New Music, New Bands, New Artists – Ones to Watch – Clash Music

Little Red

Nick Annan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:57:05 +0000

Australian five piece taking 50s rock'n'roll and doo-wop as their inspiration.

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

Nick Annan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:36:33 +0000

Having met and formed in Camden, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool are the latest in a line of bands to come out of North London’s music mecca, but it is the area’s darker side, rather than its musical tapestry that informs their music most.

“I love it, but Camden’s pretty shit,” offers Joe before Caan interrupts, “Being surrounded by all these crack heads and gunshots does inspire you to get in the studio and write, so I suppose Camden does influence our music!”

The band’s riotous brand of electro-pop nods to ’80s legends the Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran, yet they refuse to be shoved under the ’80s revival umbrella.

Band Of Skulls

Nick Annan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:13:50 +0000

Southampton’s Band of Skulls make scuzzy, blues-infused rock with just the right balance of sun-kissed stomp and melancholic brilliance.

Kurt Vile

Nick Annan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:01:43 +0000

It takes about the first four bars of rattled, warped rock ‘n’ roll on ‘Childish Prodigy’ to read Kurt Vile like a textbook - a thorough one. His music is to the American rock narrative a lysergic sheen on the surface of a well - one that was sprung with Dylan and Young and filled over the years as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Richard Hell, Stephen Malkmus, Beck and many others spilled their sometime bedroom compositions into the mainstream.

Cate Le Bon

Nick Annan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:50:15 +0000

A death-fixated freak-folk fixture on the South Wales scene for a number of years, Cate Le Bon duetted with Super Furry Animals leader Gruff Rhys on the sultry ‘I Lust U’ from the Neon Neon album ‘Stainless Style’, Le Bon was whisked off on tour with the Mercury Prize-nominated group explaining why it’s taken a fair while for her to finally release debut album ‘Me Oh My’ to the wider world.

Twinkranes

Nick Annan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:16:23 +0000

Twinkranes are three friends from Dublin who describe themselves as a "Psychedelic power trio specializing in zone-out progressive pop musik".

With a fierce live reputation, the three were snapped up by Andy Votel's Twisted Nerve records and have honed their live explorations in the nine tracks on their debut album, 'Spektrumtheatresnakes'.

Lucky Elephant

Nick Annan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:31:41 +0000

Lucky Elephant - Sam, singer Emmanuel (Manu), bassist Paul and drummer Laurence - formed almost accidently, as Sam explains: “Me and Paul were in a band called Boom Click and Manu sang on that album. Me and Paul and Manu would just be twiddling away in between sessions and we were starting to enjoy that more than the stuff we were doing with Boom Click and it mutated from there.”

Brodinski

Sophie_Clash — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:01:52 +0000

French DJ. By now the phrase causes an epidemic of yawns and thoughts of “I’ve heard it all before.” Enter Brodinski, the smart choice when it comes to the new kid on the club scene, with a refreshing twist on his Parisian counterparts.

Although he started studying music at the tender age of 15 in his hometown of Reims, Lille, he didn’t become involved with the addictive world of electro until 2004, when he first became interested in the world of skaters. This in turn led to a fascination in hip-hop, clearly a big influence is some of his work like the Bugged Out mix.

This knowledge thirsty producer is always searching for new music and new sounds, which he has said hip-hops seems to satisfy more than other genres. In lateryears his playlist was dominated by Aphex Twin, Damian Lazarus and Andrew Weatherall, all of whom have made him who he is today in the music industry.

When he became production partners with Yuksek, also based in Lille, he came up with his first major single ‘Bad Runner’, gathering a cult following among big names like Erol Alkan and Soulwax before it was even released. It was leaked onto a number of blogs and forums before it was finally released on Mental Groove in October 2007. Tiga who had been fans of Brodinski since the initial blog leak then invited him to release subsequent singles ‘Gold Digger’ and ‘Oblivion’ on their Turbo label.

His sound is an electic mish-mash of different samples and sounds, in a permanent state of flux when it comes to mood, sometimes chilled and minimal, at other times a dirty acid house rave. Since 2007 he has become the Wunderkind of the electro circuit, supported on club nights by Soulwax, Tiga, Erol Alkan and Laurent Garnier as well as being promoted to a resident for Panik parties in Paris. His talents have been in great demand from artists like Klaxons and Adam sky for remixes, and with a heavy list of gigs and festival slots coming up it’s set to be an incredibly busy time for Brodinski.

Amanda Blank

Nick Annan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:46:23 +0000

The latest Philly rapper to whip the world around their little finger is a girl called Amanda Blank. And she’s feisty.

With regular boasts about how she has the sweetest tasting pussy and the best rhymes she hurls the male banter straight back in their diamond-toothed faces.

Her new album, ‘I Love You’, has been sonically chiselled by fellow Philadelphian Diplo, New York studio alchemist Dave Sitek and beats guru XXX.

Freeland

Nick Annan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:40:54 +0000

When you think of the name Adam Freeland, it’s more than likely in conjunction with some solid slab of dancefloor magic.

His latest album, Cope, under the Freeland alias boasts a huge host of stars appear on the new record, including the legendary Tommy Lee, Joey Santiago (Pixies), Twiggy Ramirez (Marilyn Manson/Nine Inch Nails), Brody Dalle (Spinerette/Distillers), Jerry Casale (DEVO) and Tony Bevilacqua (Spinerette/Distillers). ‘Cope™’ also heralds the arrival of Kurt Baumann - the owner of a haunting, distinctively powerful voice and the man who will act as front man for Freeland's eponymous new touring band.