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New Music Daily
Greetings folks. We’re merging with @newmusicmatters, the twice monthly new music podcast and blog that lives at
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August 2011
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On Holiday Yo - Back in a bit.
New music matters 22 - with gill mills by Newmusicmatters on Mixcloud
In the interim, why not discover our sister new music podcast at www.newmusicmatters.co.uk
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Seize the Chair - Taking the Jerk Pop Throne
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Seize The Chair - Deborah
Razor sharp guitars slice through the pop shop vocals that put you in mind of Young Knives playing Bloc Party covers in a windowless basement circa 77. Jerky, angular, driven fun.
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Mnemotechnic - Don't Forget Them
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Mnemotechnic - Penny for Belief
Here’s a bit of energetic French rock in the vein of Bloc Party, covering an Errors track whilst going histrionic on Red Bull in a sweaty black box club.
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Widowspeak - Lonely Heights
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Widowspeak - Harsh Realm
The lovechild of Mazzy Star and Chris Isaak has finally been delivered and it’s as good looking, wistful and darkly evocative of wasted desert lines at night as you all thought it would be.
July 2011
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Knesset - Gathering Fans
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Knesset - Bitter Hearts
You’re put in mind of Conor Oberst fronting a 90’s college band or Portland collective, but with a more gazey, washed out feel to the whole proceedings. Eminently listenable.
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Total Slacker - Idle Frets
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Total Slacker - Psychic Mesa
Slowed down, stoned and washed out grunge, but with a popper sensibility, & some thrift store chic. So, you know, they might get off their beanbags and sell some records.
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To Kill a King - Filmic Folk
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To Kill A King - Wrecking Crew (acoustic)
A warm, pulsing, missed heartbeat of a song full of new folk influences but with a weary soul all its own.
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Psychobuildings - Crazed Constructions
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Psychobuildings - No Man’s Land
What come on initially as an updated 80’s Blitz club anthem soon convinces you there’s more going on here with its faux slop bass twang and poppy direction.
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Big Troubles - a Little Reminder
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Big Troubles - Misery
We love a bit of dream pop, but let’s face it, some of it is more, well, drift pop. Packing more of a punch, this chunk of winsome fuzziness with a great screeching guitar line slicing through it is a cattle prod to the genre.
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Male Bonding - Coming Together...
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Male Bonding - Bones
The lo fi proto punk stylings of their earlier offerings have evolved into this shimmering nugget of relaxedly insistent, somehow more USA in feel, college pop. It’s kinda like early Deus on steroids, and certainly compells one to check their album.
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Turbowolf - Combustible Rock
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Seven Severed Heads - Turbowolf
Any band that throws together the energy and sounds of DFA 1979, Justice, The Stooges & the pure showmanship of Kiss deserve all the plaudits they’re long overdue. Their live shows are legendary, and we’re all bating our breath for the imminent album.
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Negative Pegasus - Flight of the Long Chords
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Negative Pegasus - Psychic Energy
You get the feeling these guys are on the right side of maniacal, holding onto feedback and the treble button with equal force whilst ramming a sick covered tongue in your ear.
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The Bullitts - Gunning For You
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The Bullitts - Weirdo
The ongoing audio visual project of producer Jeymes Samuel reaches a new phase with the release of this new track. it’s sparse, almost twee and full of little surprises with a Richard Hawley esque vocal enriching the proceedings.
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The Bullitts - Gunning For You
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The Bullitts - Weirdo
The ongoing audio visual project of producer Jeymes Samuel reaches a new phase with the release of this new track. It’s sparse, almost twee and full of little surprises with a Richard Hawley-esque vocal enriching the proceedings.
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The Travelling Band - Here To Stay
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The Travelling Band - Battlescars
They’re gradually making the genre ‘Northern Americana’, a kinda West Coast (of Lancashire) sound, all their own with their blend of cosmic country folk rock. And you know what? it’s starting to work for us.
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Kites - Sky's The Limit
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Kites - The Disappearance of Becky Sharp
Kites are fast evolving into a band comprising all your favourite new wave/electro sounds in one. They avoid being ‘a bit cut and pastey’ (C - total idiots) by the depth of the Wolfesque vocals, the restraint employed with the synths and samples and the actual craft of songwriting being employed....
