28 Sep 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Today marks the day that our dearest San Francisco dreamkid Nicolas Ng aka
Fiveng returns with yet another blissed-out wavey jam.
Easy features Fiveng's pretty unique signature that made us fall for
Give Me a Taste and Jonah earlier this year, AC-reminiscent experimentalism combined with lush instrumentation and an overall summery feel to it. Nicolas Ng is clearly one of most talented artists around to embrace last year's relevant musical developments.
Easy b/w
Skin has been put out by the wonderful little
Beachtapes label and is available via Fiveng's
bandcamp now. I suggest you head over there and then just drift away from that rainy world outside.
Fiveng - Easy
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26 Sep 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Now that fall 2010 has introduced itself with a weekend of constant raining, I figure it's about time for some painfully sweet indie pop to put a little smile on your face while you're having your Sunday afternoon tea, melancholically gazing out of the window into the blurry grey something that used to be the sundrenched world you've spent your summer in. London's
The History Of Apple Pie (recently introduced by
Yuck's blog) and LA quintet
Sweater Girls both are as twee as it gets, so it makes an awful lot of sense that the fresh and tiny London based tape label
Cool In A Crisis is gonna put out a split cassette featuring the two bands very soon.
Listen to three of their charming tunes below, all being full of wonderful pop melodies complete with cute girls' voices, jangling and fuzzed guitars and glockenspiel, in other words every ingredient we'll never get tired of hearing since 1986. Seriously, this has made my day.
The History Of Apple Pie - MallorySweater Girls - Pretty When You Smilehttp://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2440226&show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=ff7700
Out Of View by
The History Of Apple Pie
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26 Sep 2010 — Henning Lahmann
How To Dress Well's breathtaking debut
Love Remains (
Lefse), for sure one of this year's most magnificent albums, has apart from the stunning beauty it represents in itself sparked some considerable buzz about R&B;'s resurrection and redefinition with the means of contemporary lo-fi/bedroom recording techniques that were brought to fame by last year's surf rock and chillwave/hypnagogic pop hype. And though it might be a little too early to proclaim a new trend, artists like South Carolina's
Top Girls or Sydney's
Guerre who we've
both already covered repeatedly on these pages indeed take the same line of fragile, falsetto-laden soul vocals over twisted synth patterns and reduced beats that often appear to be no more than faint echoes. After a short hiatus, today Guerre's Lavurn Lee has come up with the brand new tune
Say My Name which heads even more towards the minimalist approach, hardly any instrumentation diverting from Lee's ethereal multi tracked vocalization, thus pretty much hitting the core of rhythm and blues. Amazing.
Guerre - Say My Name
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25 Sep 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Take a listen to some pretty fresh vibes from the ever-thrilling
Not Not Fun catalog, California psych gods
Topaz Rags' first new offering since last year's
Capricorn Born Again LP. Just as expected,
The Crown Center is another terrific jam from the dark and sticky places of the tropics. The 7 inch is available for order
now.
Topaz Rags - The Crown Center
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