Washed Out – You’ll See (Midland Edit)
Nearly got knocked off my fucking bike because some fucking road maniac couldn’t have his way. Anyway. We are back. It’s been hectic this past couple of weeks, I don’t really wanna to go into too much detail, but it involves a lot of offline fun, mainly organizing clubnights, supporting DIY shows (there’s loads recently...
Cut Copy – Blink And You’ll Miss A Revolution
I’m a bit non-plussed with this Chicken Lips remix for Cut Copy‘s Blink And You’ll Miss A Revolution. Some kinda acid-y house-y mashed up funk with cowbells. You can download that thing here. The Toro Y Moi out-of-this-world version though, is summin else altogether – pure heaven. [Cut Copy - Blink And You'll Miss A...
Old Arc
These guys are going to gain a cult following soon, mark my words. Old Arc are 2 guys from Santa Cruz, California doing some crazy weird beat funk thing, heavily sampled and exploding with synthwave color. It’s complicated pop, saturated in delirious psychadelia and 80s day time television haze, it’s satisfying and it is going...
Teeel
This is my Saturday afternoon music. It’s freezing cold outside but the sun’s come out and everything’s really still and quiet where I am – Teeel‘s music is perfect this. The reason for Jim Smith’s artistic name is simple: he records in a tiny teal coloured room crammed with vintage synths. Inspired by italo and...
Datahowler
The future sound is upon us. Datahowler is sending signals from his Dallas base to us all, communicating through the medium of his music: beat music reminescent of the likes of Hudson Mohawke and James Blake, filled with hip hop references, spacey 8-bit experimentalism, howling chilled-out or fast-forwarded high pitched garage-esque vocals and artwork that...
Total Warr
Experimental indie pop kids, Total Warr from Paris has got a new release out on boutique label Hi-Scores. Entitled Cascades, the ep’s full of lazy indie-pop with lazy fuzzed out guitar leads made better with layers and layers of sometimes bouncy electronic sounds. There’s too many layers of textures for this for this to be...
Death In Plains – Colorful
My third post on Death In Plains and it’s worth it. Enrico Boccioletti’s got a new track out released approx 2 weeks back and I was too late to pounce on it. It’s called Colorful and the video is super chilled, shot with a filtered lense. [Video: Death In Plains - Colorful] Disc Error Recordings‘...
Dream Cop – Beach City Carol I Know (Teen Daze Remix)
Hailing from Washington D.C., Dream Cop is multi-instrumentalist Tommy Davidson. And like his artist moniker suggests, he makes music of the “dreamy” kind, namely, shoegaze-y indie that has found a new name, Chillwave. I’ve mentioned several times in this blog about why I hate the term chillwave and why I feel the movement needs an...
Hooray!
I don’t know whether to be annoyed yet or just ride it out – this whole chillwave thing is starting to get on my nerves. With the exception of a very small selection, the whole chilled-to-death movement is fast becoming boring. Dunno. You kids seem to like it though. Otherwise I wouldn’t be getting this...
Weed
Not the drug. Weed is Brooklyn-based bedroom artist, Willy “Flip” Anderson. This is so lo-fi its hurting my ears – in a good way. Cody is my favorite track of his new release, DC Hope. It’s a typical surf americana track, but awashed with a kind of rawness you don’t normally expect from a supposed...
Blackbird Blackbird
Ok folks, I am back from Brighton. Did pretty much fuck all except chillout on the beach, watching the waves get larger and larger and break onto the surface. It was really nice. Speaking of waves and chilling - yes, got this new one from Blackbird BlackBird. It’s lovely, kinda like HEALTH meets MGMT on...
Teen Daze
Teen Daze! Why haven’t I heard of Teen Daze before? Why? Why? Why? Don’t judge the post by the picture though, it’s not stoner-wave. Don’t worry, I will try and not use the “C” word in this post. I mean it kinda is, but not really. [Video: Teen Daze - Shine On, You Crazy White...
