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November, 2010
Stereolab – Not Music
Not Music is potentially Stereolab’s final album and, as Laetitia Sadier sings, the band sound “so stressed out and unhappy.” With that in mind, Alex Wisgard thinks a break might just do them some good.
Teeth Of The Sea – Your Mercury
Having sampled amp-abusing noise-rock on acclaimed 2009 debut Orphaned by the Sea, the London-based collective set sail towards uncharted waters with their second full-length.
Warpaint release ‘Shadows’ as next single
Taken from their critically acclaimed album, The Fool, the beautifully understated ‘Shadows’ will be made available digitally and as a limited edition 12” from 10 January 2011.
New material surfaces from Niki and The Dove ahead of their UK debut performance next week
A tidal wave of heart stopping crystalline emotion. If you think this is all a big dollop of hyperbolic jizz then you’re completely mistaken. I’m just giving you the facts. Niki and The Dove are THE most exciting pop act to emerge from Sweden since Studio. There, I said it. Now go download.
jj back with new material, sample The xx
“Fuck all you hoes, get a grip” – and so Elin Kastlander opens the new jj track ‘Let Them’ with her ice cold croon and marks the return of the elusive yet no less prolific Swedish wunderkinds. A re-imagining of T.I’s ‘Let ‘Em Talk’, early repeated listenings rank this as the finest moment of the duo’s short career.
Patrick Wolf announces new single, UK dates
Patrick Wolf is set to release his brand new single ‘Time of My Life’ on December 6th via Hideout Records. The experimental singer will also be playing a few UK dates to support its release.
Tennis announce debut album, UK / European tour for January 2011
Following on from the sixties high-school inspired dream pop of previous track ‘Marathon’, the husband and wife duo that is Tennis have signed to Fat Possum Records and begun work on their debut full length Cape Dory, due out in January 2011.
Ratatat: ‘Neckbrace’
Directed by the New York duo’s very own Evan Mast aka E*Vax, the video to Ratatat’s brand new single ‘Neckbrace’ offers up yet another chance to see the band’s adopted Parakeet mascot.
Robyn: ‘Indestructible’
The lead single lifted from the third installment of the Body Talk series – Robyn returns with the video for the anthemic ‘Indestructible’. “I’m gonna love you like I’ve never been hurt before” she sings, whilst a couple of luvvvvers ‘get it on’ – sitting this particular pash session out, Robyn watches on, covered in multi-coloured plastic tubing. Yeah.
Hauschka – Bush Hall, London 09/11/10
Modern classical music is a genre that’s sometimes easier to admire than enjoy, but for all the sophistication and technical qualities of Hauschka’s music, it’s never less than accessible.
Romania goes Pop! Diva Loredana revels in remix orgy, “all for the love of magic sounds”
Probably unheard of outside her native Romania, diva extraordinaire Loredana has recently been thrown into the hands of fellow Romanian Vlad Stoian – the founder of the Warmer Climes blog – for a mammouth remix orgy of the highest order. Her latest single ‘Rain Rain’ has been re-worked in the region of 50 times by various bands and production outfits.
The Tallest Man On Earth – Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
The Tallest Man On Earth is, without a doubt, not simply a passing talent; he may well be proving himself to be one of the finest songwriters of our generation.
Leni Ward – Hope
Leni Ward didn’t see reason to mope after breaking up with her partner of seven years. Instead she set about channelling her energies into an album to remember it by.
Weezer – Pinkerton Deluxe Edition & Death To False Metal
Steeped in musical references from grunge to punk and pop, Pinkerton is undeniably one of Weezer’s finest albums and the Deluxe Edition is a perfect reminder that yes, Weezer were once this raw, this serious and influential. Whilst, being released so close to such a seminal record, Death To False Metal just falls even harder into comparisons to older, more infectious and interesting material.
Flowers of Hell – O
16-strong “trans-Atlantic space rock orchestra”, as much about post-rock and shoegaze as modern classical, stretch out a glacial drone piece over 45 minutes.
