No 1: VIOLET BONES
Garage-Punk Cambridge based outfit VIOLET BONES are as authentic as you can get. Hard working heroes full of spit and spirit.
The tuneful melody “Chemicals” grazes your ears with its sheer determination. It barges its way into your heart with hooks of steel and those insistently pleasant rhythms. Songs like ‘I Feel The Need’ are authentically British, but they possess the charm and enamelled gleam of more recent American punk bands.
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/violetbonesmusic
No 2: PEACE
Birmingham rockers PEACE (try BBlood) are poppy and peppy – you may catch a calypso beat in there sometime or even some affro tom-toms -always along with a knowing twinkle in the eye … Those harmonies tend to soar and, when they do, they fly with their faces into the wind….
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/peaceforeverever
No 3: Citizens!
Huge zesty sounds blossom and bluster out like oversize bloomers caught blowing in the gust. Sly guitars lying in wait sneak up and grab you when you’re not looking.
Rattling good drums chatter along as the cleaner living ‘Freddie & The Dreamers’ style vocals knock you giddy.
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/gocitizens
No 4: Palma Violets
The ratty fiddly bits are trembling guitar sounds, hanging like skeletal leaflike vestiges on the branches of the rhythms. The air is full of schismatic deep bass sounds and ringing guitars. Stifling lead vocals and lemony screams have an unexpected and mysterious gravitas even though sounding like they are deliberately trying to be hokey pokey sticky-tongue-out funny.
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/palmaviolets
No 5: Wild Belle
Polished beats of reggae bounce up and float brazenly on the surface- like big blossomed air mattress lovers. Sweetly shrill vocals spurt around, amidst jazzy horn-notes that flake to the ground- whilst icing-sugar steeples flourish in the ever changing background. For lovers of conventional reggae with a big horn, creamy sound.
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/wildbelle/
No 6: Milk Music
A seventies sheen glints from the electric power-buzz guitars of this Olympia based band. Satin and sequined sounding guitars brazenly hustle the punky vocals – pushing up close to save on the heating bills. The rhythms vibrate together conspiratorially- probably so that they can dig their way out of the Brutus shirted , loon-panted banditry when the time comes.
Link:
http://www.last.fm/music/Milk+Music
No 7: Madeon
Madeon (Hugo Pierre Leclercq) is an exceptional 17 year-old princeling pop/house producer from Nantes who first came to luminent prominence with his remix on Pendulum’s “The Island” single. ‘Icarus’ is full of joy and shinning textures. Sunlight glows through the pastel coloured pebbles of sound. His golden hooks and summery show-downs will get Europop moving this summer. Sizzling.
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/itsmadeon
— © Neil_Mach May 2012 —
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