{"id":380,"date":"2006-12-14T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2006-12-14T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:38:19","slug":"dance-to-the-radio-new-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"dance to the radio &#8211; new releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">folks.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">for reasons stated elsewhere i have pulled back on  my coverage of singles. however here&#8217;s a few that you should be keeping an eye  out for.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">first up, <STRONG>iforward russia!<\/STRONG> have  released an ep\/remix package on their excellent <EM>dance to the radio  <\/EM>label that should please people who like their indie rock all messy but  rather epic at the same time, but aside from the noises that are made by the  record labels boss,&nbsp;<EM>dance to the radio<\/EM> also happen to release  stuff by other bands, and currently this involves&nbsp;<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>sky larking, <\/STRONG>and <STRONG>voltage union,<\/STRONG> both  bands excel at that good old fashioned indie guitar pop but with very different  styles and reasons for necessary purchase.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>sky larkin<\/STRONG> go for the groove of my  old faves <STRONG>the darling buds <\/STRONG>in the use of girl pop vocals  matched by low slung guitars a la a restrained <STRONG>sonic youth<\/STRONG> but  never distancing themselves too far from a quality pop song for their debut  single. lead track <EM>one of two <\/EM>has a spot on chorus that will have zane  lowe gushing in excelsis, and for once, i would be glad for such hyperbole, as it&#8217;s  a cracker of a single<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/skylarkinskylarkin\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">whereas .. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>voltage union<\/STRONG> are a little more  full on with their debut single. <EM>on your marks <\/EM>is a punch drunk beast  that whips you around the head with its clash of guitars and synths in a  glorious mess of alt.rock post punk noise, which amazingly at 30 seconds drops in a chorus hook that grabs you and teases, before disappearing for far too long  (well not that long considering the songs all too brief 2 minute duration). flip  the record, or do the <EM>next <\/EM>button thing, and <EM>zombie #2 <\/EM>is an  urgent jerky track that may make comparisons with many other nme sanctioned  bands too easy. however, as the song gives it all with the &#8216;uhhhh oh oh oh&#8217;  shoutouts and the spelling out of <EM>future <\/EM>to buzzcock styled noise, you cannot help but be swept along.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.voltageunion.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">both releases are absolutely glorious, and as  expected on limited 7&#8243; (or as computer friendly downloads) so get your skates  on.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dancetotheradio.com\">dance to the radio<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>folks. &nbsp; for reasons stated elsewhere i have pulled back on my coverage of singles. however here&#8217;s a few that you should be keeping an eye out for. first up, iforward russia! have released an ep\/remix package on their excellent dance to the radio label that should please people who like their indie rock all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}