
Here's the long-awaited (by me) return of Friday Films, the post where I hype videos by London bands I like. Since I haven't done this for about 56 weeks, it's going to be a behemoth: Psychologist - Comes In Waves Predictably mellow video for typically mellow Psychologist beaut. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Treetop Flyers - Things Will Change A pleasingly spartan, [...]
London singer Charli XCX is set to release her new single "Stay Away" on May 16th through This Is Music . Scary American outfit SALEM put their stamp on the original track with sweeping synths and shattering beats that suspends the track into an "Angel Remix".
Charli XCX - Stay Away (Salem Remix) Salem ‘s angel-of-death remix for Britain’s grimy aspiring pop star Charli XCX chirps and rolls all kinds of rims, sounding like something toxic let out in Charli’s booth and the master tapes were dropped in the bath alongside a toaster. (Via Fader )

Hyperactive saucy pop starlet in the making Charli XCX first featured on Breaking More Waves way back in November 2009 ( here ) and since then the wheels of industry have been turning. A few days ago a clip of her future dark-pop single Stay Away cropped up on Soundcloud and her Myspace (listen here ) and now she’s formed an unlikely but sexy coupling with Salem who have managed to achieve what to date nobody else has managed to do – to slow down Charli XCX’s vivacious spirit to something that crawls [...]

I Never Needed Anyone Everyone's been attributing the recent absence of Salem from the interwebs to the death of witchhouse. But now we know better. Salem are back with a music video for their remix of Charli XCX's British pop jam "Stay Away": [ via Altie Zonies ] Charli XCX - "Stay Away" (Salem remix) Charli XCX - "Stay Away" (T. Williams dub remix)
Charli XCX : Stay Away ( SALEM ’S Angel Remix) - Video
Salem's angel-of-death remix for Britain’s grimy aspiring pop star Charli XCX chirps and rolls all kinds of rims, sounding like something toxic let out in Charli’s booth and the master tapes were dropped in the ... read more
We've not heard from Salem for a minute, since last year's monumental King Night rose above the internet like a great funeral pyre ash cloud puffed from God himself's wheezing lungs, but the divisive Chicago screw disciples are back here with a typically booming, looming take on the debut single by emerging British electro-pop songstress Charli XCX - binding her wide-eyed vocals to a crimson bed of endlessly thick, gloopy synth drone and bone-shuddering 808 clatter like only they know how. The song's called "Stay Away" and whilst Charli's original seems to yearn [...]