HURTS were recently featured on Channel4’s 4Play with an 11 minute insight into how the guys approach both the music and the visuals of HURTS, also commenting on how risky it was to release HURTS into the wild via big ‘events’ (both the EP and live show) rather than the usual oversaturation.
It’s a good watch for anyone interested in the band.
And here’s the full version of ‘Better Than Love’ from the show.
HURTS’ ‘Better Than Love’ single drops on the 24th.
Aeroplane and Grum are diggin’ them, Alan Braxe is working with them. everybody seems to love LA ElectroPoppers Human Life. The attention is well deserved too, their forthcoming second single, ‘In It Together’, is an almighty clash of Nu-Disco basslines, 8-bit sounds, 80’s synth chords, 90’s House keys and Disco vocals.
Check the video, a crazy costumed scavenger hunt, directed by Dan Brophy
Acid Girls and Polygon Palace are just two of the big names contributing to the reMix package (alongside the likes of Louis La Roche and Kris Menace). Both have amped up the 90’s house feel, Acid Girls Electro-ing things up with a wonky bassline and Polygon Palace taking a more Nu-Disco route under that lead line.
♫ Human Life – In It Together (Acid Girls reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Human Life – In It Together (Polygon Palace reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘In It Together’ drops 7th June on Life X Recordings.
After a slight battle with the technicalities of YouTube, which he documented on his Twitter feed, London’s BedroomPop rising star I Am Noxious has dropped this self-made video for his track ‘This Is A Ballad’.
Atmospheric in it’s simplicity it just goes to show that with enough vision you don’t need a budget to create something visually interesting and fitting to the music.
Other unsigned bands should take note! And everyone else should check I Am Noxious’s MySpace.
Still not sure if we can mention what record label will be re-releasing The Good Natured’s ‘Your Body Is A Machine’, but rest assured the label is alarmingly hip!
We’re really looking forward to the release though, it’s a song that has grown on us more and more over the past year or so and some of the reMixes are amazing.
Finally there is a proper video for the track, feast your eyes:
‘Your Body Is A Machine’ is released 21st June on the aforementioned (or not) alarmingly hip record label.
Zebra & Snake have dropped a few interesting reMixes in the last few months, most notably for Le Corps Mince De Françoise and The Good Natured, but let’s not forget the Finish duo are releasing original material themselves.
Check the video for their previous single ‘The Colours’, a luscious slice of borderline Bedroom Pop/Electro-Indie with a suitable Lo-Fi video.
The video was directed by Miikka Lommi
The ‘The Colours’ EP is available now and the duo are releasing a new single ‘We Never Go When We Have To’
Joe Cross is such the man to watch this year, he is a dude with his fingers in many pies!
As well as being one third of Indie-Electro outfit Performance, he is also half of the awesome Kiss In Cities and had a hand in upcoming releases by HURTS and The Sound Of Arrows.
Anyway, this is ‘The Living’, the latest single from Performance who really do have a knack for songwriting, they may be my favourite current (Indie slanted) Indie-Electro band in the UK. I think I like them so much ‘cos they combine ElectroPop elements with an early ‘90’s Indie sound. Rad stuff!
The single is out now on Too Much Information Records.
Here is the viral video for Alec Empire’s reMix of the IAMX song ‘I Am Terrified’.
It was shot and edited by Chris Corner himself and just shows you don’t need a massive budget to produce something with stunning visuals!
The reMix is released on ‘Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK’, which fans in the UK can get packaged as a bonus disc with the UK release of IAMX’s last album, ‘Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction’, 17th May on 61Seconds.
Both albums are currently available separately in Europe.
After a couple of teasers, SynthPop rising stars HURTS have débuted the video for their forthcoming first (proper) single, the anthemic ‘Better Than Love’.
It’s a pretty slick affair, it’s kinda’ got a Ultravox vibe going on and a pleasant return to the ‘80’s school of arty mini-movie music video making.
‘Better Than Love’ drops soon, very soon!
Check this video, which is kind of a promo for The Golden Filter’s amazing début album, ‘Völuspà’. The thing I love about The Golden Filter is that they are all conceptual and arty, as demonstrated by this video of looping beats, samples and some gorgeous visuals, yet their singles are Disco as fuck! And it all works!
‘Völuspà’ is out now!
Just in case you haven’t already seen the controversial video for M.I.A.’s ‘Born Free’ that dropped yesterday.
You probably have though.
Directed by Roman Gavras (he who directed Justice’s equally controversial ‘Stress’ video) I’m sure it has a great sociological message, but passing commentary by replacing an oppressed minority with gingers is just funny.
In it’s defence it is stunningly well made, amazingly shot and stark at just the right beats. YouTube have already banned it and are pulling the videos as fast as they are uploaded, so watch it while it’s there!
It’s a cool song too, with more than a passing nod to Suicide’s ‘Ghost Rider’.
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