Having debuted on The Hype Machine via this very blog back in September 2006, Castle Donington quartet Late Of The Pier are now gearing up for the launch of their debut album, 'Fantasy Black Channel'. The Erol Alkan produced album drops on August 11th, preceded by the single release of 'Heartbeat', complete with awesome video:
Directed by Megaforce, the video is pretty weird. Then again, the song isn't exactly your typical "by numbers" jaunt - "Pineapple pieces in brine, fucking around with your mind". And their video back catalogue is hardly filled with simplistic performance videos. The 'Heartbeat' vid actually reminds me of the beginning of 'Once In A Lifetime' by Talking Heads [YouTube] as well. Same as it ever was.
The synth-heavy floorfiller 'Heartbeat' will be released on August 4th. Order at the Late Of The Pier [online store].
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on Monday, May 12, 2008
Castle Donington's Late Of The Pier are giving debut single 'Space & The Woods' a proper release now they're on Parlophone, as a double A-side with 'Focker'. Watch the respective vids for each track in the embeds below. In "celebration" of the new single, they are also giving away a snazzy Patrick Plastix remix for free. Paddy appears to be a member of Doncaster's finest (almost by default) Neon Plastix.
While Late Of The Pier are a well trodden path here on Keep Hope Inside (my first post on them was in September 2006 [read here] - the first mp3 blog on their case), I haven't mentioned Neon Plastix. But just a quick word about Late Of The Pier, having their album produced by Erol Alkan has benefited them in one sense (his name attracts attention, much like Paul Epworth did a couple of years ago) but now some are attributing the LOTP sound to Mr Alkan. Going back to the demos from 2006, I think we can safely say that isn't the case.
Neon Plastix suffer no such worries but they do bear an obvious comparison to Late Of The Pier. Admittedly that could be preceded by "poor man's", possibly unfairly. I'd prefer to compare them to The Blood Arm but more electro-fied.
They've been outrageously awesome and made quite a few of their tracks available for download (albeit some in .m4a) on their MySpace. Of those, I'm particularly enthralled by 'Indecisions', which is when stadium rock fathered a child by electro. It sounds a bit like The Killers or more closely, the hotly tipped White Lies (who are appearing on Later With Jools next week apparently. [KHI interview here]). But with spazzy special effects. As for Patrick's remix of 'Space & The Woods', it's a grungey take on europop. Not half bad.
The Late Of The Pier single is out next week, preorder from their own Zarcorp site [here]. LOTP (and associates) also run their own blog of the same name, [here].
While Late Of The Pier are a well trodden path here on Keep Hope Inside (my first post on them was in September 2006 [read here] - the first mp3 blog on their case), I haven't mentioned Neon Plastix. But just a quick word about Late Of The Pier, having their album produced by Erol Alkan has benefited them in one sense (his name attracts attention, much like Paul Epworth did a couple of years ago) but now some are attributing the LOTP sound to Mr Alkan. Going back to the demos from 2006, I think we can safely say that isn't the case.
Neon Plastix suffer no such worries but they do bear an obvious comparison to Late Of The Pier. Admittedly that could be preceded by "poor man's", possibly unfairly. I'd prefer to compare them to The Blood Arm but more electro-fied.
They've been outrageously awesome and made quite a few of their tracks available for download (albeit some in .m4a) on their MySpace. Of those, I'm particularly enthralled by 'Indecisions', which is when stadium rock fathered a child by electro. It sounds a bit like The Killers or more closely, the hotly tipped White Lies (who are appearing on Later With Jools next week apparently. [KHI interview here]). But with spazzy special effects. As for Patrick's remix of 'Space & The Woods', it's a grungey take on europop. Not half bad.
The Late Of The Pier single is out next week, preorder from their own Zarcorp site [here]. LOTP (and associates) also run their own blog of the same name, [here].
on Sunday, February 17, 2008
This post will finish off my tips for 2008 so let's crack on. There'll be a quick recap at the end and then we'll just have to wait and see if I manage more than a 1/12 success rate this time around.
Guillemots
This slot was going to go to either Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong or to The Ting Tings. Now as I'm not really a fan of either, I felt a bit stuck. Until, that is, I had an epiphany while watching Jonathon Ross' chat show last night, which featured a performance by Guillemots (gilly-mots). I thought to myself, "they were hyped, weren't they?" and lo and behold I found a suitable replacement. Not to mention that one of the other guests on the show, Welsh siren Katherine Jenkins, is a right fittie mcvitie.
