some of it was true!

Each week I stumble across lots of great music that I can’t post because there’s no London connection – and this is a London music blog, after all.  In frustration at that, and simply to share things that make me happy, I’m aiming to post five songs I newly love every Monday.  And here’s the first batch:

Yeasayer – O.N.E.
Another slice of banging disco quirk-pop from the Brooklynites.  It’s so damn infectious that medical students ought to begin case-studying Yeasayer immediately.  O.N.E. really isn’t enough, as they say – listen to other album tracks on the MySpace page.

Caribou – Odessa
Oh how I heart Caribou.  My suspicion is that the Toronto fourpiece can more or less do anything: here’s a kind of super-funky techno-jazz,  effortlessly ticked off with dripping cool.  Smooth, sexy and soft-centred: the musical equivalent of a Belgian truffle.

Stuart Newman – Oil
Unsigned 22yo, Brighton-based Stuart Newman sent me this and it’s bit of a corker: an elegant guitar above a distantly tremulous choir above a eulogising statesman talking about the black stuff, and other cameo voices.  Ghostly, gaunt and rather beautiful.

Oh No Ono – Internet Warrior
Who said all the cool Scandi electro-pop came from Sweden?  This candy-coated beauty comes courtesy of Denmark’s Oh No Ono; it’s a thrilling sweep through dainty jingles, swirly vocals and pindrop pianos, before a cartoon-voiced ending.

Hot Chip – Alleycats
Hot Chip’s new sound is so totally distinct from their previous dance incarnation: now it’s saintly shoegaze, with pretty lyrics and a sombre tone, epitomised by this new effort.  Such a change is hugely brave.