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Bassline Junkie is a taster of what’s to come from Ivor Novello and Brit Award-winning Dizzee Rascal’s’s forthcoming fifth studio album, due for release later this year. The official video for Bassline
THEME PARK Theme Park (Transgressive)
Miles Haughton, singer/guitarist for North London trio Theme Park, says of the inspiration for their eponymous Luke Smith (Foals, The Maccabees)-produced album: “I find it interesting that people can write when they’re sad. “I write when I’m in a wave of happiness and euphoria because I
February 25 INCOMING ALBUMS
VARIOUS ARTISTS Acid House Anthems (Sony Music)
Released to mark the 25th anniversary of the birth of acid house, Acid House Anthems is a 3CD
compilation which captures the essence of an era with classic US house, acid and early techno tracks alongside Balearic anthems and remixes. Acid house was the UK’s most influential youth culture phenomenon since punk. The ‘second summer of love’ has left an indelible mark upon music, society, fashion, art and beyond. There are features from Paul
Oakenfold and Andy Weatherall of Happy Mondays, Primal Scream and St Etienne, 808 State, The Beloved, and Electribe 101, as well as huge crossover records from Coldcut, Alison Limerick, Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk, Ce Ce Rogers, Bomb The Bass, D-Mob, Jungle Brothers and Guru Josh.
FEBRUARY 3
LINDI ORTEGA Cigarettes & Truckstops (Last Gang Records)
Canadian country artist Lindi Ortega will soon release the follow-up to her debut LP Little Red Boots.
Cigarettes & Truckstops is written by
Ortega, who also plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar and other instrumentation (including mandolin and percussion), and produced by T-Bone Burnett musician Colin Linden, with piano by John Whynot, upright bass by Dave Roe and drums by Bryan Owings. The record - ten tracks of folk-led Americana from a blues perspective - is largely inspired by her recent move to Nashville, bringing her closer to the origin of her all-time favourite, Johnny Cash. Ortega will commence a UK tour in
February that will run through to March with a stop at London’s Hoxton Bar and Kitchen on March 7.
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JENN BOSTIC Jealous (Jenn Bostic Music - Absolute/Universal)
American singer- songwriter Jenn Bostic returns to the UK for a six-date tour in February to share
music from her debut UK album Jealous. Bostic’s debut UK single Jealous Of The Angels has garnered more than 1.2 million YouTube views. It was produced by Barrett Yeretsian (writer/producer of Christina Perri’s Jar Of Hearts) and discovered by Smooth Radio DJ Simon Bates, who has championed the song on his show. BBC Radio 2 added the song to its playlist at the end of 2012 after Fearne Cotton tipped off producers at the station. Bostic has won five 2012 Independent Country Music Association Awards, including Overall Winner, Best Female Country Artist, Best Musician, Best Songwriter and Country Music Song of the Year for Jealous Of The Angels.
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want to share the feeling. I’m looking for the moment where you find something that’s so great you want to loop it around, get up and dance to it. You’re happy because you’re dancing and you’re happy because you wrote it – it’s a double hit of happiness.” The result is Theme Park’s rhythmic, euphoric, groove-oriented, dreamlike and melodic electronic pop - guitar-and-synth music informed by dance, and vice versa. Haughton adds: “I want it to be appreciated as a pop album, rather than the debut of a left field East London band.” The three-piece have toured the UK with Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party and Bombay Bicycle Club, as well as opening for Florence + The Machine at Alexandra Palace.
DIZZEE RASCAL Bassline Junkie (Dirtee Stank/Island)
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Junkie features Dizzee preaching the religion of Bass to the community and banishing ‘Dirtee demons’. It clocked up near to 1 million YouTube views in under two weeks. It’s been almost 10 years since the release of Dizzee’s debut single I Luv U. Since then he’s released Mercury Prize- winning album Boy In Da Corner and three subsequent hit albums including the self- released platinum-selling Tongue n’ Cheek which spawned four No.1 singles in addition to No.1 non-album track Shout featuring James Corden.
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WOODEN SHJIPS Dos (Holy Mountain) Okay, so Dos by Wooden Shjips isn't
exactly a new collection of songs by the San Franciscan psychedelic rock group, having been released in 2009. It spent the last year
languishing about on my Mac waiting for me to listen to it - may I take this opportunity now to apologise to the band. If you're not
aware of Wooden Shjips, they are a musical blend of The Stooges and Doors, with Suicide thrown in for good measure. Oh, and Loop, too, I've always loved Loop. They have a panache for droning, garage space-rock, where the vocals are secondary to guitarist Ripley Johnson's blistering lead work. The album consists of five songs and comes in at just under 39 minutes.
First track Motorbike sets the pace:
feedback squeals and tribal drumming, quickly locking into the groove but without ever sounding tiresome or boring. This brings us nicely to second track For So Long - bouncy bass and call and response vocal/guitar work. 'False, false alarm...' Sings Johnson, as the Hammond swirls and the delayed guitar stabs and explodes. Stand out tracks Down By The Sea and Aquarian Time both pay homepage to Velvet Underground, monotonous and pounding, dark, fascinating. The
album's closer, Fallin' is the weakest track, but by the time you get there you'll be glad of the rest. With Dos, Wooden Shjips have
created a sound for us to set the psychedelic sail, and a kaleidoscopic one it is, too. @musicweekdazza
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