Their fuzzed-up DIY garage-pop is the talk of every East London bar, and the NME is calling them Europe's most exciting new band. Madrid four-piece Deers are the spunky, hedonistic girl group every woman dreamed of being in back when they were a kid and 'girl power' was the mantra. Most bands who appear to explode on to the music blogosphere overnight actually turn out to have been touring and releasing tracks under the radar for years, but that isn't true for Deers.
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Listen/Review: Glass Caves – Go
Glass Caves started out busking relentlessly around the cobbled streets of Yorkshire and built up a following, honing their boisterous British alt-rock on their travels. They scored a coveted spot on the BBC Introducing stage at this years Reading & Leeds Festivals, but with hooks as good as theirs, Glass Caves could have easily held their own on the Festival Republic stage.
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Introducing / Watch: Kinkajous – Limb (get tickets for them live)
How could I not post this video after watching? Totally refreshing and the perfect start to my morning...
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Listen/Review: Pauma - Sink Or Swim
Listen/Review: Demob Happy – Succubus
If there’s one band in Brighton guaranteed to host the best Great Escape after-party, as well as be a consistent burden to plasterers in the area after causing ceilings to cave in with their uproarious sets, it has to be Demob Happy.
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Listen/Review: Syd Kemp - As I Don’t Get It
Watch/Review: Emperor Yes - Paramesse To Tannis
Driven by unrelenting synth lines and soaring vocals, Emperor Yes are truly a band who will take you to another place very far from reality, and you’ll find it tough not to dance around your bedroom alone while this is playing. Picture this: Passion Pit actually developed a more danceable groove, took a gram of mushrooms, and shot off into outer space.
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Listen: Kate Miller – Collar Up
Dispensing with the sort of ostentatious nom-de-plume that has improved the prospects of countless pop stars from Reg Dwight to Elizabeth Grant, Kate Miller is gambling that her music alone will be enough to linger in the memory banks, aggrandising her rather bland title by proxy. Fortunately, her first release, ‘Collar Up’, is packed with promise.
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Watch: Xinobi - Mom and Dad
Though accompanied here by a vague conceptual promo (she needs to work on that golf swing), this sonically clinical offering would be best appreciated on a high-end hi-fi, or potent club soundsystem.
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Listen: Kormac Feat. Speech Debelle - White Noise
Dublin-based DJ Kormac shares with Lost in the Manor the fourth track from his upcoming album 'Doorsteps', featuring Mercury Music Prize-winner Speech Debelle on vocals. Kormac is getting championed by the likes of Annie Mac, DJ Food, DJ Yoda and Mr Scruff, and we wholeheartedly endorse that. Give it a listen.
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Watch: Sinkane - How We Be
Introducing/Listen: Lomboy - In The Chamber Of Vanu
Watch: The Incredible Magpie Band - This Chose Me
They may have first attracted attention as a trigger for Liam Gallagher to have yet another dig at his older brother (“There’s only one high-flying bird and that’s The Incredible Magpie Band”) but this Wakefield five-piece certainly have an easy swagger and ear for a hook that would appeal to those who yearn for the cocksure retro clarity of early Oasis.
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Listen/Free Download: Louis Berry – 45
‘I think I would like to play chess with the devil’ rasps Liverpudlian Louis Berry over the opening salvos of his debut single’s lean psychobilly shuffle
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Live Review: The New Finsbury, HOO HAs and FURS - Sept 4th 2014
So the stage has changed position, the sound-system has been upgraded, there’s a new dressing room, back bar, toilets and space for a few more punters to lively up themselves on the dancefloor.
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Review: Jane Allison - Just Another Girl
Welsh-born and Bristol-based, but with an ear cocked somewhere to the south of the Mason-Dixon line, Jane Allison releases her pretty collection of Celtic Country & (Great?) Western in September.
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Listen: Candy Darling - Money
Candy Darling are named after Lou Reed’s transgender muse, so it’s perhaps no surprise that their debut single is all brash melodrama. Yet the camp theatrics of the Bristol trio’s grinding electro noir is shot through with malice on ‘Money’, a spurned lover’s defiant stand given edge by the cold-hearted clarity of Emily Breeze’s powerful vocal (reminiscent of Karen O’s), as she proclaims:
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Watch: Happyness - Anything I Do Is All Right
Listen/Review: Wampire - Wizard Staff
Listen: Rökkurró - The Backbone
In a year when the sombre balladeer pining across forgettable laptop-lite has become the default delivery for the unimaginative, we should applaud the return of Rökkurró, whose new single, ‘The Backbone’, a paean to their Reykjavik home, is a triumph of slow and moody electronica-edged introspection
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