1/4 Joy Divison - Transmission Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy Everly Brothers - Love Hurts The Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time Tears For Fears - Mad World The Korgis - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
2/4 A-Ha - Take On Me George Michael - Faith Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling The Supremes - Stop! In the Name of Love The Bee Gees - Tragedy Olivia Newton John - Physical Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Flesh Failures /(Let The Sunshine In)
3/4 Journey - Any Way You Want It The Source and Candi Staton - You Got the Love Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For (Niadoka Remix) Annie - Anthonio (Designer Drugs Remix) Roisin Murphy - Off And On Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
4/4 Billy Idol - White Wedding The Clash - Straight To Hell MGMT - Time To Pretend Bat For Lashes - Daniel Adam & the Ants - Stand and Deliver Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
A few hours ago, at the same time with her Primavera Festival live performance, Bat For Lashes presented the second |ALSO AMAZING| video out of the new album 'Two Suns'. The single is for the track 'Pearl's Dream', which is going to be released on June 22nd in the UK.
Hecuba is a duo from California. They are coming with very good recommendation.
"Some way out there next level shit... painting vivid and vibrant aural pictures." - In Flight At Night
"Their phenomenal debut LP seamlessly embraces avant-pop, classical/electronic minimalism, and club/dance music transforming it into something captivating, beautiful, and otherworldly strange" - URB Magazine
"Philip Glass would say Paradise is a great hip-hop album." - L.A. Record
"...multidimension music from a parallel universe." -LA Weekly
1/4 The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home Marietta Fafouti - Little Boy Hollywood Mon Amour - Flashdance... What A Feeling (By Yael Naim) Greg Laswell - Off I Go The Church - Under The Milky Way The Magnetic Fields - The Book Of Love Regina Spektor - Blue Lips The Postal Service - Against All Odds
2/4 A Camp - Stronger Than Jesus Joy Williams - Charmed Life Leighton Meester - Birthday (ft. Awesome New Republic) Metric - Sick Muse The Do - Tammie The Ballet - In My Head Au Revoir Simone - Shadows Alison Iraheta & Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Live)
3/4 The Presets - Girl And The Sea (Cut Copy Remix) Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy (Niadoka Fuck Me Remix) Delta Goodrem - Believe Again (Tommy Trash Remix) The Gossip - Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Off And On Lily Allen - The Count (a.k.a. Hervé) and Lily Face The Fear
4/4 Bloc Party - Signs (sayCet Remix) IAMX - My Secret Friend (ft. Imogen Heap) My Gold Mask - Your Coo Ka Choo Malcolm Middleton & The Hold Steady - Run To You (Live On BBC) Karo - Not In Love Song Annie - Anthonio (Berlin Breakdown Version) Gareth Pearson - Time To Pretend
Long Live the Floopies.
*Will reair in upcoming shows due to technical difficulties. Studio's haunted, y'all.
1/4 The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home Arrica Rose - Tragedy Travis - Some Sad Song Metric - Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic) Kris Allen - Falling Slowly Regina Spektor - Laughing With Passion Pit - Moths Wings Adam Lambert - Mad World Goldfrapp - Human Peter Gabriel - The Book Of Love
2/4 Akron/Family - River Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing Lior & Sia - I'll Forget You Woodpigeon - Lay All Your Love On Me Lily Allen - Why Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute Asobi Seksu - Layers Helo Seahorse! - Bestia En Vivo Reactor Still Flyin' - Aerosmith Take Me... To The Other Side The Ditty Bops - Summer Rains
3/4 La Roux - Bulletproof Peaches - Lose You Miley Cyrus - Fly On The Wall (Jason Nevins Extended Mix) Awesome New Republic - National Insecurity / Rotary Clone Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance (Buraka Som Stistema Remix) Junior Caldera Ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Just Can't Fight This Feeling A-Ha - Take On Me (The Twelves Remix) Fever Ray - Triangle Walks (Tiga Remix Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes (Konrad Old Money Remix) The Marches - Rudolph Valentino Noah And The Whale - 5 Years' Time (FC Kahuna Remix)
4/4 Annie - Anthonio (Fred Falke Remix) Bat For Lashes - Wilderness Josh Reichmann - Daniel Cocteau Twins - Lorelei Patrick Wolf - Hard Times (James Yuill Remix) Kerli - Love Is Dead This Unique Museum - Mr Brightside Moby - Shot In The Back Of The Head Shady Bard - Fires Royksopp - The Girl And The Robot /(Davide Rossi Suite For A Robotic Girl Re-Interpretation)
The Marches are a young up-and-coming band on a small L.A. record company.
Sounds like a gazillion others, you say? Well Satellite/Star Records must know how to pick'em because The Marches are unique.
Their debut album, 4 a.m is the new midnight came out in November '08 and damn it all if I'm not kicking myself for only having gotten to their myspace a couple of months ago.
Fast-forward to now and I've got a shiny new CD in a Dusty Ol' Discman. There's a reason why I'm focusing so much on this. The beauty of The Marches is that they will remind you of a lot of other bands and sounds, from all over time and space. But the whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts. The Sound of The Marches is unmistakably theirs and none other's.
That'll become obvious when you listen to 4 a.m. is the new midnight from beginning to end, and to that end I invite you all to join me in doing that.
