Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
First up, one of our favourite bands of all time, Cabaret Voltaire with 1985’s Big Funk
From 1987, first wave of UK House from T-Coy’s Cariño.
Some proto-space Disco, SynthPop Funk, from Fashion’s 1981 hit Move On.
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Here’s the video for AlunaGeorge’s awesome new single Your Drums, Your Love.
Henry Scholfield directs this clip that heavily features the work of artist Arran Gregory.
AlunaGeorge’s Your Drums, Your Love is released 7th October.
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Here’s the brand new video for Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs new single, Your Love.
Taking in the sigs of Tokyo for colourful elements and the sounds of TEED’s bass heavy ElectroPop/House jam, the clip sets just the right tone.
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Danish ElectroPop chart toppers Alphabeat’s saccharine new single Love Sea is here presented in video form.
It’s a fun, colourful, heady mix, just like Alphabeat themselves. I’m not sure it;s telling the whole truth though.
Love Sea is out now.
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Here’s the new video for the amazing Tesla Boy’s devastatingly good recent single Fantasy.
Complimenting the sexy DiscoPop is a clip featuring model Dasha Malygina. i should tell you something about it, but I’ll wait until you’ve watched it.
It’s NSFW, just so you know.
Tesla Boy’s Fantasy is out now.
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This is the video for Australian duo Saint Lou Lou’s blissful new single ‘Maybe You’.
Philippe Tempelman directs this beautiful clip, heavy on precise visuals that compliment the track well.
Saint Lou Lou ‘s Maybe You is out now.
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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
Later this week we’ll be shutting up shop for a while, as we are off to Bestival. More on that tomorrow but today’s Goin’ Old School highlights three classic SynthPop acts who will be appearing at Bestival this weekend, starting with ex-Ultravox dark Electro pioneer John Foxx and 1980’s He’s a Liquid.
Headlining Bestival on the Saturday are New Order. Here’s the Arthur Baker produced Confusion from 1983.
And finally SynthPop pretender Gary Numan kicks of Bestival on Thursday night. This is his finest moment, 1985’s Call Out The Dogs.
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Here’s the video for London ethereal Industro-Pop trio Creatures Of Love’s new track, Vakkula.
It’s a suitably eerie and beautiful affair, directed by Beth Robinson & Creatures of Love themselves. As powerful as the music itself.
Vakkula is taken from Creatures Of Love’s début EP, Boy Crimes, released 24th September.
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Right then, I had written quite a long post about The Presets’ new single, Ghosts, when it was released, but unfortunately, the record label or PR people or whoever deemed that providing a stream of the track somewhere in order to get, essentially, free advertising from music websites was just too easy and not allowing the song to be streamed was a much more challenging route. So despite having written the tracks praises, we could not feature it until now. Weeks after the single’s release there is a new video for the track (I don’t know who handling the release track for The Presets, but they need a better calendar, a video should be promotion for a single, not an afterthought) so we can finally feature it in some for. This is what we had wrote previously, but been unable to post:
It’s not just a crazy dream, they really are back! After the storming first single from their forthcoming album Pacifica, Australian ElectroPop/House gods The Presets are unveiling yet more teasers for their third proper album. Overnight, Ghosts has had exactly the reaction that a good The Presets song should have. Very divided opinion. Mostly negative comment have come from the kind of person who got ‘into’ The Presets quite late and only really knows the hits. The Presets were never about producing ‘bangers’ or whatever, regardless of how some people like to see them, their output has consistently, from the beginning, been about producing intelligent, left-field electronic Pop music that often contains surprises. And this they have done once more with Ghosts.
Hypnotic is the best way to describe Ghosts. Like an electronic Folk tale, the urban narrative found within Ghosts tells a tale, maybe a warning, for the 21st century and it is sung as such. The warm, heavy, bass and enveloping strings just invite the listener to stay and pay further attention. Ghosts is a gentle track, despite it’s dancehall groove, with The Presets showing us that the new album isn’t going to be all about the kind of musical assault that we’d heard with the previous single, Youth In Trouble, and this is excellent news. The Presets are always at their best when doing intimate, emotionally resonant songs.
Enjoy the clip.
The Presets’ Ghost is out now.
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Here’s the amazing new video for the amazing Karin Park’s amazing new single, Thousand Loaded Guns.
Eschewing frosty Scandi-clips in favour of a dose of Americana, crime drama, DIY gigs and a Neubauten T-shirt!
Thousand Loaded Guns is released 3rd September.
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