It’s hard to believe that ‘Family’ is The Cast of Cheers first proper debut single. The band have been on many an Irish fans radar since they released their debut EP Chariot as a free download on bandcamp back in 2010. They’re a band that all of us felt had an insane amount of potential, so it’s great to see them get a traditional label release. On the back of this news, I spent the evening delving back into Chariot, it’s still sounding just as good and exciting two years later.
‘Family’ is to be released on 20th February 2012 on School Boy Error/Cooperative Music.
Jape has also completed a remix of the track, which you can download for free below.
The first time I heard anything by Matthew Dear, it was in remix form – his take on The XX’s track VCR pretty much blew my mind. Since then he’s released Black City in 2010 and now 2012 sees the release of an EP, Headage. The most intruging track from the EP is ‘In The Middle (I Met You There)’ featuring vocals from Jonny Pierce of The Drums.
The accompanying video, directed by Morgan Beringer, is lush textural feast on the eyes. Headage is available to buy for download here.
‘Baby’s Arms’ by Kurt Vile is a tender and sweet track that deserves to be played on a lazy sunday. It’s taken from Vile’s album Smoke Ring For My Halo which was released in 2011.
For the price of your email address you can download the track for free below.
Since the holidays we’ve been slightly neglecting Weekend Tunage every Friday, but this week it’s back and it’s a bit of a family affair!
My brother Francesco and I have pretty much aligned music taste, he’s introduced me to new bands and I’ve introduced him to a few more! I asked him to choose a song for Weekend Tunage and what came back to me was this indie rock jem from DFA signed band Free Energy.
The track, also titled ‘Free Energy’ is a fun rock tune showing it’s influences on its sleeve. Think Thin Lizzy with a punky twist. The more cowbell rule definitely applies for this song. Enjoy!
Almost a year to the day, we posted a watchlistentell video of Alex Winston performing a stripped back version of ‘Choice Notes’, from that moment on we were hooked and have been avidly following her development since then. This cheery and jangly tune finally has the bright visuals to match it, along with three dancing white sheet ghosts! Enjoy!
Her debut album King Con is set for release March 5th 2012.
Just before the new year, Miike Snow gave us the first taste of what their new album might sound like with ‘Devil’s Work’, today we’ve got one more piece of the puzzle: ‘Paddling Out’ – this bodes well for the new album which is titled Happy To You and due out on the 27th March via Downtown/Universal.
One of the best tunes I’ve heard this year! Well, as 2012 is less than 2 weeks old that’s not saying much, but this tune ‘Come Save Me‘ by former Lost Valentino, Jagwar Ma is pleasing me no end. It’s starts with a Phil Spector-ish wall of sound drumbeat reminiscent of The Ronettes, Be my [...]
Not Rome the actual city! The above video is for the track ‘Two Against One’ taken from the collaborative album Rome by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi. The video was directed by Chris Milk and Anthony Francisco Shepperd.
