Caravan Palace - Rock it for me

What’s the point in sampling when you can just play in your own big band and do it all yourself?! Genius. This new album playing all summer in my house…

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Mausi - Sol

Ultimate summer tune.

Download for free or order the 7” here.

Yppah - Film Burn (feat. Anomie Bell)

This is looking HAWT for summer.

Eighty One is released on 2nd April and is available for pre-order from the Ninja Tunes shop.

Emika - 3 Hours

A good friend recently attempted to indoctrinate me with the dirty, dark sounds of Chelsea Wolfe. I wasn’t completely convinced apart from her live version of Movie Screen which he has so kindly blogged. I was currently enjoying the honest and slightly naive sounds of Daughter at the time… But I guess as I find myself falling into February’s pre-valentine blues.. I’m starting to feel a bit sick of the minimal acoustic aches + pains.

In the same way that I listened to DFA and watched La Haine for the first time; I can turn Emika up to the point where I hear nothing but the rattling of my tonsils. The thing i’m finding completely captivating is the fact that her daring industrial additude to her music is furtively broken by the fact that Mojzes, YSL and Balenciaga all styled her video and she’s a classically trained pianist. For that same reason, I’m also 100% behind Gaga in all her endeavors. You heard… Anyway, sharing a bed with echoes of Cassel’s seductive french and emika-induced-tinitus is better than going to bed alone this February so have a listen.

Her new single ‘3 Hours’ will be released on Valentines-eve and is available for pre-order from Ninja Tunes.

Daughter - Youth (Live Amazing Sessions)

SO good.

Track: Grimes - Genesis

Creepy, ethereal… and sexy. Spitting out another avant-guard one-man-band…

Unrelated Art: Jelles Martens - Untitled

Zoo Kid/King Krule - Out Getting Ribs 

Kankouran - Rivers

Finally, Happy New Year!

Hearing great things for these guys.. everything’s looking good for 2012, have a listen..

New Order - Temptation (Live BBC studios, 1984)

Having a dance and making a zillion mince pies…

Merry Christmas!

Future Islands - Long Flight

And so I whispered into your ear,

“Who are you thinking about?”

It couldn’t be me.

In essence this group provide everything I could ever want to hear right now. The mournful synths of Twin Shadow, the inventive samples and progressive percussive nature of TV on the Radio, the unrefined forthright production of WU LYF, the honesty of Youth Lagoon and they have a real tendancy to echo Bowie and The Stranglers at times (check out ‘Inch of Dust’). Although the lyrics seem a bit inconsistent - they’re unfeigned.

I haven’t found an album in a long time that I can say - with absolute sincerity - that every track is stunning, with these guys… I’ve just found three.

‘Long Flight’ (above) was released in 2010 on the album ‘In Evening Air’.. Theyre recent record ‘On the Water’ which features the beautiful track ‘Balance’ (with a superb video) was released earlier this year. You can purchase these and many others through they’re label Thrill Jockey.