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Airship - Ready To Take Off
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Airship - Kids (Thinnen mix)
The giant swathe that Airship have cut through the melancholoy rock valley populated by the likes of early Elbow & Editors has set this remix in good stead. In this, slowed to zombie walk rework, the hints of Morrissey in the vocals come to the fore and are couched in clouds of effects that offer an entirely...
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Born Blonde - Not Faking
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Born Blonde - Solar
Heralding the resurgance of lad rock, this 5 piece offer a more thoughtful take on the ‘genre’, allowing for a depth of sound incorporating layers of guitars, baggy vocals and a psychadelic wash that is redolantly atmospheric of the late 90’s. And not a Stone Island jacket in sight, thank Zeus.
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Luminaires - A Bright Future
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Luminaires - Solid Gold
If Hadouken had smashed their buggy into the wall of Friendly Fires’ pop hooks and then tried to put the resultant carnage back together with thundering guitars and great slabs of synth, this would be the monster truck they’d create.
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The Blood Arm - Sanguine Songs
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The Blood Arm - Introducing Randy Newman
If The LIbertines were to meet The Jam in Dexy’s Midnight warehouse, the newly reinvigorated Blood Arm would be the house band, and we’d all be drunk.
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Get People (Crystal Fighters Mix) - GET THIS
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Get People - Rain Tears (Crystal Fighters mix)
Just full of terrace chords, off the shoulder shuggle moments, Madonna Bonita flamenco guitar and a blazing hot summer baseline. If you’re not in shorts by the end of this, you’re not alive.
June 2011
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Man Without Country - Other Wordly
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Inflammable Heart - Man Without Country
It’s a literary name, yet a cinematic sound full of great whooshing swathes of synth chords, melody like rain on a window and a distant, yet close, vocal. Who knew electronic music could emote so much?
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Cold Specks - Winning Cool Points
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Cold Specks - Holland
Doomily dramatic soul with sparse instrumentation allowing the large vocals room to expand to fill an imagined Oklahoma prairie crowded with angry dust farmers . Or something.
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Waters - Breaking.
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Waters - For The One
Remember Port O Brian? Well, he’s kinda back, but in a more angry, growly, garage rocky guise, and IOHO, all the better for it. His pop chops are still present, but this time they’re wearing ripped jeans & a Sebadoh t shirt.
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Elephant - Unforgettable
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Elephant - Allure
Always like checking in on a previously featured band, and this boy/girl combo are getting stronger, bringing more depth to their Warpaint meets Beach House sound.
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Colourmusic (VBS mix) - Painting Pictures with...
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Colourmusic - Yes! (VBS mix)
Everyone’s favourite new purveyors of messed up chugging psychadelia are given the Voluntary Butler Scheme treatment here, giving it an extra layer of melody and sonics, which somehow makes it more….well, poppy. In a weird way.
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The Castells - Towering Talent
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The Castells - Sweet Nothing
Coming on like the Arctics covering Kings of Leon but, thankfully, with more passion & slyly sexual suggestion than both of them. This is a driving, insistent call to indie dancefloors across the country.
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Younghusband - Consorts of Grunge
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Younghusband - Carousel RBR Mix
You’ll get early Stone Roses & pumped shoegazey grunge in here all lifted by a swirling haze of guitars & druggy atmospherics.
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The Go Team/Starslinger - Dream Team
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The Go! Team - Apollo Throwdown (Star Slinger Remix) The vocal & beats tag team’s usually frenetic pace is given a smooth over courtesy of previously featured rising producer Starslinger, & the results ooze groove supported balearic pianos, waves of half caught samples & a feeling of general good times.
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My Tiger My Timing - Feline Fine (sorry)
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My Tiger My Timing - Endless Summer (Bright Light Bright Light mix)
This remix brings a Club Tropicana in the Balearics feel to it, with ‘Strings of Life’ er, strings and ravey chords which all complement the schools-out feel of the vocals and gets you ready for the season ahead.
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Astrid Williamson (Raffertie mix) - A Spaced Out...
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Astrid Williamson (Raffertie mix) - Pour
A gloriously spacious cut from Raffertie brings an atmospheric, brooding and almost ominous feel to this slow burner from the Shetland songstress.
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Vetoes - Avoidance of Doubt
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Vetoes - On The Waterfront
Raw, noisy and full of angry articulate energy reminiscent of Hundred Reasons if they were to incorporate some early Biffy riffs, the chorus will have you hoarse by sundown.
