Internet Songs Of The Week
Here’s the weeks most notable music compiled for you by our team of absolute blaggers. Lucky you.
So, did Lily Allen actually take a swing at Skepta? We’re not sure. It’s been a week shrouded in rumours. Take the one that Los Campesinos! foreshadowed for example. You know? The one where our prime minister might have put his… errr… ‘member of parliament’ in a dead pig’s mouth? Remember that? We also saw Viet Cong announce that they’ll be sacking off their controversial name for something less edgy. They haven’t announced what yet though. If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to add them to the comments section or you could send us a postcard or something.
All in all, it’s been a pretty wild week. Let’s see what’s been going on in music world.
Abbath - Fenrir Hunts
Season of MistImmortal is over. A nasty lawsuit engulfed the band last year. The three members squabbled over the name for a bit. It kinda looked like the end was nigh for the legendary black metal outfit. After a few months of infighting and courtroom battles the band’s frontman Abbath Doom Occulta finally emerged, head high with a new project and a new name (well it’s just his own name basically).
The new project formed alongside Creature and King of Gorgoroth fame began playing shows earlier this year. They first played Fenrir Hunts during those shows and I’m glad to finally have it on tape in this incredibly well captured live recording. It pretty much sounds like old Immortal replete with lightning fast crashes, buzzing frets and shrieking high notes. That’s alright with me though cause I fucking love old Immortal.
Murlo - Moodswung
MixpakMurlo’s latest Mixpak offering follows the excellent Gemma Dunleavy-featuring EP Jasmine. Straying from the vocal-led style of that release, Moodswung is positively glowing. Taken from his longest release to date, it’s another incredibly vivid and assured effort from the London-based producer, outlining the fluttering drama so present in his best work.
Total Abuse - Scabs
Deranged RecordsScabs is the first cut from Austin hardcore/noise band Total Abuse’s third LP, Excluded. Sweating, moaning, tearing at its own skin, it rips itself to pieces. Wiry guitars peal and wounded drums crawl over vocalist Rusty Kelley’s retch: “Eat yourself,” he implores. “Your dry, crawling skin. Scratch yourself raw.” This is a soundtrack to self-loathing; clawing, crushing hatred; and endless self-evisceration. But though it’s delivered in a broken, bile-bubbled scream, it doesn’t sound angry: it sounds confessional.
As Kelley told Decibel this week: “Scabs is a song I wrote about internal guilt and a physical skin condition I suffer from. It is one of the heaviest tracks on the LP. I feel like this track is a good representation of the new album.”
“Pick apart everything on the outside,” coughs Kelley. Wounds run fresh on Scabs, and while there’s no promise the flow will be ever stemmed, I’ll be listening to the album to find out what happens next.
Wavves - Pony
This one song reminds me of the time Corey shotgunned six 40s, wrapped a fatty, inhaled a tube of whipped cream and totally yakked on my mom’s new carpet.
Best. Song. Ever.
Janet Jackson - BURNITUP! Feat. Missy Elliott
Black Doll Inc.Ahead of Unbreakable dropping at the start of next month, Janet’s dropped this collaboration with Missy Elliott. It’s good stuff, Missy sounds suitably ferocious and Janet sounds a bit like Michael circa HIStory. Despite sounding a bit like a track from the Empire soundtrack, the slightly dated vibes sort of make it all more enjoyable. Corny hooks and a tight routine-friendly beat. I mean, the Windows screensaver visuals for the stream sum it all up.
Addison Groove - Dancer (A Side)
Self-ReleasedIf it was 1979, and you were getting horrifically beaten up in Disco by a bunch of coked up wankers in chinos, this is what it would sound like. Sister Sledge bleed into view intermittently, before you’re dropped from a height and your head smashes down against the flashing tiled floor with a bassy thud, over and over again.
Tink ft. K Camp - Jupiter (remix)
Self-ReleasedTink’s Winter’s Diary 3 mixtape came out back in July, and after one or two listens, I kind of forgot about it a while. But despite its shortage of instantly gratifying hooks (aside from the surprisingly successful dance-pop experiment Afterparty), I’ve been revisiting the tape in recent weeks and finding new melodic details to enjoy.
This week Tink flagged up the steamy WD3 track Jupiter with a remix featuring Atlanta rapper K Camp, who provided the hook for one of my favourite tracks of last year. To be honest, I’m not overly excited about his contribution here, but if it takes a phoned in verse from a XXL Freshman to bring more attention to this gorgeous slow-burner, then so be it.
BAMBOO - STONE
Trash Kit’s drummer Rachael and Nick from Peepholes have a new project together. They are called Bamboo and it’s a collaboration that I never knew I wanted to happen but now I’m so glad it did.
The debut track Stone is an elegant mixture of synth pop and R&B. Ethereal and luscious productions revolve around Rachael’s hypnotising vocals that range from deadpan to powerful to delicate throughout the song. In addition there are so many little details such as subtle harmonies and synth sounds that, each time you listen, you’ll notice something new and you’lll immediately would want to hit repeat the button.
The video that accompanies the song is just as captivating, full of artful visuals straight out of Derek Jarman’s playbook.
Bamboo’s debut album, Prince Pansori Preistess, comes out on 4 December via Upset The Rhythm. Save the date.
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