New Mixtape: sAddEnds

Go see this tonight: Applicants

Fidel Villeneuve’s post-Digital-Hardcore project is a colourful endeavor. Usually semi-naked and smeared in fake blood, the trio have expanded to a quartet to include a drummer, and play hysteric, comedic, full-throttle cartoon pop ‘n’ roll, sprinkled with non-sequitor samples, bizarre middle eights and key changes.

Neutron Wireless Crystal (Trenchurian Remix) by Swimming

Trenchurian (Ryan Trench of Dublin-based Solar Bears) has reworked the new single from Nottingham’s ‘finest purveyors of dark-pop’ Swimming, adding soft, scattered beats and some nice synth arpeggios to the more industrial, harder sounding original.

Planningtorock - Living It Out

Found In The Open Country (The underlying deep structure) by Sacred Harp

Found In The Open Country…is taken from Norwegian four-piece Sacred Harp’s debut LP Window’s A Fall, available in the UK from December via Brainlove Records (it was previously only available through Oslo’s Trust Me Records).

11-17 (White Seas remix) by Kevin Devine

Morgan Kibby, a.k.a. White Seas, here applies the richly constructed, electro-pop aesthetic of steady employers M83 to a re-working of Kevin Devine’s (pictured) 11-17, with fine, dramatic results.

Miracle Fortress - Miscalculations

Go see this tonight: Miracle Fortress

Our only hope now is an Indian Summer. The last weeks have been a disappointment. Rain. Darkness. Cold.

Clamor and Candor by Balmorhea

Here’s something a little different from the usual indie/electro shenanigans. Their name may sound like a messy stomach complaint, but Balmorhea (pronounced Bal-moor-ay) are onto their fifth long-player – due for release in the spring – and list influences as diverse as ‘Ludovico Einaudi, The Six Parts Seven, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Rachel’s, Gillian Welch, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt and John Cage’.

Come to our deputy music editor's EP launch tonight with Joe Innes, Burning Buildings and Lilies On Mars

There is no way around this, this post is a blatant plug for a project by one of Snipe’s contributors. But what a project.