Sea Change
Sea Change, otherwise known as minimalist maestro Ellen A.W. Sundes (I may have embellished that minimalist maestro part, but I stand by it and, upon pressing play up there, you will too) hails from Oslo and brings with her the kind of change in the sea akin to the sea changing into ice. It’s all vast frozen landscapes, glittered with the sparkle of a winter sun, prone to the spectacle of solidified crashing waves, and disturbed only by the ominous movements of what lies beneath.
Embracing sparse beats, layered sheets of synth, and vocals that feel like their melodies are being carried on winds that whip around you before falling deadly calm. However, it’s not all the sound of a techno-ice age, as Sundes litters her tracks with enough hooks and choruses to keep you warm through the cold.
Myles Manley
Myles Manley is Myles Manley is Myles Manley, but who or what is Myles Manley? Well, Myles Manley is UK born, moved to Sligo when he was little, former mathematician before giving that up for a career in DIY pop music, moved to New York becoming part of the anti-folk scene, now based in Dublin, Myles Manley.
The singer-songwriter has had a number of releases up to this point including his debut, Greatest Hits, and is soon to be releasing More Songs, as he continues to display a natural knack for infectious and joyous brain bugs that bed themselves in those brains of yours in the form of bright bursts of pop oddity. The head-bobbingly smile-making ‘Pay Me What I’m Worth’ is a prime example of this.
Alright The Captain
Unbeknownst to me, I may have ingested too much caffeine today on top of a lacking sleep delirium, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it, because after popping Alright The Captain on to reacquaint myself for writing these words I found myself staring at my reflection in a mirror with my ends bend up at my sides, hands pointed out my shoulders, as I rhythmically bobbed up and down whilst swaying forward and back. It felt wildly appropriate at the time.
Anyway, my fellow baby albatrosses, Alright The Captain are three piece purveyors of math rock that cut their mathematic acrobatics with post rock, jazz, noise rock, electronica, and swashbuckling robot pirates from outer space who enjoy a good party as much as a good plundering. There’s plenty of math rock around at the moment, but not many as technicolor as Alright The Captain.
Doldrums
Doldrums home town is the cerebellum, most likely of Airick Wood, though it may well be your cerebellum, my cerebellum, we all scream for cerebellum. Doldrums is the end product of Wood’s being allowed free reign of Grimes’s laptop. That’s not an analogy, he recorded his debut album on Grimes’s laptop, because their electric pals, so why not?
However, a friendship with Grimes does not a Doldrums make. No, that comes courtesy of Wood’s scattershot and schizophrenic approach to composition and production as he doesn’t so much blur the lines between musical genres as ram the wrong shape into the wrong hole on the genre equivalent of a shape fitting children’s toy, but it works. Easily veering between or simultaneously being Animal Collective, Crystal Castles, Bjork, Aphex Twin, The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, and Purity Ring.
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