Julia Holter - Our Sorrows
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.
Digging this album quite a lot actually; it is dream pop, granted, and they do sound an awful lot like the Cocteau Twins at times, but it’s just a really cerebral and easy-going listening experience.
Definitely a 2012 album I’d recommend
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.
