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Introducing : Glass Animals
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www.4ortherecord.com hit fever pitch this weekend when not 1 but 2 new tracks from the incredible Glass Animals graced our inbox with their presence...Read the full article.....
David's Lyre
Masked troubadour, David's Lyre is, like his semi-hidden aesthetic, somewhat of a mystery at present. Although if fairness exists in the world at all...Read the full article.....
Lunar Youth : Interview
Lunar Youth make the kind of music that makes your heart skip a beat as the emphasis on romance engulfs you in a warm flurry of emotion. It’s really rather lovely. Their nostalgic take on pop, reminiscent of the 80’s penchant for...Read the full article.....
Andrew Davie : Free MP3
The glorious inclination towards traditional, folk infused music over the last few years has been a welcome and refreshing inclusion to many a music collection. The talent has proven vast, accolades have come from...Read the full article.....
Introducing : Ray Dar Vees
South London trio Ray Dar Vees are the latest anthemic pop-rock act to vie for the attentions of new music scenes with their patent talent for creating earnest and engaging lyrics that take just as much prominence as the music they sit alongside... Read the full article.....
Penguin Prison
Aside from the bizarre moniker, Penguin Prison himself is a fairly extraordinary concept as far as musicians go. It’s fair to say that since his foray into making it as an artist began, his wildly vast experiences have not welcomed success...Read the full article.....
Rapids : Interview
Bournemouth based Rapids are a rather interesting prospect. Not only are they one of the first bands to come out of a slowly developing rock scene in the area more notorious for it’s thriving house and dance music but they are directing a sound that is upfront...Read the full article.....
The Forest & The Trees
Scandinavia has been a bit of a hot bed for exciting music of late. And that is in no way in relation to its close(ish) proximity to the volcanically active Iceland. Norway engaged in the exciting credible pop resurgence with bands such as...Read the full article.....
The Good Natured : Interview
Sarah McIntosh is the young singer-songwriter, perhaps more widely known under her moniker The Good Natured. Clutching her grandmothers old Yamaha keyboard that became the initial inspiration for her electronic-pop...Read the full article.....
King Charles: Destined For Greatness
A fan wrote on King Charles’ Facebook page after getting home from his gig at the Nation of Shopkeepers in Leeds on Monday. He said, “I don’t understand how you’re not incredibly famous yet- you were amazing tonight”. This might seem like...Read the full article.....
Introducing: Dog Is Dead
You know that well oiled idiom, sometimes in life you just happen to be in the right pace at the right time? Well sometimes in life that is indeed true. Whether it's finding a rare limited edition...Read the full article.....
The Last Dinosaur : Q & A
Jamie Cameron and Luke Hayden are the Last Dinosaur. A dynamo duo with the technical capabilities to produce a debut album with nothing more than a 16-track recorder and the creative attributes that have made said album a DIY masterpiece... Read the full article.....
Twisted Wheel : Interview
Twisted Wheel are a band fast-needing no introduction. And with so many quintessential British rock'n'roll bands ending their reigns at the head of the scene, including Oasis and more recently Supergrass, these boys have... Read the full article.....
Lail Arad : Q & A
Oh how the tables have turned. The guitar wielding bands of yesteryear have been replaced in favour by a plethora of female soloists littering the rightious path of UK new music currently. Moreover this oestrogen fuelled talent isn’t limited...Read the full article.....
Safari : Q & A
Safari are five fearless young lads from Hertfordshire; the newest bunch to navigate the music industry jungle in a synth fuelled blast of electronic pop. Bursting out of the embers of the now defunct Model Horror, Safari have embraced...Read the full article.....
Introducing : Morning Parade
Hailing from deepest Essex, childhood friends Steve Sparrow, Chad Thomas, Phil Titus, Ben Giddings and Andy Hayes ...Read the full article.....
Pope Joan : Interview
Being sent hundreds of press releases a week alongside copious amounts of promo cd’s makes for an arduous process in terms of determining what to cover, who to go and watch and who to talk to. It can get fairly tedious, extremely repetitive and sometimes...Read the full article.....
And The Bear
If you go down to the woods today, you'll find a young man and his guitar. And if you do, make sure you sit and have a listen, for this man is And The Bear. With his unique voice, folk tinged rock and... Read the full article.....
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CHEW LIPS DEBUT LP “UNICORN” Debut LP “Unicorn” released on CD/ digital download on January 25 It would be easy, almost too easy, to categorise Chew Lips as electro pop. The temptation would certainly be there – two guys (James Watkins and Will Sanderson) on all manner of synths and keyboards. One girl, the superlatively monikered and golden throated frontwoman Tigs. It would be easy, but all too wrong. Their early (sold out) singles on Kitsune, “Salt Air” and “Solo” pointed to a band more interested in mining more unconventional (though no less infectious) terrain, while their raucous live gigs had all the energy and vigour of vintage punk rock shows, with Tigs clambering up on equipment, writhing on floors and sashaying through crowds as she dazzled them into submission. Their debut, Dave Kosten produced album “Unicorn” is pop, no doubt about it, but not pop as you know it. There are far too many quirks here, too many human idiosyncrasies, too manyrough edges, to fit neat neatly into any preconceived box. Spectral opener “Eight” for instance, wafts in on a ghostly breeze of synth washes and shimmering keyboards and little else, with the beats only kicking in halfway through, along with Tigs’ eerie refrain of “a high speed chase on a wedding day/ give and take it’s all the same”. “Karen”, meanwhile, seems like a solid gold pop hit on the exterior, until you find out Tigs is actually singing about the short and tragic life of Karen Carpenter. Indeed, for every classic-in-waiting like “Slick” (imagine Chrissie Hynde whirling dervishly around a discoball and you’d be somewhere close), there’s a startling leftfield manoeuvre like “Gold Key”. A skyscraping, almost hymn-like anthem, it seemingly extrapolates the very roots of gospel, relocating them in a very modern mesh of seesawing keyboards and wailing guitars, and contains possibly Tigs’ most emotive vocal on the album, crying “the time has come...they’re playing with guns” as if begging for salvation. So, Chew Lips then. An altogether different – and exciting – proposition for 2010. A gloriously off-kilter take on pop, with some wayward electronic elements. A brilliant new band with ambition and talent to burn and an iconic frontwoman in waiting. And, with “Unicorn”, quite possibly the best future classic pop album of next year. UPCOMING LIVE DATES: December: 11 – Brighton 14 – Fabric w/ Calvin Harris January: 16 – Jericho Tavern, Oxford 18 – 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff 19 – Hoxton Hall, London 21 – Start the Bus, Bristol 22 – Club NME @ Koko, London 23 – 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth 24 – Hamptons, Southampton 26 – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow 27 – Sneaky Pete, Edinburgh 28 – A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds 29 – Islington, Manchester 30 – Club Evol, Liverpool
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