Category: Music releases
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Your Headphones – Silverclub
Listening to Tom Robinson’s Now Playing on 6Music playing new music and this track by Silverclub came around. I like it for two reasons 1) 90’s influences are being used now, sounds like they have an intimate knowledge of fellow Mancunians 808 State (listen past the 3 minute mark – THAT bassline) which is NOT…
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Presets new album – Ghosts
Must say I missed this, being away and all – Presets just released the album Pacifica last week in the UK/Europe. If this excellent single and video (it’s like being back at the Olympics! Where’s Tom Daly?) ‘Ghosts’ is anything to go by, it’ll be a good un – sounds more mature without being all…
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Gee Mr Tracy – Mr Unlucky
Weird and wonderful this here internet, where someone (in this case Robb Idiotech) posts a probably unremembered tune from 1986 on their Facebook wall and a hitherto unknown (to me anyway) band comes to light. Here’s Norwich’s finest Gee Mr Tracy with a (fan?) video of ‘Mr Unlucky’. As Robb points out, the lyric “And…
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Forest Swords
Loving Forest Swords at the moment – was hoping to catch them at Bestival but missed them. Love the medieval murky acoustic dubstep feel, with a sort of 3am country thing in there too. Amazing to think this was 2010 – with the current XX album and interest in all things gothic, electronic and floaty…
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I’m so cool and groovy I go bom bom bom
Am re-listening to Radio 1 in celebration of that bigoted Destroyer Of Radio 1 presenter being finally off the station (yay!) and heard this track by Sam & The Womp – Bom Bom. Love this it’s completely insane, skirting into Doop/novelty territory but rap meets dance meets klezmer/brass/gypsy with totally stupid lyrics. *snaps Kitkat* It’ll…
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Call Me Maybe On Chatroulette
Steve Kardynal does it again on Chatroulette…This time with that annoying earworm ‘Call Me Maybe’. Love how people join in with this! Better than the official video, by far.