SXSW 2011: Digest #7
You know I am going to miss the mindless mp3 culling sessions. Wouldn’t be doing it though if the rewards weren’t so great, see the monster list below for the evidence. Although we’ve never met we still can’t wait to see you again next year SXSW.
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A quiet flower that blooms into something approaching first album Whipping Boy. My, this is good.
Sherlocks Daughter – Reprise
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Watch out there’s a plucked up banjo on the loose.
DREAMEND – Magnesium Light
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Brazil is so over samba, it’s the groovy beaver all the way.
Holger – Beaver
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A frightened rabbit scotch broth that’ll have you salivating for more.
Admiral Fallow – Squealing Pigs
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A near instrumental though nearer to being a classic of its kind.
Delicate Steve – The Ballas Of Speck And Pebble
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Let it germinate and watch as words fail you.
The Seedy Seeds – Verb Noun
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For some reason I keep picturing this band in spandex. Beats me.
Voxhaul Broadcast – Leaving On The 5th
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The heavens opened but instead of rain, she reigned.
Maren Parusel – Don’t Take Your Eyes Away
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The robots shall inherit the earth, lucky us.
Superhumanoids – Persona
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Keep aside for the second summer of love.
Bell Gardens – Through The Rain
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Sonic youthfulness with brilliant ability to strike out on ones own about half way through.
Experimental Aircraft – Paintings In The Attic
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Industrial abrasiveness meets velvet head massage.
My Gold Mask – Violet Eyes
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Sincere buys a home in the burbs of sincerity.
Ivan And Alyosha – Fathers Be Kind
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A guide to the cool person’s lessons in waltz.
Giant Cloud – Every Window Holds the Truth
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The Dodos, the way they dreamed it would be.
Netherfriends – Bret Easton Ellis Novel
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KD
SXSW 2011: Digest #6
The penultimate digest and we’re in determined mood today. Mp3′s fell like an hour long compilation of Ronaldo dives. From the slaughter these 5 magic Messi moments emerged triumphantly.
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Wild instrumental forays with a suspiciously melodic heart.
Marco Benevento – It Came From You
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So long you may be panned out by the finish, delightful nugget all the same.
No Gold – Rainforts
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This year of great new Aussie bands just gets better and better.
The Boat People – Under The Ocean
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Hip Hop’s gotta work extra hard to catch our attention so when it swings by it’s pretty great.
Sweatshop Union – Oh My
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Dancing about Helsinki architecture in downtown Winnipeg.
Boats – Chrome Eyelids
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KD
SXSW 2011: Digest #5
Certainly hit a wall today ploughing through the second half of the SXSW mp3 pile, the permanent bags beneath my eyes are swollen. Was worth it for the bright young things that emerged though.
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A swirling wind chime from Northern Europe.
Tôg – Reint Mel(i pasen din)
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A play on ‘Sexy Boy’, proves that adulthood suits him just fine.
Candi And The Strangers – Glide
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Had that arcade fire not robbed them of every worthwhile idea.
Karkwa – Les Chemins De Verre
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M, B and V are their 3 favourite letters and you’d have to be loveless to not agree.
Ringo Deathstarr – Imagine Hearts
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Straight ahead indie for those into nice uncomplicated indie.
Dizzy Eyes – Let’s Break Up The Band
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KD
SXSW 2011: Digest #4 (Lá Fhéile Pádraig Edition)
Here is a selection from the dozen or so Irish bands appearing at this year’s SXSW.
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Thanks to that old banana this lot keeping slipping into our playlists.
Sweet Jane – Something For My Soul
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Dan Deacon with more hair and less girth.
Adebisi Shank – International Dreambeat
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A Meath/Dublin combo with a preference for the meek over the shotgun.
Ham Sandwich – St Christopher
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How long before they’re covering his songs?
Sacred Animals – Castles In The Snow
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KD
SXSW 2011: Digest #3
More of our picks from the artists playing 6th street and beyond this week in Austin.
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Don’t leave the building as the VU is great in here.
