Those Dancing Days are back! Yay!

The Swedish fluffy, feisty, adorable princesses of cool Those Dancing Days are indeed back with the provocatively titled thunderous rollicking track Fuckarias.

They're set to follow up In Our Space hero Suits with a new album Daydreams & Nightmares
some time in the new year and here's the first glimpse of what to come.



If you fancy it, you can download the song from their website
http://www.thosedancingdays.com

Here's an older song to get you in the mood a bit more.



lovelovelove

Teenage Reverb

If you can get past the name (which seems like it was plucked straight from the random chillwave/witch house name generator), and I hope you can, you'll find some lovely soundscapes lurking behind the moniker Teenage Reverb



Take his song Dust for example. Fair enough the vocal delivery might not always be spot on but with such a captivating refrain (ie. the end bit) it just adds to the personality of it all.

Dust is on Isolation Tape Night which can be downloaded from here



But then it's a totally different story on Where Did The Summer Go (666) as he lets his arpeggiator fly wildly at your face like a cockerel in heat making you wonder where the hell did that come from? Where Did The Summer Go (666) is on the Summit Demos which can be downloaded from here.



Ps. I'm gonna call my new band something cool with an effect's name + something random.

Maybe Delay Trees (edit. taken already)
Social Distortion? (guess that one's taken too)
What about THE motherfucking Golden Filter. Now that's a good one.
Or me and my mates could call ourselves Echo and the Bunnymen. Haha. Hilarious.
NO really, where do bands these days get their names from?

Delay Trees - Casette 2012 (Video)

So now the golden boys of finnish music Delay Trees (who featured on my last mixtape AGDTC Megamix #3) have got an nifty new official music video to go with their apocalytic harbinger of a pop song Casette 2012.

It's got some really beautiful shots from Japan which only goes to confirm by beliefs that 2012's apocalypse will be caused by some kind of Godzilla/Gamera type fictional Japanese character/monster. Either them or this:


(from Cardoons)



If you haven't yet got it then I suggest you pick up their debut s/t album or if you can't handle the pressure of walking into a record shop then just download a couple of their songs from here:

Delaytrees.com/media

Sun Airway

Sun Airway are a bit special. Special in the sense that they could be the "modern day" Animal Collective. Seeing as AC are on some kind of soloing hiatus, we need some new and believable contenders for the throne of psych-pop.



Their debut full length album Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier is as good an album as I've heard recently.
Waiting For You being the standout track with its perfectly naive-sounding whooee-oo doo-be-doo chorus. (this isn't the first time I've described something in total gibberish. Apparently it's not very informative. Whatever)


Inform yourself with this then



Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier on Spotify

Guys Just Wanna Have Sun

This recent blizzard has covered the hard, cold ground in soft, cold motherfucking snow and there has also been no sight of the sun in aeons.

Napoleon IIIrd's track name Guys Just Wanna Have Sun from his new album Christiania sums up pretty much everything I'm feeling weather-terms at the moment.

And the lyrics to it sum up pretty much everything I feel in the summertime:

I'm not the type of guy to take his shirt off in the summertime
unless the mood is right or there's swimming to be done

This and the rest of Christiania are a quirky kaleidoscope of pop, experimental electronica and singer-songwriterisms. Napoleon IIIrd deserves your attention just as much as I deserve a hard earned cup of tea right about now.

Napoleon IIIrd - Rough Music from Brainlove on Vimeo.

Links:
Myspace
Twitter
Facebook
Spotify

Gorillaz - Doncamatic + some other stuff

So you could perhaps forgive Gorillaz for resting on their laurels after this years Plastic Beach album, you know because it is pretty tidy.

Obviously resting isn't something Damon Albarn and co have a habit of doing. Either on laurels or off them as yesterday saw the physical release of their new single Doncamatic featuring the silky smooth vocals of a certain fella who goes by the name Daley.

This here is a sure-fire chart-rapist and megaton dancefloor killer.



and carrying on from yesterdays topic, the ever-present Joker has somehow already had time to pump out a heavy remix of the track.



