The 5 best songs of the week

Getdown Services

Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat

“Like body odour on the dancefloor / I bring a certain sadness to the conga line.”

The Bristol duo Getdown Services’ music is a fun mix of slacker pop, indie-disco, funk and rock, as introduced to me by Lumo Club’s Gavin Elsted via their superlative track ‘Crisps’.

‘Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat’ is a laconic T-rex stomper infected with modern malaise.

The band play Dublin and Cork this weekend.

The tune is from their forthcoming EP Primordial Slot Machine.

Stereolab

Melodie Is A Wound

Stereolab are gearing up to release their first album in 15 years and so far the two tracks released have been grade A Lab doozies.

‘Aerial Troubles’ was a perfect reintroduction. Arguably ‘Melodie Is A Wound’ is even more perfect, a swirling repeating guitar arrangement and a sense of motorik rhythm beneath Lætitia Sadier’s vocals. It’s reminiscent of some of their best work like ‘Miss Modular’ from 1997’s Dots & Loops.

The band even released a novelty crossword with the song.

Instant Holograms On Metal Film is out May 23rd co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records.

Turnstile

Seein’ Stars

Man, I’m excited to hear this new Turnstile record when it drops on June 6th.

The title track was my favourite track of last month, and the videos are apparently made for each song as with new video featuring the serene rock of ‘Seein Stars’ with the more hardcore ‘Birds’.

According to an interview the band gave New York Times, the album features a “pop-soul, a classic pop-punk ripper,” a song that “might technically qualify as thrash metal” and a six-and-a-half minute song that “includes both a house music outro and an actor from The Wire reprising dialogue from an emotional scene.

Elaine Howley

Hold Me In A New Way

Cork artist Elaine Howley dropped two songs on Modern Love’s 7” series last week, with ‘Hold Me In New Way’ and ‘CD’s’ with Boomkat describing them perfectly as “skewing late night pop diamonds for the fantasy jukebox.” Boomkat is where you can buy the 7″ exclusively.

Lael Neale

Tell Me How To be Here

Altogether Stranger, Lael Neale latest album on Sub Pop covers reverbed retro garage rock, motorik Beach House-esque dream pop, psych, tape loops Mellotron and Omnichord ballads anchored by Neal’s wavy high register.

‘Tell Me How To Be Here’s encapsulates a longing liminal space, in which Neale ruminates on returning to Los Angeles after three years of living in rural Virginia. It’s got a bleary-eyed daydream vibe to it.

Neal plays Dublin on Saturday.