Author Archives: mandu
Argentina
A Brisbane-based electronic artist making a few ripples down south. He’s approached the new single Chalk Outlines with a dense, almost orchestral, brush that (for me) is jarringly offset by his dry, laconic voice. See what you think, ’cause while I really enjoy this in theory, there’s some anchor that keeps me floating off to [...]
Saint Lou Lou
A brand spanker by two sisters from Bondi, now living in Sweden. This is pretty lush. As a general rule of thumb, the creative output of Bondi sucks, but this graceful debut really tickles my feminine-pop fetish. One would suspect plentiful and unnecessary hand-percussion here if the twins hadn’t migrated. xMandu
Mr Little Jeans
When I heard that awful cover of The Suburbs made it into the triple j Hottest 100, I was all like ‘wuh?’ Then I heard this and I was all like ‘woah’. If any electro-pop babes beat this effort in 2012, hats off. I am officially a Little Jeans convert, I look forward to singing [...]
New Van She
Following up Herve’s very early leak of his ‘Idea of Happiness’ remix a few months back here’s the real deal title single from Van She’s upcoming record. I’ve listened to it twice already and even considered logging into Soundcloud to leave a really enthusiastic comment with a smiley like this ヽ（´ー｀）┌ It’s THAT good. Van [...]
Enerate
More of this please. Glow-wave nice guys singing like their balls upped and left home a few months ago. Really lo-fi, twee, utterly delightful/shitty little tune from a fresh-faced Sydney electro quartet. Love it. Unstoppable by Enerate How good are the mile-high sweeps into that brutalised 8-bit lead line. AWESOME. More Enerate here
Kristy Lee
The lady with the vocal pipes behind tracks from Pnau and Tonight Only has a little project with friend Mike Ross Here’s their debut fiddle-around called Space In Between – it’s softly spoken electro-pop, don’t stare at it too much or you’ll hurt its feelings. Space In Between by klpmusic More from KLP here
Swimwear
Tim, the co-man behind Dappled Cities has a new retro-pop sideproject called Swimwear. It’s shiny, it’s popular, it looks good on, it’s everything you want in a swimsuit. The full EP is pay-what-you-feel on Bandcamp now, so throw Tim a few coins would ya? Easy High by swimwearmusic Check out Tim’s Facebook too. Why wouldn’t [...]
City Calm Down
Have got good! I checked back in on this Melbourne outfit’s Soundcloud and came across two new tracks from a self-titled double A-side released this month. Effortless and gloomy vocal takes, subtle drumming, brooding and uplifting in equal measure – it’s like their (slightly boring) back-catalogue executed with ten times more confidence and clarity. I [...]
Ginger And The Ghost
When two self-professed ‘visual artists’ turn their hand to music and production, you generally call ‘SLASHY’ and promptly ignore them until they appear on the cover of Oyster mag several months later. At which point you pretend you were into it from the start. At least that’s what I do. But me ol’ chum Dan [...]
Griffon Green
Awesome nu Melbourne guy. It’s an electro-soul rave with nice singin’. Like if James Blake was raised in Chinese Laundry rather than private school. Here he is: https://www.facebook.com/GriffonGreen
You.You.You
A fairly accusatory name for an unassuming little collection of Danish knob-tweakers. You.You.You. – Reaching for the Sky (performed live @ Give Us A Crowd! Sessions) from You.You.You. on Vimeo. You.You.You. – When You Fall (performed live @ Give Us A Crowd! Sessions) from You.You.You. on Vimeo. It’s like a teenage Miike Snow having a [...]
TokyoDenmarkSweden
TokyoDenmarkSweden – electro with a fuzzy, DIY bent. Reminds me of YesYou. Not a bad song, but the track could do with some better mixing. Plenty more from these guys here
Herve + Van She
Herve in fine form on this one! I’ve pretty much discounted the fella after his years of generic wobble and pseudo-dub bang0rz – still has the harsh electro-era backbone, but the sultry vocal treatment and unassuming rhythm line has me like ‘okee-doke m8′. Is this new or an old unreleased remix? Hit us in comments. [...]
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