Here’s this week’s Monday Music – extended to seven songs as there’s so much audio finery out there right now:
Kreayshawn – Bumpin’ Bumpin’
Kreayshawn is a potty-mouthed, potty-smoking, super-aggressive female California MC. The way her songs are turbo-charged by bass and angry samples renders her like a cross between GoldieLocks and The Fast & The Furious. But Bumpin’ Bumpin’ does even more: it concludes with a serene, giddily beautiful electro finale, quite unlike the thrust and angst that went before.
Julianna Barwick – Vow
There’s no better song to fall asleep to. How could a nightmare possibly follow this beauty?
Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place – Vow(asthmatic kitty) by pdis_inpartmaint
Calvin Harris – Bounce (Feat. Kelis) (mp3)
Do do do do do dodo dooo.
FaltyDL – Hip Love
Jazz lounge meets 60s slow-soul meets modern d’nb in this cocktail from the chiller cabinet. If you’re sat at home on a Sunday night, after a wild and wonderful weekend, there’s no better musical accompaniment.
FaltyDL – Hip Love by RAMP Recordings / PTN
Dam Mantle – Not A Word
Never was the phrase ‘weird and wonderful’ ever more appropriate: it might as well have been invented with Dam Mantle in mind. The glitchy Glaswegian’s latest is a chillwave assault of gurgled laments, trippy electronica and a dungeon-depravity atmosphere.
Panda Bear – Slow Motion (mp3)
The truth is I’d feature this regardless of how good it was, because the video has a man in a panda suit. Happily it’s brilliant (not cow tits): a sort of post-rock trip-out, dreamy and dilute, like that sensation when you land and your ears are only 50% working. That sounds like it’d be frustrating, but here it’s only lovely.
The Fresh & Onlys – Waterfall (mp3)
I follow my lover like a drone: along pavements, across junctions, into stores, out of stores, through parks and then fields and then more fields, and then prairies and plains, and on and on she walks and on and on I walk, relentless, splashing over rivers, dodging charging bulls, climbing mountains and then, quite suddenly, down the last cliff to the beach, the empty beach, and she walks, her pace unchanging, arrow-like into the sea, and I hesistate for a second – wondering if I love her enough, wondering if would give it all up for her - and then I sigh, and I put my hands in my pockets, and I splash in after her, crying, smiling the best smile I’ve ever smiled.
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Yesterday Dub (mp3)
Having stumbled on this track last week, the following conversation now won’t ever take place:
SOIWT: Dear Santa, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want.
Santa: Tell me what you want, what you really really want?
SOIWT: I want Steve Mason - that mad maverick ex of King Biscuit and The Beta Band - to do a weird, messed-up and entirely mesmerising reggae-dub tie-up.
Santa: He already has.
SOIWT: What?
Santa: He already has.
SOIWT: Nigger whaaaat?? Is it good?
Santa: Man, you wouldn’t beliiieeeve - it’s fucking rad. Him and Dennis Bovell, the legendary reggae guitarist. Hot-ass shit. Soulful, serene and sincere. Itz THE BOMB!
SOIWT: Sweet! Okay then, how about Dizzee Rascal covering Tinariwen?
Santa: I’ll get on the case right away.
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Yesterday Dub by DominoRecordCo