We’ve been a bit lazy of late, but here is something to wake us from our torpor. Cutting through our fortnight of hibernation is the submerged, seductive pop of Purity Ring‘s Ungirthed. A 7″ is coming soon via our pals at Transparent, who have followed a slinky remix from Christian AIDS with another by the [...]
24.03.11.
We first came across Slime when his haunted/hopeful/hallucinatory sounds oozed out of The Mixtape. Since then he seems to have deleted his Soundcloud, but we managed to dredge up a new song, Next Time, for your streaming pleasure. Slime spoke to us about foam pear trays and merry-go-rounds. Slime – Next Time [Stream Only] Slime [...]
02.02.11.
Brokenchord is the first Lithuanian to feature on Pinglewood, but don’t worry, he speaks the language of woozy, intimate, ever-morphing ?step (and English, phew). Like Boards of Canada, M83 or Mount Kimbie his music is electronic and pastoral. Check out his new single on Black Acre. After the jump he talks about Linda Perhacs and [...]
28.01.11.
The last time I spoke to Rudi Zygadlo I described his music as “Frank Zappa dubstep: smart, weird pop songs built with big ideas and the kind of magpie ingenuity that is sometimes mistaken for mental illness.” I was right! (for once). Get his new single Don’t Disturb The Beasts for free from his Bandcamp. [...]
17.01.11.
For the first 321 of 2011 we caught up with 19-year-old Alex Jacob, AKA Therapies Son, AKA that guy from California making grand, giddy pop with a pocket orchestra. His debut EP, Over The Sea is out soon on Transparent. Therapies Son – Touching Down [mp3]
12.01.11.
Hey Phil Jones from ATL, also known as Dog Bite. Dummy asked you ‘how’s it going?‘ and you said, ‘pretty fresh, trying to live in the future.’ That’s awesome. Judging by this new single you are doing a pretty good job. Dog Bite – Machino Machino [mp3] [Buy]
07.12.10.
Museum Of Bellas Artes – Days Ahead Nowadays, everyone talks a lot about nostalgia in music, but the panpipes in this wistful disco tearjerker from Museum Of Bella Artes take me straight back to a boyhood spent playing in Peru’s Urubamba Valley while my archaeologist parents explored for mysterious cities of gold. OK, not really, [...]
22.11.10.
Outer Limits Recordings – I Need My T.V. If you’ve ever fallen into the freaky VHS netherworld of Outer Limits Recordings’ YouTube channel you’ll understand why a gang of foxy labels- Transparent, True Panther, OESB, Young And Lost- have joined forces to release his majestically mutant sounds. We spoke to OLR mastermind Sam Meringue. He [...]
12.11.10.
Beaty Heart – Get The Gurls Beaty Heart is a band with more drummers than you might think necessary (three), but the preponderance of percussionists certainly fits their cute name, which (since you asked) reminds me of both Kevin Beattie and Edgar Allen Poe, neither of whom have much to do with swirling afro-mystic drum [...]
08.11.10.
Fixers – Amsterdam Since Chad Valley first told us about Oxford’s pub-born music and arts cult Blessing Force, we’ve seen their name everywhere. Among its most ardent adherents are astral travellers, Fixers. Watch their beatific new video closely and you will realise the universe has no independent reality, but derives its apparent reality from the [...]
18.10.10.