Our weekly look into the blogosphere where we talk about six tracks we found out about in the previous Wednesday-to-Wednesday seven-day period.Track of the week:
‘Hide Me’ by The Golden Filter (Peter, Bjorn & John remix)
Okay, I really really liked the Rory Phillips remix of this one, and with Peter, Bjorn and John behind the buttons you know you’ll at least get something quirky and weird. And that is clear from the starting point. This song in its original form is very Italo, very dreamy almost to a fault. This remix puts an end to that one, as the original song’s vibe takes until midway to come through. I like how they puzzled this one together. The screeching in the background, the simple, understated beat up front, along with some vocals which I think are male, so probably from Peter, Bjorn & John themselves rather than from The Golden Filter. The song takes on a completely different identity, and sometimes a remix kills the song with that, and sometimes a remix prolongs the song’s lifespan by putting it in a different context and giving it a different look. I think Peter, Bjorn & John did the latter.
http://hypem.com/track/1093881/The+Golden+Filter+-+Hide+Me+Peter+Bjorn+John+Remix+
Band of Skulls – Death By Diamonds and Pearls (Deluka Diamante remix)
Strong out of the gates, that’s what this one is. Rocking guitars, and it sounds like old fashioned rock and roll this one. It also fits the title and the lyrics, this kind of glam rock 70s sound. It is rather straight forward, rather simple, but rock was never about complexity was it? Well, sometimes it was, but not with this kind of three minute stompers. Admittedly, the disadvantage of straight forward is also that it lacks in depth, and I was thinking, oh, this is a nice song, but now it is going on rather long. That was at the two minute mark. So yeah, nice, but not something I’ll be listening to in 2014 probably.
http://hypem.com/track/1096422/Band+Of+Skulls+Deluka+Diamante+Remix++-+Death+by+Diamonds+and+Pearls
Monarchy – It Must Be Love
This is my favourite new band ever since I had a listen to that Kitsuné sampler with an Octanes edit of Monarchy’s ‘Phoenix Alive’ track. Because that was firing on all cylinders. This is not the fastest horse on the track, not like ‘Phoenix Alive’, but it is still very easy on the ear. Sometimes it’s not rationality or anything, it is just the tone of the music and the voice that clicks personally, and that certainly is the case for me with this band. Will it be on heavy rotation much like that track on the Kitsuné sampler? No, not really. It’s not as catchy, and although I like the dreamy delivery of the lines, the repetition of the line “It must be love” begins to grate a tad because it is such an overrated sentence. It perhaps is better to throw a complete nonsense line in there because at least that sounds fresh and quirky, and a sentence like this certainly does not have any of those qualities. That’s the thing I guess, if you use lines common in every day life and even there they are sans meaning in which you don’t really communicate anything how can you expect them to work in a song, or literature for that matter? “It must be love”, what is that? What must be love, what is love, and why must “this” be it? Urgh.
http://hypem.com/track/1100584/Monarchy+-+It+Must+Be+Love
Cold Cave – Life Magazine (Arthur Baker remix)
The noise comes marching in, but I do love that underneath the starting noise slowly but steadily the contours of something catchy and something you can hold onto becomes visible. When the song comes in, that’s where it really pops. Especially because you know it’s going to happen, that through the noise this butterfly will appear with which you can jump along. So when it happens, that’s good, that’s nice. I like that the song is marching in and then marches out at one point, though after the second “march” the track doesn’t stop but briefly evolves into a club beat thingy, after which the song appears again. Personally I wouldn’t have minded if that part wasn’t there, that the song would’ve just “marched out”, but regardless it is a nice take on the song.
http://stereogum.com/346852/cold-cave-life-magazine-the-arthur-bakers-not-going-back-remix-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Atari Teenage Riot – Activate
Well, you know, you probably like this or you don’t. I would advise that, even when you’re on the fence, don’t go near the stage when you decide to see them live, because I can just imagine how the first rows of an Atari Teenage Riot gig might look like. It is hard hitting, it is energetic, and it is screaming. So as said, probably, either you’re going mental or think, you know what, I’ll pass up on a gig possibility this time. Though I must admit, I would not be opposed to be watching the scene but, you know, from a balcony and with earplugs in so I don’t get the whole bucket load of noises.
http://hypem.com/track/1095376/Atari+Teenage+Riot+-+Activate
Hurts – Better Than Love (Jamaica remix)
Oh generic beat warning. Or at least it begins with something terribly mundane. And that goes for the whole song really. It is so 80s synth that I’m not sure it really isn’t. “And it feels better than love” isn’t lyricism I really fancy, and as said, the synth tricks seem so common that I’m not sure this song actually adds to the musical landscape. Especially not with the singer simply belting out the same phrase over and over again, and one that says nothing at that (for more on this problem, read the write-up about the Monarchy song, which is a better song at that).
http://hypem.com/track/1100361/Hurts+-+Better+Than+Love+Jamaica+Remix+
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