I hope everyone’s okay. I’ve had a great one, but Valentine’s Day sure can be a lonely time, I know that well enough. Anyway, here’s Monday Music, my weekly post that abandons SOIWT’s London focus:
The Phantom Band – Everybody Knows It’s True
A momentous, quite-probably-irresistible pop pilgrimage through hummable harmonies, bouncy bass, samples galore and cascading drums, this latest from the great Scots (geddit?) goes on and one with the happy knack of getting better and better as each second tinkles by. It ends in fully-fledged fervour, and comes decorated with a suitably nuts video.
Trufam – All We Need (Feat. Dinner & A Suit) (mp3)
With spring already somewhat sprung and today being all about amour, there’s no better time for this smooth, summery number from somehow-unsigned ”twin pop/hip hop group” Trufam. Sashaying along to a nicely 80s-retro style beat, it’s daydreamy, delicious and over far too soon.
Southern Shores – Grande Comore (mp3)
Talking of spring, this slice of Europop is perfect for the changing season, so well does it bloom into full colour. It reminds me of a recipe: ingredient after ingredient is added to a gradually headier mix – a xylophone, zany percussion, a trumpet – until the whole concoction blends together into something wondrous and fast, including a vocal section at the end where I think the singer says ”Fatty got the money” while realising she probably doesn’t.
Oberhofer – Away Frm U (mp3)
I find this song impossible to describe, so I’m just going to annotate as it proceeds:
0.00: intrigued by text-speak song title, but can find no deeper-meaning theory to explain it
0.08: bluesy and lonesome guitars, straight out of a Memphis dive bar full of broken-hearted old men
0.18: first sign (sing?) of trouble: a howled ooh-ooh from a suspiciously energetic-sounding singer
0.31: frenetic vocals and punchy keys. Drums.
1.05: guitar midsection – less furious, but still fast and it would definitely be unreasonable to call these contemplative
1.28: resumption of festivities
1.53: things now becoming totally beserk and haywire, with vocals sighs, swoons and screams
2.04: sudden calm
2.16: whistling – always good.
2.49: sense of imminent explosion.
2.54: explosion. Guitars now have real grunt and drums are chaotic and muddy.
3:24: cymbal-waterfall end
3.25: weird feedback for 10 secs.
How To Dress Well – Suicide Dream 2
Following on from Suicide Dream 1, this is like a parachute drop through heaven, or some other similarly transcendent ether: an echoey, blurry, chiming, shimmering, fraught wonderland; a world where council-estate puddles are full of holy water, and where the dead take a while to leave.
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