Category Archives: ElectroPunk
Icona Pop’s ‘I Love It’
Fun fact: I photobombed one of Caroline from Icona Pop’s photo at the weekend, she seemed quite impressed with my photobombing skills.
So here’s their new single ‘I Love It’. It’s rowdy, raucous and tons of fun. All screaming and chainsaw synths. It deserves to be huge. Fredrik Etoall directs the video.
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Crystal Castles’ ‘Suffocation’ video
Crystal Castles’ new video for ‘Suffocation’, taken from their second self-titled album, sees Alice gothed up mocking around an abandoned Ney York mansion.
The clip was directed by follow Castle Ethan Kath as part of a shoot for VS. Magazine.
Long time Crystal Castle cohorts, LA’s noisy Indie-Electro outfit HEALTH have whipped up a pretty deep and hypnotic mix of the tune for a forthcoming reMix package.
♫ Crystal Castles – Suffocation (HEALTH reMix)
Crystal Castles second self-titled album is out now. A new album is due out this summer.
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Punks Jump Up’s new EP
At the end of this month London Electro duo Punks Jump Up, riding on the success of ‘Blockhead’ and ‘Chimes Pt. 1’, drop their latest EP for Kitsuné Music.
The ‘Get Down (Special CCCrash Mixxx)’ EP contains six tracks of straight-up dancefloor grooves lead my by the amazingly catchy title track. This ‘Special CCCrash Mixxx’ is a melting pot of retro dance influences, pouring in bits of Acid House, bits of Disco, bits of Chicago House and a Funk vocal to make a party starter that’s bound to be working it’s magic all summer. The remaining five reMixes have something for everyone. ElectroPop gurus JBAG give the track a sweet ‘80’s sheen with some nostalgic stabs, this is probably the stand out reMix for me. Alex Gopher turns the Acid aspects of the tune up to eleven and drops a slow building burbler with some killer drops. OK, so you know a Fare Soldi is going to be a bit madcap, and the truly deliver here with some funk fuelled bassline chaos. The surprise of the EP, for me, was Zero Cash’s mixture of vintage synth bass and early ‘90’s House that works so well and creates a really rounded mood. Definitely be keeping an ear of Zero Cash in future. Deadstock 33s close the EP with a deep hypnotic dub version with just a hint of cosmic Disco to leave you with. All-in-all the EP is a winner, six varied reMixes with no real duds in there, how often does that happen?
♫ Punks Jump Up – Get Down (JBAG reMix)
♫ Punks Jump Up – Get Down (Deadstock 33′s dub)
The ‘Get Down (Special CCCrash Mixxx)’ EP is released 30th January on Kitsuné Music.
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Lola Dutronic covers Suicide’s ‘Keep Your Dreams’
I suppose if there was any of New York’s original ElectroPunks Suicide’s back catalogue that international Lounge SynthPopsters Lola Dutronic could cover it would be ‘Keep Your Dreams’.
LD’s version is a floaty Parisian Pop that sounds classy as always.
‘Keep Your Dreams’ is taken from the ‘New York Stories’ EP, out now.
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Neonbirds’ ‘Substitutes’ video
Here’s the new video for Neonbirds’ track ‘Substitutes’.
The Parisian duo’s abrasive (yet amazingly catchy) ElectroPop is highlighted here by a suitably disorienting video.
‘Substitutes’ is taken from ‘Ignition’s Cold, Oxygen’s Pale’, out this week.
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Citizens! début single
Kitsuné Music’s latest signing Citizens! are soon to drop their début single ‘True Romance’, but you can already check the track by peeping it’s video.
It’s pretty wacky, but I suppose that goes with the quirky ElectroPop of Citizens!, it’s pretty vivid and bombastic though.
While you’re waiting for the single to come out, get your ears ‘round this taste of what to expect from their forthcoming début album with ‘(I’m In Love With Your) Girlfriend’, who’s raw sound boarders on ElectroPunk.
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♫ Citizens! – (I’m In Love With Your) Girlfriend
Citizens! début single is released 19th December, until the check them out on SoundCloud.
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead’s new album
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead are releasing their long awaited self-titled record this month. In preparation, get your ears ‘round one of the album tracks, ‘Leap Of Desire I’.
I’m going to come right out and say it, You Love her Coz She’s Dead are better than Crystal Castles. Yes, there are massive similarities in sound, and I don’t care who came first, the fact is YLHCSD write better songs. You can have all the 8-bit noise and distorted shouting in the world but you get major plus points if there is an actual song to back that up, a gold star if it’s catchy. ‘Leap Of Desire I’ is a slightly Dubstep influenced ElectroPunk-out and, here’s the thing, it’s got a good riff, good melodies and catchy vocals. We’re looking forward to this album.
♫ You Love Her Coz She’s Dead – Leap Of Desire I
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead’s album is out on 29th August and Glasstone Records.
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Alice In Videoland in Mercedes commercial
Why am I posting a Mercedes commercial?
a) It features the music of Alice In Videoland, who are awesome and deserve all the exposure in the world.
b) It’s been a long day, I’m really tired and can’t be arsed with mucking around doing long music posts.
c) Again, I like giving AiV exposure!
The track is ‘Something New’ from AiV’s current album, ‘A Million Thoughts And They’re All About You’, out now:
Video Villain’s ‘Fearless’ out today!
We posted Video Villain’s ‘Fearless’ video a few months ago but we’re posting it again to remind you that it finally sees single release today.
It’s been a long time coming for VV, so let’s hope their brand of noisy Indie-ElectroPop srikes a chord with the masses and they receive the attention they deserve.
‘Fearless’ is available from iTunes or TuneTribe with more outlets coming.
Display
Display are an ElectroPop outfit from Poland who are gearing up for the release of their début EP.
Light on information but heavy on sound, Display attack ElectroPop from a driving, big dirty synth sounds, angle. Like a head on collision between Front 242 and The Teenagers, that is to say, Old School EBM and French Indie-Electro. Display stack up kicking beats and bass and chainsaw synths with vocals and melody full of swagger to make something pretty unique.
Defiantly one to keen an eye on.
Display’s first EP is out soon.
