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Best Coast: riding the wave
“Portia, I Dreamt You Were a Princes” is beautiful little electronic postscript on a delicate lo-fi folk album by Manchester’s The Empty Set. The album, “Neat As a New Pin”, is well worth checking out. This track has a few seconds of silence at the start… stick with it!
The Empty Set – Portia, I Dreamt You Were a Princess by snipelondon
The wonderful and more than slightly mysterious neu-goth princess Zola Jesus plays one of our favourite venues, C.A.M.P., tonight. This track, Night, is her first UK single, out last week on Souterrain Transmissions and taken from the brilliant debut album Stridulum II.
Indie dreamboat Sufjan Stevens has released a new track from his forthcoming record The Age Of Adz. He has taken an intriguing swerve and gone electronic. Which is, in his hands, quite obviously an epically excellent decision.
L.A. duo No Age have been doling out their psychedelic-edged noise-rock for several years now without ever quite nailing it in the studio like they do live. “Glitter” is a step in the right direction, melding the noise, rhythm and melody that makes them great, and sitting between Deerhunter and Sonic Youth.
Grampall Jookabox makes strange mashed up American music, taking in messy acid-rock, bastardized blues and Beefheart-style experimentation. It took a while to get into it, but this is just brilliant…
Grampall Jookabox – The Girl Ain’t Preggers by snipelondon
Grampall Jookabox – The Girl Ain’t Preggers from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.
Pop chanteuse Rose Elinor Dougall must get sick of every review prefixing her name “Ex-Pipette” the way most girls get “Miss”. And rightly so – her debut is a rich and shimmering record that far outstrips her last band’s lightweight indie-pop. Entitled “Without Why”, it’s out next week, and she headlines the Barfly tonight to celebrate.
Here’s a “glitch mob” mashed up one-track advert for Everything Everything album, “Man Alive”. It’s a pretty great pop record stuffed with insistent earworms, all of which are present, if not correct, on this mix.
Everything Everything – Man Alive – The Glitch Mob Album Mash Up by EverythingEverything
We’ve some dark, heavy USA dance shit for you today. John Doran, editor of The Quietus, had this banging out of the Green Man ‘fun bus’ last weekend and I was utterly taken with it. Brilliant stuff, and ironic that the best discovery of the festival happened on the way there.
In which various scary fuckers and band members engage in hand-to-hand cannibal warfare.
Very pretty in an audibly Icelandic style, Rökkurró are a chamber-pop quintet producing beautiful, swooning orchestral arrangements with other-worldly vocals. A bit like Múm perhaps, but less aimlessly textural – Rökkurró are more about melody and songs than drones and moods. Their new album “Í annan heim”, meaning “In Another World”, is out soon.
