New Releases - 21st February

New Releases - 21st February

16 February, 2011
by: Music Team

Forget your Brit Award winners and James Corden apologists, the good stuff is right here...

Cults – Go Outside
Columbia

Blow away Blighty's grey monotony and float on this melodic cloud. This seventies style rock tune will see your troubles spiral into blue skies, get caught on butterflies wings and disappear into rainbows. 5/5

Jewrhythmics – Misirlou
Essay Recordings

“Dead music in the dying language which sounds equally apt at an underground club just as it would at a bar mitzvah.” That's what their Myspace pags says. Closely followed by “Kosher nourishment for the not necessarily Kosher minds.” Genius.

Yes, it's derivative elctro pop nonsense, but they're called Jewrhythmics! And that's gotta be worth at least 3 points right? 4/5
TJ

Caitlin Rose – Own Side
BMI

With a voice as bitter-sweet as a Sunday morning in the arms of someone who's name eludes you, Caitlin Rose possesses the quintessential Nashville overtures - vintage, Patsy Kline drawl, fag-ash, stetson-doffing, crooked smile, and most crucially, awesome song-writing abilities.

This song is blue and yet it makes you feel right. Like you should be holding a beer in a saloon making eyes at the chequered cowboys. This girl has got it. 4/5

Miles Kane – Come Closer
Sony
 
The thing that a lot of people don’t know about Miles Kane is that he knows more about music than you. Incredibly astute and articulate, Kane has his feelers embedded deep into the copious scenes that regularly sprout up throughout the times, and his previous achievements demonstrate his adaptability and long-standing vision to create something both consuming and intoxicating.

‘Come Closer’ steers away from Kane’s adoration for 70s psych-rock as he constructs a mountainous peak-reaching thudder of pumping new-wave Brit-rock, minus the collapsing associations of aggy-excess that wander aside it.  3.5/5

Magic Bullets – Lying Around
Mon Ami

At last, a song about my favorite past-time. I don’t know how they’ve done it, but Magic Bullets the simple pleasures of sprawling out staring at the wall and drinking beer rendered in sepia-toned shades of Orange Juice or XTC-style indie pop for my listening pleasure.

Funnily enough, despite its desperately jangle quality, this song doesn’t make me want to jiggle around or anything, which, when you think about it means that ‘Lying Around’ is actually working on several levels... π/5


Yuck – Holding Out
Mercury

OK. That's it. The 90's are officially back. We've all been skirting around it for a while pretending this whole stoner rock thing is going to go away. Well it's not. If Take That are winning Brit Awards and Yuck can make trippy Madchester style videos and release jangly Guided by Voices stuff like this then we might as well dust off our walkmans and go buy Smash Hits or whatever.

Songwise this is pretty amazing but the trippy b-movie horror/ psychedelic, wig-out video is even better. 3/5

Take That – Kidz
Polydor

Winning best British band at the Brits is the cherry on top of the comeback pie for this newly resplendent man-band. But I don't care. I didn't care first time round, I give even less of a toss this time round. Even their name suggests they're raping you in the ears.

"Oh but Gary's a genius!" I hear you parrot. The only genius thing was to save money on vocoder effects by using the natural voice of a midget called Mark to sing the lead on this one. 2/5

We call this Mother F____r, El Gigante...

Music Team