New releases - 24th October
B.Bravo - Kiss 'N' Tell EP
Earnest Endeavours
B. Bravo - Kiss 'n' Tell EP // Teaser by Earnest Endeavours
Makes you want to be cruisin' in some lowrider, a honey beside you, a blunt between your teeth (one of them is gold, natch), and then you ride on up to the club where you recline glibly on a leather sofa. More honeys have appeared outta nowhere, and more blunts, and some champagne....
B.Bravo comes firing out of San Francisco with this sizzling EP slung over his shoulder. It's got that Bay Area bounce. Low slung, G-funk rudeness in spades. Kiss 'N' Tell is just brimming with future funk, packing the sleazy synth-lines, with a sprinkle of R'n'B twinkle and a Philly soul queen to boot. (Warning: Makes you feel cooler than you actually are.) 4.2/5
LC
The Coathangers – Hurricane/Johnny
X Ray Recordings
'Hurricane'/'Johnny' Flexidisc by WorkItMedia
Remember when you were a kid and you used to spin around until you fell over? Well the first track on this new one from the Coathangers feels a bit like that. It literally sounds like you’re being chased aound the teacups ride at Alton Towers by some weird mutated monster that was once The Raincoats, L7 and Holly Golightly.
The b-side ‘Johnny’ is plain scary. Luring you in with tight, Television-like basslines and skeletal guitar lines, it suddenly goes all Blood Brothers on you, flipping out with some nails-on-a-blackboard choruses. All told, this is a pretty cool record; did I mention this is out of flexi-disc? 4/5
DH
Casiokids - Det Haster (Of Montreal Remix)
Moshi Moshi
Casiokids - Det Haster! (of Montreal Remix) by moshi moshi music
Norweigan sounds just enough like English to make you think you're in a dream, and if you concentrate hard enough to make out what the words are, you'll wake up.
But don't let that put you off this quaint piece of modern militia-electro (that's a new genre that I've just made up but I think it works pretty well). The production is tight, if a little in-your-face, but the overall result is pretty splendid. 3/5
TA
Vision Fortune - Black Coral / Void of the Valley
Mannequin
MNQ 019 Vision Fortune - Black Coral / Void of the Valley 7'' by Mannequin Label
Black Coral gets this double A side from South Londoners Vision Fortune under way. Imagine an after-hours séance in your local with Neil from the Young Ones and a snake charmer. No, it doesn't sound pleasant does it? And neither does this. Let's leave it there.
Void of the Valley is better. Much better in fact. Vision Fortune's eerie psychedelia stops sounding like someone in the throes of an acid and valium binge and becomes coherent and actually really awesome. The reason they decided to release these two as a double a-side is anyone's guess, maybe the snake told them to. 3/5
TA
Coldplay – Paradise
Parlophone
Coldplay - Paradise by dual_bign
Guess what! Chris Martin can ride a unicycle! What do you mean you don’t believe me? Watch this video, and just when the vaguely hopeful electro-indie and the twee concept starts to make you feel a bit sleepy, up he crops on a unicycle as if to say ‘you’re still watching, right?’ Seriously, that’s him in the elephant suit!
On the flipside, the Freddy Le Grand remix doesn’t have any circus tricks, but it is one of those euro-phoric dance tracks that DJs stick on at 3am when everyone’s too mashed to care. It’s cool if you’re messed up in Ibiza circa 2002 but a pretty solid ‘whatever’ if you’re not. 2/5
DH
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