The Great British Tune Up #4
Great new British music from all the many strange and wonderful places that make up the mp3 blog world.
The Coral, those scousers who went missing for a while, have made a reappearance. And a new album. “…they look backwards rather than forwards for inspiration. And this album harks back to some golden 60’s pop.” @ headphonesex
Music For Robots are using Sleeping States (featuring on NBGL earlier this week) to cure insomina “It’s all low-fi, with papery oohs and ahhs in the background, and some dusty drums. It’s a beautiful vocal melody, and I get lost in it.”…. funny how Said the Gramophone have also discussed sleep in relation to Sleeping States “a blissful, dreamless sleep slept in a graceful supine”. The album, out 10/9 (9/10 for Americans) is expected to feature in a lot of best albums lists.
Victorian English Gentlemens Club are recommended - “It’s a punk song … everything in the song seems to either made of sharp edges, or set at severe angles” @ FluxBlog
Even mp3 blogs post chart music, sometimes. “Calvin Harris has created is disco in his own image: bedroom producer of the YouTube generation, behind his Amiga computer, making beats & riffs like it was 1984, the year of his birth.” @ 3hive
My podcast, Take Your Medicine has a new show out, it features music I’ve featured on this site sometimes, some British music I’m not allowed to give away for free (boo!), and other really good new music from around the world. It’s around about 30 minutes every 2-3 weeks. @ Take Your Medicine.
Congratulations to Fionn Regan, who has been nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. NBGL friends Slow Club tour with him this Autumn.


Discussion Area - Leave a Comment