The Great British Tune Up
A new weekly post for Nothing But Green Lights. Which is, if you hadn’t already realised, solely dedicated to British music. This post is dedicated to tunes. A round up of the best British music that people are talking about on blogs and podcasts around the world.
A tune up for your musical week - hopefully not a car crash….
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What the blogs have been saying about the Brits:
♫ Digging the change of pace from these inide popsters: “If there is any justice in the world, Esiotrot will be the poster band of the quiet indie kids who stand in the corner of the disco” Esiotrot (brighton, unpopular records) @ Another Form of Relief + Hype Machine
♫ Before Simian Mobile Disco, we had Simian, “a short-lived British electronic-pop-psych group that managed two albums… fairly hit-and-miss, but it yielded two notable tracks: “LA Breeze”… and the joyous, bursting-at-the-seams “When I Go”. Simian (various cities, wichita) @ Idolator + Hype Machine
♫ Influential U.S blog Stereogum labels one of Britian’s hottest young bands “One’s to watch” “a band of five teenagers from London, gaining a name for packing in the punters and kicking out melodic spunk” Cajun Dance Party (north london, xl records) @ Stereogum + Hype Machine
♫ Remixing at the pop-edge of post-punk “we’ve got SebastiAn’s rework which is just all kinds of ridiculous. It’s hard to even know where to begin, but one thing’s for sure - SebastiAn has just established himself as the force to be reckoned with” Bloc Party (london, wichita) @ Good Weather for Airstrikes + Hype machine
♫ “a fine example of the sort of brilliance that can come from bands with relatively minor song-writing ambitions” Good Shoes (london, brille records) @ Fluxblog’s ASAP column + Hype Machine
♫ Ironic, scottish pop greets us at “the dipping sauce for the incredible pop breadstick”: “[they] could well end up contributing another work to the pantheon of sarcastic punk songs about lack of fame or talent which subsequently become minor legends in their own right.” 1990s (glasgow, rough trade) @ Marathon Packs + Hype
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Also:
What has Tony Blair done to classical music?
Idolator ponders the success of the Crimea’s tactic of giving away their album “Will people go out to see them? [As a result of the giveaway] Well, that depends on whether there’s a large live-music market for Conor Oberst devotees in the UK.”
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Don’t stayed tuned, but come back soon.
yes the Crimea sound a little like Bright Eyes but if you want to call them devotees of someone, try Leonard Cohen, Dusty Springfield, The Kinks, Neil Young, Ween…
also, the songs on the Crimea free album are just better than the songs on the Bright Eyes album, except perhaps for Four Winds which is great if you don’t mind the fact that Conor is obviously a Waterboys devotee.
Love this new feature. As an American that loves new British music, this is exactly what I was looking for but was unable to find… until now. Thanks Mike.
Cheers Geoff. I’m working on it, and will hopefully be able to provide more regularly in the future.