A blog about music by Mark Higgins.
In: Music Video| New Music
29 Jan 2010Charlotte Gainsbourg featuring Beck – Heaven Can Wait (Youtube)
I very much enjoyed the first track from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album, IRM, the single itself being eponymous. I’m always interested to hear what Beck is up to as well, so when I got word they were teaming up I was expecting something exciting. And they’ve duly [...]
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23 Jan 2010Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed
I do like a bit of Ellie Goulding, it has to be said. Despite the rampant overplaying that Under The Sheets received towards the end of last year, it was a great pop song.
Now that she’s only gone and come top of the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, everyone under the [...]
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21 Jan 2010Berndsen – Supertime (Youtube)
There’s a couple of reasons to love this song. Number one, it’s a well put together electro-pop song with flashes of ABBA and flashes of brilliance. On the other hand, there’s the video.
I’ve seen videos described as more disturbing, but god forbid the Daily Mail ever find out about this one. The [...]
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17 Jan 2010The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa (mtvU)
This track, featuring the vocal stylings of Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend (who’s outstanding track Cousins I featured a few weeks ago) was one of the unexpected smashes of last summer. So quite why the record label has decided to drop a video for it now, in [...]
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15 Jan 2010Warpaint – Elephants (Youtube)
Oh, now this I like. Could it be the vaguely ethereal women playing guitars in the video? Almost certainly! But it’s also to do with the fact that this is a rather tasty slice of nouvelle ambient indie.
The looping guitars, the echoey vocals, the fact that it sounds like the singer is [...]
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8 Jan 2010Alex Metric – It Starts (Youtube)
Bit of radio friendly electro for you guys now. I’ve heard some of Alex Metric’s remixes, but this is the first track I’ve heard under his name.
It’s a catchy one, no doubt. Infectious! There’s a lot of Les Rhythmes Digitales going on in here, most notably in the vocals, and [...]
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4 Jan 2010TEENAGERSINTOKYO – Peter Pan (Youtube)
A new year, and time for some… more music that sounds a bit like all the stuff I posted in 2009. But wait! Don’t run!
Despite having a name that flies in the face of decent grammar, TEENAGERSINTOKYO actually have something pretty nice going with this latest track. The basslines and even [...]
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Stars and Sons – Futureproof (video)