Guillemots are returning with a new album, 'Red', following their previous effort, the Mercury Music Prize nominated 'Through The Windowpane'. After recently offering up album track 'Kriss Kross' on their MySpace, new single 'Get Over It' has hit the airwaves. And it's not exactly what you might have expected. Exceedingly radio friendly but with the same energy that brought the band success, it should be a hit single. Hopefully the album will prove to be the critical and commerical success that the debut proved to be.
Guillemots - Get Over It (Radio Rip) [Yourfilehost d/l link]//[Sendspace mirror]
Guillemots - Sexy Back (Justin Timberlake Cover..ish) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace] (with thanks to driftingnowhere.co.uk)
Late Of The Pier
Firstly, a nod to Transparent Magazine [link] for first introducing me to this band, a fact I did acknowledge in my post on Late Of The Pier back in September 2006 [link]. Wow, that was a long time ago. LOTP have done well for themselves since then, releasing two singles (including one on Moshi Moshi), signing to Parlophone and working with Erol Alkan on their debut album. The eccentricity still remains, not that that's a bad thing.
Thankfully their rise toward the mainstream hasn't been marred with the 'nu-rave' tag, although Klaxons comparisons could prove to be inevitable. Let's hope that if that happens, they can at least mirror their counterparts' success. They've got the man behind the Klaxons video, Saam Farahmand, to do the vid for their new single 'The Bears Are Coming'. It's really quite bizarre but then again so is most of Saam's work. He's got a cool name though, right guys? ;)
Late Of The Pier - Focker (BBC Introducing Live) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace]
Late Of The Pier - Heartbeat (BBC Introducing Live) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace]
Head to musiclikedirt.com for the other session track.
Friendly Fires
With Jack Penate being my only true success from last year's tips list, why not choose the support band on his UK tour in March. And their drummer used to go to the same university. As do I, in fact. Not to mention other acts that are really coming to the fore now such as Nic Nell, Sky Larkin and Fanfarlo/My Sad Captains. Yeah, a real hotbed of music excitment. Except they've all left.
Friendly Fires are yet another band in this 2008 list to have been affiliated with Moshi Moshi, releasing their much loved single 'Paris' on the label. With the aforementioned Jack Penate tour coming up as well as supporting the Kaiser Chiefs at Elland Road(!), Friendly Fires look to have a promising year ahead of them.
Friendly Fires - Paris (Live At The JD Set) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace]
Nic Nell also has a remix/cover of 'On Board' on his MySpace [link]
So that's the end of my Futuresounds 2008 list, i.e my bands to watch out for this year. While last year's choices were more hopeful than expectant, this year I decided to include bands which had been blatantly hyped at one point or another (hence Vampire Weekend, Adele, Glasvegas and Guillemots). I also wanted to carry on with an ethos that I used last year, highlighting bands which hadn't previously appeared on this blog (so we got Alphabeat, Agaskodo Teliverek, The Wave Pictures and Friendly Fires). And finally I decided to support some acts that I was one of the first to feature in the past, meaning Elle S'Appelle, Jose Vanders, Look See Proof and Late Of The Pier made another appearance on Keep Hope Inside.
As there were only twelve choices, I had to leave out a good few bands that I felt would do well this year. I think the prime example of that would be Johnny Foreigner. I genuinely thought they'd take the blogging world by storm, like Los Campesinos! did but it's been a slower process. They are finally getting the attention they deserve though and the new tracks sound fantastic. Hopefully, some of the other acts I would have liked to mention, like Operahouse and Muscles, might end up on one of my podcasts!
What do you lot think though? Who are you tipping this year? Are my choices worth the computer they're typed on?
Guillemots
This slot was going to go to either Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong or to The Ting Tings. Now as I'm not really a fan of either, I felt a bit stuck. Until, that is, I had an epiphany while watching Jonathon Ross' chat show last night, which featured a performance by Guillemots (gilly-mots). I thought to myself, "they were hyped, weren't they?" and lo and behold I found a suitable replacement. Not to mention that one of the other guests on the show, Welsh siren Katherine Jenkins, is a right fittie mcvitie.
Guillemots are returning with a new album, 'Red', following their previous effort, the Mercury Music Prize nominated 'Through The Windowpane'. After recently offering up album track 'Kriss Kross' on their MySpace, new single 'Get Over It' has hit the airwaves. And it's not exactly what you might have expected. Exceedingly radio friendly but with the same energy that brought the band success, it should be a hit single. Hopefully the album will prove to be the critical and commerical success that the debut proved to be.
