SVIIB & Active Child

Two Snipe favourites in one today: Active Child remixes School Of Seven Bells, adding his trademark harp twinkles, synth washes and power-ballad drum hits to the woozy original. Great stuff.

School Of Seven Bells – Heart is Strange (Active Child Remix) by snipelondon

Girls / Napoleon IIIrd

Two great songs for you today. First up, the new track from Girls. Who should, perhaps, organise a tour with Women, Men and Junior Boys.

Girls – Heartbreaker by snipelondon

And, a bonus MPfree for you – the closing track from Napoleon IIIrd’s second album “Christiania”, out today, and deservedly receiving a lot of plaudits in the music press. He plays Koko on November 19th.

Napoleon IIIrd – MTFU by brainlove

Snipe MPfrees: October playlist

Our MPfree compilation is a slightly slimmer volume than usual due to an epic holiday for me, but sporadic replacement posts from Snipe scribe Jon Fisher included one of our most popular tracks to date in Jai Paul, about whom you can read more in the current issue.

Snipe MPfrees – Issue #6 by snipelondon

The Forest & The Trees

Another nice indie tune turned into some kind of mutant disco-pop classic by the towering production talents of DREAMTRAK.

The Forest & The Trees – Run (DREAMTRAK DIAMOND SOUND) by snipelondon

The Flowers Of Hell

A day late for halloween, but todays MPfree is by aptly named “16 piece trans-Atlantic space rock orchestra” The Flowers Of Hell. This track is a short extract from the 45 minute whole, but it should be enough to make you realise that you need to go and buy the whole thing immediately when it comes out on November 15th, via Sonic Cathedral.

The Flowers Of Hell – O (Single edit) by snipelondon

Mount Kimbie

This band are hot shit at the moment, with their plinky dubstepping electronica. They are not markedly better than many other bedroom / laptop projects we come across, but they’ve gone done tickled the hipster media erogenous zones and got cool. This is a nice live version we were sent. I saw them at Airwaves – it was nice sounding but it had no real build to it like live dance music should. It was more: music for milling around to. Anyway, I’m being very negative. They’re good.

Mount Kimbie – Ruby (Live At Berghain, Berlin) by snipelondon

Botany

On very rare occasions, a press release describes a new band better than journalists could hope to. This Botany release is one such text. GAUZY PATINA ffs. “‘Feeling Today is Spencer Stephenson’s debut release under the Botany moniker. The culmination of years of assembling music, this EP, and his forthcoming full-length, flow with a transcendental radiance. Under the gauzy patina of decades-old samples, this Texan sound-sculptor masterfully merges the past and the present, the earthly and the infinite.”

Botany – Waterparker by snipelondon

Mazes

Manchester 5-piece Mazes have been brightening up our day today with their effervescent, twangly indie-pop. They’ve just signed to the excellent Fat Cat label, and are aiming to release their debut long-player in Spring 2011.

Mazes – Go-Betweens by snipelondon

ANR

Well, this is a pleasingly weird one from alt-pop duo ANR. A huge power ballad laced with toxic squelching beats, Christmassy bells, odd rhythm changes and a disturbing Twin Peaks-esque video by Jamie Harley. ‘Endless Fields Of Mercury’ offers a heavy dose of Ariel Pink-ish surrealism with an MGMT chorus. Intrigued? Us too.

ANR – The Endless Field Of Mercury (Club Mix) by snipelondon

ANR – “The Endless Field of Mercury” from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.</p

Sea Of Bees

A nice wispy, echoing piece of emo-folk from Sea Of Bees today. Sounds a bit like a Devendra Newsom would, if that were a real person.

Sea Of Bees – The Woods by snipelondon