Every week, I come across sooo much new music. It must be something to do with having no ‘classic’ (for which read ‘old and boring’) music on my iPod at all, with the possible exception of one Led Zeppelin album. In all conscience I just can’t go on making every song that I fancy ‘Track Of The Day’, so I’ve decided to join TC and the rest of them with a very personal and extremely irregular round up of what I, Mike ‘Catshoe’ Hughes, actually like and have been listening to. As well as brand new stuff, there’ll be older material that, due to personal myopia, I’ve only just ‘discovered’.
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Public Service Broadcasting
Public Service Broadcasting are kitschy, their songs often covered in what initially sounds like ‘found’ audio of the Pathe News documentary kind. I don’t know if it’s got legs, but what I do know is that just about every kiddie that gets to hear PSB then start to rave about PSB. Here’s the lead single ‘Signal 30’, from their album “Inform – Educate – Entertain” which will be with us in May.
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Candy Says
Little Fish, and Juju in particular, were just so darned likeable. It was with some sadness that things seemed to grind to a halt for the band, and therefore with equal amounts of jubilation that we find that they’re back, reinvented as Candy Says. Much more art-school than the old band, this is English idiosyncrasy at its best
Melt Into The Sun from Candy Says on Vimeo.
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NZCA/LINES
This is wayyyy old, but relevant on the back of NZCA/LINES recent success at the Roundhouse and good showing at SXSW. I actually got chatting with them in an airport and had to confess I had never listened to their stuff – oops. In return for a business card, I promised I would, and way-to-go, it’s well worth sharing. Enjoy
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Saturday, Monday – The Ocean (feat. Julia Spada)
I utterly loved the last single (Headshake) by Swedish collective Saturday, Monday. Oh, FFS, the next time someone comes up with something that un-google-able, that’s IT! Anyhow, they’re back, still with the startlingly good Julia Spada in tow. Curse them that on their only foray to the UK, they failed to escape beyond the M25, but despite that, I love this
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Big Orange Fluff ~ I Want My Life Back
Big Orange Fluff are a new band from the San Francisco Bay area. It starts out sounding fairly conventional, but I like the way the vocals are half buried to start. Lead man Jeremy Gekov is joined by his sister Vera on vox, and she wigs out delightfully for a moment. This is from their debut EP ‘Thirty Years Disinterred’
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SWW
Mmmmmmm… a dub-jazz infusion. Wait, come back, it’s charming, really it is! Singular too. SWW is Sarah Williams White, from South London, and I’ve played this through quite a few times in a week where so much has been strewn by the wayside
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Little Sparrow – Sending The Message
A new song from the bell-clear voiced Little Sparrow. To be sure, it’s not your usual sturm and drang, and I’ve enjoyed having my ears opened by this piece of charm.