Guillemots - Get Over It (Radio Rip) [Yourfilehost d/l link]//[Sendspace mirror]
Guillemots - Sexy Back (Justin Timberlake Cover..ish) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace] (with thanks to driftingnowhere.co.uk)
Late Of The Pier
Firstly, a nod to Transparent Magazine [link] for first introducing me to this band, a fact I did acknowledge in my post on Late Of The Pier back in September 2006 [link]. Wow, that was a long time ago. LOTP have done well for themselves since then, releasing two singles (including one on Moshi Moshi), signing to Parlophone and working with Erol Alkan on their debut album. The eccentricity still remains, not that that's a bad thing.
Thankfully their rise toward the mainstream hasn't been marred with the 'nu-rave' tag, although Klaxons comparisons could prove to be inevitable. Let's hope that if that happens, they can at least mirror their counterparts' success. They've got the man behind the Klaxons video, Saam Farahmand, to do the vid for their new single 'The Bears Are Coming'. It's really quite bizarre but then again so is most of Saam's work. He's got a cool name though, right guys? ;)
Late Of The Pier - Focker (BBC Introducing Live) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace]
Late Of The Pier - Heartbeat (BBC Introducing Live) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace]
Head to musiclikedirt.com for the other session track.
Friendly Fires
With Jack Penate being my only true success from last year's tips list, why not choose the support band on his UK tour in March. And their drummer used to go to the same university. As do I, in fact. Not to mention other acts that are really coming to the fore now such as Nic Nell, Sky Larkin and Fanfarlo/My Sad Captains. Yeah, a real hotbed of music excitment. Except they've all left.
Friendly Fires are yet another band in this 2008 list to have been affiliated with Moshi Moshi, releasing their much loved single 'Paris' on the label. With the aforementioned Jack Penate tour coming up as well as supporting the Kaiser Chiefs at Elland Road(!), Friendly Fires look to have a promising year ahead of them.
Friendly Fires - Paris (Live At The JD Set) [Yourfilehost]//[Sendspace]
Nic Nell also has a remix/cover of 'On Board' on his MySpace [link]
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So that's the end of my Futuresounds 2008 list, i.e my bands to watch out for this year. While last year's choices were more hopeful than expectant, this year I decided to include bands which had been blatantly hyped at one point or another (hence Vampire Weekend, Adele, Glasvegas and Guillemots). I also wanted to carry on with an ethos that I used last year, highlighting bands which hadn't previously appeared on this blog (so we got Alphabeat, Agaskodo Teliverek, The Wave Pictures and Friendly Fires). And finally I decided to support some acts that I was one of the first to feature in the past, meaning Elle S'Appelle, Jose Vanders, Look See Proof and Late Of The Pier made another appearance on Keep Hope Inside.
As there were only twelve choices, I had to leave out a good few bands that I felt would do well this year. I think the prime example of that would be Johnny Foreigner. I genuinely thought they'd take the blogging world by storm, like Los Campesinos! did but it's been a slower process. They are finally getting the attention they deserve though and the new tracks sound fantastic. Hopefully, some of the other acts I would have liked to mention, like Operahouse and Muscles, might end up on one of my podcasts!
What do you lot think though? Who are you tipping this year? Are my choices worth the computer they're typed on?
on Sunday, September 09, 2007
The first two parts of my new blogger feature seem to have gone down well, in fact so much so that my Fileden monthly bandwidth was totally raped so back to Yousendit for the next few posts. Plus, I can stop talking about the Mercury Music Prize now and start talking about the Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize [link]. Although would Klaxons have won if they were still called Klaxons (Not Centaurs)? I doubt anyone cares. But good news for Amy Wino that 'Rehab' won the Popjustice Music Prize! That's another twenty quid to spend down the pub then. Also, the Girls Aloud cover I posted of 'Rehab' will be disappearing very soon, download it now [link]. What's that? Get on with the post? Oh, okay...
David West//Surrey, England//[Spot The Monster]
David hails from Bagshot, a village whose website proudly proclaims that it "has its own railway station". His dream job is being a music journo or A&R "so writing a blog seemed like a good way to write whenever I wanted to and not having to rely on the school magazine which was what I was doing at the time".
