Friday, December 19, 2014

December 19 2014 - Christmas Festive Fifteen


For our last hot list selection of 2014, we are treating ourselves - and you - to a bumper fifteen tracks instead of the usual ten. Enjoy!

Happy Christmas. Stay tuned for more next year.



PORTRAYAL - NEVER ADJUSTED
Second online track from the Shrewsbury guitar/electronic duo (Joe Crook, vocals/guitars; Rob Tranter, guitars/synths), ahead of their debut album, 'To the Black Sea', set for release early next year. Darkly hypnotic vibe. Keep these two on the radar.






DEAD SEA - KEEP IT HIGH
Parisian four-piece follow their debut ‘Before We Die’ with a just released two-track electronic/chillwave 'EP'.






SURF ROCK IS DEAD - EQUINOX
Debut single from the new Brooklyn-based duo (Kevin Pariso and Joel Witenberg) that proves surf rock is far from deceased quite yet with this hazy, reverbed-fuelled first outing that kicks like a crab in the sand.






PINKSHINYULTRABLAST - HOLY FOREST
The Russian five-piece band precede their debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ release - on January 26 2015 thru Club AC30 - with this new single, out the week before. They created a buzz in the last half of this year, and seem set to further that next year.






FEELS - WEIGHTLESS
First single from Helsinki electro-pop trio featuring singer Sofi Meronen,
keyboardist Mikael Myrskog and Jooel Jons behind the drum pad, who describe their music as "epic, gripping and toned with northern melancholy".






GOODBYE STRANGER - CAVE
Our Track Of The Day  this week from the London synthpop outfit, which had really grown on us the more we have heard it. Dark and beaty.






DREADFULLL YOUTH - MISFITS
Part Pogues, part Levellers, this demo (one of two, with 'C.O.L.D') uploaded a few days ago by Cheltenham-based, knotty vocalled Sam Jones, and produced by Facedown (who we have previously featured in his own right), leads us to believe the Gloucestershire town is building its own healthy little scene.






MENACE BEACH - TASTES LIKE MEDICINE
This third track from the upcoming debut album 'Ratworld', out next month, from the Leeds outfit, doesn't taste like any medicine you may have taken, though Liza Violet’s soothing vocals could probably cure a lot of ills.






PLASTIC MERMAIDS - SATURN
Isle of Wight's dreampop five-piece air a track (with self-directed video) from their second EP 'Inhale the Universe' out March 9 2015 on Cross Keys Records. Catch them live at The Lexington, London on February 25 2015.






DIRTY DISHES - RED ROULETTE
Third single from the LA/Boston duo's upcoming full-length debut, 'Guilty', out on Exploding In Sound on January 27 - and our former Track Of The Day. Could be a big contender next year.






SENOPIA - REEK
Second single (from the debut album 'Modern Squalor'), released as a double A-side (w/ 'Crash') this week, from the four-piece alt-rock London band (with members from England, Austria and a Swedish-speaking enclave in Finland. Who knew?), that pounds along at a fair pace.






LAZY DAZE - HARLOW
New Adelaide quartet with the first single from their upcoming EP. Engaging vocal of frontman Dylan Francis ensures it will keep your ears tuning in.






NOBLE OAK - ERASE ME
We featured 23-year-old space pop' house producer Patrick Fiore here in August, now the Vancouver multi-instrumentalist is about to release this latest which he describes as being "about recognizing that we possess an ability to cause pain without noticing, the realization of which can help guide us away from doing so - to something greater." It's also deliciously mellow.






MIRACLE SWEEPSTAKES - PRIVATE DISGUISE
New York three-piece with latest pop rock track recorded with Daniel Schlett (DIIV/Here We Go Magic) that rolls along on piano chimes, buzzy guitars, and Craig Heed supplying a graceful overlaid vocal.





MALE BONDING - FALLING
After last week's surprise unveiling of ‘A Kick to The Face’, the trio quickly follow up with this - signs of an imminent album? Catch them live this Sunday (December 21) at Islington’s Buffalo Bar, London.






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