Here’s the most interesting music (that’s official) from around the web this week

Strapped for cash? Kanye’s not. This week we found out he’s been raking in stacks from sales without dropping an album since Yeezus. Fair? Hardly. Still, he is the greatest living human being and all that so we should probably just let him off. Right?

Meanwhile, in our hometown of Bristol, Banksy has returned for a beach front dystopian fairground down in Weston Super Mare and local heros Maximum Joy are reforming to play their first set in 25 years at Simple Things. That’s bring us the full amount of happiness. Ahem.

Here are the songs that have soundtracked an indubitably interesting week in our office:

Shit Present - Kick Me

Specialist Subject

‘’Something in the way we spoke, left me feeling so alone’’ sings Iona from Shit Present (best band name ever?) in their new single Kick Me. I’ve been there. You’ve been there. We all been there. Shit Present nails that post break up hell in 3 minutes of catchiest pop punk you will hear all summer. I mean seriously, the song has been stuck in my head for two days now and its gonna be in yours. Trust me though, it’s great.

And then there’s the video. This girl is giving that kid from Danny Brown’s Grown Up video a run for his money. I wish I was this cool when I was younger. I wish I was this cool now. I’ll never be this cool.

Shit Present debut ep comes out on 23 October on Specialist Subject. It would make a GREAT present…I’m sorry.

Danny Nedelko

Deerhunter - Snakeskin

4AD

Bradford Cox is a true original. One of the most singular songwriters to ever roam this green earth. Deerhunter – arguably his ‘main’ band – are on the eve of releasing their 7th album, Fading Frontier, and the first single is blinding.

A disco-country hybrid skewered with Cox’s off-kilter, introspective poetry. An uptempo, alt-pop classic in waiting. I’m addicted to its strangeness and I can’t take my eyes off that superbly optimistic video above. Cox’s presence is as beguiling and engaging as ever as he sits with his dog next to a bath of what appears to be bubbling oil.

Deerhunter rule.

Billy Black

Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Letter

Weird World Record Co

I’m having an absolute day of it. My head’s in the shed. I’m all fingers and thumbs. I need to be soothed, and fast.

I’m not worried though – Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s got my back. The dry vocal delivery, the languid percussion and the airy atmosphere of this cover of Finnish pop group, Kukka, is like a balm to my fevered brow.

Thanks, Jaak, for this wonderful track.

Sammy Jones

Deafheaven - Brought To The Water

Anti-

Sunbather was one of the best records of 2013 (you can read Tom Howells’s excellent review here), so Deafheaven’s New Bermuda has been one of my most looked-forward-to releases in a while. First taste Brought To The Water slips away from Sunbather’s stirring meeting of black metal, shoegaze and screamo by incorporating more overt thrash influences, (which is fine by me), along with some seriously stratospheric solo leads.

As on the rest of New Bermuda, drummer Daniel Tracy is on staggering form – his technical precision and expressive flows, as well as his ability to imbue traditional BM blastbeats with an addictive swing makes him one of the most thrilling players on the planet right now. It’s really, really good to have Deafheaven back.

Geraint Davies

DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn - Dubby feat. Danny Brown

Teklife

This song to me is the sound of early mornings in dim lit rooms and flashing lights peaking through a smoke-filled haze. A skanktastic, rumbling masterpiece of hedonistic delight with a smattering of jazz, this track is this weekend’s groove.

Gunseli Yalcinkaya

Ipman - Gravity

Tectonic

Following on from the dark, bottom-heavy mutations released via Osiris, Tempa and Cold Recordings, emerging Hertfordshire-based producer Ipman is set to release his debut album on Tectonic. This track, Gravity, is a good indication of the style explored in the LP, where Ipman turns junglist fury, sudoriferous hardcore and snaky percussive techno into something strikingly individual.

Get to know.

Anna Tehabsim

FATHER - PLEASE STOP WEARING FAKE VERSACE

Awful Records

It took me a little while to come round to Father’s style. At first, I mistook the Awful Records leader’s nonchalant cool for a lack of urgency, but here I am still constantly listening to the Who’s Gonna Get Fucked First? album four months after its release.

Please Stop Wearing Fake Versace is from Father’s new Papicodone EP, and as the title suggests, it sees him express his disdain for knock off designer gear. It’s not an issue I feel particularly strong about, but the beat’s trunk-rattling bass and squeaky synths epitomises the raunchy minimalism of the Awful Records sound, and here Father flaunts a sense of bravado while sounding too lazy to get up off the couch. Not bad.

Davy Reed

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