Remate – Elvis Luv
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It’s new man or should that be Numan?
AM & Shawn Lee – Dark Into Light
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Less animal, more collected.
Botany – Waterparker
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Raw and deconstructed.
Paleo – World’s Smallest Violin
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KD
SXSW 2011: Digest #2
Our second look into the possible movers and shakers down olde Austin way. Sounds like the quality is up on other years going by some of these acts.
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Not Welsh despite the spelling and just because they’re off-kilter doesn’t mean they’re Scottish either.
Oberhofer – Awy Frm U
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A backstage pass to an epic Stereolab gig from the last century.
Feathers – Water Music Treadmill
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Kinda jazzy but then the lady does moonlight down that particular genre.
Lex Land – Havana
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Countrified drawl, indie heart, swoonsome slide into your affections.
James Hyland And The Joint Chiefs – Lancelot And The Lady Of Shalott
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KD
SXSW 2011: Digest #1
More than eleven hundred tunes were put out there to showcase the bands appearing at SXSW this year and over the next few days we’re going to listen to every one of them. We’ll be posting our favourites in digest form, no long explanations just the songs and links to where you can find out more about the bands. Hope you enjoy the discoveries as much as we do.
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A buffalo of a tune, has indie anthem written all over it.
Tigers That Talked – 23 Fears
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An interesting take on Mogwai without the incendiary devices.
Movus – Al Filo del Origen
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Lowly orchestral manoeuvres, highly prized song writing.
Sarah Jaffe – Clementine
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Our first taste of electro cumbia proves to be quite a memorable shuffle.
Monareta – Raimundo Llevate Al Mundo
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Somehow scrappy, somehow totally together, regardless it drops into the grand archives.
Gospel Claws – Avenues
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KD
SXSW Digest #6
The last post and after 1200 tunes I need to go for a long walk.
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She beat the devil and but still sounds like a fallen angel.
Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers – Filthy And Free
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Out on the pavement they’re writing songs about Stephen Malkmus.
Rotary Downs – A Feast In Squalor
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An adventurous playground of electro movement.
Delphic – Delphic
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KD
SXSW Digest #5
Getting indigestion now, but there is still some great stuff seeping in.
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Dainty as a butterfly, off-kilter as a paddy’s day celebrant.
Magic Magic – Sleepy Lion
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Like the Go! Team but with the unnecessary bits removed.
Floating Action – Absolute Sway
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Topsy turvy ramble that dispels a slow graffiti.
Yppah – Gumball Machine Weekend
KD
SXSW Digest #4
Day 2 at SXSW and as underpants start to get musty here is a recap of the freshest stuff we’ve discovered (from afar) over the last 24 hours.
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The suburbs of Joe Jacksonville are starting to find their own voice.
The Miserable Rich – Pisshead
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Gee fyfe by gum.
The Pictish Trail – I Don’t Know Where To Begin
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Flying by the seat of ones pants never sounded so swish.
The Weird Weeds – Red
KD
SXSW Digest #3
Day 3 of our scattershot mission to find the best tunes currently doing the rounds in Austin, Texas. About 600 tunes in with a hit rate of about one in twenty.
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It’s acoustic by boy is it electric too.
Mom – Josh Likes Me
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If Stereolab were a flower in the desert.
YellowFever – Hellfire
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Capital tune from Swedish chanteuse.
Sofia Talvik – My James Dean
KD
SXSW Digest #2
Part deux (the first one is here) of our SXSW roundup and 5 more tunes that have caught our attention.
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Modern day psychedelia reimagines the Byrds and Simon & Garfunkel.
The Asteroid #4 – These Flowers Of Ours
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They’ve been around for a while but their melodies are fresh and pristine.
Pato Fu – Nada Original
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Wistful understated pop from the home of SXSW.
The Lovely Sparrows – Year Of The Dog
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Big and beautiful, futuristic retro dancehall mayhem.
The Golden Filter – Solid Gold
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More preciousness but there’s no metal in sight this time.
Solid Gold – Get Over It
KD