Spoonfed Singles Club with Light Asylum, Parakeet and The Futureheads

Spoonfed Singles Club with Light Asylum, Parakeet and The Futureheads

28 March, 2012
by: Music Team

New Releases - 2nd April

Light Asylum – IPC
Mexican Summer

Light Asylum, "IPC" by selftitledmag

I love this. Everything about it. From the careful and brilliantly programmed drum patterns under layers of gothic synth, to the deep growl from vocalist Shannon Funchess (who I'm absolutely terrified of by the way, she's female cross between Grace Jones, Simon Phoenix and Rob Halford).

The debut album from the scary New York duo is out this Spring, it's shaping up to be a corker.  4.5/5
TA

Parakeet – Tomorrow
Self Released

Tomorrow by Parakeet

First it was bed-hopping, then it was party-hopping and now it’s bloody band-hopping. Can anyone in London just stay in one band for a bit? Honestly being a music journalist is getting to be seriously hard work just remembering who is in what band at any given time.

According to press release, Parakeet is Yuck’s Mariko Doi and The History of Apple Pie’s James Thomas.  Like all children, their new song ‘tomorrow’ shares its DNA between Yuck’s brawling shoegaze and THOAP’s hypnotic alterno-rock. It’s a pretty handsome beast, they should be proud! 4/5
DH

So Many Wizards – Lose Your Mind
Jaxart

So Many Wizards Nico by INDIGENOUSPromotions

At Spoonfed towers the other editors might scoff, call this T4 music and ask me which cheesy American drama they've heard it on. But they're only trying to deflect attention from how much they like this dreamy LA pop and how they too piss away their Saturday mornings watching 25 year-old teenagers fall in love.

Lose Your Mind belongs in The Bait Shop (it's an O.C reference, look it up, punks). Close your eyes and think The Thrills or The Perishers and you're pretty much there. 4/5
NK

The Futureheads – The No.1 Song in Heaven
Nul Records

OK, so let me get this straight. This is a Geordie indie band, notorious for their pup closing-time anthems doing a purely a’capella, cover of a Giorgio Moredor produced Spark’s song when they going through their arpeggiated, glam disco phase?  

You have to take your hat off to the sheer balls it took to come up with this. 3/5
DH

Kindness – Gee Up
Female Energy

Kindness- Gee Up by i-D online

It's a bit of a strange decision from London/Berlin based Kindness to release 'Gee Up' as a single from his forthcoming album. Firstly it's only a minute and a half long, barely time to shake a leg. Secondly, there's lo-fi, and there's sounding like a demo.

Lastly and most important of all, since the track was first made in 2009, Metronomy have sold over a quarter of a million albums which basically sound exactly like this. Hazy chillwave is old news pointdexter, you've missed the bus. 2/5
TA

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Music Team