harrisons – mondays arms
a punchy urgent guitar pop anthem with chantalong chorus that is going to kill the evening playlists on your national radio stations, as well as the requisite nme sanctioned dancefloors. its a cracking track, and with a remix by the mysterious american pop band which isolates the pumped up bass line and adds some basic old school one fingered synth parts and aged linn pad echos to the proceedings.
excellent stuff.
for a fun few minutes you can check the video : here
more detail : here
working for a nuclear city – rocket ep
ok, it seems that there are others around the web are picking up on the glorious album that wfanfc released last year, with love flowing from pitchfork and allmusic it shouldn’t be too long before this lot break through their current glas ceiling and get some serious attention. whether this ep is the record to do that i cant really say as its a delicate affair that lacks any real radio hooks and gameplay choruses. instead the lead track, rocket, is a smouldering 5 minutes of distant piano (of which there is a backstory in which the piano generated the need to make this ep if memory serves me right!) grumbling bass line and a vocal motif repeated over and over in true krautrock via baggy style. heaven kissing hill opens with a spoken interlude before its drifts into a straight up rip of the better part of the beta band seriously this track could easily be placed mid 3eps period and no-one would bat an eyelid.
its that good.
when all hell breaks loose at 2 and half minutes its like the antithesis of those around a campfire singalongs as someone is screaming (in a distant manner – not upfront a la nu-metal angst it should be noted) their vocals out to a cacophony of guitar noise creating a song of two very different moods.
can i say its brilliant again please.
of course i can.
next up, waiting game with its moody instrumental djshadowblockhead/cinematic orchestra vibe proves that the lads are at ease when it comes to playing with the expectations thrust upon them, as lets not forget, this is a throwaway track on an ep. ha. if only. bbc soundtrack people, if you read this then i suggest you track down this piece of music, it’ll answer many of your needs over the next few months when making moody late night drama sequences.
so after 3 superb tracks just how do the band finish off the non-album extra ? a by-the-numbers remix ? a demo cast off ? or another new track, stone cold, that incorporates a loose stone roses styles loop that manages to evoke memories long buried, and update the emotions to bring it all back. a simple track that adds little to the bands story, but its a fitting way to close a very pleasant ep.
more detail : here