Remember those archaic days when you picked up a magazine or a free newspaper and saw a playlist of what people were into that week and you would then immediately check it out if you thought it was interesting. The Aussie street press magazines reminded me of the power of those subjective charts. I’ve always got loads of great stuff from them so I’m going to re-introduce them here. No great fanfare or descriptions just ten of the best song around right now you should know or you might already know.
- Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls (Trentemoller Remix) – Blood (Domino)
- Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource – Bitte Orca – (Domino)
- Mos Def – Auditorium feat. Slick Rick – The Ecstatic (Downtown)
- Grizzly Bear – Southern Point – Veckatimest (Warp)
- Various Production – Trycycle – EP (Self-released)
- The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea – Primary Colours (XL)
- J Dilla – I Told Y’all – Jay Stay Paid (Nature Sounds)
- Dam-Funk – Hood Pass Intact – Let’s Take Off EP (Stones Throw)
- Milanese – The End – Lockout (Planet Mu)
- Burial / Four Tet – Moth – 12″ (TEXTt006)
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Great idea!
Moth is one of my favourite tracks of the year – its awesome!
You checked out Speech Debelle yet?
Yeh its amazing. especially on big speakers. Might play at my DJ set at Oxegen.
Listened to the speech debelle album a few times seems cool. Must listen again.
Ment to congratualate you on that – Moth would set a great tone for the fever ray set
Speech Debelle gets better on every listen
Yppahs new album is class aswell
Yeh its great that!
Man, ‘Hood Pass Intact’ is funkin awesome isn’t it! Have Dam Funk’s last two 12″s, not a duff track on em! Word on the street is he might be playing Ireland this year (DJ set). Savage.
Yay Moth! That video is so perfect for it too.
Had a listen to “Blood” today – not bad at all, better than the original album for me
Can’t get enough of that Burial/Four Tet 12″. Both sides are pretty awesome, but Moth just about pips it I think.