Totally in love with new band The History of Apple Pie who are making some very excellent music straight out of the nineties. Just don’t get bogged down with the fact that it sounds exactly like something out of the nineties because these kids were probably born in the nineties and are therefore ill-equipped to make music that is instead, a clver ironic homage to the nineties. Just like it for what it is. Fans of 13-era Blur, Dinosaur Jnr, Pavement etc etc will love this. Check out their single ‘You’re So Cool’.

Devon Williams is a fantastic singer/songwriter from LA who specialises in some really nice timeless pop that has influences from 80s punk to 60s pop with jangly guitars thrown in for good measure. His new album ‘Euphoria’ (out 30 August) is a future classic, charming and very well thought out with particular attention paid to melody and arrangement. Listen to his track ‘Your Sympathy’.

YoungHusband are from London and have been going for a couple years for they got signed. Their first single ‘Carousel’ came out two weeks ago, and it is an instantly rememberable hit. There is a a single guitar riff that repeats cyclically throughout the whole song, much like a carousel – genuis!

I also played over the last couple weeks, some new tracks from Morrissey. He has already recorded his tenth album in full and is ready to release the as yet unnamed record as soon as he finds a new label as he ended his contract with Major/Minor Records at the beginning of the year. So that’s HMV/Sire, RCA/Reprise, Attack/Sanctuary and Decca/Lost Highway so far…

Do check out Warpaint if you haven’t already. They’re one of the most exciting rock acts to come of LA for a while and I am ashamed that I hadn’t heard of them until I saw the Glastonbury highlights!

Playlist 30/06/2011

Class Actress – Keep You
HTRK – Eat Yr Heart
Dreadnought – By The Wire
YoungHusband – Carousel
Superhumanoids – Mirrors (Cosmic Kids remix)
Theophilus London – Flying Overseas
Emeralds – Candy Shoppe
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Warpaint – Undertow
Best Coast – Gone Again
Gold Panda – MPB
Morrisey – People Are The Same Everywhere
The History of Apple Pie – You’re So Cool
Peguine Prison – Multi-Millionaire
Tomorrow’s Tulips – Hoplessness
Devon Williams – Your Sympathy
Alias – Wanna Let Go
Royal Bangs – TV Tree (Deerhunter remix)
Finn Reggins – Some Are Knightz
Apparat – Black Water
Glasser – Plane Temp
Delta Spirit – She’s Not There (The Zombies cover)
The Knocks – Sunshine
Morrissey – Action Is My Middle Name
Morrissey – The Kid’s A Looker

06/07/2011

Woods – Pushing Onlys
Foster The People – Helena Beat
Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers
Frankmusik ft Far East Movement – Do It In The AM
The Rosebuds – Woods
Morrissey – Action Is My Middle Name
The History of Apple Pie – You’re So Cool
Devon Williams – Your Sympathy
Bright Archer – Hidden Systems
Mr Little Jeans – The Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover)
Chapel Club – After The Flood
Bosco Delrey – Baby’s Got A Blue Flame
WU LYF – LYF
Cults – Go Outside
Attic Lights – Never Get Sick Of The Sea
Solid Gold – Get Over It
Overnight – I Know
Bombay Bicycyle Club – Always Be Like This
Royal Bangs – TV Tree (Deerhunter remix)
YoungHusband – Carousel
Tony Castles – Juice