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What people will say about this song and video is that it has Charlotte Ritche, who plays Oregon in Channel 4 sitcom Fresh Meat, in it. Together with her brother. A family band, like Mumford and Sons.
This would miss the point that it is a pretty and honest, snot and tears and all, folk anthem. Classier than you expect.
Forgive Me is the new single from Austra and it comes out through Domino on 25 November. There is a stark emotionality running through this track that is really brought to life through the slightly Kate Bush-esque vocals of Katie Stelmanis, but it is the brooding electronic slinky minimalism that makes it shine, like something from an eighties flick.
The video is directed by Claire Edmondson and is both sinister and sexually charged, capturing the events of a park at night.
Forgive Me is taken from the album Olympia, out now on Domino. Get the album from Amazon.co.uk on CD or MP3 [affiliate links] or stream in full on Spotify:
More hotness from the Blood Orange LP, this time in the form of the video for the closing track, one of the album's highlights.
Review coming soon but this is too gorgeous not to share.
Very excited for this… You can currently stream Dev Hynes' forthcoming Blood Orange album in full on YouTube. Check it out.
This new sophomore release from Sydney's Movement has been out for a few weeks now but I've only just had time to really digest it and it's deserving of a listen.
Us is a deep and sexy tangle of 90s R&B and rough rumbling bass dance music. Movement wear their hearts on their sleeves and this is a record that gives a voice to the inner thoughts of one half of a couple on the brink of… well, something. A confidence exudes as the vocals define the inevitability of reciprocated feelings and yet there is a nervous anxiousness - "And I could take you right now", the falsetto male vocals assert one moment, shortly before questioning "Did I push it too much". As a result the track bristles with a sort of confidence undermined by a very real sounding uncertainty and a sense of gender politics, the hollow and ambient sound only adding to the sense of mis-firing connections.
Us also includes two remixes. San Francisco's Giraffage lays down a sea of complex synth stabs, bass and glossy funk keys that opens the track up to create something a little more sensual. Kowton provides the concluding mix, moving in the other direction, offering up an intense bass-heavy version threaded with steel drums and urban intensity.
Us is out now through Modular, available to purchase on MP3 from Amazon.co.uk [affiliate link]. Check out the video on YouTube above or listen to the EP in full through Spotify: