Released September 3rd 2013
I'm back and ready to massage your ears with sweet and sexy tones of music for your filthy pleasure you naughty reader types you. Today's sounds come from Leicestershire indie rock trio Young Knives with Something Awful.
Right from the beginning you can tell this track is not your run of the mill indie tune, the tone is bleak and dreary, crashing drums and haunting vocals set an almost dystopian feel to it; but something changes at the one minute mark, the song gets a burst of life and seems upbeat even if the lyrics keep up the slightly depressing tone. These aren't faults I'm making, I happen to enjoy this tone with music and the mental pictures it creates.
With an effective arrangement of varying peaks and drops the song plays like it would feel at home on a game like Fallout, listening to the lyrics of a person changing to something they see as terrible you get a feel of a journey or the plot of a film. Fantastic work from a band I'll be paying a lot more attention to from now on.
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Arctic Monkeys - Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You
Video released August 30th 2013
Remember when Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not came out? Every single person had that album, it was one of those phenomenons of music that get's the whole world to stop and say people have got to step up to match this now. They cemented their selves at the very forefront of the British music scene and have stayed on that mantel ever since. Sure, their efforts after that album haven't hit quite as hard, but how could they? It was something totally different to everyone else at the time and brought with it a flurry of copycats never achieving something as magnificent as that album.
As you will know the band are soon to release their fifth studio album "AM" on September 9th with hype surrounding the album as big as it has been for all their other releases and a collection of positive reviews it's easy to see this album will make a splash. This track Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You is actually not from the album, a standalone track that may be added on to a deluxe version of the album at this moment in time we've got nothing but the track here.
From listening to it you can see clearly that the band have come along an insane amount since their debut, with a classic Arctic Monkey's sound the band are still the same boys just sounding far tighter as a unit. There's the usual lovey doevy theme going on, Alex Turner has always been a hopeless romantic when song writing, one distinct difference now is the lack of identification with the common man, they've come to far to be able to write from the perspective of the average guy on the street, they're now something so much bigger than that and it's hard to fault them when they've worked hard for it.
I don't know if it's just the sheer duration of time that has passed since I've listened to them but I enjoyed this track a lot more than I thought I would have, it's such a sweet and well produced piece of music which has made me actually want to hear the new album, while I know already it won't surpass the early days if this is anything to go by it's going to be an amazing piece of work.
Remember when Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not came out? Every single person had that album, it was one of those phenomenons of music that get's the whole world to stop and say people have got to step up to match this now. They cemented their selves at the very forefront of the British music scene and have stayed on that mantel ever since. Sure, their efforts after that album haven't hit quite as hard, but how could they? It was something totally different to everyone else at the time and brought with it a flurry of copycats never achieving something as magnificent as that album.
As you will know the band are soon to release their fifth studio album "AM" on September 9th with hype surrounding the album as big as it has been for all their other releases and a collection of positive reviews it's easy to see this album will make a splash. This track Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You is actually not from the album, a standalone track that may be added on to a deluxe version of the album at this moment in time we've got nothing but the track here.
From listening to it you can see clearly that the band have come along an insane amount since their debut, with a classic Arctic Monkey's sound the band are still the same boys just sounding far tighter as a unit. There's the usual lovey doevy theme going on, Alex Turner has always been a hopeless romantic when song writing, one distinct difference now is the lack of identification with the common man, they've come to far to be able to write from the perspective of the average guy on the street, they're now something so much bigger than that and it's hard to fault them when they've worked hard for it.
I don't know if it's just the sheer duration of time that has passed since I've listened to them but I enjoyed this track a lot more than I thought I would have, it's such a sweet and well produced piece of music which has made me actually want to hear the new album, while I know already it won't surpass the early days if this is anything to go by it's going to be an amazing piece of work.
Brassick - Pelt
Video released August 31st 2013
I've never been one for metal/hard-core, sure I appreciate
bands like Alexisonfire but the whole genre to me always seems like such a
puzzle. I've given Brassick a look tonight on a pure whim, while browsing the BlankTV
YouTube channel I came across their track and gave it a go, while I still don’t
understand the appeal a lot of people have I'm slightly more clued up now in
that I've found a band that could be considered to loosely fit this descriptive
genre that I could actually see myself listening to more in the future.
Let’s start by stating the obvious, I had no clue who they
were and was fairly surprised when I heard lead singer Nicola Hardy vocals,
aggressive confrontational being the two adjectives diving to the forefront of
my mind when describing the overall sound. That being said the song is a lot
more than shouting at someone to grab their attention, it’s melodic and has
meaning, and these were the qualities which grabbed my interest. The lyricism
of the band seems to rest on their firmly held beliefs in the pro peace message
as well as anti-bullying, sexism and racism.
While I may have said at the beginning of this article that
they’re a metal/hardcore band I now see the band’s firmly held punk beliefs,
think of them as a female lead Sick Of It All, you can tell by the style that a
pit at one of their gigs would destroy those less schooled giggers in the
crowd.
To say they’re a hardcore punk band would be unfairly
dismissive, while I see them as that before much else they’re musicality is
spread far wider and includes a diverse set of influences, these are people
with a message and they really don’t care if they have to scream that message
directly into your face in order for you to hear it, passion and dedication
will be the qualities that will propel this band in the future.
Monday, 2 September 2013
Sonic Boom Six - The High Cost Of Living
Video released September 1st 2013
Boom return with the video to “The High Cost of Living”
taken from their fourth album, Sonic Boom Six. The message of the song is clear;
the price tag is not the only thing that raises the cost of what you’re being
sold. Slave labour in third world countries is used by numerous companies for
the manufacture of the goods you’re sold, by buying into this you’re continuing
the mistreatment of people. Laila has her trademark high pitch vocals while
Barney shines with his parts over the electronic beat that was present
throughout the album this is taken from.
