Featuring Deep Thrills, Deep Sea Diver, Two Shell, Marie Davidson, Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
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Deep Thrills
Truth Before Dare
Sorry The Dare, this is the how you do James Murphy voice.
When artists approximate the tone, vibe and losing-my-edgeness of James Murphy, it usually ends up feeling like a facsimile of the original.
Deep Thrills‘ ‘Truth Before Dare’ comes across like an updated version on ‘Losing My Edge’ , with the same type of wry knowing lyrics, yet referencing his nearest challenger – The Dare.
It works both as an homage and an original take on the sound, which we should all appreciate.
The artist is also known as Paper Idol.
I was sure of it, the writing was on the wall
I’ve been talking over my tracks for years
I invented Helvetica
I have the Limewire edition of every great French record:
Justice, Busy P, Kavinsky, Soulwax, Mr. Oizo
Every DJ named SebastianI was here before there
I was truth before dare
I like girls that do drugs too
I should’ve been telling the world
Deep Sea Diver
What Do I Know
The Seatle band lead by Jessica Dobson released their fourth album Billboard Heart on Sub Pop last week, a fine collection of alternative indie rock, best exemplified by the riproaring melodic song ‘What Do I Know?’
Guitar virtuoso Madison Cunnigham guests on the record.
Two Shell
Oops…
The UK electronic chancers casually drop a loosey that sound like 2000s electro-blog-house-era Vitalic, with enough of that Cloudclore sub-bass to bring it into 2025.
This is a very good thing.
Marie Davidson
Fun Times
The Montreal electronic producer Marie Davidson’s sixth album City Of Clowns arrived on Soulwax’s Deewee label – moving from “crunching techno straight out of 90s Detroit, fired-up circuitboard breakbeats, and skewed club cuts,” while exploring her place in the world as a woman, a musician, and an artist.
‘Fun Times’ is the ind of electro body music that Davidson excels at, and the record is full of it.
The record was made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau (Essaie pas, L’Œil Nu, Feu St-Antoine).
Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
Maria También
Every now and again, the German steel band Bacao drop a delicious cover. It has seen them featured in Oscar-winning Anatomy Of A Fall in recent years with their ‘PIMP’ cover, and they pop up on our lists from time to time.
‘Maria Tambien’ is of course a cover of the Texas pych rock trio Khruangbin’s finest hour, a song most recently heard in the season three of White Lotus.
Also added to this week’s playlist:
- Puma Blue – gone is the grac
- The Vernon Spring; Max Porter – The Breadline
- God Knows – The Art of Alienation
- Maria Kelly – Like A Wave
- eyejust – feel like u
- piri & tommy – fruit machine
- Little Simz; Obongjayar; Moonchild Sanelly – Flood
- Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time/Mountain
- Blaskets – growing pains
- brawni – Ciúnas
- Penelope Trappes – A Requiem
- Becky McNeice – Back Again
- Saapato; Nailah Hunter – Melting into Asphalt / Springing from the Earth
- Tebi Rex – Fin.
- Faux Real; Wet Leg – Walking Away from My Demons – Wet Leg Remix
- Celaviedmai; Osmosis Jones – Wicked Witch – Osmosis Jones Remix
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