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 of talent on soundcloud), assembled over the week. 

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Video make frantic, fast-paced pop music that needn’t rely on nostalgia, cheap tricks or gimmicks. Like many emerging acts with a similar ethos - Outfit in particular - every inch of the song teeters on the brink of tasteless tack but somehow, as if out of charm, you’re always won over. ‘Choose Life’ was the first to affirm as much.

Choose Life by videovideovideo
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You might have seen this one swinging back and forth from one blog to another already this week: The Sounds of Sweet Nothing are bringing out an EP in November from Au/Palais - again here, we’re talking about opinion-dividing pop, though the sheer magnitude and style of a song like ‘Tender Mercy’ (the self-titled track from said EP), is difficult to turn you head away from.

Au Palais - Tender Mercy by Sound Injections

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Now for something of a new discovery: Jordan Busson bucked the trend of me receiving countless, useless e-mails of unmitigated junk from hip-hop PR firms, by sending me news of his Swords EP. ‘Paperlight’ is ambient music in the strictest sense, though it’s difficult not to get lured in by the distant piano chimes, sounding as if they’re coming from another room, and the subtle, sorrowful bass. 

Paperlight by jordanbusson

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And Newcastle’s Waskerley Way has just put out one of the finer EP releases of recent weeks. ‘La Magie Rouge’ is strange in that unlike many albums/EPs, it’s far from top-heavy - more bottom-heavy, in fact. The Nigella Lawson of EPs. Case in point: ‘Greem’. Expect one of the EP’s tracks to appear on the next MFM Podcast.