Right. There are so many good songs, plus good deeds, going on that I feel Monday Music just won’t be able to cope. So here’s a one-off Sunday version:
Dean & Ravo – Walkin’ Around (mp3)
Perfect for a Sunday with its cheery, 80s-style rap beat, this ‘hip-pop’ reminds me of chats at university with one Liam Evans. He and I would set on the steps of the main Leeds building, the Parkinson, and spend hours discussing nothing but the passing girls. We’d rate them, compare them, worship them and commentate on prevailing trends and meteorological factors. Puerile and pathetic maybe, but shucks it was fun. Much like this, and its brilliant accompanying video.
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band - Anda Jaleo (mp3)
This evocative, multi-influenced folk song makes me think of Spanish flamenco bars, sunsets on the beach, nightshade, snake-charmers in Marrakech, sarongs, incense. I haven’t a clue what the Fantastic Mrs Foster is on about, but then I don’t much care: you add your own interpretation, I think, while employing wispy, toe-tapping dance moves and aping every heady castanet shake.
David Lynch – Good Day Today (Boys Noize Remix) (mp3)
So, okay, David Lynch: you make magnificent, multi-meta-layered films that make my brain feel like its covered in clingfilm. But come on – like you can make music… especially not groggy, proggy electro laced with a gorgeous, tragic air of loneliness. AS IF!!! Oh – you can. (And it gets even better with the help of Boys Noize)
Montpelier – Last Boat (mp3)
One of the best PR contacts I have is SGC Media, from Australia. Senders of consistently decent tracks, they’re based in Brisbane, currently devastated on floods, as their own picture, below, demonstrates. This last offering before the waters took control of their offices has a portentous title, and represents a nice, booming slice of indie-pop. If you want to help Brisbane, donations can be made here. Good luck to everyone there in recovering from this horror.
Darren Hayman & Elizabeth Morris – I Know I Fucked Up (mp3)
Once of the criminally underrated indie band Hefner, Darren Hayman is currently undertaking a project called January Songs –which entails his writing and recording an entirely new tune each day this month. Still-upcoming tracks include one with The Wave Pictures, but for now this effort, sung by Allo Darlin‘s Elizabeth Morris (like Beth Orton with velvet), is plenty enough: a love letter of sombre, stunning simplicity.