Every Track Is Borrowed, Most Are New
It’s been a while since we’ve done a ‘what we’re listening to’ feature and so with post haste we present to you fresh cuts from the likes of The Streets, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Kate Nash, Foals and Kick Up The Fire. Incidentally if you’re wondering why we choose the disturbing on all levels picture above this is what happens when you type “man wears headphones” into Google Image Search. Just ridiculous…
Kate Nash – Do Wah Do
Back with her ever-polarizing mockney drawl, Landan pop princess Kate Nash returns with a lead single cribbed from the styling’s of 1940s doo wop that is not entirely unlistenable. By ‘not entirely unlistenable’ please read ‘we’re too cool to say insanely catchy’.
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Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)
If you haven’t checked out Spanish Sahara, the taster track from Foals’ forthcoming Total Life Forever, then do so now you fools! If you have heard it and thought, “what this track needs is more echoey electronic plinky plonk” then this Mount Kimbie remix is right up your street. Furthermore, for the cost of your email address it’s free to download from the official Foals webpage.
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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Just War (feat. Gruff Rhys)
Brian Joseph Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse) has a pretty patchy history of legal disputes. In 2004 an injunction was taken out by EMI againts the distribution of his Beatles/Jay-Z remix LP The Grey Album. Then again in 2009 Brian found himself on the wrong end the EMI machine leading to another ban on the commercial release of his work, this time a collaborative album between himself, Sparklehorse and David Lynch. Luckily for us however, this week all parties decided to kiss and make up and Dark Night Of The Soul, including this woozy Gruff Rhys featuring tack, has been tentatively pencilled to hit stores by summertime.
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The Streets – Trust Me
There was once a time when Mike Skinner was being heralded as a modern day poet laureate. Then again, there was also a time when Pete Doherty’s body was free from narcotics. Still ‘Trust Me’ harks back to the pre-’woe is me I’m famous’ days of Original Pirate Material and is expected to feature on this year’s Computers And Blues, his fifth and final album under The Streets moniker. Incidentally a leak of said album had been thought to leak this week but it turned out to be all the tracks mike had been nice to post up on his twitter.
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Kick Up The Fire – These Canvas Shoes
Never one’s to resist a spot of flattery, London rockers Kick Up The Fire sent us a lovely email yesterday asking if we would put up their track on the blog. In swooning fashionwe hereby oblige as below you will find their frenetic, and to be blunt, surprisingly impressive track ‘These Canvas Shoes’.
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