Mount Kimbie - You Took Your Time
Another great song from the upcoming Mount Kimbie album. The vocals from King Krule work well but I can’t really see them in the rest of the album yet.
To be honest I’m just looking forward to this album, more than any other at the moment, though King Krule album would be up near the top of the list as well.
These New Puritans - Fragment Two
These New Puritans seem to have a sound for every album, this new track sounds like the new album could be another signature. Out of the darkness of Hidden comes Fragment Two, an almost triumphant track, by their standards anyway.
Field of Reeds is out June 10th.
Still Caves - Dutch
This is loud and messy and good. Get the tape here:
Reminds of the early Guards songs, the EP is good as well
Are Daft Punk saving the album?
Technology site, The Verge, says the album is going to be rescued by the new Daft Punk album, well they’ve just fell into the marketing hole, haven’t they.
- The album isn’t dead
- Daft Punk will not release the best album this year
Firstly I can’t believe how much hype Daft Punk are getting for their new album. Yes it will be good, yes I’ll play it do death but it probably won’t be my favourite this year, and it certainly won’t be the best album ever. Human After All isn’t career defining is it? Obviously Homework is a great album but what I’m saying is that Daft Punk aren’t this super power sent down from some musical God to change our outlook on music.
They played an advert at Coachella last week and the festival might as well not have happened. I didn’t read of how good this band or that band were 1. We just heard how there’s a new clip of a new Daft Punk song, it wasn’t even all of it! This week there have been cuts and mixes by bored souls trying to recreate the full track, are these people being payed to do this? Is it just an elaborate marketing ploy. Maybe there isn’t even an album.
Anyway the album isn’t dead. Vinyl sales are growing year by year. Vinyl is surely the rawest form of the album. It makes you sit down and listen, not to be just noise in the background. If the album is dead Daft Punk won’t be resurrecting it.
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We did hear how bad The Stone Roses were though. ↩
Secret Colours - Blackbird
This is straight from the 90’s,a clash between The Stone Roses and The Charlatans guitars scroll slowly through chords. The cover looks like Rubber Soul just to add to the theme. Peach is out May 28th.
(Source: beatsperminute.com)
Majical Cloudz - Childhood’s End
I just listened to this and thought it was well worth a post. Childhood’s End is an emotive track with the the broodiness often associated with Wild Beasts. The lyrics are as expected about the depression of growing older, with mentions of loneliness death it’s hardly the most uplifting track,its just honest.
The album, Impersonator, is out May 27th on Matador.
Mount Kimbie - Made to Stray
The first track from Mount Kimbie’s second album. Their first was so minimal and eerie, hearing every drop and noise. The second however seems to be a progression to an almost house sound at the start, its different and in a good way.
Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is out May 27th on Warp Records.
Savages - She Will
The heavily hyped Savages have announced their first album will be arriving in 2013, and released the song She Will from it. It’s pretty full on, and they released a statement with the song announcing the purpose of their music and the band.
SAVAGES is not trying to give you something you didn’t have already, it is calling within yourself something you buried ages ago, it is an attempt to reveal and reconnect your PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL self and give you the urge to experience your life differently, your girlfriends, your husbands, your jobs, your erotic life and the place music occupies in your life. Because we must teach ourselves new ways of POSITIVE MANIPULATIONS, music and words are aiming to strike like lightning, like a punch in the face, a determination to understand the WILL and DESIRES of the self.
Whilst it does seem a bit over the top, the track backs up what they’re saying about reconnecting, and as they say “like a punch in the face”.
Silence Yourself is out May 6th
Baths - Miasma Sky
Baths is back with a stereotypically emotional song. After a few listens it’s certainly what I hoped for a Baths track to be, with a bit more added vocal. After listening to Cerulean again I really loved the album, and am now thinking I underplayed it so much. I suppose I’ll have to albums to go at. Obsidian will be out later this year.
