Captain Stavros highlights the best of new and upcoming releases

Das Beat

‘Intensity’

Out now via Arbutus Records

Particularly pleasant in a low-fi moody manner.

 

Palm

‘Feathers’

Nicks and Grazes out October 14 via Saddle Creek Records

Palms out LARP out. Deep bass’ll make your phones crackle with pleasure.

 

Italia 90

‘Magdalene’

Out Now via Brace Yourself Records

A schizophrenic track made for running away from a screaming and armed mob.

 

Clamm

‘Something New’

Care – Out Now via Meat Machine Records

There a palpable energy that’s simply irresistible with CLAMM.

 

The Paranoyds

‘Single Origin Experience’

Talks Talk Talk – Out September 9 via Third Man Records

In the late 90s and early 00s Soundtracks were riddled with slappers like these.

 

Peeping Drexels

‘Sneak Motel’

Day of Heaven – Out September 2 via Brace Yourself Records

A languidly pleasant track.

 

Princess Chelsea

‘Everything’

To Be Alright – Out Oct 7 via Lil’ Chief Records

Always enjoy a track whose lyrics are sung slow enough to be understood and appreciated.

 

Keg

‘NPC’

Girders – Out September 2 via Alcopop!

Layered with tons of musical textures, extremely enjoyable.

 

Peel Dream Magazine

‘Pad’

Pad – Out October 7 via Tough Love

Sucker for a track with finger snaps.

 

Okay Kaya

‘Spinal Tap’

SAP - Out November 4 via JagJagWar Records

Undeniable that Okay Kaya continues to expand and express herself in this new tune

 

Mádé Kuti

‘No More Wars’

Out Now via Partisan Records

An inarguable message

 

Muna lleiwat

‘JOMO’

Twenty-Seven – Out Now via Fear of Missing Out Records

Another fresh single from emerging young talent.

 

The Black Angels

‘Without a Trace’

Winderness of Mirrors – Out September 16 on Partisan Records

Fuzzing awesome.

 

Cool Sounds

‘6 or 7 more’

Like That – Out October 7 via Chapter Music

If ‘The Rapture’ and ‘Modest Mouse’ had music babies, this would be them.

 

October And The Eyes

‘Tit Pic’

Who Upset You – Out Now via KRO Records

Comes across like the opening band that ends up stealing the show from the headliner, keep an eye on this lot.

 

Gloria de Oliveira & Dean Hurley

‘Something to Behold’

Oceans of Time – Out September 16 on Sacred Bones Records

Both the video and music are haunting, craving a spooky fix? Look no further.

 

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

‘Burning’

Cool It Down – Out September 30 via Secretly Canadian

This isn’t the YYYs I grew up with but something about this new track in undeniable.

 

Ellie Bleach

‘Tupperware Party’

Ellegant Way to Sell Out EP – Out October 6 via Sad Club Records

If you used to run an improve group out of a church hall in Pittsburgh, this might be the song for you.

 

Yumi and the Weather

‘Can You Tell’

Out Now via Miohmi Records

A fast moving that packs heavy undertones.

 

Native Harrow

‘Old Kind of Magic’

Old Kind of Magic – Out October 28 on Loose Records

This track definitely brings back that old timey microphone magic.

 

Le Junk

‘Midnight Lover’

Out Now via Superstar Recordings

Le Junk’s no drunk dial hussy, his latest is a midnight lover’s go to reach-out. Another toe tapping hip shaker.

 

Lunge

‘O.W.T.H. (Off With Their Heads)’

Out now – Via Raw Carrots/Barce Yourself Press

It’s got that early ‘00s UK Skunk Anansie meets Hercules and Love Affair feel to it.

 

 

The third record from New York's Yeah Yeah Yeahs is one of 2009's most anticipated releases. Early reviews say it's a bit of an about turn, but what do our resident Musos think?

BRIAN OTTEN
From the opening pulses of It's Blitz! it's blindingly apparent that this Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is totally different from anything Karen O and the boys have done before. If you had bet your sweet ass that it still sounds like the YYYs, as their website suggests, you'd be kissing it goodbye. It does nothing of the sort.

It's trying to be more Goldfrapp than 'Gold Lion' but there is a real lack of menace and danger here amongst the electro whipcracks and lush pads. 'Zero', the worthy first single, and 'Heads Will Roll' show that they've got their heads round the techno kit well enough. 'Dull Life' bustles along but the rest of the tracks see the band experimenting with their new sound on our time. 'Runaway' is no throwaway though, and it proves that Karen O can evoke some real tenderness despite having to rise above the corny tremolo string arrangements and breathy synth backdrops.

REBECCA SCHILLER

Despite a bump in the road known as Internet leakage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have digitally released their third studio album, It Blitz!. And thank goodness for the leak, because we get to enjoy this album earlier than anticipated. Dance, dance, dance til you're dead, orders Karen O's signature smoothly-shrill vocals in Heads Will Roll, and there is nothing more you will want to do whilst listening to these ten tracks of non-stop party. Kicked up a notch on the badass scale (just look at the album cover), Karen O and her Yeahs bring on the electro-rock fit for any synth-lovers music collection.