Unmade Beds is a great little indie film out this Friday (11 December) in the UK. Set in and around a Hackney squat, it’s a real slice of East London, with scenes in Broadway Market and London Fields among other locations. But what’s really notable is its music: coupled with lots of gig footage and a music video recording, Unmade Beds has a brilliant soundtrack, full of innovative sounds old and new. Here’s a taste of some of the new stuff:
(We Are) Performance
A Manchester fourpiece of two Joes and two sisters (Billie & Laura), this lot are purveyors of an uplifting, rather classic rock sound. That is, on Let’s Start, which is an anthemic, White Lies-esque boomer with nice lyrics and radio-friendly guitars. Surrender is more interesting: more crashing and more synthy, and enhanced with some backing vocals by the girls. Currently tarting up their second album and signed to Too Much Information records, they are seen recording a video in Unmade Beds’ central squat.
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Connan Mockasin
A London-based Kiwi electric blues band whose ever-changing members have but one mainstay: Connan Hosford. Often clad in homemade mockasins (hence the name), Connan offers a dreamy digital soundscape like a blissful acid comedown in an eclectic instruments shop. There are fabulously bonkers Michael Jackson covers on offer, too, and generally more than enough ammunition for believing that pigeon really is talking to you…
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Plaster of Paris
A boy-girl duo formed at Camberwell Art School, this pair utilise only an acoustic guitar, a gramophone horn they inventively label a ‘kazoomaphone’ and Molly’s lush, slightly sorrowful voice, which sounds a bit Peggy Sue, a bit Kate Bush and a bit Florence Welch. There’s something very ad-lib and unserious about their sound, which veers between blues, jazz and frop (folk-pop – see what I did there?). A David Bowie cover has very kindly been provided and is available below.
MySpace | MP3: Plaster of Paris – Sorrow
Black Moustache
In one memorable scene, the maverick Axl gets into his gladrags and gyrates to the tune of ‘Hot Monkey, Hot Ass’, a weird and electro rock growler from this New York duo. I cannot find a single solitary fact about them on the entire interweb save for the video of the aforementioned belter, below. It’s dirty, it’s awful, it’s wonderful and it’s got a bad attitude. Enjoy…
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