Daily MPfree: Twin Sister

A preview of this Hotly Tipped Brooklyn Lo-Fi Quintet, remixed here into an amniotic, dreamy slab of electronica by Teen Daze.

Daily MPfree: This Many Boyfriends

To-cool-for-art-school indie-pop upstarts This Many Boyfriends have released a taster from their forthcoming EP “Getting A Life With This Many Boyfriends”. It’s a song with a massive possible double-meaning in the chorus that singer Richard says was unintended, so we’re left not knowing whether the song’s protagonist likes it’s subject or not. You’ll have to guess.

Order the EP, with badges and a fanzine, from Thee SPC here.

Daily MPfree: Exclusive track from Drum Eyes forthcoming album Gira Gira

We have an exclusive download from the forthcoming Drum Eyes album Gira Gira for you. The accompanying spiel says it pretty well: “It’s a real triumph of an album and finally sees DJ Scotch Egg make an album deserved of attention not only from his loyal fanbase but far and wide across the metal, ambient and electronic worlds of modern music, it’s an album that obliterates genres with pride and grace, whilst remaining true in it’s identity and ability to lodge in your mind.”

See Drum Eyes headlining Brainlove Festival 2010 this weekend.

The Ruby Suns

Unofficial Guide to Stag & Dagger

DIARY: Will Vaughan

Anaïs Mitchell is creating her own mythology

“There are only so many stories in the world,” says Anaïs Mitchell of Hadestown, her folk opera about Orpheus and Eurydice. “Artists tap into echoes that have been reverberating in the rabbit hole of human existence since before we can remember. We think we’re coming up with this shit from scratch, but it’s not true!”


Mitchell has indirectly written her own folk story within the tale she set out to tell, in which the creation of an ambitious project spawned a heartening yarn of community-tended grassroots. Cut off from the rest of the country by the weather and a lack of television, the Vermont street where the record took shape is one of allotments, chickens and mucking in with community projects.

Drum Eyes reinvents the Wall of Sound

Brighton-based collective Drum Eyes have been a long time in their convoluted making. Formed in 2007, even Osaka-born band mainstay Shige Ishihara has trouble keeping count of his band-mates. “We’ve changed members quite a few times,” he explains. “At the moment we have eight…”

The result is a monolithic live band, propelled forwards by the two drummers with their twin kits staring out from the front of the stage. Dark, jagged jazz is pushed through unravelling structures; pulsing krautrock tumbles with climactic improvisation. Keyboards and guitar coil around throbbing bass, underscored by celebratory, evolving rhythm. But while Ishigura wears the band’s krautrock influence on his sleeve, he wants Drum Eyes to stay free from pigeonholing. “I don’t like to be categorized,” he says. “I don’t want to make music for scenes. I’d like to make music as music.”

336 Hours

Daily MPfree: Fight For Me

Chilly churchy vibes on the new Wildbirds & Peacedrums EP, Retina, out May 24th on The Leaf Label. Reminiscent of Vespertine-era Björk and Bat For Lashes doing her best Kate Bush impression. Which is, I guess, all the time.

You can catch them in LDN this Saturday.

Saturday 15 May
Bishopsgate Institute, LONDON (with Choir Of Young Believers)
230 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4QH
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets £12.50