It’s finally here. a full six months since the last one here is a few more electro wonders to throw at everyone.
Good Luck at the Gunfight have been one of my favourite finds of the last couple of months, with a distinctly summery Daft Punk-esque sound going on in their debut (and free) EP.
Filthy Dukes have produced some more eminently danceable synthpop from there wonderful Nonsense in the Dark
James Rutledge does the remix job on Fever Ray to make Triangle Walks sound a little like La Roux coming up.
Fear of …
Last year saw the emergence of a group of South London folkies, interconnected and explicitly good, and they created, defined and redefined the conceptions of ‘folk’ music for a new audience. Pioneers like Noah And The Whale, Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn are all still going strong, and we still really like them (in case you haven’t noticed), but their genre redefinition is complete for the moment, and I’ve found myself wondering where folk might go next.
But if 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was a period of these indie …
The astoundingly talented and utterly addictive Frank Turner has just announced a UK headline tour to begin this October. The folk-punk pioneer will be touring to promote his new album ‘Poetry Of The Deed’, out on September 7th through Xtra Mile Recordings / Epitaph.
The first single from the new album, ‘The Road’, can be heard through a very sketchy YouTube video, viewable here.
The tour kicks of in October at the following venues/dates:
13 Dublin, Academy 2
14 Belfast Stiff Kitten Club
15 Glasgow QMU
16 Manchester Academy 2 SOLD OUT
17 Newcastle Uni
18 Nottingham Rock …
My how many bands are there with Wolf in their name at the moment? Nevermind the naming competition though, because the best one of the lot has turned up in the form of Wolf Gang a.k.a Max McElligot, the part German, part Irish song craftsman. I have to thank Angus over at State Management for the heads up about him a good few months ago, but shamefully that was during my law exam writing hiatus so I never got a chance to write him up at the time, with his …
Firm favourites Meursault have released their most recent EP on Song, by Toad Records. This has been available at shows for a good few months now (and I’ve been lazily sitting on it for a while – shame on me), but it finally got released last week making now a good time to finally review it.
Meursault’s debut album was a great if slightly chaotic at times mixture of electronic folk, whilst this EP falls back to a more traditional and acoustic folk sound. It is an stunningly beautiful 5 …
Some more great music from Noah and the Whale (MySpace) here from our friends at Young and Lost Club. We’ve got two remixes of the Blue Skies, first single to come from their fantastic new album The First Days of Spring.
The first remix is by TBW favourites YACHT, who have added their characteristic slight jerky electric sound to the song, keeping the hopeful feeling of the original.
The second remix by Death to the Throne transforms the song into the territory of darker skitterish electronica that would have been out of …
