This new How To Dress Well track is so damn smooth. Ocean Floor For Everything is taken from his forthcoming second album Total Loss, which is frustratingly far away with a September release scheduled. Whether his spectral take on 90’s R’nB will be as powerful second time round remains to be seen, but this a promising start.
Lately it has become a bone of contention for me, with no one but myself, how little space on my ipod is occupied by happy music. When I find myself clutching for something upbeat to accompany a sunny day it feels lacking, though one option which always delivers the goods is Fang Island’s self-titled debut album (which I reviewed here). A sharp colourful explosion of cheesy riffs, palpitating drums and joyous yelping vocals, it is an overwhelmingly positive celebration of rock and all of its absurd showy excess. Thank heavens then that those lads are back with a new album which is called Major on July 24th. This is a happy song from it, it is called Asunder.
“Varúð” // Sígur Rós // Valtari
So the new Sigur Rós album leaked; I’m not their biggest fan but it’s not half bad I must say
For the most part I tend to write about bands which I like, rather than bands which I think people need to hear. Trouble Books are probably one of the few exceptions to that though, a thoroughly underappreciated group. Hopefully last years well received collaboration album with Emeralds man Mark McGuire will have helped to bring them a wider audience. This is a track taken from their forthcoming album ‘Concatenating Fields’ which looks set to be more of the wonderfully understated wispy ambient pop which they have managed to make a sound of their own. The album is due out on Bark & Hiss at the end of April.
