Early Day Miners return with an abbreviated name and sound, trading acoustic slow-burns for a snappier style, blending post-rock theatrics with earthy Americana.
August, 2011
Raleigh Moncrief – I Just Saw // Song Of The Day #317
‘I Just Saw’ by new Anticon signing Raleigh Moncrief is an oddly charming piece of forward-thinking, beautifully produced deconstructed pop music.
Listen: Mat Riviere – Shores
The Brainlove man sure does have masochistic knack of producing beautifully pained alt-pop songs, nearly as much as we take a sadistic pleasure in hearing them.
Watch: Apparat making ‘The Devil’s Walk’
Watch Apparat and friends make ‘The Devil’s Walk – a process that seems primarily to involve smoking and drinking in Mexico. And playing with dogs on the beach.
Listen: Fujiya & Miyagi – Chichikov
Listen to ‘Chichikov’, taken from Fujiya & Miyagi’s running track ‘Different Blades From The Same Pair Of Scissors’ – like an electro-funk-pop ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ for your very own Rocky-style fitness montage.
Watch: Fear Of Men – Ritual Confession
Fear Of Men’s ‘Ritual Confession’ gets a video – and it looks a bit like ‘My Summer Of Love’ but set in Arthurian England.
ASIWYFA – 7 Billion People All Alive At Once // Song Of The Day #316
’7 Billion People Alive All At Once’ is the essence of ASIWYFA distilled into just under six minutes. It’s beautiful, it’s intricate but not wanky, it’s loud and, perhaps most importantly, it makes you feel as if you really do belong in their gang.
Listen: Battlekat – Into The Forest (Dreamtrak Diamond Sound remix)
With a euphoric chorus that builds with a blistering techno beat, expect to hear this in only the finest discotheques across the land starting from…. now.
Watch: TLOBF meets Echo Lake
Fresh from the release of their new single – the effortlessly breezy AA side ‘Breath Deep’ / ‘Another Day’ – Echo Lake dropped by for a chat just before their epic set at Field Day a week or so back. We talk future plans, musical villains (and heroes), the debut album and Beyoncé.
Listen: James Blake & Bon Iver – Fall Creek Boys Choir
If like me you have been waiting all day for signs of the strongly rumoured James Blake and Bon Iver collaboration then now is the time to breath a sigh of relief as the stunning ‘Fall Creek Boys Choir’ is available to listen to online.
Festival Diary: La Route du Rock – Saint Malo, France 2011
La Route du Rock, northern France’s premier music festival returns to showcase the talents of Aphex Twin, Battles, Blonde Redhead and Fleet Foxes. Francine Gorman reviews.
Listen: You Won’t – Three Car Garage
You Won’t have a sort of samba Leonard Cohen feel to them; like classic ’60s pre-”Judas” folk played with a bit of a Vampire Weekend twinge.
Listen: Girls – Honey Bunny
‘Honey Bunny’ sees the San Fran band replace the party drugs and comedowns of Album with the mania and maudlin lows of prescription pills.
Golden Fable – The Chill Pt 2 // Song Of The Day #315
Golden Fable’s ‘The Chill Pt 2′ sounds rather like 19th century English folk backed up with fluttering, Four Tet-y percussion. And there’s no risk of them splitting up the Beatles, which is good.
Festival Preview: Leeds Festival 2011
Leeds is hardly highbrow in artistic integrity; its raison d’être is to book a mega headliner, then fill the rest of the slots with guitar bands for teenagers in black t-shirts, It’s not for bearded and quiffed, corduroy wearing urbanites. David Newbury prepares to take on Leeds Festival.
Listen: Ryan Adams – Lucky Now
A sign of things to come? We have an inkling that yes, this could be the long awaited return to form of Mr Adams. Looks like marrying Mandy Moore did him some good – who said being in Love Is (always) Hell?
