Brighton based Indie-SynthPop act Mirrors have premiered the video for their new single ‘Hide And Seek’.
Directed by Simon Pollard, he who directed their previous video ‘Ways To An End’ and features some touching but melancholy stop motion animation.
The ‘Hide And Seek’ single is taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘Lights & Offerings’ which is due out in February 2011.
We’ve enthused about Gypsy And The Cat a few times here on electronic rumors, they’ve just got this cool blissed out Indie-Electro groove going on and some excellent songwriting.
The now solo Vito Aeroplane has dropped an awesome mix of ‘The Piper’s Song’, adding a little of his trademark Electro Disco and a mindblowing 90’s Pop hook. If you don’t like this you must be dead inside!
♫ Gypsy And The Cat – The Piper’s Song (Aeroplane reMix)
Gypsy And The Cat’s début album, ‘Gilgamesh’ is out now.
Swedish ElectroPop eccentrics Pacific! are finally on the verge of dropping their second album, ‘Narcissus’. Originally conceived at the soundtrack to a ballet the record works amazingly well sans avant-garde dancers in frocks.
From it’s ominous harpsichord opening the album you still feel there is something a bit proggy, a bit conceptual, about the album but the music speaks for itself. Like Jean-Michel Jarre on bad (or good) acid this album is in part atmospheric and enveloping (and a little scary!) but also sweeping and electronic. Washes of Jarre mix with hints of Goldfrapp (on the vocal tracks). Like felloe Swedes The Knife there is something of the avant-garde here but similarly they have managed to cram the experimental and leftfield into Pop songs and get away with it making the edgy and unsettling elements to Pacific!’s music soon feel strangle comforting.
They have laid out the record really well to, spacing out properly structured upbeat tracks like ‘Narcissus’, ‘Unspoken’ and ‘King Of The Knight’ with their floaty instrumental works such as ‘Cupid’ and ‘Halfheart’ to give the feeling (even without aforementioned avant-garde dancers in frocks) of narrative.
‘Narcissus’ drops 11th October on Alan Braxe’s Vulture label.
Hot Chip and New Order’s Bernard Sumner have teamed up, along with Hot City, to release a track for Converse’s collaborative series of tracks.
The track itself is an awesome 90’s House track, just listen to that piano and the 909 snares! When Bernard’s vocals kick it is it so distinctively him, kinda’ like a 90’s New Order reMix cut up with a Hot Chip track.
Anyway, just listen:
♫ Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City – Didn’t Know What Love Was (Single Version)
Check the Converse site for more collaborations.
Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City @ Converse
We’ve already seen the video for, ‘Prisoner’ the B-side of The Good Natured new single, now it’s A-side time!
The lead track, ‘Be My Animal’ is powerful track, almost Industrial in places and an impressive and confident follow up to ‘You Body Is A Machine’. Check the video full of nervous energy.
Also on the single will be a cover of The Wombats recent track ‘Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)’ which Sarah McIntosh reworks into a haunting aria.
♫ The Good Natured – Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves) (The Wombats Cover)
‘Be My Animal’ is released 1st November on Kids.
‘Gravy Train’ is lead track from the new EP by Parisian post-Nu-Rave-Indie-Electro act Adam Kesher.
Their excitable Noise-Pop has been reMixed by Fortune culminating in this DFA-esq raucous Disco-Punk tune that really grown on you after a few listens.
♫ Adam Kesher – Gravy Train (Fortune reMix)
The ‘Gravy Train’ EP is out this week!
It’s a meeting of minds in the heart of Chicago. Gemini Club and Hey Champ! should, by now, be well known to readers of electronic rumors and I think, generally, they’ve done the world a favour and unleashed a mighty soundclash on us!
Gemini Club’s recent single ‘Ghost’ gets the Hey Champ! treatment and winds up a chilled Nu-Disco jam that just slides out of the speakers, even when the vocals are being cut-up.
♫ Gemini Club – Ghost (Hey Champ! reMix)
Gemini Club’s take on Hey Champ!’s oft-reMixed ‘Cold Dust Girl’ is an 8 minute electronic epic that never once gets boring. A head on collision between Nu-Disco and Indie-Electro, the track takes a turn for the heart attack inducing at the 4:40 mark.
♫ Hey Champ! – Cold Dust Girl (Gemini Club reMix)
Gemini Club’s ‘Ghost’ is out now.
Hey Champ!’s ‘Cold Dust Girl’ single can be downloaded from the band’s official site and their album ‘Star’ available now.
What’s this ‘ere then? Why, it’s only the new single by Bedroom Pop genius Penguin Prison as débuted this weekend on Radio 1.
Probably the most upbeat, Disco-y track he’s dropped so far, ‘Golden Train’ is just pure smooth ElectroPop. And when I say smooth, I mean smooth, there isn’t much smoother than this, this side of Chromeo.
♫ Penguin Prison – Golden Train (Radio Rip)
Penguin Prison releases ‘Golden Train’ on 22nd November.
On a website about, let’s face it, a lot of 80’s influenced music to say a band sounds really 80’s seems a bit moot, but Brooklyn’s Selebrities sound really 80’s!
And I don’t mean in a Dreamwave, 80’s soundtrack, way, more in the back of a dingy SynthPop/Goth club way. From the sweeping analog synth sounds to the Peter Hook inspired bass to the boarderline Siouxsie Sioux vocals this is real Post-Punk synth synth. Saying that though, it also manages to be poppy as hell, setting it apart from the similarly influenced Coldwave/Minimal Synth sound.
The track ‘Audition’ from their début EP, ‘Ladies Man Effect’, is a perfect example of how they inject a touch of glamour and catchiness into, what is, quite a dark sound.
The ‘Ladies Man Effect’ EP is out now as a free download from Cascine.
Silverclub are a new UK Indie-Electro act who’s quirky British synth heavy sound will appeal to many readers of electronic rumors.
The band kinda’ take the Passion Pit strain of American Indie-Electro and inject it with a decidedly British humour and synth work more heavily steeped in the history of British SynthPop. A bit like a more raw, more indie, Hot Chip.
Check out the lead track on their second EP, ‘All In All’, those pulsating analog sounds act as the prefect counterpoint to down-to-earth vocals.
Silverclub’s ‘All In All’ EP is out now (protip: you can get it for free at their official website for the price of an email address!) .
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