The titular track starts us off, instantly giving The Marches' signature. A person with musical terminology knowledge would say they're Electro meets Motown with heavy doses of indie dance. I just like it. You've already heard the song on Gentle Wave (and if not, you totally should've).
You're back? Good. Now we can talk about how the following track, Bad Touch, is anything but. Filled with goodness to the brim. The thing it does so well -as does it precursor- is capture the essence of the people it's talking to. Desperate vocals over a joyful melody, chaotic lyrics on an ordered beat. What waver doesn't recognise that feeling that takes over around 4 a.m?
For track 3, Rudolph Valentino has apparently turned into a robot (remind me to pass this on to our very own ME8H, btw). Here, I started noticing a The Marches thing: you don't always get to hear the lyrics clearly. They are woven into the musical fabric on the song in a way that allows you to enjoy it without having to "get it". But for those who're OCD over lyrics it dares you to figure them out and make the songs even more interesting.
Jumping all over the tonal map, you'd think The Marches suddenly felt like a bit of College rock with Wish You Were Here but then the f'd up lyrics register (I am a good egg, Roberto Benigni / Orange you glad I didn't say banana?) and the Electro/Wonder Boy tones take you over. Then you're like: "Ah, yes. For it is The Marches. How could I have been such a fool?"
Don't doubt the power of The Marches seem to be a theme. The case continues to be made with Need Me Back. Gorgeous underplayed vocals, fantastic garage beat & a teasing saxophone that yes, will possibly make you climax. Then, for Skinema and End of the Album Pt. 2 the album takes a sort of break. It offers an instrumental repose, then an outtake of the band as we get to know them better. "That was going great and then you ruined it with laughter" they say.
Not so. Because when Bobby Brown picks up, it's The Marches at their purely electorest -a good, good colour on them- ramping the energy up again. And you're gonna need to be on your toes to figure out Cold Hands Warm Heart...
It's something you might think you've heard on MTV Amour in the '90s. Now, whether you consider that a good or a bad thing is subjective. But with the addition of the awesome horns it becomes something new and wonderful. The Marches OWN their wind instruments (well, not literally, seeing as most of the equipment they used to record 4 a.m. is the new midnight was borrowed from friends).
Said instruments grace us with The Trouble With Heart Murmurs instrumental, sounding like the score to the most awesome silent movie you ever did see. And it's a preamble to the album's winning streak to the end: Sometimes Sex Isn't About the Money picks up the lyrics slack, discussing the sexomonetary issue in plain but by no means simple terms, over a lovely piano. So Ill earns it's slang credentials by being Just Cool, no other words needed.
When you think you've heard everything The Marches have to offer, Don't Love With Your Eyes kicks in with a Tainted Love reminiscent intro. If they wanted to they could totally tour with The Puppini Sisters or Nouvelle Vague, you muse. Then Victoria (which should be the official song for Victoria, Australia), reminds you that they could do the same with the Dresden Dolls or Ladytron... anyone, really, as long as they bring THE HORNS!
I did skip a track and I skipped it on purpose. The penultimate, number 14: Ghost of a Chance? If you haven't already had sex to this, you should really get around to it.
The only complaint I have with this, The Marches 1st album, is one. It is a small one and a crucial one. The below cover is the only thing missing:
What does everybody else think? Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?
And to the waveradio webproducers, I propose a challenge: choose one of your favourite new releases and write a start to finish review of it. No fanciness - just your own words of love. Let's spread some good music waves out there!
1/4 The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home Glen Hansard And Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly Antony And The Johnsons - Candy Says Lewis & Clarke - Petrified Forest Cat Power - I Found A Reason The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale Jose Gonzalez - Smalltown Boy Gotye - Heart's A Mess Karo - Gold Star Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl British Sea Power - Come Wander With Me
2/4 Monkey (Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett) - Heavenly Peach Banquet Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter The Dears - Halfmast Tears For Fears - Shout Big Fresh - W.L.U.V. Micheal Jackson And The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back Carolina Liar - I'm Not Over Guided By Voices - Glad Girls The Boy Least Likely To - Faith Sia - Time After Time
3/4 Lady Gaga - Just Dance (CJ Milli Remix - Saeglopur Style) Tiga - Shoes Uffie - Pop The Glock (Original Mix) Dragonette - Fixin' To Thrill Muscles - Sweaty (Shazam Remix) Starfucker - Medicine Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Jolene The Presets - Girl And The Sea
4/4 Shady Bard - Summer Came When We Were Falling Out Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway Kerli - Walking On Air Stars - The Night Starts Here Weeping Willows - Touch Me The William Blakes & Spleen Utd - Running Up That Hill Metric - The Twist Bat For Lashes - Daniel (Live Lounge BBC Radio 1) Queens Of The Stone Age - White Wedding Royksopp - Royksopp Forever
Fagget Fairys are an explosive cocktail of Islam, lesbianism, true love, and relentless beats. Incredible sounds from this Danish duo. check their myspace profile for more
After a series of cover photoshoots, for this month, in some of the biggest international magazines. Beth Ditto's group Gossip returned with a credit in the straight world ;-)
"Music for Men" is the name of the forthcoming album (release date June 22nd)
