MUSIC | Little Boots – ‘Motorway’

Little Boots returns with ‘Motorway’ the first single off sophomore album, Nocturnes which comes out May 2013! Slow pulsating beats, subtle synths and a catchy chorus we can’t wait to hear more. 

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MUSIC | Last Night in Paris – Roses EP

The debut EP from the London/Paris collective is our Jam of the week. 

Download.Play.Repeat.

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MUSIC | Fear of Men

English four piece Fear of Men have just released ‘Early Fragments’- a compilation of all of their work thus far. Taking inspiration from philosophy  art and the world around them, Jessica Weiss and Daniel Falvey twist and juxtapose those inspirations and with bassist Robyn Edwards and drummer Michael Miles create beautiful, artistic, dream pop. We chat with Jessica about their new release and venturing to new lands on their spring tour. 

You guys are released ‘Early Fragments´ this week which, which is a reverse chronological collection of your previous singles, how does it feel to have all your work in one place?

We’re really pleased with it, we spent a lot of time designing the physical package ourselves and it looks great! We’re all very excited to have our first release in America too, it’s been a dream of ours for a while.

Why did you decide to arrange the tracks in reverse chronological order?

It just seemed the most logical thing to do to show our progression. the recording styles vary a lot over the record, so we wanted to highlight the idea of the 12″ as a compilation rather than tracks that were originally intended to be heard in this collection. I think it works really well as an archive of our releases too.

You guys originally started out as a art school project; were certain elements/works   of  art  some of your early influences?

Yea definitely- influence comes from a lot of different things, for me it’s often what I’m reading about or the art I’m currently enjoying. Dan and I were in Milan a while ago and saw a Egon Schiele exhibition, which was really inspiring. Marlene Dumas, Goshka Macuga, Francesca Woodman are some of my favourite artists. 

 Have you started working on your debut album?

We’re currently about two thirds of the way through it, but we’re taking our time over it as we want to be really proud of it. We hope it’ll be out in the summer.

What are you most looking forward to about releasing music and coming out to the states, we hear you’re playing sxsw?  

None of us have traveled much before so it’s all really exciting for us. I’m looking forward to seeing the desert in Texas and going to some museums in New York, and getting to play to a lot of people who we never thought we’d get to see.

 

 

‘Early Fragments’ is out now via Kanine Records 

 

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MUSIC | Vuvuvultures – Stay Still

Harmony Boucher and co are back with ‘Stay Still’ the new single off their debut album!

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MUSIC | Veronica Falls

When most bands come on to the scene their first album pretty much sets the tone of how people (fans and critics alike) will brand your music for years to come, in the case of London band Veronica Falls, their self titled debut earned them the label of “goth pop”. Their new album Waiting for Something to Happen however breaks away from the gothic imagery, and ghostly romances for a more polished, tight knit group of pop gems that definitely won’t make Veronica Falls victims of a “sophomore slump”. We got a chance to chat with their drummer Patrick Doyle about WFSTH and their upcoming tour. 

 

 When you released your first album many critics pigeonholed you in a sort of ‘goth pop’ genre, did you guys set out to do away with that connotation with ‘Waiting for Something to Happen?’

Not really, but I guess you can’t help but let critics affect what you do. I think the lighter feel of WFSTH is most likely down to a shift in confidence playing and writing together. I think this album doesn’t rely on imagery as much as the first album did.

What was the recording process like for you guys?

It was fun, we went back to recording with Rory Atwell, who we did our first ever demos with back when we started.  He understands the band and knows us all so well, it made the whole recording process a lot easier.

 How did the album’s title ‘Waiting for Something to Happen’ come about?

We didn’t name the album until after it was all done and dusted. It just seemed like the right phrase to sum up the feel of the record, I guess. A feeling of inbetween-ness or something.

Do you guys have any favourite songs off the new album?

I think Broken Toy is my favourite. It’s one of the last ones we wrote, but I love the energy of it.

 

You guys have done some nonstop touring these past couple of months and are heading out again soon, are you guys excited? Any favourite places you like to play?

We’re heading to America at the start of March, which should be really fun. We’ve done enough shows in the U.S to have built a real family over there, which makes it fun to go back each time. We’ll be playing a couple of places we’ve never played before too, so that’s always fun.

Waiting for Something to Happen is being released Feb 12, 2013 via Slumberland/Bella Union. 

 

MUSIC | Introducing….Fake Club

We got the chance to chat with the wild, fun and British girl band, Fake Club.
We asked them about their new upcoming album, tour and what inspires them as a band.

Why should people check you out?
We think we’re a band that no one has seen before, like we’re quite new. We think we’re doing something really fun and our live shows are hopefully really, really intense. So come down to our shows because hopefully you’ll have a really good night.

Why the name Fake Club?
We call us Fake Club to remind ourselves to keep it real! It’s our little catchphrase.

When I first heard your music I felt like it was the 90’s again. What or who was your inspiration when you first started?
We all grew up in the 90’s so we definitely got 90’s influences. Musically our influences come from Red Hot Chili Peppers, some of the more old school rock bands like Led Zeppelin to the more modern stuff like Queens of the Stone Age. Big rock bands, big powerful rock bands.

I’ve heard that you’re working on a new album is that true?
Yeah, just before Christmas we went into the studio, we had another six days to put out our second album. So we got another album ready to go.

When can we expect it to be out?
We’re not sure yet. We still got number one to come out, but we might release some EP’s first, and we have a new single coming out at the end of this month called ‘’Over and over’’.
We just basically got a collection of songs, and then talk to people like you. We just want to put music out, play it and have fun with it and when it feels right to put an album out, we’ll put an album out.

What’s your writing process like?
We love it. A lot of the time it involves getting a couple of bottles of wine and just having a jam.  And out of that comes the bone of a song and we work on that. And there’s a lot of crap, we turn to write more than we need to, but then we can pick the real jams and the really good songs.

What are your songs about? What goes through your mind when you write them?
Lots of different stuff. The most important thing for us is talking about things that mean something and every song that we write needs to be either positive messaged or saying something interesting. I think these days something bands don’t focus on so much anymore, are writing songs which is socially aware of the world that we live in. Our songs are also very personal to us, we write a song because we need to write a song, we need to play our instrument and get something out of our system. We’re not writing music because we think there needs to be another song in the world, we write a song because we need to write a song and it’s part of who we are.

Words| Carita Ringsing

Check out their new video for ‘Over and over’ below!