Gorillaz' Doncamatic single feat. Daley is on Spotify here

and just to fill yr boots with more Gorillaz related blahblahblah, they've also gone and covered The XX's Crystalised on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. Rather well I might add.

The Big Pink make a Big Mixtape

So that band The Big Pink that everyone was talking about back in the near past seem to have moved on from creating music and have concentrated on creating mixtapes. A bit like me the other day, but obviously not quite as well.



They've released their mix called Tapes on K7 Records and it's quite the eclectic piece. Ranging from new (Actress) to old(ish) (Gang Gang Dance), scandinavian pop (JJ) to floor stomping dubstep (Joker), witch house (GR†LLGR†LL) to well, The Big Pink (of course they've included themselves, the attention seekers).
Well that's mainly all the eclectism on offer here. The rest is a sweet combo of dark electronica and dub. Perfect

IT'S ON SPOTIFY SO LISTEN TO IT

If you have beef with Spotify and would rather not, then here are a few of the highlights:


Joker's Snake Eater is sounding like a sweet dubsteppy Dilla


Balam Acab keeping shit dark (and real)


Active Child with a tune not on the Curtis Lane EP but equally deserving a place in your audial recognition chamber.

AndygoesdowntoChinatown Megamix #3

Howdy peeps.

Compiled a little summitsummit for your ears to feast on.

Ear feasts sound dirty and a bit Texas-chainsaw-murderer-dinner-party-esque but anyway prepare to let your auditory systems go crazy to this popping/pumping/all-a-round thumping m*#/£Qf%&#~r of a playlist. These are tunes that I've either posted on here earlier or haven't posted on here at all. Listen till your ears weep sweet sweet waxy tears and then listen some more. When your done listening you can just thank me with either a subtle handshake or a double high five. Something we in the business call a high-ten.

DOWNLOAD THE ANDYGOESDOWNTOCHINATOWN MEGAMIX #3

DOWNLOAD THE ANDYGOESDOWNTOCHINATOWN MEGAMIX #3

DOWNLOAD THE ANDYGOESDOWNTOCHINATOWN MEGAMIX #3

Full track listing:

CYMBALS - Good Luck
Delay Trees - Casette 2012
Dunian - Mind Body Mind
Star Slinger- Minted
Tv Girl - If You Want It
Kinnie The Explorer - Fazell's Garden
Mon Khmer - Anniversary (Karuna remix)
Guards - Crystal Truth
A.P Witomski - Geometry
Paperfangs - Books
Total Warr - I Don't Need Your Friendship
Grass House - Lazy Bones
Seeing Suge - Breaking
Pregnant - Uphill Divination
Big Wave Riders - Republic Of The Average
Young Circles - Sharp Teeth
Wintercoats - The Overture
The Good Natured - Be My Animal (Zebra & Snake remix)
Heavy Hawaii - TEEN ANGEL
Persona La Ave - Beach 2 (GOBBLE GOBBLE's R. Kelly Magic Carpet)

Kinnie The Explorer

A friend of mine is spending an exchange year in Bournemouth. Apparently it's alright down there but then again some might say it's just a second-rate Brighton. (Could also be Worthing, I can't remember)


However there's nothing second-rate about Bournemouth boys Kinnie The Explorer and their incredibly mature sounding post-punk gems. I don't think my friend has heard of Kinnie The Explorer, but I have and that's all your interested in really, innit?

I reckon these fellas are still well young (this coming from me seeing a few pics of theirs) but they already have the distinct sense of purpose to their sounds and the interplaying between band members is just wonderful. And um.., er...

Sorry for the above paragraph. I was trying to write something that sounded meaningful and important, like other writers (real writers) do but not a lot really ever comes out. I'll just stick to writing either "I love this music" or "I hate this shit" from now on.

Kinnie The Explorer: I love this music.

