Other names and remixers on board include Ashley Beedle, Phil Asher and P’Taah. Thus, the eleven cuts range from the staunch motorik and relatively recent (2014) pulse of “Velo” by Friendly Fires and Asphodells, to the mellow house chug of Peter Vriends’ 1993 remix of Hazme Sonar’s “Morenas”, to the twinkling ambient abstractions of “Sa Fosca” by Spanish guitarist Joan Bibaloni from 1989. The main unifying factor is that these tunes would sound decent to lope about to on a warm beach without spilling your drink. ![]() Like Mancuso and the original Ibizan DJs, Murphy understands Balearic to be a hard-to-define mixture that’s both soothing, in a bubbly upbeat sort of way, and gently envelope-pushing. Brit-based New Yorker and old pal of the late, great Loft don David Mancuso, Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, gives us a double set in art/info inner sleeves, based around the way her Worldwide FM radio show acted as a salve for the troubles and frustrations of COVID lockdown. 1 (Heavenly) + Various Fabric presents TSHA (Fabric)Ī couple of club music compilations of very different character. Various Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy presents Balearic Breakfast Vol. ![]() In the majority of alternative universes portrayed in Everything Everywhere All At Once (go see it ASAP), Hanterhir are somewhere between Radiohead and Foo Fighters in the 21 st century rock canon. They are like a psychedelic grunge Waterboys for some of the time, on songs such as the swirling violin vs guitar whirlpool of “Disghoryon”, but as capable of straightforward massive, contagious rock, as on opener “Always On”. The cover art on the new album is not helping them as it’s completely forgettable, as you can see, but the music within is worth anyone’s time. They combine their own unique version of rock, indie and punk-ishness with Mogwai-style sonics and interjections of roots music, but also boast a sound it’s easy to imagine whipping up huge fields at festivals. Why aren’t Hanterhir one of the biggest rock bands in the world? They are damn sight better than many of the bands that are. Two albums later they return with a fearsome fifth album. Hanterhir There Is No One to Trust (Easy Action/Hanterhir)īack in 2018 Cornish band Hanterhir’s epic The Saving of Cadan was our Vinyl of the Month. within which resides the album and a 12” x 12” photo/lyric/info insert. It’s originally packaged too, with the front cover opening like saloon doors to give access to a photo collage. While often solemn, there’s a lightening of spirit here and a variety of sound that’s more-ish. The album is loosely conceived around a chapter from The Egyptian Book of the Dead, after which it’s named, and Ibeyi’s usual Yoruba musical roots underpin everything too, but it crosses into avant-R&B and Afro-tonica, the latter especially on “Lavender & Red Roses”, featuring Jorja Smith. But songs such as the Afro-trap “Made of Gold” (featuring Brit-Gambian MC Pa Salieu) and the socio-politically aware goth-pulse of “Rise Above” (featuring Brit-Trinidadian MC Berwyn) have a different kind of heft. ![]() The Cuban twins, working with XL Records’ Richard Russell, still come over as serious and thoughtful, especially on self-reflective torch songs such as “Creature (Perfect)” in which they appear to find peace with the deaths that have haunted their life and work (they lost their dad and older sister far, far too young). This isn’t to say they’ve suddenly turned into The Cheeky Girls. Ibeyi’s third album steps – to some degree - away from the elegiac and occasionally gloomy tone of their previous output. ![]() Comes on vinyl that looks like celeste blue laundry conditioner swirling down a watery drain. This is invigorating stuff, and also a fine, bitchin’ counterpoint to contemporary culture’s endless emotional fragility. The music matches patches of spartan electronic beats’n’effects with bursts of grunge guitar raging. Bracingly aggressive, rude and misanthropic, Shelf Lives’ debut mini-album is laced with nihilism but also spiked with desert-dry humour, as Sabrina ruminates mostly about how boring life is and how she dislikes most things. “Why am I offended by the way that you breathe/I hate people and people hate me… that’s just how it is,” runs a typical lyric. Juddering, sweary, punkin’, sneering electro-rock is the game of London-based duo Shelf Lives, fronted by single-monikered Canadian frontwoman Sabrina and Brit producer-guitarist Jonny.
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