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GNOD // Breaking the Hex

WARNING: Video contains major flashing lights / images

And also just general confusion, and an attempt to access the dark regions of the mind and commune with the shadow-image of God.

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FUMAÇA PRETA // Fumaça Preta

I thought no music video could capture the absolute psych-party-punk chaos that is this band.

Turns out they proved me wrong.

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THE WHARVES // Thick Syrup

This all-girl band was one of the outliers in the otherwise 10-minute-songs psych-fest that was Raw Power 2015, and they’re pretty much exactly the kind of music I like.

Oh yeah expect a lot of “I heard this band at Raw Power 2015″ coming up, I’m just back from it.

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BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA // Siran Fen

“Basically, I have two kinds of people listening to my music: African people, who understand what I'm telling them, and that for some part listen to my music for that purpose, and the other people, who listen to my music for its vibes, and the feeling it gives them, even if they don't understand the words. So I wanted to maintain some tradition to keep on pleasing my African audience, but I also wanted more salt and pepper, or a more contemporary sound, to please my other audience, people from Europe, Asia, America, everywhere they don't understand the words, but get the feeling of my music. That is the balance I was and am still looking for.”

- Bassekou Kouyate, for the Quietus

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DJANGO DJANGO // Reflections

Just in time for festival/barbecue/garden dance party season, django django have released a new album. And with it a decidedly odd music video that looks like a conceptual art exhibition as modelled in 90s-era 3D graphics through the lens of glitch art.

Seriously can we get over this fad of making things ironically ugly.

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TALL BLACK CABINS // The Leisure Society

Alone Aboard The Ark, the band’s previous offering, rates as one of my most beloved albums of 2013. I haven’t had time to listen to The Fine Art Of Hanging On in its entirety yet but this flagship single about fishermen and/or a morose resignation to decline has all the attributes I loved two years ago.

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HELIUM VOLA // Manifesto

A german band does techno-opera. The lyrics are an Italian Communist Manifesto.

You know, the usual.

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VANDEROCKER // Kissing Booth

I usually try to post music videos when songs have them. I like music videos. Call it nostalgia from the time before music blogging when most of my exposure to new artists came from trippy shit on late-night MTV.

But just as we are all familiar with the music video that makes a mediocre song great, we all know the music video that makes a great song just embarrassing.

Kissing Booth has that kind of music video. It would be a disservice to the song to post it.

(It’s a good song!)

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EMILIANA TORRINI // Sound of Silence

It’s a cover of Simon & Garfunkel by an Icelandic singer-songwriter.

Just put it down as a hipster guilty pleasure.

#music #indie music #indie #emiliana torrini

LOTIC // Heterocetera

Do you want to feel like you’re being hunted through the night by twisted, unnatural horrors?

Yes?

1. That’s weird, dude.

2. You’re in luck. Hit Play.

#indie music #experimental music #electronic music #lotic

THEE CEE CEES // Solution Songs

Described by their label as “Marxist party-punks“, their debut album (free now on soundcloud, releasing April 16th) lives up to the tagline.

We need none of your protest songs. We will sing solution songs! Sing along!

The above chorus sets up TheeCeeCees’ attitude: this is music about how society needs to change, but which refuses to indulge in nihilistic cynicism about it. Reminiscent of Spanish ska-punk bands, it’s a revolution you can dance to.

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