Miss Santi White aka Santogold stock continues to rise. Since I featured her Jools Holland performance [here] in May, she's appeared in the "Converse song" with Pharrell NERD and Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas (see embed below) and is now supporting Coldplay on their current North American tour shows she's not all hype after all. Or the hype shows no signs of faltering. I prefer to think it's the former.
I've got her BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge performance here, with new UK single 'Lights Out' and a cover of Adele's only good song. I say good but let's not beat around the bush - it's ace [YouTube]. Santogold's bleak interpretation carries similar sentiment to the original but lacks the punch of Adele's vocals and the magic of a piano. Santi's much more suited to her new wave/post punk and 'Lights Out' is a pulsating slice of eighties powerpop.
p.s new podcast out soon. Podcast#4 (featuring the likes of 4 Or 5 Magicians, Elle S'Appelle and Kevin Drew of BSS) expiring on Tuesday, listen/download [here].
Showing posts with label Santogold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santogold. Show all posts
on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Following yesterday's post on Brooklyn's Yeasayer, we stay in the same geographic area for a little post on Santi White, aka Santogold. Miss Gold has been receiving mega hype of late, a result of her debut eponymous album leaking on the internet. That album is out on May 12th in the UK (and she's touring too), by the by.
Not that she's a particularly new sensation, with internet fandom late last year and an appearance on Mark Ronson's 'Versions' album covering The Jam. She's even written and produced hit US R&B singles. But she's moved away from R&B really and comparisons to MIA are inevitable. A simple conclusion would be that she's the electro pop MIA. But it's difficult to pigeon hole Santogold with her tracks displaying an array of influences, admittedly largely from the 80s. I guess it's this diversity that will allow Santogold to emerge from MIA's shadow, as an artist in her own right. But maybe that's being a bit presumptive, what do you think? Listen to recent single 'L.E.S Artistes' as performed on BBC TV show, Later With Jools Holland yesterday. It's out this week in the UK as a single.
Seeing as I didn't manage to get a podcast out for April, if you're looking for a bit of podcast action, you could do no worse than to catch KHI podcast#3. It expires in a couple of weeks time or so, and features Johnny Foreigner, Miracle Fortress and other randomly put together tracks that were pretty good to these ears. Listen then download [here].
A May 2008 podcast but the best way to keep abreast of such things is to subscribe to my RSS feed/s - look in the sidebar on the right hand side of your screen for my podcast only feed or my feed for podcast and blog posts. Otherwise, feel free to check back every so often!
Not that she's a particularly new sensation, with internet fandom late last year and an appearance on Mark Ronson's 'Versions' album covering The Jam. She's even written and produced hit US R&B singles. But she's moved away from R&B really and comparisons to MIA are inevitable. A simple conclusion would be that she's the electro pop MIA. But it's difficult to pigeon hole Santogold with her tracks displaying an array of influences, admittedly largely from the 80s. I guess it's this diversity that will allow Santogold to emerge from MIA's shadow, as an artist in her own right. But maybe that's being a bit presumptive, what do you think? Listen to recent single 'L.E.S Artistes' as performed on BBC TV show, Later With Jools Holland yesterday. It's out this week in the UK as a single.
Seeing as I didn't manage to get a podcast out for April, if you're looking for a bit of podcast action, you could do no worse than to catch KHI podcast#3. It expires in a couple of weeks time or so, and features Johnny Foreigner, Miracle Fortress and other randomly put together tracks that were pretty good to these ears. Listen then download [here].
A May 2008 podcast but the best way to keep abreast of such things is to subscribe to my RSS feed/s - look in the sidebar on the right hand side of your screen for my podcast only feed or my feed for podcast and blog posts. Otherwise, feel free to check back every so often!
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