The Bake Sale, The Cool Kids
I'm so white. And gay.
So it will sound pretty ludicrous when I tell you about the dope beats and mad flow this Chicago duo gots. But from their name alone, you know The Cool Kids are that new hip-hop act all us discerning listeners have been dreaming about: one you can love without a hint of irony.
Songs EP
Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of SONGS, my grey matter latched onto the following: Punk lilt and guitar-driven melodies that recall IS THIS IT-era Strokes. Vocals that channel a stripped-back Velvet Underground; driving rhythms that might have been picked up off the floor after The Wrens finished THE MEADOWLANDS; Constrained, Stooges-like brevity in a four-track EP.
Space Oddities
The adage everything old becomes new again holds on this mind-blowing compilation of 'rare European library grooves' courtesy of Munich's Permanent Vacation label. Compiled by the enigmatically named Alexis Le-Tran and Jess, SPACE ODDITIES takes in 19 super-obscure cuts from subscriber-only library music albums used to score European film and TV productions from 1975 to 1984.
You Look Nice Today (podcast)
Are you familiar with the simultaneously glorious and dismaying feeling that results in the sudden realisation that you are just never going to be as talented as someone you admire, but, goddamn it, you are going to love them all the same? A dissonance compounded by a distinct lack of social graces, attractiveness or general hygiene on the part of the admired figure? Woody Allen should be a pretty good point of reference.
Viva Voce, Viva Voce Loves You
Wouldn't it be great if you could compile just the BEST bits of your life? Leave all the embarrassing pratfalls, mysterious stains, and tacky break-up convos on the cutting room floor?
On VIVA VOCE LOVES YOU, Portland husband-and-wife duo Viva Voce do just that. A compilation of the best tracks from their three full-length albums, this is all killer, no filler.
Dynamite In Black & White
Hot little people making hot little songs in a hot little studio, all crafted with their hot little hands - it only makes sense that this record is hot, right? Not Paris Hilton hot (because that's obviously spelt "hott"), but blisteringly cool, as in the "hip" style of cool, not the "opposite of hot".
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