Internet Songs Of The Week
ISOTW, what does it mean to you?
In this office it’s a sure fire sign of Friday. At 4.15 the boss lets us loosen our ties and untuck our shirts. Then at around 9PM we’re allowed to take them off entirely and eventually somewhere around 11PM we get to leave an hour early. It’s the best day of the week by a long shot. It’s also a time for reflection and this week we’ve seen Claire Danes explaining the finer points of Berlin’s Berghain on primetime US TV, Powell going head to head with Steve Albini and SOPHIE launching a, errrm, silicon product.
Here’s the most interesting tunes we found on the web this week…
Pity Sex - What Might Soothe You
Run For Cover RecordsThe duelling vocals of Brennan Graves and Britty Drake sound sublime under swelling guitars, sighing with calm elation as a good honest drumbeat pounds out every bad feeling I’ve ever had like a good shiatsu.
Pity Sex, thanks, you are making my day.
Miles From Kinshasa - IVRY
IVRY sounds, to me at least, a little bit like self-destruction. There’s something awesome in how it swaggers through whatever bad feeling or heartache is being wrestled with under those glistening, acidic synths — while gently pounding drums and spitting hats roll on regardless. I don’t know who Miles from Kinshasha is, and the track’s video doesn’t get any closer to giving his identity away, but from this one track I already get a pretty good sense of what he’s all about. It’s cool, assured, and sexy, but at its core pretty vulnerable. Without a doubt the most intriguing piece of music I’ve heard this week.
GØGGS - She Got Harder
In the Red RecordsHow many more bands can Ty Segall physically be part of at this point? He must be in at least fifteen. But how come I like them all? The Segall Express keeps rolling with yet another incarnation that’s spittier, punchier and sillier than ever before with GØGGS.
Introduced in a Tumblr post, the band is apparently “three heads, one spine, circling the drain of the wasteland known as mother earth”, and features Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw, Fuzz guitarist Charles Mootheart and, of course, Segall (but what band doesn’t?). The B-side to this devil-may-care firestarter and debut single will be a Iggy Pop cover and there’s an album dropping next year amongst the rest of Segall’s sea of output. He must be exhausted.
Ansome - Dave The Rave
Perc Trax RecordingsPrison riot techno from Perc Trax newcomer Ansome. Nothing I’ve heard lately says “fuck off summer” quite like this. Much-needed, devastating.
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