New Releases - 16th August

New Releases - 16th August

11 August, 2010
by: Music Team

Yay! Blood Red Shoes are back!

Blood Red Shoes – Heartsink
V2

Brighton's answer to The White Stripes return with another pulsating anthem of frustration and dissatisfaction. Driven by one of the best riffs of 2010, Blood Red Shoes punch boredom on the nose and unleash an embittered rant on a discouraged generation.

The duo themselves describe Heartsink as “a pop song we tried to destroy from the inside out” and this indeed should be giving the top 40 a bit of rough and tumble, if only there was justice. 4/5
TT

TEETH – See Spaces
Moshi Moshi

Roomy electric sounds dominate in this melodic, lengthy track. The electronics sound airy and light while the beats are taken up by slow live percussion, leading the song onwards. It seems like the effects never quite make way for the vocals, which sound disinterested, as though remaining a cool exterior throughout the driven dance mix.

There's also something about the echoes of the vocals adding to the overall mature sound. It's as if someone has restrained, maybe refined a My Bloody Valentine track. 4/5
LD

Timber Timbre – Demon Host
Arts & Crafts

This melancholic track is a more pared-back sound than a lot of the layered, Nick Cave-esque gothic stuff on offer in the Canadian singer songwriter's debut label release. In my opinion, it's the better for it – there's just enough gently strumming guitar and wistful hangdog vocals to leave something hanging in the air at the end.

Definitely not a summer feelgood track though – it's more suited to smoking and brooding over a lost love. 3.5/5
SK

WTF? and Dead Prez – Bigger Than Hip Hop
Breakbeat Kaos

This started life as a bootleg of the original Dead Prez track and soon found its way into the hands of Zane Lowe who promptly made it the 'Hottest Record In The World'. After much youtube publicity Dead Prez contacted WTF? and offered new lyrics and a complete re-record for the remix.

It certainly has given the tune a whole new lease of life with a heavy grinding dubstep bass which will have you skanking like a gorilla when it's dropped in a club.  3.5/5
LG

Klaxons – Echoes
Polydor

Has it really been three years since the electrifying cover of 'It's Not Over Yet' was simply inescapable? The Klaxons are back, doing their thing, minus the capes and neon attire. And I say "doing their thing" as it sounds familiar to the point where it could just be an updated re-hash of one of their album tracks from 'Myths of The Near Future'.

I suppose they've stuck with a formula that suits them, and they are a great live act. I'm sure their fans who have waited a long time for this will be satisfied. 3/5
CW

Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em
Mom & Pop Music
 
I don’t know what to make of Sleigh Bells. I just don’t understand them. ‘Tell ‘Em’ sounds like the Glee cast/Martian collaborative soundtrack for a battle to the death between Britney and the King Galaxian boss from Pac-Man. Alien yet All American at the same time.
 
The song is full of pounding electro blasts that sound like weapons fire and glitchy, fuzzed guitars, topped off with high school preppy vocals. 3/5
JG

Roll Deep – Green Light
Relentless

Like hip hop before it, it’s not taken too long for grime to become a hideous pop parody of itself once the marketing guys' money started flowing.

Nothing really prepared me for this heaped pile of crap. At first I was thinking it was some Venga Boys-style Euro dance douche bag remixing it, but alas no, one look at the Holyoaks calendar video and Scratchy’s serious ‘I’m sharking girls' face and I quickly realised these guys are serious. Expect to be hearing every New Year's from here to doomsday. 0.1/5
DH

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