Gorgeous new track from Sydney artist BUOY, real name Charmain Kingston. Kingston gives off a blissful ethereal sound on this ambient-pop styled track. The vocals are lovely and blissed out, offsetting the shuddering beats and clicks. Beautiful.
Love this big poppy record from Portland's EXROYALE, real name Josh Schroeder. Don't Stop (Playing With My Heart) combines melodic electropop with indie R&B and even throws in a little chip tune... The result is like Michael Jackson with a sugar-high, and I love the sentiment - those times when you have fallen enough for someone that being taken for granted is better than the thought of being left alone.
The track is will be on Soundcloud for a few days, but you can grab it on iTunes [affiliate link] or Spotify now.
LANY are back with new release Someone Else. LANY (pronounced lay-nee) feel like the embody of Gen Y - what with cross-continental music creation, performances on Snapchat and the knowingly titled Acronyms EP.
Last year one of the tracks from that release, ILYSB (that'll be I Love You So Bad) featured in my list of the best tracks of the year for it's unadulterated and cloyingly irresistible infatuation. Someone Else is similarly saccharine, but surprisingly free of zeitgeist in comparison. It's the kind of loved-up-yet-hurting record that will speak out for a billion broken teenage hearts, and the little bit inside every one of us grown-ups that occasionally still needs to feel that same feeling.
Following on from Somewhere last month and ahead of their debut EP Visits, Colleagues have just put out Talk It Out. Expect a lush dreamy track and it is here to brighten up your Friday... Take It Out is a holiday in aural form, full of big sweeping synths and vocal harmonies.
Get on it and look out for Visits, out on 18 May.
Titus Andronica's last UK-released album The Monitor was one of my absolute favourite things about 2010. In fact just last week I went back to check if they had released anything since and was dismayed to see they hadn't.
Well it turns out my concerns that they may have disappeared were misplaced. Titus Andronicus return! With a new album called The Most Lamentable Tradgedy! And this awesome new track and lyric video Dimed Out!
As always their ramshackle mess of noise is a beer-soaked anger-fuelled mess and it's bloody glorious. In the UK we're about to head into the most contentious and unpredictable election of my lifetime, and every note of this record expresses the anger and annoyance I feel about every stupid idiot who wastes their vote, makes a decision based on a newspaper headline or fails to understand at least a fraction of the actual policy differences between the major party policies.
So here it is: One of the major parties wants to save $12bn from the welfare budget yet refuses to tell the nation how until after the election is over. If you vote without knowing what you are voting for, you are a fucking idiot.
You can thank Titus Andronicus for this angry rant, and yes I am aware of the irony in advocating voting in a post about a band that sports the anarchy symbol. So whatever... Scroll to the video, play it, then play it again. Then play it once more to be sure. Then vote wisely.