He sent me 'Sunday', a recent b-side by Yorkshire tykes Slow Club as the best track he'd-wanted-to-post-but-didn't-manage-to. A slight error on my original design brief but fine by me. "This is just a perfect example of twee indie pop. The song depicts a day of misfortunate events ('I missed the bus and then the train and my boots filled up with dew') until coming home to the one they love".
David is confident Hadouken! and Cajun Dance Party are approaching mainstream success but instead focuses his recommendations on the "anti-folk thing going on in London, with people like Lightspeed Champion, Emmy The Great and Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit who are worth looking out for". He also mentions Dustin & Garret who make "incredible electronic art rock".
Slow Club - Sunday (BBC Radio 1 Session) [Yousendit link]//[Sendspace link]
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Sarah Stilettos//Surrey, England//[Ugly Writing]
So apparently Surrey is a blogging hotspot. Sarah is from Fetcham which, unlike David's clearly futuristic area of Bagshot, lacks a railway station but "but you can go for lovely walks" at least. She started Ugly Writing following stints at Artrocker and Playlouder "but even those relatively open minded folk gave me too many restrictions in terms of word count/not wanting double page features on bands no one had heard of/having to keep reviews features and news distinct/not writing things that were completely unpublishable".
Sarah suggests The Low Miffs as a band to watch for, "Simply for managing to include the lyric, 'a song for for extramarital affairs to be discovered to' in a dark, sardonic showtune, and then singing it at White Heat dangling off the stage like a stripper as though it were some kind of twisted lovesong dedicated to the proprieter". For those wondering about White Heat, it's a London clubnight held in a bizarre venue that in all probability, was a strip club. And still might be actually.
Yet another mention (and deservedly so!) for East Midlanders Late Of The Pier on this blog, this time as 'The Bears Are Coming' is Sarah's favourite track that she's written about on Ugly Writing so far. If like me you live your life in a permanent state of paranoia you will relate to the music of Late Of The Pier".
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John Mutch//Essex, England//[Pop Register]
John's area has a train station. But apparently not a forward thinking local paper. "With just a few opportunities down at the local paper to write, I thought I'd create my own platform. And voila, the Pop Register is born." John also emailed me a photo of his legs claiming it's "enigmatic". I'm not so sure but here it is anyway...
"My favourite tune that I have posted will have to be a Wombats one. I can't get enough of their fluffy goodness. If I had to choose which of their songs I'd settle for the latest single ['Let's Dance To Joy Division'] as I'm by no means bored of it yet, despite MANY listens".
John is obviously a big fan of The Wombats and goes on to recommend them as ones of his bands to go listen to right now, along with Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, The Jessica Fletchers, Los Campesinos! and The Whip. He also singles out Cajun Dance Party who "have been under the media spotlight for over a year now but have only just started to get their releases around. Lots of buzz surrounding them. All completely justifiable too when you listen to 'Amylase' or 'The Next Untouchable'.
The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division [Yousendit link]//[Alt link]
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The FINAL part of Y!M!B! will be coming soon, after I finish packing a million leaflets for the new international students at my uni :(
David West//Surrey, England//[Spot The Monster]
David hails from Bagshot, a village whose website proudly proclaims that it "has its own railway station". His dream job is being a music journo or A&R "so writing a blog seemed like a good way to write whenever I wanted to and not having to rely on the school magazine which was what I was doing at the time".
He sent me 'Sunday', a recent b-side by Yorkshire tykes Slow Club as the best track he'd-wanted-to-post-but-didn't-manage-to. A slight error on my original design brief but fine by me. "This is just a perfect example of twee indie pop. The song depicts a day of misfortunate events ('I missed the bus and then the train and my boots filled up with dew') until coming home to the one they love".
David is confident Hadouken! and Cajun Dance Party are approaching mainstream success but instead focuses his recommendations on the "anti-folk thing going on in London, with people like Lightspeed Champion, Emmy The Great and Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit who are worth looking out for". He also mentions Dustin & Garret who make "incredible electronic art rock".
Slow Club - Sunday (BBC Radio 1 Session) [Yousendit link]//[Sendspace link]
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Sarah Stilettos//Surrey, England//[Ugly Writing]
So apparently Surrey is a blogging hotspot. Sarah is from Fetcham which, unlike David's clearly futuristic area of Bagshot, lacks a railway station but "but you can go for lovely walks" at least. She started Ugly Writing following stints at Artrocker and Playlouder "but even those relatively open minded folk gave me too many restrictions in terms of word count/not wanting double page features on bands no one had heard of/having to keep reviews features and news distinct/not writing things that were completely unpublishable".
