Fair play to The Recommender for managing to nab both Muchuu and The Good Natured for his monthly Recommender party. I'd be half-tempted to make the trip to Brighton to check it out. Half-tempted...
While Russell Lissack's been putting the final touches to Pin Me Down's debut album, his Bloc Party bandmate Kele Okereke has been busying himself with his own side-project.
Kele is due to release his solo album 'The Boxer' in June and Shane has kindly pointed me in the direction of the first cut from the record, 'Tenderoni'.
A slow-burning but eventually sprightly dance-pop gem with a deliciously intricate structure, the track takes the elements of electropop that have gradually infiltrated Bloc Party's to new extremes:
I'm sold.
P.S. Is it just me, or does the track remind anybody else of this?
It seems like ages ago that The Guardian's excellent 'New Band of the Day' feature brought Ms. Sky Ferreira into my world but, finally, it looks like her quest for global domination is afoot.
She's rumoured to have inked the most lucrative UK record deal of 2009 and has worked with a pick'n'mix of the world's best producers, so there's surely an element of pressure on the Californian 'it girl' to deliver. Her first stab at success comes in the guise of new single, '17'.
The song's lyrics, about a seventeen-year-old deviant, drinking in clubs and generally up to mischief, are presumably intended to shock but Lyndsay makes the point that this doesn't really have the same impact here as it does in Ferreira's homeland because of the drinking age.
There are a couple of other tracks in Sky's arsenal I prefer to '17' but I still think it serves as a pretty good introduction. I'm also glad those behind the scenes have managed to conserve some of her 'hipster' sensibilities, rather than trying to market her as some slinky pop princess. See for yourself:
Here's a few of Sky's other tracks worth checking out:
Super-siblings Muchuu have just unleashed their debut album 'Adventure We Go', laden with cutesy lyrics, dreamy synths and magical melodies.
