2012-09-21 – what we are into this week….

here’s what we have been up to this week

Exitmusic – The Modern Age

The Eeries – Stay With Me

Fou – Colour Me In

Opossom – Girl

Chris Cohen – Optimist High

Homecomings – You Never Kiss

Swim Deep – Honey

Slowdance – Spell
http://vimeo.com/48825558

TOY – Lose My Way

nightmusic – grimes ft majical cloudz

Claire Boucher! you can do no wrong now! the it girl of indie music now… and we we we are so in awe/love with her!
here she is with her label mates, majical cloudz, returning an earlier favour to her.

motoring – TOY

TOY is the latest post punk/art rock band after the likes of s.c.u.m. and the horrors. we love the krautrock and psychedelic pop influences in their new single, motoring.

be around u – oFF love

oFF love is love songs for a post apocalypse world.

stranger – zodiacs

Zodiacs is captured tracks‘ head honcho, Mike Sniper’s idea of an equivalent of 4AD’s this mortal coil i.e. a super band consists of members from other bands on his label.
the first release was Faraway Friend” 7″, which had Mike Sniper playing with Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls, JB from Crystal Stilts, plus Jeremy and Jarvis from Woods.
this release has Sniper collaborating with Soft Metals‘ Patricia Hall and Thieves Like Us‘ Andy Grier to deliver a slab of cold wave post punk goodness.

beko 100

what can we say? an amazing 100 song compilation from a supercool french label and what’s cooler than that? it’s all free!!!
based in Nantes, France, the Beko Digital Singles Label promises you a free single every monday! yes! every monday!
past releases include memoryhouse, the bilinda butchers, million young and moscow olympics.
Now do yourself a kind favour and hit the download buttons!

oblivion – grimes

grimes is ready to take the world with her lispy experimental electropop music! this is the official video for a track taken off her new album, visions, out on Arbutus Records/ 4AD.

left myself behind – TOY

TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). TOY’s musical influences incorporate a wide range of genres including punk, psychedelia, krautrock, post rock to name a few and they explore experimental recording techniques in the studio.

With the majority of 2010 spent writing, TOY played their first show at the Cave Club in Islington earlier this year. Since then the band have played a string of live performances including Field Day and 1234 festivals and have supported bands such as The Horrors and The Pretty Things. Their first single – Left Myself Behind – is out now.

night heat – selebrities

the new single from Brooklyn’s Selebrities fits right into the Drive soundtrack with its “stylish, brooding electronic pop as voguish summertime goth“.

animal dreams – sapphire slows

Born in 1989, sapphire slows started her solo project in Tokyo, spring 2011. Tracks are all recorded in her bedroom, simply with one lap top and some keyboards.
Her dance track expresses the space depth beneath the loneliness influenced by various electro music especially psychedelic chill-out

http://vimeo.com/33098882