The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends (Bella Union)
Do It’, featuring Yoko captures her seismic energy well, as they’d just tipped the little art pixie into a box of toys …
including Edward Sharpe, Tame Impala, Yoko Ono and the slightly off-brief Ke$ha(?!) to name a few. The album rudely catapults you into a discordant, dystopian-feel edict for futurism, courtesy of the Lips, Ke$ha and Biz Markie. It’s an assault of a track, and the second, ‘Ashes in the Air’, although still heavy on the fuzzy electronics, when paired with the ointment that is Bon Iver’s well-known vocal, gives the perfect mix of Coyne- esque psychedelia and emotional connection. Nick Cave is another inspired collaboration, as he lends his trademark theatrics to the vocal on ‘You, Man? Human???’ ‘Do It’, featuring Yoko captures her seismic energy well, as they’d just tipped the little art pixie into a box of toys, and the other real notable track is their re- imagining of ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’, with Erykah Badu gliding gracefully through the vocal. I actually think that song might be what you hear when you’re tentatively edging towards the pearly gates of heaven. Think I’m exaggerating about it / the whole album? You’re just gonna have do buy it.Emma Garwood
A I Ceremony - Safranin Sounds (No Emb Blanc)
’ll admit I didn’t look very hard, but I couldn’t find much about Ceremony online. Apparently Safranin Sounds is their third album, but on the basis of this I probably won’t spend any more time tracking down their discography. The problems with the record don’t become apparent until a few tracks in. I’d actually say that the first couple are genuinely exciting; ‘Dull Life’ mixes some fine Robert Smith-esque drawl with complementary shoegaze guitars to devastating effect. ‘You Never Stay’ introduces industrial drumbeats into the equation, and things still sound at least a little interesting through the indulgent ‘Never Love Again’. After the first ten minutes though, Ceremony make it pretty clear that they aren’t content with just referencing one resurgent genre at a time. Fuzzy shoegaze and elements of 80s electronica might work on the occasional track, but the record just goes on, and on, and on, for 20, yes, that’s right, 20, full length tracks. After a while, having what sounds like The Jesus And The Mary Chain playing out of the right-hand speaker and Kraftwerk out of the left just becomes too much. I gave it one more chance, dipped in halfway through track ten, ‘Without Your Love’, and found a brutal, nihilistic breakdown akin to Fuck Buttons or The Chapman Family’s more raucous moments. It’s a bizarre
record.Alex Throssell
t the time ‘Embryonic’ was released in 2009, the ‘Lips had 12 studio albums under their belt, and were ready to play. In 2009, they released a track for track reinterpretation of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, and this year, they’ve managed to release an album of collaborations to get your pulse racing,
Having what sounds like The
Jesus And The Mary Chain playing out of the right-hand
speaker and Kraftwerk out of the left just becomes too much.
Delilah – From the Roots Up (Atlantic Records)
Delilah has a super-cool vocal, a product of London town and music industry parents and a keen ear for songwriting too…
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established act (check, Chase & Status on ‘Time’), hang on the coattails of stars on the ascension by supporting them on tour (check, Maverick Sabre), write your own material and whore it out for free over the internet (check, her debut EP, ‘2-4am’), and perhaps most importantly, when you get those opportunities to show the world your big kahunas, blow everyone else out the water (check, every live performance she’s done that have left every other act trailing in your wake). Delilah has a super-cool vocal, a product of London town and music industry parents and a keen ear for songwriting too. The album encompasses the tracks that have worked their way into our psyche already, ‘Go’, ‘Breathe’, ‘21’, and the Finlay Quaye-nabbed ‘Love You So’. Making up the rest of the 12 are more offerings on the same soulful, almost trip hoppy vibe, with tracks like ‘So Irate’ having a playful intelligence that make it so much more than a simple songwriter debut.Tiny Dancer
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f there was a new rulebook for the music industry, the old one made into paper aeroplanes and rewritten by a precocious 19-year old, YouTube generation lad wearing hoodies to board meetings, he’d be telling you that the way to break into the music industry is to do it the Delilah way. Bag a vocal spot with an
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