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8Bitch isn't the most elegant of monikers, but the Glasgow-via-Ljubljana producer's remix of "Diamonds On A Boat" is all about grace, good taste and glide. Even when Samuel's phone goes off halfway through, it still somehow manages to retain its composure, aching out over the wreckage of a dying party.
Sounds Like: Teengirl Fantasy, a Nokia 3210, Drexciya
(Photo: Mark Broissely)
Marina has a voice and a face for the bright lights, no doubt, but The Phenomenal Handclap Band have a method, and they're not about to shake that for some Diamond girl with pretty eyes. So their remix of "Mowgli's Road" cuts her vocal to ribbons, proceeding in a tight four-four groove that brings to mind the bleeding neon of films set in late Seventies urban America (pre-HD). Watch out for those guys in the leather jackets and red headbands. I think they're 'street punks'. Q: Whatever happened to 'street punks'? A: They all started going to the disco.
Sounds Like: Chic, Of Montreal, Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell"
Marina And The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road (Phenomenal Handclap Band Remix)
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The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Jacques Renault Remix)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Ilya Santana Remix)
Beach House timed this one just about perfect, didn't they? "Norway" isn't just made for autumn, it is autumn, ticking along on breath-on-window backing sighs, synths that disintegrate like a bed of fallen leaves and the voice of Victoria Legrand; who inhales oxygen and exhales bitter, bitter, wistful regret. Break your heart some more when the duo's much-anticipated new album Teen Dream drops early next year.
Sounds Like: M83, Memory Tapes, Joe Cocker trapped in Pat Benatar's body
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(Photo: Dean Chalkley)
You know what you're getting with these two - dark-eyed London gloom and glower, mostly, even if The Horrors' latest album seemed to be throwing confetti at its own funeral. The strangest thing about this, though, isn't that it's pensive, or that it's moody - it's that it seems to have sampled its drums from Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing". So even though Project: Komakino all look like their parents just died, really - deep down - they're having fun with it. Probably.
Sounds Like: Blondes, Cluster, Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing"
It's fitting this song comes with a capture of the moment Primary 1's brain blew, 'cause "Ploy (First Burn With Polly Brown)" is the true sound of madness. Seriously, it's like three or four songs playing at once here; like Toro Y Moi's lo-fi pop without the haze, so douche-funk slap-bass juts out at awkward angles and horns toot like they're butting into a street argument. The first music to emerge from the imminent Mess Detective, Primary 1's debut 'proper' arrives next year. Fingers X'd the Londoner continues to descend into his own madness.
Sounds Like: Theo Parrish, Toro Y Moi, Hudson Mohawke
Primary 1 - Ploy (First Burn With Polly Brown)
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Bubbling bong water. Screaming children. Duelling music boxes. A pregnant mouse. You can make hit records out of anything these days - listen close enough to Becoming Real's remix of "Rabbit Hole" and you'd probably be able to hear Amelia Earhart banging the holy grail against the rusted tin bonnet of an alien craft. If you long hard for guitars amid this nouveau sonic melee, find them in full force on Comanechi's enraged new album Crime Of Love.
Sounds Like: Zomby, Kid A-era Radiohead, Guido
Don't let the solemn, sorry-for-itself black n' white photo fool you - Fionn Regan is perhaps the chirpiest man alive, "Protection Racket" skipping from one narrative tangent to the next in a bluster of giddy folk and laddish bonhomie. Find it on Fionn's forthcoming new album, the less lonely follow-up to 2007's Mercury-nominated The End Of History.
Sounds Like: Eugene McGuinness, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams
I know what you're thinking. Why is Geoff Rowley screaming at the hairy man? Well that's UK drum & bass producer Baron, and he's spent the last four years helping Rowley put together a soundtrack for his new skate film, Extremely Sorry. Along the way Baron's collaborated with the likes of Lemmy, Slayer's Dave Lombardo, Snoop Dogg, Warren G and, here, Black Mountain to tailor tracks to swing with each skater's own brand of swagger. With that in mind, we're surer than ever that the louche, vaguely obnoxious "The End Of The Beginning" is Rowley's. Still not sure why he's screaming though, tbh.
Sounds Like: Pendulum, Wires On Fire, That U2 song from Batman
Wetdog ain't gonna win any awards for cleanliness. "Tidy Up Your Bedroom" is as sloppy and bedraggled a jam as the nomenclature here would suggest, all hungover guitars like pin-pain-in-the-brain and vocals casually asking, "Is this pop enough, darling?" somewhere in the background. It's a dirty, dirty mess. Aren't all your favourite bands that way, though?
Sounds Like: The Raincoats, The Sticks, (earlier) Abe Vigoda
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The story goes that Loverman were en route to their first show on Halloween night last year, when their van crashed, was written off and they mutated somehow into the ten-legged, b*st*rd-rock battering ram that they are today. The veracity of that statement is irrelevant - Loverman are a rock band, and as such are allowed to make up any old shit they like as long as it seems like it could be true when you listen to their music. And "Shoot The Pig" is very much the sound of a band that have written off vans and have subsequently been turned into werewolves - brave that live, as Young & Lost Club hosts this week's 'Free Fridays' at Cargo in London.
Sounds Like: Nick Cave, Melvins, Flipper
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