The Big Pink

One of the most blogged about bands, somethings gotta be good.

-Dalston, London.

-Hotly tipped by Nme and the BBC sound list

- Consists of Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze, Milo running record label 'Merok' relaseing bands like Crystal Castles and Klaxons, and Robbie ex-guitarist to electro-punk artist Alec Empire.

- Live drummer "Keex" of Comanechi, Close friends with lilly allen, Florence and the machine, The big pink are one of the most conneted bands.

- As described by BBC , This London duo use gritty beats, droning guitars, abstract effects and dreamy vocals to create a soundscape that is arty yet tuneful"

Atmospheric psychedelic indie rock.

ecoute.

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download: Velvet, Stop the world, Dominos.

Stop the World:

Velvet:

AUDACITY OF HUGE

- New single by Simian Mobile Disco.
- When i first heard this song, i didn't really like it and didn't seem like anything special.
- I heard it again , and i think its great. Trust me, it'll grow on you.
- Directed by the incredible KATE MOROSS and JO APPS.
- This video is genius. It's awesome directing and styling.
- Just watch the video and then tell me it's not the best music video youve seen for years. Look at all the detail and colours used!
- The video is the best bit. x

La Roux

Its all false love and affection. You don't like me you just want the attention.

>So I brought the debut album of the Electro-pop duo La Roux, expecting it to have the few good singles and the rest dull 80's synth.
+ >Not only are there a 1 or 2 good songs, but a 8 possible singles. The first 7 songs and then 'fascination' are all so strong and could easily be released as singles.
>This album is such a surprise for me , i had no idea la roux had it in them. Also watching backstage video's and acoustic performances it's great to see Elly can actually sing and Ben is incredible on the synths. >'Tigerlily' demonstrates another side of La Roux. Its a much more agressive track, with a little less synths. It also has a ghostly spoken voice part at the bridge, by Elly Jacksons dad. Contrasting with this is the love ballad of 'Cover My Eyes' where Elly suposidly cryed during recording as of the personal attachments with the song.
> The use of the london comunity choir really adds to the songs , particularly in ' Cover My Eyes'.
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Many of the tracks do sound the same. Especially at the opening in tracks such as 'in for the kill' 'tigerlilly' + 'colourless colour'. This is really due to the same synth noise/effect and chords being repeatedly used.

01. In For The Kill

02. Tigerlily

03. Quicksand

04. Bulletproof

05. Colourless Colour

06. I'm Not Your Toy

07. Cover Your Eyes

08. As If By Magic

09. Fascination

10. Reflections Are Protections

11. Armour Love

+ Growing pains (bonus track )

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Download: Tigerlilly, Bulletproof, Cover My Eyes and my favorite, 'I'm Not Your Toy'

I'm Not Your Toy:

Tigerlily:

Wolf Gang

- WOLF GANG
+ aka, Max Elligott
- new upcoming act.
- hasn't even been signed yet.
- I think this guy could be big money.
- Debut single "Pieces of You" is a sick, but the demo
of the song "lions in cages" is a real tune and would
be the tune of the summer, if it was summer here....
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download: Lions in cages, Pieces of You.
Lions in Cages:

Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor

Patrick Wolf- the genius.

>the album , 'the bachelor' came out June the 1st.
>part one of the double album ' Battle'
>features the like of the actress Tilda Swinton, Folk singer Eliza Carthy, electro pop pioneer Alec empire and Tomas Bloch ,the only person in the world able to play the crystal bachet(instrument made of crystal and steel).

TRACKLIST- and a rough outline of what they mean:

1. Kriegspiel- an angry intorduction
2. Hard Times- song about crisis and urging people to act
3. Oblivion - Iraq war, soldiers
4. The Bachelor- old folk poem adapted
5. Damaris - story of one of patrick wolfs ancestors and their story of love
6. Thickets - about hackney wick and the marshes
   
7. Count of Casualty - iraq war casualty, foolishness
   
8. Who Will? - lack of love
   
9. Vulture - when you feel impure and dirty
   
10. Blackdown -father getting cancer
11. The Sun Is Often Out - suiscide of good friend
    
12. Theseus - once you have what you've always wanted and your still not happy what do u do?
    
13. Battle - battle agaisnt conforming to preconceptions
    
14. The Messenger - looking back upon travels
    

- Patrick Wolf is my favorite singer/artist ever so i'll be a little biased on this one.

+ Even form the album cover you can see this is album that indicates, Wolf's roots back at "lyncathropy" with the demonstration on his electronic influences on tracks such as 'Count of Casualty' and folk sons such as ' the bachelor' and 'blackdown'.
+ huge string sections creating a really big sound, but on 'sun is often out' a song about the suicide of a friend, there are loads of orchestral strings , yet due to the tempo of the piece a possible tune is absent.
+ Quoting from prefixmag.com :

"This is exactly how Patrick Wolf’s music should be listened to -- headphones on and up while in a deep focus as you may normally dedicate to a Sunday crossword puzzle. Without careful listening, the blanket of sound that Wolf lays out on his fourth album, The Bachelor, becomes noisy and oppressive. However, applying the attention it demands, it can become a guessing game that could be called Name That Instrument, revealing moments of true inspiration."

I love this album, its musical genius to me and with each song the story and purpose of it slowly becomes evident the more you listen. Give it time.

9.5

BUY: Oblivion, Theseus, Count of Casualty and the two singles:(Hard times and Vulture)

Oblivion:


Theseus:

Gossip - Music For Men

- 2nd album from punk rock Arkansas band : Music for men.
- the androgynous drummer, Hannah, features on the cover art.
- Made their name, with the track, "standing in the way of control" which featured in SKINS.
- this album is based around the break up which took took place with the lesbian lead singer, Beth Ditto.
- seems more funk, and less punk- but the morals are still there
- alot more tunes and melodies, in this album.
- this album has done reasonably well, and i really love it.
- the more i listen the more i like it.
- there are songs that when you first here you just brush over but hear them again and you begin to love.
8.5
download: Heavy cross, men in love, 2012

MEN IN LOVE:


FOUR LETTER WORD:

The Horrors - Primary Colours

- this album is old news, came out in may but couldn't work the blog thing, so remembered to write about them now.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- from london
- 5 piece band
- Debut album, "strange house" caught the attention of the public. this is because
+ their songs were loud crazy and had hidden political messages
+ they were a hard band to classify, as they were indie/ screamo but called themselves 60's garage.
+ there out there, dark dress sense, where the only colours worn were black and white, and on a happy day maybe a touch of grey or silver.
+ Spotted with celebs such as Alexa Chung, Noel fielding(mighty boosh) and Peaches Geldof.

New album Primary Colours.
- Huge change.
- No longer heavy distorted guitars, organs and screaming voices.
- Now calmer more snyth bass driven songs with sharp melodies on top.
+ the keyboard player swapped positions with the bass- maybe this is why?
- Album got a 9 out of 10 in NME. WOW.
- I love this album, it so chilled and it's something i listen to while working, it just hangs in the background.
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download: Scarlet fields( i think this one is the best, but can find a music link for it), mirror image and sea within a sea

SEA WITHIN A SEA:

MIRRORS IMAGE: