Two Wounded Birds finally announced their (selftitled) debut LP, out next June 4/24 (Europe/US). We had already listened to the opening track “Together Forever”; now they’re offering a new song off it, “To Be Young”, available for streaming and download free download above. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a band who’ll release their record through Holiday Friends Recording Company, Jacob Graham from the Drums’ label. Classic pop with a big old school punk-like bassline. Summer’s saved.
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Island Twins, “Creepaway”
Isn’t there an old movie where a pair of twins ends up on a deserted island and something incestuous happens? Lagoon something? Or am I confusing it with a very, VERY weird dream I had the other night? Eh. The Island Twins are a New York band who’ve just recently released their debut LP, aptly titled Island Twins (OMFG SO ORIGINAL), and they play fuzzy pop tunes designed to melt your heart away or at least make you sing along to them. It’s good, I swear. “Creepaway” is their latest single, and you can download it for free here.
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a Jigsaw, “Even You”
Yet another video off Drunken Sailors and Happy Pirates, the latest LP by Portugal’s finest band from the last 10 years. Now available on vinyl.
Holobody, “Riverhood” (Mush Records, 2012)
I’ve first heard of Sea Oleena when my mates from Lizard Kisses told me she was going to participate on their latest EP, Tiny Island Teeth, which I released on Cakes and Tapes late last year. Since I heard that one song, I instantly went and downloaded her latest album, Sleeplessness, which got me hooked for weeks. Her name caught my eye again when reading the press release relative to this album, and I knew I had to take a listen to it.
Holobody is a duo comprised of Oleena and her brother (which goes by the moniker of Felix Green). One can read the words “gospel, “hip-hop”, “electronica” and “folk” in the first sentence of the album description. Beware. Such a melting pot of genres may put off anyone who isn’t exactly looking for the future of music in the non-form of a batch of mp3s AND got tired of 96% of all music tagged “experimental” on the internets. That would be me, but strangely enough I found Riverhood’s opening track, “Unfold”, to be quite entertaining - sounds like something Why? could have done - and decided not to close the tab on which I was streaming it right away.
After listening to her solo stuff, it may seem a bit strange to hear Sea Oleena rapping - but then again, she never sounded conventional at all. On “Hurricane Season” she shares singing/rapping duties with her bro Green above a sea (pun not intended) of bleeps, bloops and samples; “Riverbed” is the highlight in the first half of the record, with Oleena’s whispered vocals providing a warm atmosphere. One of my few personal complaints about Riverhood as a whole is how the constant shift from quiet and ethereal to beat-infested schizophrenia puts me off from listening to it from start to finish without skipping a track or changing the tracklist around; fortunately enough, “Down to the River to Pray” kicked in near the end of the album - here’s the gospel! And it makes me want to praise the Lord or something. That’s what I wrote on a review of Spiritualized’s Sweet Heart, Sweet Light that I never finished and that’s what I’m going to say everytime I hear the words “Lord”, “Jesus” or “God” on a good song. But this time I think I saw the light somewhere during this jam’s coda.
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Is there a better reason to post about longtime favorite Benji Cossa than the release of a perfect Bee Gees cover song? Don’t think so.
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