Don't just hang about all day waiting for the Fall and Phoenix. Check these guys out as well!
So we all know No Age sit in the upper echelons of the musical royalty that L.A. has been spawning for the past few years, and Atlas Sound has become totally cool since his electronic, Beach Boys-esque ditty on 'Logos' with Noah Lennox a.k.a. Panda Bear (well, Cox has actually been pretty cool on all his solo work, but you get me). But what is there to see if you scratch the surface of the Field Day line-up rather than just hanging around the main stage scoffing hot dogs? No idea? Well let us tell you:-
Mount Kimbie - Bloggers Delight Stage
When we chatted to Dam Mantle a couple of months ago, he described Mount Kimbie as a band who ‘make as much noise as possible on the live stage’. Releasing their debut to a fanfare of critical acclaim this very month, little more seems necessary to be said about these experimental noiseniks apart from that they are super loud. Catch them before they go global (literally, they're going on world tour straight after Field Day!)
Mount Kimbie - Serged by subraw
Memory Tapes - Bugged Out Stage
Yeah, we know chillwave has supposedly 'seen its day', blah, blah, blah. That was before the release of Washed Out's debut to a full on marching band of critical acclaim seems to have injected new life into its carcass. Hailing from New Jersey, but certainly not sucked into the blueprint that seems to have developed for musicians from the area, expect to hear a few of Dayve Hawk's cheeky bootleg remixes that you simply can't hear anywhere else (mostly for legal reasons). If you're really lucky you might even catch one by a certain MJ.
Memory Tapes - Bicycle by Boundary Sounds
Toro Y Moi - XOYO/Lock Tavern Stage
Flipping between warped out bliss-tronica and lo-fi surf pop with careless abandon, what you’re going to get from Carpark Records' Toro Y Moi on a live stage is anyone's guess. After polarising fans opinion after following the release of last year’s 7" 'Blessa' (made up of the aforementioned surf pop) with the release of his debut 'Causers of This' (which was more warped-out bliss-tronica) earlier this year, Chazwick Bundick shows no signs of relenting, especially after the equally contradictory 'Leave Everywhere' surfaced earlier this summer.
Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere by Ragged Words
Silver Apples - Village Mentality Stage
Silver Apples are one of very few bands that not only deserve but demand the titles pioneering and legendary. Pioneers of the dance rock underground, and a major influence on charting acts such as the Klaxons, Silver Apples sat at the forefront of applying electronic music to what was, at the time, a strict rock idiom.
Landing in Victoria Park with material spanning back from the sixties, the band bring 'The Simeon' to expand your mind by however much you allow them to.
Silver Apples - Lovefingers by electricbazaar
Yuck - XOYO/Lock Tavern Stage
After a string of festival dates across Europe already this summer, lo-fi art-pop four piece Yuck have landed the support slot on Modest Mouse's upcoming UK tour – a worthy seal of approval if this wasn’t enough.
With a solid back catalogue of work ranging from lighters-in-the-air harmonies to lo-fi loveliness, the band come to present new work off 'Weakend', a record that you’ll be able to buy come Monday. We think you should…
Yuck - Georgia by musicmule
Want more? check out our interviews with No Age, Dam Mantle and Caribou.
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