Mid year round-up (kind of)
Love The English Riviera so much I could've picked any number of tracks. This gets the nod for the Japan style guitar..
Another phenomenal new Burial track.
Not crazy about the one he’s done with Thom Yorke much, but THIS I love. Nice video too.
This hits all the right spots. From the blazing 2011 mixtape House of Balloons. 'The weeknd' is a Canadian R&B singer named Abel Tesfaye of whom I know nothing, but this is one of my faves of the year thus far. The production on this track is pure silk.
Thrillingly experimental pop shapes from a young artist who is already amassing a serious body of work.
Got a lot of time for Faris Badwan. I liked The Horrors even before they turned into Neu!
Anyway Badwan’s Cat’s Eyes project is a lovely, lovely, languid record, with cocktail lounge notes and heavy elements of maestro Morricone’s 1960s/70s work. It also has more than a hint of Broadcast (naturally, for the influences are near identical) and the wonderful vocals remind me of the much missed Trish Keenan.
A masterful return from one of my absolute favourite bands in the world and a group who have never disappointed me. Much expansion here on their ultra-minimalist sonics and a little 'Cortez the Killer'-era Neil Young in the guitar-as-landscape sound. Unexpectedly aggressive by Low standards too.
Yet more Morricone, via Danger Mouse and although I am not entirely convinced by what I have heard of this ROME project I am definitely feeling the Hotel California nods here. I fear this album may be a little bit polite and anonymous, as star-heavy collaboration records tend to be, but we will see. This is a very pretty groove and even Jones’ normally soporific vocal has an unexpected edge to it. She sounds like she’s had a heavy night on this.
New/old soundz for the kids. Nostalgia for me. It's 1990 again.
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