Tune-Yards is Merrill Garbus who we went to see in Paris the other day. Her one-woman sampling-assed, ukulele-owning, Aretha-by-way-of-Sister-Gertrude-Morgan show is amazing. You should try and see her this week and next across the UK. Check out her crazy album BiRd-BrAiNs and look forward to the next which we are told will be “like Mary [...]
01.09.09.
For last week’s D2P I spoke to the wonderful Othello Woolf about auto-tune and stuff.
01.09.09.
What’s that, tiny battle-weary elf guy? Your gigantic feet hurt? You’re about to reach the crest of a cloud-cloaked mountain range and you need a suitably epic and ancient score? Meet the amazing Among The Bones, he will hook you up. But steel yourself, little dude. Your quest continues and this is only part one [...]
01.09.09.
Any song that begins with an alarm-fuelled yawn chorus and ends with a cheery good night is all right with us. Austin’s Fach Idiot fill the space between with whispered seducto raps, weird spoken samples and whirling, freshly flipped classic soul, suggesting they’re anything but one-trick ponies. Fach Idiot – Darlin’ (I Melt) [mp3]
01.09.09.
[Photo by The Amazing Stacey] Thanks to the awesomeness of No Age approximately 85% of bands now sound like they record inside untuned televisions using upturned skips as a microphones. They are fathers of the Summer Of Rad and as such, the last 321 of summer. (Let’s just pretend today is the last day of [...]
01.09.09.
Jacques Audiard’s new movie Un Prophete is the anti-Shawshank, a brutal and eloquent prison saga about what you really learn behind bars. The soundtrack is amazing too. From it, here’s Jimmie Dale Gilmore‘s serene stab at a standard. Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Mack The Knife [mp3]
01.09.09.
Nanotechnology is not a word you hear very often in songs, but as you can see from the picture, German Measles are not regular dudes. This ramshackle paen to perpetuity is taken from their new EP, Wild, out soon on the eternally excellent Cap Tracks. German Measles – Eternity [mp3] [Buy]
01.09.09.
A long time ago in a city far, far away… Midnight Juggernauts watched Space Camp and a dream was born. But these Australians did not become astronauts, instead they travelled the intergalactic audiowaves evolving into a kind of Hi-NRG, zero gravity Tears For Fears. A limited 7″ will be released soon by our ace pals [...]
01.09.09.
We’re not suggesting Gold Panda is the kind of dude who touches himself, but he clearly has Midas-like powers so you never know. Here he fondles berserk Bergenites Ungdomskulen into an explosive disco frenzy. Ungdomskulen – Idunno (Gold Panda Remix) [mp3] [Buy]
01.09.09.
Tonight we bring to a close our two day festival of Awesome Producers Remixing Mediocre Songs. Here the amazing Kwes pushes drums down a stairwell and pulls sense through a keyhole. Screaming Lights dudes, “the 21st Century is a modern whore” is not a good opening gambit, but look! Kwes made the name of his [...]
01.09.09.