With new material being worked on by the band I'm hoping for
a return to their ska-punk roots after the more dance oriented theme we saw on
the last album but new material from this band is always reason for celebration
for me. Another great track and video from one of my favourite bands who never
seem to stop working, it’s been nice seeing your faces again.
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Wolf Alice - She
Released 14th August 2013
Prior to this evening I’d never heard of Wolf Alice at all,
after a quick Soundcloud browse I stumbled upon this track. A kind of new
grunge sound combined with angst ridden lyrics and sophisticated instrumentals
make something quite unique.
I mentioned them before when reviewing Waxahatchee’s track ‘Coast
to Coast’ but again there’s a Japanese Voyeurs sound here, I'm glad to see the
style is continuing even since their split. Grunge may have had its day in the nineties
this is following in its footsteps and ensuring a new form will be breaking
through over the next couple of years, if the quality stays on par with this
and some of the other stuff I've heard it’s definitely a good thing.
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Bipolar Sunshine - Rivers
Video released June 13th 2013
Before I begin the review I'd like to take you on the journey of how I discovered Bipolar Sunshine and like most of my stories it begins with me scrolling through the 14,000+ tracks on my iPod looking for something to listen to until finally reaching a track I hadn't heard in a while, the track I stumbled upon this time happened to be Kid British with "Our House is Dadless". Back in 2010 this track was on a constant loop for me and featuring in almost every playlist I created, I'd recently discovered The King Blues and my ska punk hunger was forcing me to devour anything with fast lyrics and catchy instrumentals. After listening to "Our House Is Dadless" again I wondered what had happened with the band, I'd heard they'd broke up in late 2012 but nothing else, giving lead singer Adio Marchants's name a Google lead me to his new project, Bipolar Sunshine and their debut EP Aesthetics.
Now you know the origins of me finding this track I'm going to move on to airing my views of it as best I can.
The good news is that it's absolutely fantastic, the bad news is as of yet you've got minimal material to listen to as Bipolar Sunshine have barely been going any time at all. The song has a quality to it that makes it seem like a classic even if you've never listened to it before, I'm not saying in it's sheer quality and it is brilliant, it's more in the sound and tone making it sound far more mature.
The brilliance of the track in my opinion is down to how much different it is to the previous material released by Marchant, to change your sound so drastically and still produce something of such worth is a difficult feat for most artists, even established musicians can find it a struggle but this seems somehow natural, it just works fantastically.
There's just something so charming and interesting about this new project that I'm just too excited for future releases, Marchant has struck gold with this project, he's proving that he can be upbeat and poppy with Kid British while making something experimental but still accessible.
Before I begin the review I'd like to take you on the journey of how I discovered Bipolar Sunshine and like most of my stories it begins with me scrolling through the 14,000+ tracks on my iPod looking for something to listen to until finally reaching a track I hadn't heard in a while, the track I stumbled upon this time happened to be Kid British with "Our House is Dadless". Back in 2010 this track was on a constant loop for me and featuring in almost every playlist I created, I'd recently discovered The King Blues and my ska punk hunger was forcing me to devour anything with fast lyrics and catchy instrumentals. After listening to "Our House Is Dadless" again I wondered what had happened with the band, I'd heard they'd broke up in late 2012 but nothing else, giving lead singer Adio Marchants's name a Google lead me to his new project, Bipolar Sunshine and their debut EP Aesthetics.
Now you know the origins of me finding this track I'm going to move on to airing my views of it as best I can.
The good news is that it's absolutely fantastic, the bad news is as of yet you've got minimal material to listen to as Bipolar Sunshine have barely been going any time at all. The song has a quality to it that makes it seem like a classic even if you've never listened to it before, I'm not saying in it's sheer quality and it is brilliant, it's more in the sound and tone making it sound far more mature.
The brilliance of the track in my opinion is down to how much different it is to the previous material released by Marchant, to change your sound so drastically and still produce something of such worth is a difficult feat for most artists, even established musicians can find it a struggle but this seems somehow natural, it just works fantastically.
There's just something so charming and interesting about this new project that I'm just too excited for future releases, Marchant has struck gold with this project, he's proving that he can be upbeat and poppy with Kid British while making something experimental but still accessible.
Saturday, 24 August 2013
Glass Giants - Runaway Feat Danni Lafrombe
Video released August 14th 2013
Next up tonight I've got a band you will probably have never heard of, Glass Giants with their debut track Runaway featuring Danni Lafrombe of Peasant's King who also co wrote the track with the band.
The Welsh five piece are out to entertain, this track makes that abundantly clear, with lingering vocals and an all out punky sound the group are going to find fans easily within the pop punk/alternative rock world. The whole thing works very well, with an attractive and extremely well shot video they're already leaps and bounds ahead of any competition around their level, throw in some well played instrumental pieces and a nice breakdown with an inspirational set of vocals you've got something a lot of the kids will be loving.
Next up tonight I've got a band you will probably have never heard of, Glass Giants with their debut track Runaway featuring Danni Lafrombe of Peasant's King who also co wrote the track with the band.
The Welsh five piece are out to entertain, this track makes that abundantly clear, with lingering vocals and an all out punky sound the group are going to find fans easily within the pop punk/alternative rock world. The whole thing works very well, with an attractive and extremely well shot video they're already leaps and bounds ahead of any competition around their level, throw in some well played instrumental pieces and a nice breakdown with an inspirational set of vocals you've got something a lot of the kids will be loving.
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