are no longer welcome back despite their famous suckling of the eponymous founder and his brother Remus. [...]
I'm sitting in my room trying to work out what exactly I'm going to say to my philosophy seminar tutor when I go see him in about half an hour. I want to give off the right impression and I want him to like me. I'm considering, in some odd imagination, to take my iPod, play him and ask him if he likes this song. Some song, Made Me Who I Am , on some album [ ...And Chuang Tzu Dreamed That He Was Me by Dustdevil and Crow ] I bought in London at the weekend. [...]
I have Drowned in Sound to thank for discovering Hookworms as they gave their 'Pearl Mystic' album 10/10, naturally I felt this warranted a listen and it certainly did. 'In Our Time' reminds you of how important music can be, sprawling across five minutes it begins by building a wall of sound and then lets it rupture and crumble to the floor or beneath the waves, distorted, gnarled and washed out...it makes you feel like you're floating on a lilo in the midday sun after a flood. The persistent pysch-rock riffing dances and flickers about the track, it [...]
I've had a flick through a load of my old posts. They're all related to the weather. I don't know if I subconsciously am conforming to that old British stereotype or am just very emotionally linked to the weather. Maybe it's because it always rained on my birthday, and when it didn't I was so overjoyed that now when it's sunny it feels like my birthday. Well today definitely isn't my birthday (if it's yours have a great day, here's a present!) and it's wet. Luckily a lovely guy all the way [...]
Waking up after a freezing Winter to a Spring sun is such a relief. I'm pretty convinced Dan gave me his cold, which has been kicking me in the head for the past week or so, but Yesterday it lifted, swiftly and suddenly. So I spent yesterday listening to summery songs lying on my bed and I thought that I would share a few. On my playlist was (were?) Girls who sadly disbanded last year, Dan Croll , and [...]
When I was younger I was lucky enough to go to Australia twice as we lived in Tokyo. However, I don't remember much apart from Fraser Island and spending Christmas in the sun and heat for the first time. Fast forward to this year and Australia to me now means a lot more about music than Christmas in the sun. Over the last few months from hearing Hiatus Kaiyote , I have begun to discover more of the great sounds Australia's music scene has to offer. That's [...]
I've been feeling ill all week but i'm on the mend! Here is a round-up of all the stuff I've wanted to post. First Locust-Strobes, y'all are going to have to understand that my descriptions of electronic music aren't great. This track is for me paranoid, claustrophobic and exhilarating. It is haunting and unsettling, like Burial , a very intriguing if not entirely comfortable listen. Next Luca offer up a slice of breezy indie/post punk with Summer. Lovely melodies, straightforward guitars and earthy bass combine with gravelly vocals to [...]
There's something eerily warm about being inside, surrounded by lit-up walls. So much confinement, such constricting dimensions; walls enclose space and that's how space comes into our perception. Yet we light them up, we put a light in the space and the space is made all the more light by the walls. Enclosed light. And we make ourselves at home within the walled-area. Even when there's no man-made walls and we're outside, we construct them in our heads; our vision is enclosed by horizons everywhere. Natural walls; wall of sea, wall of trees, wall of fields - no less limited [...]
Last week we sent our intrepid Live Editor, Kathleen, to meet Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit before the band's gig at The Phoenix is Exeter. Read on after the jump for Scott's thoughts on the move to a major, the new albums production, the Scottish music industry and plenty more. APFoS: Obviously the move to Atlantic has been talked [...]
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