EASY

They've got a bunch of songs available for download here



I gotta shoot off to work, but you (all) have a good weekend

My Bee's Garden

Even though the French beat us at football last night, I can't hate them forever. It's just not possible. Not when I have the Paris based band My Bee's Garden's Melody Prochet whispering sensuously in my ears.



Recently supporting the Australian Psych-wizards Tame Impala, My Bee's Garden are a lot less psychedelic/Sgt. Peppery and they fill that void with their own dreamy, spaced out, low burning melodies.

They've got a new album out called Hunt The Sleeper out now on Kitchen Music

It probably wouldn't charm the England football squad, but it did me.
To each his own. Joleon Lescott gets mesmerised by Florent Malouda's legs (trickery not sex appeal) and I get mesmerised by a woman who sings nicely.

Tv Girl

I've been listening to TV Girl's s/t EP for a while now and only just realised that I haven't actually posted anything on here about them yet. That's about to change because If You Want It is one hell of a catchy tune. Think Blackbird Blackbird meets The Radio Dept's Heaven's on Fire and you're pretty close.



Not only is the EP a free download, it's also a good free download. Not like all the other shit on this blog I keep stuffing in your faces.

(I am just kidding, I love all my babies equally)

Download Tv Girl's s/t EP

Persona La Ave

I think it's only fair that I profess my love for Persona La Ave seeing as I've already done it for Kiss Kiss Fantastic and Optimist Park (half of Kiss Kiss Fantastic).

Persona La Ave is the other half of KKF ie. Rachel Levy + Dylan Dawkins and whilst the same lo-fi fuzziness as per KKF is still there, PLA are distinctly more meditatory and introspective.

Check out these vibes by downloading Brothers Was Taken

I Blame Coco

Got an e-mail from I Blame Coco "introducing" me to I Blame Coco.



I Blame Coco told me that her (Eliot Pauline Styler Sumner) debut album The Constant is out now and that it sounds "ethereal" and "sophisticated". She also told me that she has a "new" video for In Spirit Golden.



I almost saw I Blame Coco at The Great Escape, but ultimately saw The Rural Alberta Advantage playing I Blame Coco's drums, which isn't, however it may sound, a sexual innuendo.

Anyhow's now that The Constant is out I had a wee listen to it on Spotify and have deemed it fun, completely radio-friendly pop. Not that this is a great deal of news

I Blame Coco is now officially here to complete the holy trinity of Cocos:

-I Blame Coco
-CocoRosie
-Coco Jambo

Even if you haven't yet listened to I Blame Coco, the one thing "everyone" knows about her is that she's Sting's daughter. Yes, that Sting.
Can't be easy being the daughter of a musician who has sold millions maybe even billions of CDs and indulges in tantric sex.

As it can't also be easy being the son of a "musician" who has shared roughly 300 weeks at the top of the Irish charts with 20-or-so other sweaty men and whose tantric sex experiences I don't want to know anything about.

Grass House

Just gotten into the these fellas and their three track EP Plough More Sky.


(haha, sorry about the pathetic size of the pic, but if you squint hard enough you'll see the EP's cover art)

Hailing from London, Grass House sound dark. Grass House sound ominous. Grass House sound like they need a murder ballad or two just to wake up every morning.







listen to Plough More Sky on Spotify

AND

news has reached me saying that their new single Lazy Bones is a slowed down track that sounds like it could be heard at a rather depressing and eerie circus. But I do mean "depressing" and "eerie" in the best possible kind of way. A bit like Tom Waits' Black Rider, this has a certain unnatural carnival vibe to it. something like this:



Download Grass House's Lazy Bones single from here

How To Dress Well - Love Remains

My long time fave How To Dress Well, or HTDW if you're lazy, has released his full length debut album Love Remains.



