Summer Cannibals - New Music "Introducing

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Another band using pretty much everyone's favourite season, summer for half their name, though unlike Summer Camp, Summer Twins or Summer Girlfriends who've all been featured here recently Summer Cannibals (Jessica Boudreaux & Marc Swart from Portland) aren't here to bring sunshine to your day with bright, breezy indie pop, their darker take on things more resembling the blood boiling, sinister atmosphere of the second half of their name...

The awesome lead track "Handle This Love" swaggers from the start with a brilliant guitar line and a raw, rough stomp, with Jessica's howling vocals the best of the lot. Cool and sexy, makes sure you give it a listen below.

The other track, "Can't Get Enough" equally impresses with a gritty, bluesy rock rhythm, part seductive, part menace it may only be two tracks shared on a bandcamp with relatively few other details to be found to date, but they hint at an exciting future ahead for Summer Cannibals.

WILSEN #2 - ANAHITA

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I first wrote about one of my favourite recent finds a couple of weeks back, WILSEN, whose debut full length Sirens is out now (you can download it via iTunes) and is a sure fire entrant into my albums of the year, a futher treat sees Wilsen share a video showing the recording of one of the tracks from the LP, its closure, "Anahita" (the video is an edit - the track itself lasts for some seven incredible minutes). A track which perfectly sums up the delicate fragility of Wilsen's songcraft and the intoxicating beauty of this, her stunning debut.

Rising and falling almost Daughter-esque from soft, tender intimacy where Tasmin's heartfelt vocals showcase a range of shattered emotions with twinkling guitars providing a gentle backdrop before slowing increasing with a steady percussive beat to a raging crescendo of harmonies and poweful drums. Utterly stunning, perhaps not quite the time of year for the contemplative melancholia as Olympic fever sweeps the UK but easily one of my favourite tracks of the year so far, and that after the write up I gave "Dusk" earlier...


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My Tiger My Timing - The Gold Rush

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Surely the most apt title of a track I could post about right now. Something Team GB have come more and more accustomed to in the last 48 hours, "The Gold Rush" is the latest single by London based five piece My Tiger My Timing's debut album Celeste.

Released prior to the Olympics (with perhaps more than a little foresight, or great coincidence) the track is sure to improve your mood even further, I challange anyone but the hardest miserablists not to find something satisfaction with both the Team GB athlete's performances at London 2012 and "The Gold Rush", with its layers of tropical guitars and surf rhythms it's a pure crowd pleaser, upbeat grooves and gorgeous vocals, a potent combination as the nation rides (literally) on the crest of a wave (sorry, poor pun).

Listen below, alongside earlier preview "Wasteland" which similarly infectious with jittering riffs, fervour and atmosphere is another winner (late night writing certainly appears to bring out the cheese in me).

Anyway, I'm off to watch more medals get won, come on Jess Ennis!

SoftSpot #6 - Disciple Fix / Album News

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Some very welcome news by one of my Stateside favourite acts SoftSpot who've this week annouced their debut album Enso, to be released on September 4th with the immediate release of its lead track "Disciple Fix", if like me you've followed the Brooklyn based trio (primarily the work of Sarah Kinlaw and Bryan Keller, with Blaze Bateh taking over from Andrew Spaulding on drums) for a while now the news of their official debut LP is one that brings a bucket-load of excitement...

Over the past eighteen months or so SoftSpot have developed themselves to be in my opinion of the most creative, explosive acts around with a series of wonderful dramatic and beautiful tracks, "The Cleansing Hour", "Holy Father" and "Slack Tide" to name just three. (You can listen to / read about all of those tracks with a click through the blogs archive here).

"Disciple Fix" doesn't disappoint as an introduction to the new album either, building brilliantly (as so many of their tracks tend to) with a fusion of fast paced tropical rhythms and eastern influences blending with Sarah's ethereal vocals, as sensual and gorgeous as ever and then comes SoftSpot's trademark gear change where the track blossoms excitingly with driving beats and kaleidoscopic circling guitars which race to a conclusion that will have you champing at the bit for more. Consider me excited for Enso after this extraordinary aperitif.

You can download "Disciple Fix" and SoftSpot's previous EP Nous from bandcamp now.

New Myths - New Music "Introducing"

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I'm not sure where this discovery came from so sorry to any potential blog I found this on.

New York trio New Myths released their debut self-titled EP back in March (via bandcamp on a pay-what-you-like basis) and it's well worth a belated discovery, lead track the spellbinding "False God" is arguably the strongest of the three tracks, full of dynamite hooks and knock out vocals, buzzing lead guitar fuzz mix with euphoric bass and pounding drums to make a pacy, tight and a real killer start to the EP.

"It Burns Through Your Armor" draws from 80's new wave as well as modern pop sensibilities with its gorgeous breathy vocals and dramatic beats while "Like A Ghost" similarly excels with dominating drums leading to haunting harmonies and twinkling guitars. New Myths is a shiny, glossy EP that serves as an excellent introduction from a trio who are well worth keeping an eye on.

Tamaryn - I'm Gone

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My labels tell me I've never covered Tamaryn, I'm surprised as her debut LP The Waves was utterly fabulous, part soothing, sun-kissed pop a la the heavenly "Love Fade" with hazy washes of shimmering soundscapes and darker, foggy atmospheres, throughout the dream-like ethereality of Tamaryn's vocals intoxicating you beyond meaningless words.

 I've read endless comparisons to the likes of Beach House, Cocteau Twins and The Cure, I find it hard to disagree too much though I'm always wary of the need to pointlessly pigeonhole, the sound of Tamaryn is one to fall in love with because of the sound they make, not anybody else...

The point of the post though was not a trip through history and meaningless comments, now based in California, Tamaryn returns this week with new track "I'm Gone", the debut track shared from her forthcoming second album Tender New Signs due October 16th via Mexican Summer and it instantly blows your mind with its shoegaze guitar textures blending effortlessly with Tamaryn's siren-like whispers, simply gorgeous. No more words, listen below.