TRACK REVIEWS
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (15/06/2013)
Natasha Khan & Toy, 'The Bride' With Bat For Lashes’ mastery of haunting dramatics and Toy’s unerring commitment to creating walls of noise, any collaboration between the two always had the potential to be special. Here, for Natasha...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (08/06/2013)
Fuck Buttons - The Red Wing As anyone who’s seen a Fuck Buttons live show will tell you, they’re a duo whose music has a very physical effect on people. Despite looking like they’re just pressing buttons and twiddling knobs onstage, Ben...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (29/05/2013)
Kanye West - 'New Slaves' Yeezus says… well really quite a lot actually. From the evidence of this new cut, he’s going further into the heart of darkness explored in his 2010 album ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’. But this time,...
Kanye West - 'Untitled'
Hudson Mohawke recently premiered some new Kanye West songs during a DJ set in Poland. One has Yeezy rapping frenetically over a giant's burp of a beat. The other sounds like getting lost in space with a children's choir in tow. Both are signs of...
Julia Holter - 'World'
The LA-based multi-instrumentalist is definitely not for everyone. But who can deny that lyrics such as " every day my eyes are older " are genius? 'World' is completely stripped back, like a hymn. Her voice is godly and the kind of oddity that...
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Petite Noir - 'Noirse'
Slowly but surely Yannick Illunga is becoming more and more assured. Having toured with Foals earlier this year, the South Africa-born Domino signing sounds bold and brash here, urging someone to " show me a good time " and asking to " have a...
Banks - 'Warm Water'
LA vocalist Banks doesn't use her Twitter because it gets in the way of "making connections". But if staying out of the limelight means spending time with producers such as TEED and creating alluring love songs like 'Warm Water' rather than...
The View - 'Standard'
They've had the same themes on for seven years now – Dundee slang, drug references and tales of gutter living. But with 'Standard', a new track lobbed onto their greatest hits collection 'Seven Year Setlist', The View try a languid folk strummer...
Wiley - 'Reload, Aim, Fire'
The best of the many instrumental grime tracks Wiley has uploaded onto SoundCloud this week. Jittery, hyperactive, creative: it's textbook. Using the word 'reload' in the title is poignant too, because the man needs to work out where he's at after...
Waxahatchee - 'Coast To Coast'
Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield is your new grunge-pop hero. 'Coast To Coast', a sun-tinged paean to a lost relationship, is the first UK single taken from the Wichita re-release of her second album 'Cerulean Salt', and fulfils every Kim...
