Idiot Glee - All Packed Up (Dreamtrak Session)

Young Kentucky piano teacher and burgeoning lo-fi pop star Idiot Glee is coming over to the UK this May. Hear his sweetly wholesome Americana below, and catch him at the Vortex Jazz Club on May 12th.

Idiot Glee – All Packed Up (Dreamtrak Session) by snipelondon

05 May 2011

Queen Of Hearts by Fucked Up

New stuff from Fucked Up, the fourth pre-release single from forthcoming concept LP David Comes To Life, released June 4th via Matador. Download Queen Of Hearts, plus the three prior releases here. Guest vocals come courtesy of Maddy from Cults.

Fucked Up – Queen Of Hearts by snipelondon

04 May 2011

Johan Agebjorn - Watch The World Go By (Young Galaxy Remix)

The original version of this track is taken from Sally Shapiro producer Johan Agebjörn’s debut long-player Casablanca Nights, out May 10th on Paper Bag Records. For those who may find the Swede’s brand of nu-disco/euro-pop a little hard to digest, Young Galaxy have added a decidedly woozy edge; the chorus inhabits a new dimension of goose-bump inducing euphoria as a result.

Johan Agebjörn ‘Watch The World Go By’ (Young Galaxy remix) by Paper Bag Records

03 May 2011

Eyes Be Closed by Washed Out

Head over to Pitchfork for a free download from bedroom synth-nut Washed Out, a.k.a. Ernest Greene. Eyes Be Closed is the opening track from debut album Within And Without, out July 12th on Sub Pop (U.S.) and Weird World /Domino (everywhere else).

Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed by snipelondon

03 May 2011

David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole

David Thomas Broughton embarks on a month-long tour of the UK & Europe today. Read more about his mind-bending take on folk performance in the forthcoming issue, and get a taster from his new album “Outbreeding” below.

David Thomas Broughton – Ain’t Got No Sole by brainlove

02 May 2011

Blanck Mass - Land Disasters

Blanck Mass is a solo project of Fuck Buttons star Benjamin John Power. The album is a self-recorded vista of expansive, inspiring, textural drones, glistening with goodwill and rich emotion. The track below, Land Disasters, was released yesterday via Pitchfork as a free download, and the self-titled album will be out on Mogwai’s Rock Action label in June.

Blanck Mass – Land Disasters by snipelondon

30 Apr 2011

FM Belfast - New Year

After seeing 2000 Danish kids go absolutely batshit crazy to FM Belfast live at Spot Festival last year, it has been stuck in my head that they’re potentially the biggest pop export Iceland has ever seen. Explosively brilliant, smart, pretty and fun, their songs are at once like some kind of modern classic you’ve heard before but also like nothing else out there. This is the first song form their forthcoming new record “Don’t Want To Go Home” on Morr Music, out in June.

FM Belfast – New Year by snipelondon

29 Apr 2011

Chad Valley - Fast Challenges

Chad Valley, aka Oxford resident and Jonquil frontman Hugo Manuel, has released a track from his forthcoming “Equatorial Ultravox” EP, out June 20th. It went supernova in the blogosphere yesterday – your gran has probably blogged it by now. It’s a distinctive take on tropical electronica that’s going to be the cool kids’ summer soundtrack of choice in 2011.

Chad Valley – Equatorial Ultravox – Fast Challenges by CASCINE

28 Apr 2011

Poussez - Big City Burning

Nu-disco in the style of a harder, slicker sounding Caribou, Poussez are London production duo Jafar and Maxime Cescau, also head honchos at Artizan Music. Their Discuits EP is the first release on new London/Berlin imprint Champion Standard. Download the almost Vitalic-esque Big City Burning Rubber below.

Poussez – Big City Burning Rubber by snipelondon

27 Apr 2011

Love To Get Used by Matt Pond PA

Channelling the raw song-writing credentials of Broken Social Scene, Matt Pond PA’s new EP Spring Fools is released today on Altitude Records. Download lead track Love To Get Used, via My Old Kentucky Blog.

Matt Pond PA – Love To Get Used by snipelondon

26 Apr 2011

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