September 2011
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MFM020 - Music Fan's Mic Podcast - 28-09-2011
If you’re following these Music Fan’s Mic podcasts, you’re going to have to get used to the act of celebrating milestones. The past ten shows have been challenging and we haven’t done brilliantly at keeping it to a weekly basis, but we’ve most certainly grown a better music taste through this process, which is a huge positive. The atmosphere of celebration is...
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New Music Update (Video, Au/Palais, Jordan Busson,...
It’s been a week since our first update and six days since a collection from the following day - and don’t forget that in between then and now, we’ve had one of our regular new music podcasts, as well as sharing with you one of our most exciting discoveries in months, Gladius The Fertile. But let’s press on, with some tracks from here and there (well, just the vast amount...
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September Album Pick: Kasabian - Velociraptor!
There’s something about this album that makes it a compelling listen. Maybe it’s that, after three records, Kasabian have finally made a record that can afford to do the talking, instead of the band themselves; an album that matches the high opinion the band (and more specifically, Tom Meighan and Serge Pizzorno) have of their music. All the boasting and bragging the pair have become...
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MFM019 - Music Fan's Mic Podcast - 21-09-2011
In this week’s Music Fan’s Mic Podcast, I come clean about my addiction to shopping channels, as well as playing a selection of songs which I would have no hesitation in purchasing on QVC were they to appear for a starting price of £49.99. There’s new stuff from BEIGE and Strangr; the remarkably assured returns of Friends and The Soft Moon; some charming guitar-work from...
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WatchShabazz Palaces: The King’s new clothes were made by his own hands (Yours Truly x Gorilla vs. Bear session) It’s just intimidating: The level at which these guys work at. In this intimate, sweltering setting, Ishmael Butler accentuates the intricacies of ‘Black Up”s songs. The camera captures every jolt of the hi-hat; every illuminating light from the Roland Sampler. A song...
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MFM New Music Update (Orca Orca, Tashaki Miyaki,...
We introduced this feature yesterday; a small collection of updates and movements of all the new acts catching our eye at the moment. Seems we may be giving you updates fairly frequently, as by the time I pressed “post” on the last article, a few offerings of new music seemed to magically appear in front of me. Pay close attention:...
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MFM New Music Update (AC Slater, Zulu Winter, Two...
Every so often, Jamie or Gareth (or both) will be filling you in on the happenings and movings of almost every new band prompting our interest. Be it the next step towards a stunning debut album, a breakthrough track or an introductory set of songs, or even an interesting promo image or news of signing to a label, this feature will do its best to keep you informed. This Wednesday, you’ll...
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September Album Pick: Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
Tri Angle - Out Now Some artists become victims of their own hype - the most recent example being Lana Del Ray who’s backlash was indeed inevitable, all the same it came at unprecedented speed (as documented by Breaking More Waves). Sometimes it’s not artists but entire genres that become entangled in a barrage of snapping criticism on the blogosphere/twittersphere - like chillwave,...
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Clock Opera: Lesson No. 7 (Tom Vek's Tripping Mix)
This is big. Big as in huge. Not the song itself, which is a fairly understated affair, but the fact that the notoriously reclusive Tom Vek has decided, after all this time, to actually remix another artist is especially worthy of note. After all, this is the man who all but vanished for six years after releasing his debut. He’s turning into a relative workaholic now - not only has he...
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September Album Pick: Beirut - The Rip Tide
Pompeii - Out Now Be it a response to the sell-out shows, the large-scale support slots or the general pattern of settling down (revealed in an interview with The Quietus’ Hazel Sheffield), Zach Condon has certainly gone out to make his most simple, most refined album to date. It strikes you as quite peculiar; that this didn’t exist in Beirut’s back catalogue already. Every...
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EP: Jumping Ships - Standard Bearer
Jumping Ships evidently know how to name their EPs. Their first, ‘Orientation’, was exactly that: a promising introduction to a band who had a lot up their sleeves but were refusing to show all their cards at once. It included a song that became their calling card, ‘The Whole Truth’ - a song that has found its position usurped. ‘Heart and Hope’, one of the...
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General Fiasco: The Bottom / Smalltown America...
Some more new General Fiasco can be streamed below. It’s brilliant, plus it gives me an excuse to mention the compilation that it’s taken from. ‘The Bottom’ is part of a new Smalltown America compilation, ‘Public Service Broadcast #10’, which has a pretty diverse line-up - how the hell else could you explain a tracklisting like this?
1. Three - United...
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MFM018 - Music Fan's Mic Podcast - 07-09-2011
The average podcaster isn’t a fan of picking favourites. Jon Hillcock, the best in the business, will often be found fretting when a listener cites their preferred track on one of his ‘casts, because they’re almost ignoring the rest of the competition. I’m always in a similar boat; always eager to know that people approved of all of the selections, not just one in...
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September Album Pick: The Drums - Portamento
The wheels could have completely come off The Drums last year in the wake of Adam Kessler’s departure, and in hindsight it would have been quite easy for them to self-destruct after the ridiculous year they’d had. 2010 saw them being hailed as THE buzz band of the year, but no matter how good of a first impression their self-titled debut made, it didn’t stick. Fourteen months...
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