Nai Harvest
Everyone is always surprised at the racket that a two piece can make. I don’t know why, mind, it’s pretty well established by now. However, a noisy twosome is usually churning out something somewhere between bluesy garage rock and heavy as fuck noise rock. Dual noisemakers Nai Harvest take a different tact. Don’t make me wrong, they can make a racket, but it is a racket of the more melodic and emotional sense.
Mixing up indie, punk, slacker, and old-school emo influences, Ben Thompson and Lew Currie manage to create a surprisingly layered sound, and one that manages to fill the range instead of sounded restricted and limited to one drive. As stated, melodic, layered, dynamic, fuzzy, and magic.
Baby Queens
I caught this Cardiff five piece live the other weekend, and having heard their singles previously, I was taken aback by the quality of their live sound and stage presence. Not that I was expecting anything less, but this all female ensemble, that mixes singers, MCs, and guitarists, bring heaps of atmosphere live.
Their sound encapsulates R&B, reggae, dub, soul, blues, and street poetry in such a way that creates a dense yet sparse vibe. It’s far too easy to get hypnotised by their beats, production, rhymes, and entrancing vocals. It’s not often you see such strong and innovative urban music on the local scenes. That said, Baby Queens aren’t going to be localised prospect for long.
RADSTEWART
Everyone has always known that Rod Stewart is rad, but no one has had the balls to say it. That is, until RADSTEWART came along and so unashamedly christened themselves so. I imagine by putting The Faces and Rod Stewart solo records into a blender, pouring it into a discarded champagne bottle, then smashed it on themselves.
What they probably did was not care all that much; settle the name on a whim, generally lounge around listening to Pavement, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, and Pixies, jam out some songs, then realise their fellow university students were cunts. Particularly those ones that go out to get drunk in Native American headdresses.
Regardless of name, blended records and champagne bottles that I completely made up, lethargic decision making that I also completely made up, RADSTEWART dish out a pretty fucking awesome spot of noisy, slacker, indie with solid sense of melody and atmosphere that doesn’t particularly give a shit. That’s why you love it.
KUTOSIS
This three piece’s new album, ‘Dream It Away‘, is pretty aptly titled. The songs too; Crystal Beach, Horizons, Night Surf, etc. What you have on offer with KUTOSIS is triple distilled, crystal clear, dream pop that surfs on waves of haze – day, night, anytime – horizon to horizon. I’m aware I just lazily took three song titles and un-amusingly made a descriptive sentence out of it, but you’re not listening to their brilliant new album right now, and I am.
So, before I suggest you start judging me, piss off, find the album, listen to it, and try not to sit back, drift off, and daydream about things that aren’t the things you’re supposed to be doing right then. Eventually, you’ll remember to come back here because you remember I told you to. It’s at this point you’ll apologise to me, and I’ll forgive you because I’m all KUTOSISED UP. Unless you read it from the start again and piss off at the same point, and repeat. In which case I apologise to your family for getting you stuck in a never ending loop.
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