Beth Jeans Houghton has a promising sound. It feels like a marriage between folk-country and a little recent Natalie Merchant thrown into it. All quirk aside, she is a singer-songwriter from Newcastle upon Tyne who plays "sweet and gentle folk music." Beth Jeans Houghton has been described by The Guardian as looking like "Gwen Stefani with a touch of Brody Dalle", with a sound that "is Vashti Bunyan crossed with Nico and Laura Marling" In early 2011 Beth Jeans Houghton signed to Mute Records who announced that they will be releasing her debut long player in early 2012. The [...]
A description of UK's Big Deal can be illustrated in the form of a strawberry wafer. Just like the perfect amount of strawberry filling and thin vanilla wafers, the delicious layers in Big Deal are complimented by Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood . On January 24th, the pair will release their debut album Lights Out under Mute Records . This is the same label with M83 , Goldfrapp and Maps under their wings. If you haven't heard of Big Deal, their association with Mute should give preconceived expectations [...]
A description of UK's Big Deal can be illustrated in the form of a strawberry wafer. Just like the perfect amount of strawberry filling and thin vanilla wafers, the delicious layers in Big Deal are complimented by Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood. On January 24th, the pair will release their debut album Lights Out under Mute [...]
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Mute Records) has a soundtrack that takes no melodic prisoners. Trent Reznor, in collaboration with English composer and musician Atticus Ross, comes bearing a monolithic 39-track beast. Fresh from their triumph at the Oscars (They won Best Original Score for The Social Network) they have hit the ground not running but barreling. Ross has collaborated with Reznor on past Nine Inch Nails albums and it's a fusion of dark vision. The staccato clattering machinations of "Oraculum" chime and skitter along at a frenetic pace that brings to mind OCD and the agitation brought on by any painful thought or situation you just [...]
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VCMG , pues eso, 2 artistazos que desde 1981 no trabajaban juntos, 2 artistazos encargados de marcar una época, de ser pioneros como lo son Vince Clarke (Erasure/Yazoo/Depeche Mode) y Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode). Pues un día, no hace demasiado Vince Clarke, cuenta, que empezó a escuchar minimal y techno, y se sintió intrigado en esa música, y que para seguir investigando necesitaba un colaborador, así que se pone en contacto con Martin L. Gore y le comenta la idea de realizar un álbum de techno, y este encantado se presta a colaborar, [...]
There is no better, more moving and transcendant, Goldfrapp album than the duo's debut Felt...
Last Sunday, the self-proclaimed "shy" Frenchman known as Anthony Gonzalez made a transformation from humble interviewee to total rockstar in a matter of hours. I'd describe myself as a casual M83 fan - while the name has floated around in my repertoire since it appeared on Bloc Party 's remix album that I listened to before I even really understood what a remix was (the high school indie days), I haven't necessarily given their albums the attention they fully deserve, though I've listened to each a few times. My interest was deepened when I heard the [...]
Last Sunday, the self-proclaimed "shy" Frenchman known as Anthony Gonzalez made a transformation from humble interviewee to total rockstar in a matter of hours. I'd describe myself as a casual M83 fan - while the name has floated around in my repertoire since it appeared on Bloc Party's remix album that I listened to before I [...]
When you hit play on disc one of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming , the new album by M83, you know you're in for something big. The album's intro opens with a rising ambiance intercut with an arpeggio of synthesizers. A frail monologue can be heard among the rising action before we hear M83's mastermind, Anthony Gonzalez yell out "I carry on!" His voice sounds like it has never before, a commanding lead that wails into the night sky. The rest of that opening track is handled by Zola Jesus whose chilly tenor gives the album a stately and [...]
On M832s latest album, indie dance and synth pop sounds are pumped up and glossed out until they reach almost unrealistic proportions. Not only that, but these ideas are stretched out to a double album length. WATCH THE REVIEW
At the heart of a lunchtime huddle in a West London watering hole is Yann Tiersen . Starting this afternoon where he abandoned the previous soir, one spent "drinking a few beers", he's dragged from an impassioned discussion on the merits of Jean Michel Jarre to step outside to shiver and smoke his way through this interview, ale in hand. The very first concert I ever attended at the tender age of three happened to be one of Jarre's as he took to Mont Saint-Michel in '93. Read this as a positive omen for a three day-long Yan Tiersen [...]
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Tweet Buy the album on Amazon - Vinyl | MP3 | CD I'm going to start off this post by being completely honest. I had no idea who Apparat was before listening to this album. As in, I hadn't even heard Sascha Ring's alias in passing. I actually had to Wikipedia him. And when I did, I found out that "The Devil's Walk" is his [...]
M83 have a new double LP called Hurry Up, We're Dreaming out on Naive/Mute Records . Check out the spooky sci-fi video for the album's first single 'Midnight City'. I like the intensity of those recurring synth-screams that augment the chorus every time it comes around. And the whole arrangement and song structure has a really strong Depeche Mode vibe (label mates). The video is directed by Fleur & Manu (Division/Les Télécréateurs). Stream the rest of the album over at Disco Naivete . [...]
"Midnight City" is, deservedly so, beginning to get around everywhere. With the release of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming tomorrow via Mute Records, M83 's first single from the new album was given the X-Men children's story video treatment, which is a good change of pace from the band's previous litany of attractive teenager's hanging out and doing teenage things series of videos. Listen to the entire Hurry Up, We're Dreaming stream here and watch the video below. M83 - Midnight City
M83 now has an official video for what I'm calling, 'this year's best song', and what you might call, "Midnight City". continue reading >>
Urban Outfitters has an exclusive stream of M83 's new album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, out October 18th on Mute Records. Stream it here .
Vorige week was het feest voor mij. Binnen het bestek van een paar dagen kwamen er albums uit van drie artiesten die ik, min of meer, grijs gedraaid heb. Zo kwamen er albums uit van Machine Head, Steven Wilson (van Porcupine Tree), en, last but not least, Apparat . Zodoende heeft het ook eventjes geduurd voor ik alle albums een eerlijke kans heb kunnen geven. Afijn, hier mijn kijk op het nieuwe album van laatstgenoemde. Het vorige album van Apparat, genaamd Walls , stamt al weer uit 2007, en het nummer Hailin from the edge [...]
Watch Erasure rehearsing their new single, "Break It All Down" from their just released album, Tomorrow's World in London. They are coming to Portland and a city near you soon in NA.
Tomorrow's World drops 10.11.11 via Mute ( full album stream ) US Tour Dates This is Erasure's first US tour in five years, and will continue through September, finishing in Seattle on October 6th. Frankmusik , who produced Tomorrow's World and is one of the UK dance scene's most exciting new talents Erasure - A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot
Get lost in the grand landscapes of melancholy created by German electro wizard Apparat on his new album, The Devil's Walk.
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