Daily MPfree: Fang Island
Brooklyn quintet Fang Island‘s euphoric rainbow-coloured rock ‘n’ roll is reminiscent of the hyperactive noise generated by extroverted funcore merchants The Mae Shi. They’re coming to London for some dates in September – keep an eye on the mag for details.
02 Jul 2010
Icelandic concert streamed live tonight
Iceland has a lot to celebrate despite recent tribulations, not least the thriving music scene. You can see many of Iceland’s finest playing live tonight via the wonders of the internet on the Inspired By Iceland website, streaming performances from Reykjavík´s Music Pavillion Park as we speak.
Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.
01 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: Idaho
Everyone has bands they think should be much bigger. One of mine is Jeff Martin’s Idaho, who’ve never yet scaled the same heights of recognition and acclaim as slowcore contemporaries Red House Painters and Low, while being every bit as brilliant. 1995’s “This Way Out” is a thing of beauty – textured, distorted guitars and mumbled poetry create a downbeat sense of wonder. The production couldn’t be better, and songs like “Fuel” shift gear seamlessly from grungey rock-outs to swooning slide guitar breakdowns. This album sounds as perfect now as when I first heard it fifteen years ago, and it’s the perfect jumping off point into the rich, autumnal back catalogue of Idaho; with a new record promised in 2010, maybe there’s time for the world to catch on yet.
01 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: Plantagenet 3
Plantagenet 3 is amongst the first tracks we’ve had sent to us for inclusion in the Daily MPfrees. It’s a nice mash of reverb-laden guitars and minimal electronic drums that sounds like it could be a sketch for the a new XX song, but with a Tortoise-style post-rock inflection. Good stuff. Keep ‘em coming, guys!
01 Jul 2010
Daily MPfree: Best Coast
Best Coast is LA’s Bethany Cosentino, a lo-fi girl group with just one girl. Freshly signed to Wichita in the UK, “Boyfriend” is a preview of what’s to come on the forthcoming debut album. If it’s all as catchy as this, that’s our summer soundtrack sorted.
Grab the MP3 here.
01 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: Everything Everything
Hot shit blogger’s favourite Everything Everything have released a new remix by Clock Opera, in which their hyper-tight guitar line is chopped up into a glitch-hop salad. Everything Everything’s razor-sharp pop sensibility survives being put through the remix blender; a jolly nice version, this.
The hotly anticipated album, “Man Alive”, is out on August 30th – there are signed copies for the first 100 pre-orders here.
30 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: K Anderson
“Shrug” is a pleasingly unhinged shuffle of a song from Australian ex-pat and animal impersonator K Anderson. Built out of a used double-bassline and garnished with keyboard squelches, it’s a taster from his first album, “The Overthinker”, out soon on Edna Sounds.
30 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Snorri Helgason
Art Garfunkel-looking Icelandic singer Snorri Helgason has a very beautiful voice that I really wasn’t expecting, for some reason. “Ólán” is a track that’s previously seen the light of day on a compilation of Icelandic music called “Hitaveitan” that also featured Reykjavik scene stalwarts and upstarts like FM Belfast, Hjaltalin, Mugison, Retron and Sudden Weather Change. Snorri is apparently heading over to London for a while this year, so we’ll look forward to seeing (and hearing) a bit more of him around the doors.
29 Jun 2010
Monocle gets off a good line on why Obama did not mention that publication that burned General McCrystal
What else could make your quagmire look more like Vietnam than saying that Rolling Stone toppled a general?
29 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Pagan Wanderer Lu
It’s not often you get a song that could be described as “an ode to procreation” – ironically, it’s not particularly sexy subject matter. But Pagan Wanderer Lu‘s “A Girl Named Aeroplane” is exactly that, a poetic song about conceiving and raising a child in a world beset by ideological rifts. It’s very pretty, both in concept and execution, like much of his new album “European Monsoon”, which came out last week.
28 Jun 2010
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