DOWNLOAD: Dave I.D. - Only Me I Can Save (The Horrors' Tom Furse Remix)
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Work hard, play hard. I never got that dichotomy between stern bands who preached the virtues of labour and industry, but then made music that sounded like it could only have been made on a shitload of drugs. Where do you find the time? Do you combine both pursuits? And, if so, why haven't you been sacked yet? Maybe that's part of the fantasy – the bringing together of two foreign mindsets. Or maybe it's just that Dave I.D. and The Horrors' Tom Furse like taking the sort of drugs that make you wanna hang out in factories. Either way, this is a brutal, insidious acid-kraut creeper that eats night shift workers in their living sleep. Dave I.D.'s debut album, Response, will arrive through !K7 on June 13.
Dave I.D. - Only Me I Can Save (The Horrors' Tom Furse Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Follow That Bird - The Ghosts That Wake You
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It's always nice to love a band upon first hearing them and learn that people with good taste in music back you up. So thank you, Gerard Cosloy, President of Matador and brains behind Casual Victim Pile, the label's ode to Austin, for validating me. Picked by Cosloy to kick-off the compilation, Texas threesome Follow That Bird is doing big things by way of garage, with some Kraut thrown in the mix and sultry powerhouse vocals from frontwoman Lauren Green tying it all together. June 21 marks the group's debut single on Seattle's Mt. Fuji, which you can grab while catching their upcoming West Coast dates with fellow Austin rockers ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Our Dead.
Follow That Bird - The Ghosts That Wake You
DOWNLOAD: French Miami - Older
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Varsity mathletes and art-rock trio French Miami spent their youth skullbashing a path through post-punk, kraut electronic, and angular pop. So when they named their newest single “Older,” we figured FM’s idea of aging wouldn't be limited to Tempur-Pedic pillows and rice pudding coupons. We were right! Going wiser also means going looser, so cue the afro-beats and short pants. This jam is methodical, twisting, flopping, zig-zagging and skidding, before kicking sand right into your grinning face. Get more muscle on Motor Skills, the new record on Death By Audio and iTunes.
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PREMIERE: Still Flyin' - Higher Than Five
Kraut-rock to me always seemed like the sternest way to get off, what with the stamina and patience the sound's rhythms and builds require, yet San Fran dude and dudette troop Still Flyin' manage to turn motorik into something easier, adding brass blasts and indie slacker vocals. If "Higher Than Five"'s anything to go by, their new Party In Motion EP will sound like one long, lazy day spent kicking around with friends - catch some of their West Coast sun as the band play a series of UK live shows from the 13th of May.
Still Flyin' - Higher Than Five
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DOWNLOAD: Junip - Rope And Summit
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I have to admit, I'm not usually one for those pathos songs played by bearded 'men' on 'real' instruments you can 'strum', preferring instead those synth-led chaos shots more keen on rearranging brains and turning breastplates into joy magnets. But there's something about "Rope And Summit", the new track from José Gonzales' band Junip, that makes me want to renounce electricity and cycle vertically across the Americas. Maybe Jose and I can ride tandem. Anyway, Junip release a new EP and album through City Slang later this year.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Project: Komakino - Syndrome (The Horrors Remix)
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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"
Project: Komakino - Syndrome (The Horrors Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Allez Allez - Slump
French name, German sound, London's Allez Allez take a break from releasing legendary Seventies bands to issue a single of their own that sounds like the national anthem for a new krautopian state. Buffeted along on a steady, driving beat, "Slump"'s curious synths find a home on the b-side of "Defeatist", the blogger/remix duo's debut single for Kompakt's Kickboxer imprint.
Sounds Like: Harmonia, Blondes, The Emperor Machine
DOWNLOAD: Blondes - Moondance
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My, my, my. My, my, my, my, my. This is fantastic. Blondes have done it again, "Moondance" picking up where "Spanish Fly" left off, sounding great because it sounds like the greatest song ever, or weren't you listening to "In The Light Of The Miracle" that time you walked home alone in the rain and didn't care that you were getting wet? Heartbroken, ecstatic and flushed with synth colour, soak this in now and take aim at the weekend ahead - ten odd minutes of bliss right here, your weekend starts right here.
Sounds Like: Teengirl Fantasy, Arthur Russell, Inner City
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