Hola. How’s it hanging? Time for another trawl through the old inbox and first up Picture Book with a jolly electro ditty for the
summer bravely entitled Sunshine (I guess Endless Dray Grey Days Punctuated
Only By Thunderstorms aka the British Summer wasn’t catchy enough). Anyway,
it’s got something and I don’t just mean the 'getting jizzed on by clowns' video
(clown jizz is multicoloured you know...it’s all that makeup they use).
Imagine if Syd Barrett had had kids, I reckon his son would produce something like this, Of Montreal’s Spiteful Intentions, a glam psych
Bowie meets Floyd mash up with a suitably twisted video. Turn On, Tune In,
Freak Out!!!!!
You’ve gotta love Tom Jones. No matter what Jessie J,
Billy.I.Am or The Other Bloke trot out in The Voice, Tom can just turn on ‘em
with a simple “When I was hanging with Elvis/Dusty/Aretha/Janis/The Beatles etc
etc...”. Boom. Game Over. Sadly the routines when he’s been roped in to sing
during the show have been a bit of a nadir, but happily his latest single goes
someway to repairing the damage. Tom does Leonard Cohen...rather well too.
Ever wondered what a Lana Del Rey / Azealia Banks mash up
would sound like? Me too. Makes me want to inject Iron Bru into my eyeballs.
Make of that what you will, but I reckon that’s a good thing.
Okay, so I may have missed May Day but Skinny Lister’s new
one (featuring Land Rovers ‘dancing’ round a Maypole) still deserves a spin for
its jaunty, pints of real ale in the air spirit. Expect to hear it soundtracking
the next Magners advert sometime in the future...
Just as jaunty, but with an odder video (seriously, odd) it’s
Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic with How Do I Know, a folky, country-ish toe tapper
if ever I heard one...and I just did.
Last one for this
edition of the semi-legendary Semi Regular New Music Roundup Thingy...how do
you fancy a darkly industrial synth number from Toronto’s Trust eh? Clearly
influenced by Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb Bulbform’s brooding breakdowns and twisted
disco make a neat mix. One for those bondage clubs I’ve seen you at...
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