Tagged: paullester

'Devils Show' By Let's Buy Happiness. 'Fast Fast' By Let's Buy Happiness. Let's cut to the chase and at the risk of sounding like an M&S advert, categorically state, Let's Buy Happiness aren't just a good band, Let's Buy Happiness are a great band. However there has been some debate as to whether they qualify as a 'thrilling' band? Drowned In Sound editor Sean Adams once described the band as "One of the most thrilling [...]

the guardian - new band of the day [one of wongie's constant sources of new music is this wonderful daily blog from the guardian which promotes a new act for the day. in the past few years, many a wongie favorite have come from this list. check out writer paul lester on his faves of 2010!] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld

I usually star the Guardian's "Band of the Day" picks in my Google Reader and go back and listen when I have time. The best one I've run across lately is Paul Lester's pick of I Blame Coco , who just happens to be the daughter of Sting. Now, regardless of what you may think of Master Gordon Sumner or his myriad musical incarnations, his youngest daughter Coco, née Eliot Pauline Styler-Sumner, has an outstanding set of pipes. Like her father in his early days with the Police, she's obsessed with reggae-inflected pop, but she sells it [...]

Raves from the English press still manage to thrust artists into the limelight, despite having cried wolf too many times to remember. But I think The Guardian is onto something with Dave I.D. This guy evidently makes Buriel look like a fame-whore by comparison, even though he does have a MySpace page, inscrutable as it may be. It's doomy, paranoid music with indecipherable lyrics, glitchy beats, and echo dub guitars. In between proclamations of "he's bloody brilliant", Paul Lester describes "Why Weren't The Message Sent" thusly: "sounds like the Beatles playing Cabaret Voltaire's 'Nag Nag Nag'." [...]