We have compiled a selection of tracks from artists featured throughout this issue, to give you an aural accompaniment to your reading.
This month we have choice tracks from Explosions In The Sky, Noah And The Whale, The Wombats, The View, Pale Sketcher, Bibio, Gushee, Roddy Woomble, The Ragga Twins and The Shoes.
Read on to find out why you need to hear these ten songs then click to download the whole album free of charge.
Explosions In The Sky ‘Trembling Hands’ (Bella Union)
It won’t just be your hands trembling while enjoying this frenzied instrumental. Relentless drums crash through pealing guitars in a three-minute onslaught that will rattle your brain. These Austinites sure like to bring the noise. Come quick enough IMHO.
Noah And The Whale ‘Wild Thing’ (Vertigo)
They may have ventured away from the folk scene from which they emerged towards a more synthy sound, but Charlie Fink and his boys can be forgiven for anything when they make golden melodies such as this. And no, it’s not that cover…
The Wombats ‘A Robot Like You’ (14th Floor Recordings)
The Scouse trio finally follow up their debut album with new record ‘This Modern Glitch’, whose single ‘Anti-D’ features on its flip side this quirky commentary on the artificiality of modern culture. Get your guilty pleasure pop fix right here. A’right la.
The View ‘Friend (2 Bears remix)’ (1965)
Far from the frantic Caledonian rampage we’ve come to expect from The View, this remix of their ‘Bread And Circuses’ album track is, thanks to the deft skills of 2 Bears, a slick mellow disco reworking – with compulsory strings and falsettos of course!
Pale Sketcher ‘Seventh Heaven’ (Ghostly International)
Fans of Fuck Buttons queue here. Imagine if your favourite noiseniks had started looping in old jungle loops from ’93 with a vocal staccatoed from the future. Pale Sketcher is the new alias of Justin Broadrick and wants your feet for earrings.
Bibio ‘Excuses’ (Warp)
The opening track on Bibio’s latest LP sums up his metamorphosis into an urban bass slinger. Starting with the burble of the countryside that marked his last long player, it flips at the two-minute mark to plunge into a dark, metallic and buzzing melancholic trip.
Gushee ‘Making Babies’ (Otnorot Recordings)
With percussion as dainty as an elf’s purple footstep, Gushee glides us towards dawn. Misty melodies, a vocal that’s covered in the dew of a freshness and a thrum of machines far far below in the mix. Beautiful electronic music.
Roddy Woomble ‘A New Day Has Begun’ (Greenvoe Records)
As the opener of his second solo album, ‘The Impossible Song And Other Folk Songs’, this glowing banjo-led folk stomper finds the Scot in optimistic mood and sets the tone for a gloriously pastoral and sweetly Caledonian long-player.
The Ragga Twins ‘Shine Eye’ (Shut Up And Dance)
Smashing out of the Clapton ghetto in ’92, Flinty and Deman took ragga breakbeat to the masses of white ravers. Did they invent jungle? Many say so – they certainly ripped the roof off any rave they played. As filthily French as the day they forged it.
The Shoes ‘Wastin’ Time (Boom Bass remix)’ (Southern Fried)
Rennes-based party boys The Shoes show off their deeper side with this remix, building appreciated notes recall the deepest of Detroit’s emotions through machine music before Esser’s vocals break with washes of classic house stabs. Job done people.
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