FASHIONABLY LATE

oOoOO is exactly what I'm looking for these days. NoSummr4u has that sort of hopeless emptiness that makes you want to lie in bed all day with the curtains closed. It's the other side of the nostalgia coin, one oft left out in favour of the sunny carefree surf-pop nostalgia that everyone has finally discovered again. I'm very late to the party with this one, I know.

NoSummr4u - oOoOO

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Circle Pit are an awful looking, rubbish sounding, can't-sing-for-shit sort of band. Think Wavves/Girls/The rawer side of The Vines, and you'll know what to expect. They are apparently signed to Modular Records now, but Modular Records hasn't made it known at all, not sure why.  

Another Trick is a cool summery garage-surf-rock track, I can imagine hipster couples passing it between each other on cassette mix tapes and remarking on how "ok" it sounds.

Infinity is a slow-jam style love song with this hazy wash over sparse instrumental work. Infinity is the most laid-back song on the album (which is, depending on your tolerance for harsh, raw, garage rock; really quite good).

Another Trick - Circle Pit
Infinity - Circle Pit

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Tex Taiwan are the latest in what is nearing a fucking battalion of Crystal Castles copycats. They've skewed more in a HEARTSREVOLUTION direction however, in that this stuff makes you feel like you're in a Hypercolourbubblegumrobotkitten party in Japan (Where I can only imagine there is a huge market for this sort of music), rather than wanting to kill yourself; as the Canadian duo does.

Won't blow your mind, but it will certainly keep you entertained for two and a half minutes.

Labyrinth - Tex Taiwan

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Born Ruffians have a new album called Say It. It's very similar in style to the first, so there aren't any nasty surprises for the real fans. They are the sort of band you will either love or hate so this little blurb is pretty pointless really, just give What To Say a spin and see what you think.


What To Say - Born Ruffians

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Posted up a remix for Neverest by Hey Champ a while back. Here's the original, carefree electro-pop at its... well I wouldn't say best...

Carefree electro-pop.


Neverest - Hey Champ

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Kamei is a pretty cool dude. He deals in the realm of sampling rad disco hits from yesteryear and sprucing them up (or down), which is a great way to avoid the bulk of the annoying grunt-work real musicians have to deal with.


Falling In Love - Kamei

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HYPE

Here's a whole bunch of what you're missing out on, it's all quality but I'll put the best stuff up top, as I know how daunting it is looking at a big list of songs to download.

Saturday Night (Gloves Remix) - Matt Van Schie
Neverest (Raw Man Remix) - Hey Champ
Never Known Love - Thieves Like Us
Tokyo Getaway - Polygon Palace
Bright City Lights - Barretso
Beach Comber - Real Estate
What You Need (Hey Champ Remix) - Priors
Yes, And Dance (Silver Columns Remix) - Silver Columns
Jeffer - Boys Noize

Mostly electronic stuff this time round, save for the Real Estate track.

HYPE

Here's some recent and solid tracks that might interest you.

From Red Riders' recently released sophomore album, Drown In Colour. Which is damn good by the way.

Ordinary - Red Riders

A track by Indie-Electro outfit Hey Champ. Think somewhere between Van She and Digitalism and you have an idea of what to expect.

Cold Dust Girl - Hey Champ

Van She recently released a remix EP bundled with the re-release of last year's near perfect debut LP, V. Titled Ze Vemixes, it's basically Van She Tech completely reworking most of the tracks from the album to sound like heavy techno versions of themselves. This particular track, the last on the EP, takes a completely different route.

Virgin Suicide (Acoustic Mix) - Van She

Anoraak is a french electronic artist part of the Valerie Collective, for some of you that will be information enough. For the rest, think heartfelt and meaningful electro heavily inspired by everything 80's.

Never Ending Romance Disaster - Anoraak

Bombay Bicycle Club are a UK band taking everyone by storm at the moment, they've only just left school as well so it's even more impressive how confident they seem to be at such an early stage in the game.

What If - Bombay Bicycle Club

And finally a rather old track that was remixed in 2005 for Depeche Mode's Greatest Hits album. It's remixed by Digitalism but it sounds very much like Justice or Boys Noize. It's a really cool re-invention of the song actually.

Never Let Me Down Again (Digitalism Remix) - Depeche Mode

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