Teen Fuqq

darkwave///synth heavy give you nightmares industrial sound to rock yr brain (Featured on a witch house compilation!)

http://www.last.fm/music/Teen+Fuqq

Fluker Love

taken from last.fm bio:

Fluker Love is Hertfordshire’s Andrew Goldspink. It’s a project that attempts to capture the faded, elemental harmonies of Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, using minimalist drum samples, “icy” synths and saturated guitars.

myspace.com/flukerlove

Releases include:

‘Fluker Love’ - the eponymous debut LP (self-release)

‘Soaked EP’ (self-release)

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Experimental TV and/or Radio

The term 'Experimental Rock' is thrown around a fair amount nowadays. Anything that throws abstract, leftfield sounds together can be considered Experimental. A lot of the time I think that this label is unjust. For example, Autolux carry the Experimental tag, yet their sound, to me at least, is closer to a modern, tightly produced Noise Rock band. Or hell, maybe they're Alternative.

TV on the Radio, however, are the epitome of Experimental. Everything about them screams unconventional. They have songs laden with sitars ('Wash the Day'; 'I Was a Lover'), they dash between rap and soul, funk and rock, and they seem to stuff enough ideas to carry several albums into one disc. They are an inspired band, and just because it's also relatively unheard of in the music industry today, the fact that they're a mostly all-black group serves them well in the unique stakes. It's criminal that one band should be allowed two fantastic vocalists (Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone) and not be burdened by such expertise. Yet TV pull it off. What other band could have whistles reminiscent of the 'Hi-ho' song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as an outro to their most gorgeous song? (That would be 'Tonight', by the way)

It's unfortunate that TV currently seem to be on something of a hiatus with recording. Kyp's alone under a rock somewhere with a guitar under his Rain Machine guise, whilst Sitek is producing various albums by other often Brooklyn-based bands. If TV on the Radio never released another album there would be a lot of disappointed fans; although these lucky listeners could also take some solace in the fact that TVotR never released a dud record. Better to cut things short when at their absolute best than after they have lost some of their spark, as sad as the truth may be.

Reunited better than before

A lot of the time when bands break up for whatever reason, they return to their recording lives years later less than the sum of their parts. It doesn't take a genius to see a steady decline in a bands output after extended periods away from recording. Look at The Verve and their 2008 album, Forth. It was a messy album, full of Richard Ashcroft-worthy solo material (that's not a compliment) and nothing to rival their early stuff. You can mark 1997's Urban Hymns as their benchmark, but I personally think that their strongest record was their debut, A Storm in Heaven. It was enchanting; the sound of a band that took all of their creative juices from the ethereal Verve EP and turned it into an impressive dream-world for 40+ magical minutes. This was before their first break-up, and it was when their chemistry worked best.

But come on. Dinosaur Jr. must defy all known musical laws by being just as incredible now as they once were; in fact, perhaps even moreso. Their big (early) albums are always seen to be You're Living all Over Me and Bug, and you can definitely hear the three core artists (Mascis; Barlow; Murph) working their kinetic socks off. Green Mind? Groovy in some parts, but lacking this serious connection between band-mates.

Which is why Beyond and Farm are fantastic records. You have the three core members of Dinosaur Jr. returning ready for action. Mascis' guitar solos are grander than ever before; Barlow's rich bass compliments him wonderfully; and Murph carries perfect percussion to gel it all together. It's the sound of a band reforming as something greater than it ever was, as if all three of the artists involved have learnt from their outside projects (The Fog; Sebadoh) and gone back into the Dinosaur Jr. name with gusto. You can argue that Dinosaur Jr. never left (Mascis continued releasing albums under the name), but by the strength of Farm especially, it's proof that a band truly works best when it pools it's efforts, rather than stumbling in blind and hoping for the best. An extended break from recording, then, can be a wonderful thing.

Slow Animal

4 songs on this EP from lo-fi garage rockers Slow Animal...really catchy real lo-fi GET IT!

Woodsist Remixed

Saw this posted by theneedledrop (great guy) had to show the world this fantastic remix track. 30 minutes of giving woodsist (one of my favorite labels) a hip hop twist..get down....really funky and dance-able. It's very interesting to hear bands like Wavves, Real Estate, and Woods shown in an entirely different light. My favorite tracks are the first track by the Fresh & Onlys +++ Vermin by Wavves.

here

someone needs to rap over this omah gahhhh

Sealings///Wu-Lyf

Two amazing bands I've been into lately

Sealings (prounounced ceilings?) are a hard to describe drum machine heavy dark brooding rock act that frankly I don't know too much about. I have one EP thats been on constant play for a while

here.

Wu Lyf: an enigmatic band that plays "HEAVY POP" hailing from Manchester...amazing vocals think of a tom waits-ish animal collective-ish gravelly voice that is guaranteed to keep you listening. Has almost a soul sound, very catchy. very strange. Download tracks here