09 Jun 2010 — NFOP
These two demure looking folks with that plastic (I hope) deer in between call themselves
The Band In Heaven, which underscores our imagination of that place as cold and abrasive. Nonetheless, despite all its gritty fuzz, their demo tune
A Tunnel Into Your Dreams indeed reveals some heavenly dream pop that's candidly retro, summoning the ghosts of Black Tambourine or My Bloody Valentine to gather in your room the very moment you listen to it. Haunting.
The Band In Heaven - A Tunnel Into Your Dreams (Demo)
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These two demure looking folks with that plastic (I hope) deer in between call themselves
The Band In Heaven, which underscores our imagination of that place as cold and abrasive. Nonetheless, despite all its gritty fuzz, their demo tune
A Tunnel Into Your Dreams indeed reveals some heavenly dream pop that's candidly retro, summoning the ghosts of Black Tambourine or My Bloody Valentine to gather in your room the very moment you listen to it. Haunting.
The Band In Heaven - A Tunnel Into Your Dreams (Demo)
09 Jun 2010 — NFOP
Uh, this one's kinda amazing.
Moscow Youth Cult left me baffled and thrilled today with tunes straying somewhere between
New Order's synth pop affinity, formalistic noise reminiscent of
Fuck Buttons,
These New Puritans' experimental streak and not least
Salem's harsh darkness, splendidly exploring the frontiers of erstwhile electronic music without ever leaving the present tense. Inspired by "obscure 70s sci-fi films", these two guys of course do not hail from that certain Russian metropolis but from the depths of the English Midlands, and where else than in Nottingham and Leicester could you come up with something so sublime fallen out of time.
Moscow Youth Cult - Modern EasyMoscow Youth Cult - Phase IV
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Uh, this one's kinda amazing.
Moscow Youth Cult left me baffled and thrilled today with tunes straying somewhere between
New Order's synth pop affinity, formalistic noise reminiscent of
Fuck Buttons,
These New Puritans' experimental streak and not least
Salem's harsh darkness, splendidly exploring the frontiers of erstwhile electronic music without ever leaving the present tense. Inspired by "obscure 70s sci-fi films", these two guys of course do not hail from that certain Russian metropolis but from the depths of the English Midlands, and where else than in Nottingham and Leicester could you come up with something so sublime fallen out of time.
Moscow Youth Cult - Modern EasyMoscow Youth Cult - Phase IV
08 Jun 2010 — NFOP
Our beloved Ernest Greene aka
Washed Out, with backing vocals by
Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. A lot of thanks to both of you, and of course again to
GvB for guiding the way to this little dream.
Washed Out - You and I
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Our beloved Ernest Greene aka
Washed Out, with backing vocals by
Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. A lot of thanks to both of you, and of course again to
GvB for guiding the way to this little dream.
Washed Out - You and I
08 Jun 2010 — NFOP
"Everyone wants to make their Berlin record, and everyone's got a Berlin album in them, so we wanted to put ours out. (...) There's something happening there that isn't happening in New York and is totally exciting." (via
NME)
Hm. Well, what the guy wanted to say was that the incredible Brooklynites of
!!! have a new album coming,
Strange Weather, Isn't It? (indeed), to be released August 23 on
Warp.
And now, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day looking for that special something and probably finally record that album that's apparently somewhere deep inside me.
!!! - AM/FM
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"Everyone wants to make their Berlin record, and everyone's got a Berlin album in them, so we wanted to put ours out. (...) There's something happening there that isn't happening in New York and is totally exciting." (via
NME)
Hm. Well, what the guy wanted to say was that the incredible Brooklynites of
!!! have a new album coming,
Strange Weather, Isn't It? (indeed), to be released August 23 on
Warp.
And now, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day looking for that special something and probably finally record that album that's apparently somewhere deep inside me.
!!! - AM/FM
08 Jun 2010 — NFOP
Sometimes it's just good to stalk the artists you admire, though this might actually be a little obsessive. Anyway, tonight our much hyped friends from
Yuck raved on their
blog about their London pals that form an apparently extremely fresh band named
Fanzine and how unbelievably wonderful their song
Susan was. And oh, how right they are.
Fanzine - Susan
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Sometimes it's just good to stalk the artists you admire, though this might actually be a little obsessive. Anyway, tonight our much hyped friends from
Yuck raved on their
blog about their London pals that form an apparently extremely fresh band named
Fanzine and how unbelievably wonderful their song
Susan was. And oh, how right they are.
Fanzine - Susan
07 Jun 2010 — NFOP
Inevitably I suppose, the
chillwaves have finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the shores of the Old World. But why not, right? Anyway, our fellow Swede Christian
Niva, hailing from Stockholm, used to make pretty straight and danceable electronic music under the moniker The Quiet Boy. Since recently, he not only prefers his own surname but has most notably seen the writing on the wall. Now, he composes blissful summer tunes that he himself referred to as "chillwave" in the mail he sent to me, so we probably shouldn't argue about that genre tag.
In any case, the track he's made available, Ghost In My Head, is without doubt beautiful electronica and definitely worth a listen. It will appear on NIVA's forthcoming debut EP Feverish Dreams (mind the chillwave connotation!), to be released towards the end of August.
NIVA - Ghost In My Head
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Inevitably I suppose, the
chillwaves have finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the shores of the Old World. But why not, right? Anyway, our fellow Swede Christian
Niva, hailing from Stockholm, used to make pretty straight and danceable electronic music under the moniker The Quiet Boy. Since recently, he not only prefers his own surname but has most notably seen the writing on the wall. Now, he composes blissful summer tunes that he himself referred to as "chillwave" in the mail he sent to me, so we probably shouldn't argue about that genre tag.
In any case, the track he's made available, Ghost In My Head, is without doubt beautiful electronica and definitely worth a listen. It will appear on NIVA's forthcoming debut EP Feverish Dreams (mind the chillwave connotation!), to be released towards the end of August.
NIVA - Ghost In My Head
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