Ello. Our ears are still buzzing from the fantastic weekend we had!
Here are our charts & playlist for June 09!
JAH
Tori Amos – Maybe California
Au Revoir Simone – Knight of Wands
Bat For Lashes – Use Somebody (Kings of Leon cover)
Dinosaur Jr – Over it
Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
Heartsrevolution – The Rose and Her Prince
Lykke Li vs Kings of Leon – Knocked up
Passion Pit – Moths Wings
Patrick Wolf – Who Will (Buffetlibre mix)
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johannson – Relator
JINMART
Tiga – Shoes
Passion Pit – The Reeling
Metric – Gold guns and Girls
The Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade
Lily Allen – Not Fair
Red Light Company – The Alarmo
Royksopp – Happy Up Here
Fever Ray – If I had a Heart
National Skyline – Revenge
Au Revoir Simone – Shadows (the Teenagers remix)
WEELIKEME
Florence and the Machine – Dog Days are Over
Doves – Kingdom of Rust
The Joy Formiddable – Cradle
The Killers – Spaceman
Phoenix – Lisztomania
Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
The Horrors – Sea with a Sea
A-ha – Take On Me (The Twelves Remix)
Kasabian – Underdog
Mando Diao – Dance With Somebody
Formed in late 2007, 5 barely-legal guys from Cambridge, Massachusettes, have brought to the table yet another electronic-synth-indie-pop offering called Passion Pit. You must be wondering, when is this trend going to stop/how long more of this going to continue? Not anytime soon I reckon. BUT, my advice to you is, “if you can’t beat em’, join ‘em!”
Thankfully, the Pits make that bitter medicine easy to swallow. Or rather, quite enjoyable, really. On the first listen, they sound very much like a mish-mash of Chromeo and MGMT. Michael Angelakos’ eunuch-isque vocals sound very much like Andrew VanWyngarden’s. Coming off a rather so-so debut EP, Chunk of Change, Manners is very much a more accomplished effort:
The Reeling’s intro sounds very Big Beat-ish in a Chemical Brothers kind of way. It then breaks into a disco-indie rhythm, packed with loads of beautifully-layered synths. Not forgetting the extremely catchy singalong, feet-tapping chorus, of course.
“Look at me, oh look at me
Is this the way I’ve always been
Oh no, oh
noanekatips
Now I’m dreaming somebody
Would simply come and kidnap me
Oh no, oh no
Everyday I lie awake and pray to God today’s the day
Oh no, oh no
Here I am, and here I am, when will someone understand
Oh no, oh no”
Another favourite track of mine, ‘Little Secrets’, sound like a Jackson 5 song infused with synths and a modern beat (As Pitchfork puts it, it sounds like D.A.N.C.E.). On a side note, I was quite pleasantly surprised that the stingy folk at Pitchfork actually gave Manners a 8.1 out of 10 rating. Not bad for a debut eh?
