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“Two Times” is the first video/single to be taken from Kid Karate’s upcoming debut album, Night Terrors. The video, shot in Darndale, Dublin by Jamie and Keith (whose other credits include the Mmoths video for Heart) creates a perfect visual representation of the band’s thunderous sound.

Kid Karate is a two-piece band from Dublin. The pair’s music is gritty, raw and brutal; dwelling somewhere between the fuzzy blues of The Black Keys, the danceability of The Rapture and the aggression of Queens of the Stone Age.

The band’s musical aesthetic is based around Breen’s thunderous guitar-work and atypical howl, and Gannon’s primal drumming style. These elements combined enable the pair to create music that is catchy and intoxicating. Kid Karate make more noise than two people should.

(Post submitted by our reader Steven Gannon)

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Guest post: Peter Broderick – photographer and musician

Peter Broderick is one of those artists who has such a wide range of things he does.  At times his music is reminiscent of the more ambient aspects of Aphex Twin; at other times he has kind of a weird version of a Ben Folds vibe going.

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Delphine Dora & Half Asleep, “You’re Not Mad, You’re Just Lonely” (We Are Unique Records, 2012)

First submitted post we’re publishing. It was written by the artist herself, hence the quoted text. We usually won’t accept self-promotional posts here – we want our “Submit a post” button to be used by music fans letting us know about bands they like, and not their own – but this is actually a nice album, worth taking a spin or two and streamable on BC after the jump.

You’re not mad, you’re just lonely is a full-length recording from the duo Delphine Dora & Half Asleep. Together, the French and Belgian musicians crafted an album of startling pop songs, with classical, experimental and contemporary influences, taking an obvious pleasure in their collaboration while seeking to push forward the boundaries of their respective universes. For this new project, they spent a week together in Southern France, 5 days of which they dedicated to the composition and recording of the album’s 13 songs. During the session, they invoked the literary spectres of playwright Sarah Kane, writer Janet Frame, famous wife and letter-writer Zelda Fitzgerald, or of Beckett’s fictional character Molloy, making central to their musical peregrinations the theme of mental alienation, a topic they each in their non-music-related lives devoted several years of research to. The result is a spontaneous and somewhat heterogeneous collection of songs centred on the piano and vocal, and that will take the listener to a variety of enchanted, amusing or terrifying places.

<a href=“http://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-mad-youre-just-lonely” data-mce-href=“http://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-mad-youre-just-lonely”>You’re not mad, you’re just lonely by Half Asleep & Delphine Dora</a>