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Hyde & Beast - Two Sides of the Same Coin
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(and the) Pictures I The Sky - Hyde & Beast
This is a kind of stoned glam rock with a late 70’ West Coast feel. A hazy, lazy, harmony fuelled, guitar twanged, humalong a Credence cracker.
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When Saints Go Machine - A Holy Contrivance
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When Saints Go Machine - Kelly
We featured this Danish outfits last glorious offering in BoM, so thought we’d celebrate the imminent release of their debut album with this Miike Snow down the pop disco slice of shoulder shuggling fun.
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Dan Mangan - You'll Be Sold...
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Like a chirpy Ron Sexsmith with Woody Guthrie’s guitar and a Spanish way with a well timed handclap. A pop country delight, you’ll be humming this in the shower for weeks, if that’s how long you stay in the shower for….
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Sketches - Planning Greatness
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Sketches - Your Name Upon It EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD
Comparisons have been to Wild Beasts, which is a good start, but you need to add the twitchiness of an articulate Red Bull abuser & some good old indie rock aggro to really get what they’re about.
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Bastille - Taking Pop Prisoner
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Bastille - Flaws
A musical fish hook-to the-brain of a song, this. Dan Smith’s distinctive voice, playful synths, glorious strings and solid pop production make this an instantly hummable classic in the making.
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Bonjay - Good Gear for your Ears
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Bonjay - Creepin (Chllngr mix)
You’ll find yourself in a haunted electronic dancehall with this track. Gorgeously restrained & full of spooky atmospherics, neglected needle glitches & forgotten film spools, the vocal weaves through it all, leaving you dreamy & sated.
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Club Smith - Join Them
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Club Smith - No Friend of Mine (CoPilots Remix)
This comes on like Underworld covering Kaiser Chiefs in a grimey dubstep basement. The heavy production is lifted by stabs of Sam Robson’s suburban angst cries of ‘So I Can Look Good’ that should, by rights, be echoing across fields all summer.
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Mazes - Get Lost in Them
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Mazes - Vampire Jive
This fizzing shot of sunshine pop will put you in mind of a gloriously chaotic Shins, playing your little sister’s riverboat birthday party.
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INTL - Possibly An Acronym (I'll Never Truly...
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INTL - Table Talk
A histrionic Franz Ferdinand - yet somehow cramming elements of Steve Miller & Landscape into their sharp edged glamorous sound studded with glorious poperatics.
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Wet Paint - Worth Watching Dry
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Wet Paint - Gone So Long
Having introduced you to these guys on our predecessor, BoM, we’re delighted to say they’ve overcome numerous setbacks and are are here in joyful Sebadoh, Husker Du form on this, their second album. Huzzah.
May 2011
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The Good Natured - Affable Electro Pop
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The Good Natured - Wolves
It’s about time female fronted electro got a bit of depth, and this lady has it in spades. A full hearted Ladytron in hot pants with the pop nous of St Etienne and the raw sexuality of Blondie.
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New Moods - Lifting Your Spirits
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New Moods - Playtime
We’re hearing the insistency of early Underworld, but with added city centre euphoric synths all ably held together by galloping drum patterns, and an oozing, woozy vocal.
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Awolnation - From America, of Course.
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Awolnation - Sail
Weighing in with almost Breakage style dubby production, lifted by operatically plucked synths, but with indie overtones, this is an intriguing introduction.
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Free Swim - Dive In!
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Free Swim - I Want To Be A Mountaineer
Think early Super Furry Animals with Donovan up front and 700 different ideas clamouring to be heard at the back. A turbocharged call to arms for the Red Bull generation, all psyched guitars, thundering drums & giddy delivery.
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St Lucia - You'll All Wanna Go There...
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St Lucia - The Old House Is Gone
Lovely spangly synths adorn the galloping drums and lift up the widescreen vocals and looping guitar licks until you’re slathering on the factor 50 and stretching out in their musical back yard (not a euphemism).
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Leverage Models - Ful(lcrum) of Promise
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Dreaming of Accidents Leverage Models A lullaby sung by the sea with the subdued hysterics of of Scritti Politti, anchored to the harbour of 80’s synths & sax. The drawled, dreamy delivery, full of chords of nostalgia and reminiscence, will drench you in unspecified yearning & leave you reaching for the repeat...
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Hot Vamp Club - You'll Wanna Join
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Hot Vamp Club - Ache
The indie pop strum that underpins this may have you kicking back into credible indie mode, but be warned, there’s a bite and menace in the vocal that will grab your guts and string them across the dancefloor.
