Headless Horseman

Headless Horseman I found via the blog of the Tender Age label, a Moshi Moshi supported project run by 17-year old A&R Toby Bull. It sounds like a fractured, electronic version of Lucas-era Skeletons, full of whirling sub-melodies and skittering, unravelling beats.

Headless Horseman – SH8KR by snipelondon

Becoming Real

Here’s some pretty brutal, mischievous, witchy electronica for you from Becoming Real, soon to be seen touring with the awesome SALEM.

Becoming Real – South London Congo by snipelondon

Yellow Ostrich

Photo from Stadiums and Shrines

Alex Schaaf, the sole full-time member of Yellow Ostrich, seems like he fully understands the wants and needs of the web 2.0 ADHD-afflicted music fan. New album ‘The Mistress’ is his sixth release this year, making up eight in total since March 2009, and they’re all available for free at his Bandcamp page.

As a taster, here’s the song that snapped me out of my recent malaise and got me excitedly passing around mp3s with the other people I know who have nothing to do of a Friday evening (OR WHO AREN’T IN ICELAND):

Yellow Ostrich – WHALE by snipelondon

Jai Paul

Confirmed, official details are few and far between with this guy, but here’s what we know: Jai Paul is twenty-one years of age, comes from North-West London and has been courted by XL Recordings. He might have an EP out at the end of the year, he might just have been conceived backstage at one of Prince’s London shows of the Lovesexy World Tour in 1988 and he might be the little brother of the speccy one from Hot Chip. (These last two things might not be 100% truth serum, BUT IT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT)

Observe:

Jai Paul – BTSTU by snipelondon

Women

The announcement of Women‘s next London show (7th December, XOYO, be there etc) came a day into the most persistent earworm I’ve had for weeks.

Though some of their new record ‘Public Strain’ is hidden, obscured, impenetrable on first listen, this grabs the attention immediately. Four minutes of building blocks on a Grizzly Bear tip get bulldozed, all built-up tension released like a first kiss detonating Semtex in your vital organs. Press play and punch a wall with me.

Women – Eyesore by snipelondon

Snipe Issue #5 MPfree Mixtape (September 2010)

Here’s your monthly Snipe compilation of amazing, free, new songs by all the bands we’ve been listening to. Skál!

Snipe MPfrees – Issue #5 by snipelondon

Prinspóló

Prinspóló is an Icelandic solo artist named after a chocolate bar. Fending off the desire to make jokes about sweet teeth and such, I’ll let the man explain himself, succinctly: “the Prins writes love songs for cats and seniors on an empty stomach in a damp basement.”

Prinspolo – Skærlitað gúmmelaði by snipelondon

Big Deal

Big Deal are pretty hard to Google. Good job their MySpace address came to me in an email, or I’d never have found ‘em. Having listened through the songs on their player three times in a row, it’s fair to say their echoey, autumnal sound is fairly compelling: give it a spin, and head out to see them supporting Wet Paint at The Old Blue Last on Oct 11th. For free!

Big Deal – Locked Up by snipelondon

The Intelligence

With Rogers away having all the jollies in Iceland, I’ll be your host for the Daily MPFree, delivering something new every day to whet the appetite and fondle the naughty parts, much like what is happening in this picture:

The Intelligence are a Seattle-based fuzz-pop act who are, by modern standards, total over-achievers. Led by (and indeed before this record, consisting solely of) Lars Finberg, they’ve spent most of the last decade flying under the radar thanks to the prominence of side-projects (Finberg started out as the drummer for Sub Pop’s A Frames) and related acts (Thee Oh Sees/most of the In The Red roster). With new record ‘Males’ (their sixth in so many years, thundering past willing ears in a shade over 25 minutes) Finberg has constructed a gang who share his love of spiky garage-rock riffs, of which today’s track is the spikiest.

The Intelligence – Sailor Itch by snipelondon

Photo by John Dwyer

Laki Mera

A delicate piece of folktronic niceness from Glaswegian four-piece Laki Mera today. Some nice groaning brass and clicky microbeats. They play Camden hippie haven the Inspiral Lounge on October 7th.

Laki Mera – No Motion by snipelondon