Clubfeet – Last Words (RAC Maury Mix)

30 September 2011

Clubfeet

Clubfeet (facebook/twitter) have been a busy bunch with their Gold On Gold record getting rave reviews across the board (and far more plays than is healthy here at Walrus Towers), and now they’re branching into video with the Gold on Gold Video Project with Sydney fashion videographer Alex Goddard. Cue some hot bodies in NSFW poses.

Last Words is the latest single from that project and we’ve got the always perfect RAC remix for you lovers to download. Its all clean bassline and snap beats, before being sprinkled with electronic glitter. Dreamy.

Clubfeet – Last Words (RAC Maury Mix) by RAC
Grab yourself the free MP3 HERE

Ben Sommers – Avocado Chip

By: Tim

30 September 2011

In: News & Leaks, Reviews

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Ben Sommers - Avocado Chip

Ben Sommers (facebook/twitter) has taken this whole story-telling through music to beyond its normal four-minute boundary to a whole album in the form of Avocado Chip and a accompanying novel. I’ve embedded a few pages of the novel, but this is a music blog and that is what I’ll focus on…

Lyrically he’s built the album around the fictional town of Starving Jane – a “funny old town” to quote the opening track. He weaves the stories of greed and triumph between twisted musical genres, breaking paths down to strike on anew.

Musically the album darts from place to place, from the hypnotic Sapien Express that reminds me a little of the electronic folk sound of Tunng – to the subtle and honest Elephant You. That the music is not the whole show is apparent on some songs like Every Flower Dies Someday that doesn’t quite hold attention on its own. But its when you hear the whole album together that Sommers raconteur skill becomes apparent.

It’s an album in the troubadour tradition, with a story at its soul – a soundtrack of the dystopian modern world narrated and scored by Sommers.

Avocado Chip is out on Sunday on 360 Degree Music.

Ben Sommers – Sapien Express
Ben Sommers – Elephant, You

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Lightguides – Samba Samba Samba

By: Tim

29 September 2011

In: News & Leaks, Reviews

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Lightguides - Samba Samba Samba

The thundering and tumultuous pop-rock of Lightguides (facebook/twitter) has been described variously as simply “Scottish rock” after the successes of bands such Biffy Clyro or personal favourites of mine We Were Promised Jetpacks. It is definitely not samba.

But Lightguides are not just the product of their contemporaries and influences, as they manage to stray away through clever variations in time signature and song structures a little bizarre at times – all of which adding to their musical charm.

I’m never quite sure if I want to sing along to the pop-esque sections such as offered on The Arts Factory, stand in the rain and let W.H.Y.L run over me, or just get into the sweat of the mosh pit on sections of Colonel Crookshanks. Never is the listener given a chance to fall into any of these though, as Lightguides switch it up and drag you into another dimension.

The mini-album (it’s just 7 songs and 28 minutes) is held together by its variations. Each song somehow effortlessly taking you on a journey for which a lesser band would have devoted a whole EP. Not Lightguides though, they’ll squeeze it into four minutes and take you even further.

Samba Samba Samba is out now on the ever delightful Alcopop! Records.

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Lightguides – Colonel Crookshanks
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Lightguides – W.H.Y.L.