Sarah suggests The Low Miffs as a band to watch for, "Simply for managing to include the lyric, 'a song for for extramarital affairs to be discovered to' in a dark, sardonic showtune, and then singing it at White Heat dangling off the stage like a stripper as though it were some kind of twisted lovesong dedicated to the proprieter". For those wondering about White Heat, it's a London clubnight held in a bizarre venue that in all probability, was a strip club. And still might be actually.
Yet another mention (and deservedly so!) for East Midlanders Late Of The Pier on this blog, this time as 'The Bears Are Coming' is Sarah's favourite track that she's written about on Ugly Writing so far. If like me you live your life in a permanent state of paranoia you will relate to the music of Late Of The Pier".
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John Mutch//Essex, England//[Pop Register]
John's area has a train station. But apparently not a forward thinking local paper. "With just a few opportunities down at the local paper to write, I thought I'd create my own platform. And voila, the Pop Register is born." John also emailed me a photo of his legs claiming it's "enigmatic". I'm not so sure but here it is anyway...
"My favourite tune that I have posted will have to be a Wombats one. I can't get enough of their fluffy goodness. If I had to choose which of their songs I'd settle for the latest single ['Let's Dance To Joy Division'] as I'm by no means bored of it yet, despite MANY listens".
John is obviously a big fan of The Wombats and goes on to recommend them as ones of his bands to go listen to right now, along with Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, The Jessica Fletchers, Los Campesinos! and The Whip. He also singles out Cajun Dance Party who "have been under the media spotlight for over a year now but have only just started to get their releases around. Lots of buzz surrounding them. All completely justifiable too when you listen to 'Amylase' or 'The Next Untouchable'.
The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division [Yousendit link]//[Alt link]
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The FINAL part of Y!M!B! will be coming soon, after I finish packing a million leaflets for the new international students at my uni :(
on Friday, September 01, 2006
Once in a while, a band appears that you just have to sit up and pay attention to. Because they seem quite insane. Nottingham's Late Of The Pier make eccentric music which is akin to Daft Punk and The Flaming Lips sitting together and watching the Sci-Fi channel in a mental asylum.
First came across these young lads at a Transparent [link] night on a stellar bill headlined by Les Incompétents. Very entertaining. The synth (or whatever it is) player was amazingly funny with his onstage dance moves, worth seeing this band for that alone. But the music stands up too, so much so that Diesel U-Music - famed for its unsigned awards, propelling the likes of Tom Vek and We Are Scientists into the mainstream - invited the band to play on their Finalists Tour in July.
'Very Wav Wet Wipes' starts off surprisingly calmly yet considerably trippy before evolving into a bit of a floorfiller. Out of nowhere comes a hip hop stylee breakdown and in turn, the tempo is brought down and eventually ends up sounding like a bit of an electro Strokes. No bad thing in my book. 'Broken' is more of a straight forward dancey number but has a bit of a haunting ending. Late Of The Pier's music is quite schizophrenic really but the idea of not knowing what will come next adds to the intrigue. Not to mention I have no clue what they're on about lyrically.
Late Of The Pier - Very Wav Wet Wipes
Late Of The Pier - Broken
Late Of The Pier play a handful of dates over the next few weeks, including tonight at the legendary Way Out West clubnight. See their MySpace for dates and other downloads [link].
First came across these young lads at a Transparent [link] night on a stellar bill headlined by Les Incompétents. Very entertaining. The synth (or whatever it is) player was amazingly funny with his onstage dance moves, worth seeing this band for that alone. But the music stands up too, so much so that Diesel U-Music - famed for its unsigned awards, propelling the likes of Tom Vek and We Are Scientists into the mainstream - invited the band to play on their Finalists Tour in July.
'Very Wav Wet Wipes' starts off surprisingly calmly yet considerably trippy before evolving into a bit of a floorfiller. Out of nowhere comes a hip hop stylee breakdown and in turn, the tempo is brought down and eventually ends up sounding like a bit of an electro Strokes. No bad thing in my book. 'Broken' is more of a straight forward dancey number but has a bit of a haunting ending. Late Of The Pier's music is quite schizophrenic really but the idea of not knowing what will come next adds to the intrigue. Not to mention I have no clue what they're on about lyrically.
Late Of The Pier - Very Wav Wet Wipes
Late Of The Pier - Broken
Late Of The Pier play a handful of dates over the next few weeks, including tonight at the legendary Way Out West clubnight. See their MySpace for dates and other downloads [link].
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