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Becoming Real – Closer
Cold World Industries
His music has definitely absorbed the smog and grog of lovely London - it channels the city's deviant underbelly something rotten. I could listen to this and walk the back streets of Bow secure in the knowledge that I looked as dour as I felt.
That said, I do like this tune. It's got a really great low-slung, underground vibe and it does actually make you feel cooler than you really are. It's the kind of t hing that would get stuck in my head at magic hour. In fact, it probably will because I've just listened to it five times in a row. Now go and do the same. 4.1/5 - LC
Closer by Becoming Real
Danielson – Grow Up
Sounds Familier
The creative limb of New Jersey’s Danielson is one that extends further than the squealing falsetto of frontman, Daniel Smith. They make their own costumes, CD artwork, various odd props and they’re the warped minds behind their animated music videos.
It’s surprising they have any time left to create something as layered as ‘Grow Up’. It’s a nasally delivered avant-pop squeal that pulls on the strings of Avi Buffalo and Grouplove with an added air of rather freaked-out ideas inhaled from second-hand smoke of Tame Impala. 3/5 -DJ
Danielson - Grow Up by brooklynvegan
The Milk – (All I Wanted) Was Danger
Naim Edge
Despite the band's name (coincidentally as well as drum n bass I also have an irrational phobia of milk), this song is actually really enjoyable.
I use the term 'enjoyable' rather than 'good', as critically it's just another example of the Winehouse style 60s soul-pop which is starting to grate a little five years after 'Back to Black', but this catchy summer tune will certainly put a smile on your face, and what more do you want from music? 3/5 - TA
The Milk - (All I Wanted Was) Danger by partisanpr
2:54 – On a Wire
House Anxiety Records
On a Wire is a raw and edgy lo-fi offering that just fails to make any form of impact whatsoever. Credit where credit is due, the vocal offering within is impressive.
Dark, deep and gothicy, they’re a testament to the band, it’s just a shame the talent stops there. Hailed as ‘The Next Big Thing’ maybe 2:54’s distorted guitar sounds will play to their advantage, just not here, and not with me. 3/5 - VS
2:54 - On A Wire by houseanxiety
Forbidden Friends – Tiny Hands
Kill Rock Stars
What is it with pop music and limited vocabularies? Last week we had Rebecca Black's inane Friday, and now Forbidden Friends has released Tiny Hands: a folksy pop track whose entire chorus consists of stepped-in-a-too-hot-bath yowling. "Oww! Uh-wa-ah-oww!"
And don't get me started on the (hopefully) unintentional subtext of paedophilia. If you have a band with the ambiguous name of "Forbidden Friends" I'd steer clear of releasing a single about an ecstatically happy man petting someone with 'small hands'. 2/5 - HS
Forbidden Friends - "Tiny Hands" by terrorbird
Echo Lake - Young Silence
No Pain In Pop
It sounds like the epic finale to a movie - the kind of meshy loudness your mother would demand 'to turn this sh** off'. Its redeeming feature - the gentle and ethereal angel sung vocals that wail up above, in attempt to escape the clashing pans of hell. 1/5 - NH
Young Silence by Echo Lake
You Animals – What A Shame Lorraine
Unsigned (according to their myspace page)
Oh Lor' this is so blah I didn't even realise when it had finished. Judging them solely on ‘What A Shame Lorraine’, You Animals are a poor man's All American Rejects. A very poor man. A man who eats beans straight out of their dented, reduced-price tin, while wearing only one sock. Probably with a hole in it.
He could be a student, he could be terminally lonely, so you’d have to be one of those to enjoy this. In fact, you'd have to be one of those to notice this. 1/5 - NK
You Animals - What A Shame, Lorraine / Halfway To Heartbreak by thisisfakediy
Glasvegas – Euphoria, Take My Hand
Sony
Like a regular bowel, movement Glasvagas deliver another euphoric/repugnant slice of anthemic alterno-rock ready to soundtrack a particularly emotional on montage on MOTD. Speaking of bowel movements it sounds like singer James Allen was passing a particularly irksome one whilst recording this track (whilst wearing his "trademark" sunglasses no doubt).
It's safe to say the Glaswegian rockers are not afraid to wear their influences on their sleeve, be it the god-awful monotony The Killers guitar riffs, the crashing arrogance and inappropriate eyewear choices of Bono, the uplifting poetic nonsense of Coldplay lyrics, or the human tampon style statement of Razorlights J-Bo, ‘Euphoria’ has it all in bucket loads. 0/5 -SJ
Glasvegas - Euphoria Take My Hand by UniversalMusicPublishing
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