The Baby Monster boys are back with a storming second single in “She Comes Alive”. This is a lighter, happier feel compared to Ultra Violence and Beethoven, but doesn’t disappoint by getting stuck in your head with a chorus that transcends the snappy electro-pop verse into a glorious and uplifting shower of aural colour.
Also exciting is that this is being released as the first single from BIGSTEREO – another blog that is turning its musical hand into a label. Congrats where its due (even if I’m a little jealous right …
Drowned in Sound may have picked Look Away Sancho as one of their singles of the week last November, but 2010 should be the year when Black Daniel (MySpace) take that grass roots internet community love a little further into the oh so popular indie psyche.
They write some distorted pop delights – catchy as fuck but with enough alt/indie sensibilities that they should be finding themselves onto plenty of the party playlists. Craig Louis Higgins Jr, Liam May, and Luke May s have written an album that is reminiscent of …
I may be a few months behind some of the hipper than thou US blogs on this one, but ever since the delicious Love Shack, Baby brought them to my attention with Violet Eyes, My Gold Mask (Bandcamp | MySpace | Twitter) have found their way onto far too many of my personal playlists and yet some how I have been neglecting them on here. Well time to set the record straight…
Gretta Rochelle’s vocal slide between soaring and screeching, with and effortless cool that reminds me a little of Blondie …
The Eels-esque, sweet lullabies of The Candle Thieves impressed me on their debut EP, and the good news is that they have a full length coming out on April 5th. The questions is – are they going to cross the line into sickly sweet as they sometimes have, or are they going to show more depth and variation that is possible with a long play? We will just have to wait and see – it could be amazing, it could be the complete opposite.
They will be releasing a single called …
Mumford & Sons (MySpace) were quite easily one of my favourites bands of 2009 (and Lauren’s too) with their fantastic EP and album releases. And The Cave was my favourite track of the bunch – enough so that I introduced it on the Contrast Podcast end of year countdown. But now they are releasing it as a single on 1st March, which is great news if you want a copy on 45 and in the fact that they have done a video.
I would give tour dates as they are one …
After a year in which folk and electropop ruled the roost it is about time that growling, thrashy rock and roll stuck its head above the parapet again – and The Federals are here to do just that.
Swaggering their way from York, and naming their influences as The Stooges, the White Stripes and BRMC – this four piece provide the snarling vocals, destroyed guitars, and moshable rhythms that should make you stand up and take notice. Violent, unruly and just what the music world needs at the moment – a …