Featuring a bunch of songs from his free downloadable EPs as well as a handful of new actual studio recorded songs, Tom Krell seems like he's bearing his soul to us lucky listeners. You'll be drawn in and captivated by a kind of lo-fi blizzard, haunted by the soaring vocals and cries which form the most compelling atmosphere. These songs have the feel of tremendous yearning. It's possible that they aren't even sad or wanting or even romantic (they are), but personally I can't help falling for these songs and feeling for Mr. Krell and whatever kind of heartache/pain he's been going through.
I kind of also feel like patting him on the back and saying: "There, there. Everything's gonna be alright." But that would probably cause some kind of change in his musical style, which could result in something horrible, jolly and stupid. A bit like Oh No Ono, and no-one wants that do they?

If you were to purhase the vinyl LP, say via Lefse Records, you'd even get a bonus track Kidnap City to show off with. As if the album itself wasn't enough.

James Blake

Whoever said dubstep is dying has obviously not told James Blake.



Not only does he perform live vocals for the awesome Mount Kimbie but he's released four of his own EPs and I guess they were all from this year. So he's a bit of a busy bastard, but one who posesses such a talent to produce such infectious tunes that when appropriately applied would have your entire body reverberating.

"Boom-boom-dance-dance" isn't what these songs are. Especially on the new Klavierwerke EP, which features a more stripped down sound. Oftentimes delayed piano playing a large part, whereas the sub-bass and rythmics only build up later on.





OH and his cover of Feist's Limit To Your Love is quite possibly THE best cover song I've heard in ages/ever. Holy moly, hold on to your hats people!

Blank & Kytt

Are these guys the new torchbearers of UK hip-hop? Hell if I know, but they're definitely competing with Starslinger for the title of "dopest beats T-bone has heard all year".

They could also compete in the "most godawful artwork this year/ever" category, but you know as they say in the business: "It's all about the music, baby"
And oh baby, if you were the type to cream your pants to musical stimulants then these slick instumentals could potentially do just that.

Download the whole 3010 album from here

MOPP

Got something for you if you're tired of hearing the same Hurts/Ellie Goulding songs on t'radio.

Depending on who Barry Mopp aka. MOPP has been making tunes with, these songs could be your new favourite male vocal/female vocal electropop songs.

I'm not saying you necessarily need new favourite electropop songs. You could need some new dark and shouty nu-metal favourites or some amazing aboriginal ska reccommendations. If that's the case then I'm sorry to disappoint you and you google searches of "dark and shouty nu-metal" or "amazing aboriginal ska" because you won't get those here. But if electropop's your game, then be sure to check out this Scottish songsmith tunes.



and it wasn't long ago that he released his latest single Dream About You via Euphonios



Oh and if you can be arsed, check out his remix of Phoenix's 1901 on his Myspace. It is seriously heavy

Little Britannia

Popped in the new English foodstuffs shop Little Britannia that opened up in the food market also known to some as Turun kauppahalli. Got some nice wicked stuff in there that I've really really missed.

I'm now fully stocked up on minstrels, sticky toffee pudding and fig rolls (actually just ate all of them).


bye bye fig rolls!!


Now if I could only get my hand on some crumpets.


Hello crumpets!!

Cool idea to open up an English shop and I hope there's some kind of market niche for it. So mosey on down there if you need to fill up your lucozade fridge. Top up your marmite shelf or you just insist on Walkers crisps.


Gary Lineker for England!

Cymbals EP

Been listening to humploads of the new Cymbals EP. I feel like it's taken over me by some primeval force making me shake my hips totally out of sync with the rest of my body, whilst the cymbal-boys serenade me with their funky, ridiculously "hip" tunes. It's not even that danceable but I'm still going for it. They've even covered a Pavement song Kennel District, but as I've never consciously listened to Pavement [mainly because everyone tells me they're awesome (I will be the judge of that, thank you very much)] I'm going to go straight ahead and say that "yeah, this version is like sooo much better than the Pavement one.

Who knows, it might actually be. Doesn't matter.
Their own songs exude the kind of shit-hottery that I'd only expect to find at some kind of absurd excrement-heating plant. Make sense? This shit is hot.



found this "video" of the DRUGS remix of Good Luck. Drugs may or may not have been in Finland some time last year. Can't remember.