A regular feature to help you handle the week ahead and get tuned up for the weekend. A round-up of the best New British music to be found on blogs (and sometimes podcasts) around the net, across the planet we are destroying with our insatiable demand for shiny throwaway devices to play music on, using electricity we should feel guilty using. Get it while you can, one day soon you will all have to make your own music.
A tune up for your musical week, hopefully not a car crash…
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I have a podcast. Take Your Medicine Podcast Show #17 is fresh off of the digital presses, with a couple of tracks from British musicians who I have featured here recently, as well as 11 other tracks, filtered down from about 50 of best new tracks I’ve heard. It all comes out as a one hour show, which you can download as an mp3. Or if you have Itunes, subscribe to the show and have it download it automatically.
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British music that’s hot on the blogs this week:
Scots The Twilight Sad are getting a lot of love on blogs “the vibe of U2 with the bombast of The Arcade Fire” says The Churn, whilst the Daily Growl says “If they hadn’t been from Glasgow, I might just have left it there. But a few weeks later I listened again. And again. And now I’m beginning to quite like it.” Postrock took the shoegaze scenic route through Glasgow.
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It’s “effortless” and daydreamy with Angus and Julia stone over at Electic Hermit. “What you wanted” is everyone’s favourite harpist Joanna Newsom’s imagination tamed by television, with a determination to destroy ever set in Nova Scotia and start again.
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And after debuting “Grip like a vice” on BBC radio, the blogs or all above retro indie-hip-poppers, The Go Team. Idolator calls it “another shake-it-don’t-break-it song with lots of silly noises” whilst on Side 1 we get the moderation “they feel a little too much like a novelty, and even though they make it work like nobody’s business, part of me would like to see them making more of an effort to slowly move away from it.”
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Instrumental rockers from Sheffield 65 days of Static are getting love on both sides of the Atlantic, “When we were younger and better” (mp3), is getting much love 3hive saying “they’ve since matured their sound a bit. It’s less of an aural blitz and more of subtle, studied sound.” Meanwhile Tuna puts it all into context for us “the electronics have decided to put their feet up and have a cup of tea whilst the epic thashing guitars do all the hard work“. On the other hand, “65 Days of Static do not write summer jams” but it certainly rocks Mr. Cleveland.
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At the same time, somewhere completly different: Headphonesex begins the summer of dance in a predictably smart fashion, setting us up with a new Hot Chip tune “My Piano”, the British electro megastars shoot us “a familiar 5-pronged electro pop attack“. A fantastic live band, get out and see them. If you have an electro bone in your dance-starved body you will love the groove.
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Upstairs, Stereogum reveals a haunting whispered cover of Coldplay’s “The Scientist” by Johnette Napolitano. Go fetch.
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Writing about British music on your blog in a severely entertaining and quotable manner? Email me. More British round-up action in about a week. What more could you want?
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