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Syd Matters - Hi Life
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Trippy video of the week award goes to Syd Matters, whose video for 'Hi Life' is an animated piece that actually looks a little bit like a cool video game. BlackPlastic hasn't come across Syd Matters before but their debut album, Brotherocean, comes out on Because Music in February. If this is anything to go by expect something between Radiohead and Notwist - bruised vocals and loneliness ensue. This sounds like the dead leaves of Autumn.
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Is Tropical have been on BlackPlastic's radar for a little while now but since recently signing to Kitsune they seem to be picking up momentum.
'South Pacific' is a lovely shoegaze-y number with buzzing melodies and uplifting vocals that feels like running away. Which is appropriate given the video, which has a nice washed out look, basically consists of the band making a raft and sailing away. Kitsune feeling feel like they have dropped the ball lately - hopefully this represents a return to form... Expect to hear big things from Is Tropical in 2011.
'South Pacific' is out on 22 November 2010.
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The press release for Ulterior's 'Sex War Sex Cars Sex' contains quotes that compare Ulterior to Gary Numan, Killing Joke, Suicide and Jesus & Mary Chain and judging by this single those references are pretty on the money.
The band look like they mean it in this video - this isn't the usual knowingly sly nod to the past - and on the four-minute climatic build of 'Sex War Sex Cars Sex' this sounds less like a 2010 take on early 1980s electronic industrial punk than the real thing. BlackPlastic digs it, although whether we'd want to listen to an entire album of angst-ridden electronica remains to be seen.
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This neat little cover version of Arcade Fire's opening track from new album The Suburbs dropped into the BlackPlastic message box this week. Normally messing around with Arcade Fire would be close to sacrilege but in all honesty this slightly darker take on the original is pretty tasteful. The video itself was made by filming a bike journey - the result is nicely in keeping with the feeling of the original song.
More over at the Huski site.
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