Friday 28th October 2011
Sea Weeds are a Minneapolis duo, one half of which is Lizzie Carolan of Total Babe, (a band whose chipper, twee-pop songs I played repeatedly on the radio a couple of winters ago). When news of a new project arrived in my inbox from the label this week I anticipated something good, but not quite this good. Fall Boi is one of two free downloads preceding the imminent release of a full length, and loads the front end of this week’s podcast with weighty swoon, drenched as it is with sumptuous orchestral tension. It might appeal to anyone who this week has been enjoying the new Summer Camp album, or perhaps the welcome return of Mazzy Star.
From there,I finally get the chance to share the A-side of PET’s second single Middle Child Syndrome, something brand new from the upcoming Dauwd EP, a brilliantly paced cut from the free Gonjasufi EP which surfaced this week and a Regina-meets-Joanna-meets-Scout album closer from Samantha Crain.
Elsewhere Krampfhaft serves up a distinctive hypnotic Dutch blend of rhythmic mastery with Makin’ Magic, there’s a total bruiser from the epic new Altered Natives record, and the heartbreaking chorus of Lover’s Island by Joel Brandt is sure to be swimming around your mind for at least a week.
Things come to a close much as they begun: with a duo who deal in swooping crescendo, only unlike Sea Weed’s opener, Slow Dance by London’s Hunt in Pairs grapples with a rising undercurrent of electronic clicks, whirrs and thuds.
Finally, I must flag up the complete and utter pop perfection from The Proper Ornaments, who I also ought to thank forindirectly introducing me to this deliciously sinister song from 1967, presumably the one that gave them their name.
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New Noise: 28th October 2011
1. Sea Weeds ‘Fall Boi’ (SoTM) from album ‘Fur Coast’ out 31st October
2. PET ‘Middle Child Syndrome’ (Bandcamp) single out 7th November
3. Dauwd ‘What’s There’ (Pictures Music) from ‘What’s There’ EP out 21st November
4. Gonjasufi ‘Eatfish (ft. Blu)’ (Hydroshare) from ‘The Ninth Inning’ EP out now [free viaHydroshare]
5. Samantha Crain ‘Toothpicks’ (Ramseur) from album ‘You (Understood)’ out 7th Nov (in UK)
6. Krampfhaft ‘Makin’ Magic’ (Rwina) from ‘Makin’ Magic’ EP out now
7. The Proper Ornaments ‘Who Thought?’ (No Pain in Pop) from ‘The Proper Ornaments’ EP out 28th November
8. Altered Natives ‘Galactic’ (Eye4Eye) from album ‘Tenement Yard Volume 2’ out now
9. Joel Brandt ‘Lovers’ Island’ (Bandcamp) from ‘The Wind & The Waves’ EP [download viaSaid The Gramophone]
10. Hunt In Pairs ‘Slow Dance’ (-) [stream via Facebook]
Image: Rafa Zubiría
